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DevOps part one was just "developers and operations working more closely together". It only really required the managers to update the goals of the two speciliz
by stevefenton 3y ago
DevOps part one was just "developers and operations working more closely together". It only really required the managers to update the goals of the two specilizations to remove the conflict (developers are rewarded for delivering more, operations are rewarded for stability).
Once the research picked up, they started building out a broader picture of what a DevOps organization did and whether those things made them more successful (better at delivering software, more reliable, more profitable, etc).
The Phoenix Project / The Unicorn Project explain the concept by telling a story - they kind of tell the same story, but from different perspectives. There's also Investments Unlimited which takes an even broader view by adding governance, risk, and compliance (but in a way that aligns to DevOps).
In 2023, DevOps is best described by the DORA research (The State of DevOps Report) as it covers technical, cultural, and product concerns that all amplify each other.
- morelisp 3y agoReading this made me ill.
- khochesh_kushat 3y agoThere was a step in the middle there you missed where it was coopted by software vendors to not be about how you collaborate with others, but which tools you use, and has now become essentially meaningless.
- stevefenton 3y agoYes, there is that! ;)
- nicoburns 3y agoThe same happened with the concepts of Agile and UX. But of course the true concepts still live on. It's just that everyone wants to sound like they're using best practice techniques even when they're not.
- Pokepokalypse 3y agoI have long ago lost my enthusiasm for this stuff, and now I just do it because I need a paycheck.
- indymike 3y agoWow, I remember the first exposure I had to the term DevOps was not at all about working closely, it was about replacing admins with code. This made sense at the time because Puppet, Chef, SaltStack and other tools made it seem like you could pull this off...