There's a good reason for the scepticism. Ops engineers [0] are the ones who have to spend weekends fixing production systems when the development team has snu

There's a good reason for the scepticism. Ops engineers [0] are the ones who have to spend weekends fixing production systems when the development team has snuck in "new fangled tools X, Y and Z" into a "bugfix" release. We have been burned by "new fangled" too many times. We prefer "old reliable" until "new fangled" becomes "fine, yes, we probably should". [0]: DevOps has now become a corporate marketing term with no actual relevance to the original DevOps methodology