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There is a simple way to make it much easier. Use hosted platforms (eg PaaS) instead of self-maintained infrastructure. Unfortunately, most enterprises are sti
by kgilpin 8y ago
There is a simple way to make it much easier. Use hosted platforms (eg PaaS) instead of self-maintained infrastructure.
Unfortunately, most enterprises are still not willing to outsource their IT platform to the real pros and thereby make it someone else’s problem to keep that infrastructure up and running. They want to build their own in-house competency. But the problem is, if you’re a true DevOps pro, why would you work for some random company in which IT is considered a cost center, rather than working for either a hosted platform provider or a (for lack of a better phrase) “independent provider of DevOps”?
IT and security managers are able to convince business executives that IT infrastructure needs to be kept in-house, even though today’s typical enterprise has no chance of actually building and maintaining a infrastructure that is 1% as good as what they could rent from a dedicated provider.
- mrunkel 8y agoThe problem with your theory is that even in hosted platforms, IT is a cost center. "The real pros" you speak of are also under the same cost pressures as everyone else. I have encountered many such services where after the "real pros" have set up a system, they are replaced by low cost staff who can maintain and minimally extend while billing...