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The first thing to realize is that DevOps is an ambiguous term (at least partly by design, it seems). My belief—shaped by many at the forefront of the DevOps m
by organsnyder 9y ago
The first thing to realize is that DevOps is an ambiguous term (at least partly by design, it seems).
My belief—shaped by many at the forefront of the DevOps movement—is that it is a cultural focus rather than a technical one. In many ways, it's an extension of agile philosophies, with a focus on fast feedback, transparency, heightened interactions between teams, etc. There is also a heavy focus on automation (CICD), but the automation is there to serve the cultural goals. Just because you do CICD doesn't mean you're necessarily doing DevOps, and you can adopt a lot of DevOps principles without doing full CICD.
Books:
* The Phoenix Project— introduces a lot of concepts (such as lean principles) that are foundational to the movement
* Effective DevOps (Oreilly)
* The DevOps Handbook
Podcasts:
* Arrested DevOps
* DevOps Cafe
Blogs:
* IT Revolution
Events:
* DevOpsDays conferences
* Local meetups
* Velocity conferences
* DevOps Enterprise Summit
Having a good grasp of both development and operations skills is helpful. But it's far from complete. If you solely focus on the technical aspects without examining the cultural, you're missing the foundation of the movement.
- jankedeen 9y agoThe foundation of the movement is getting rid of ops.
- remilasalle 9y agoFor those who've gone, is the DevOpsDays $175 price tag worth it?
- organsnyder 9y agoThey're offered all over the world, so the quality probably varies quite a bit (especially since it's a fairly decentralized organization). However, for the price tag, I'd say it's a steal—the networking value alone is worth more than that. DevOpsDays has been around since the very beginning of the movement—in fact, the term was popularized at DevOpsDays Belgium in 2009.