I have long felt that DevOps was always a philosophy, not a methodology. It simply meant folding all that operations stuff into the SDLC. It was always about ma

I have long felt that DevOps was always a philosophy, not a methodology. It simply meant folding all that operations stuff into the SDLC. It was always about making Ops part of Dev, not the other way around, and especially not as a standalone discipline. The cloud made this a lot easier, as everything could be done programmatically, but the philosophy held true long before that. It doesn't mean CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, or YAML. Those are all incidental. The moment specialised "DevOps" teams started springing up it was all over. We just reinvented the sysadmin.