DevOps is NOT just about automation

Do you think you are DevOps when you have some automation? DevOps is NOT just about automation, scripts or pipelines... it's not something you can start overnight or by hiring one DevOps person.

Do you think you are DevOps when you have some automation?

First of all, DevOps is NOT just about automation, scripts or pipelines... it's all together and much more.

DevOps ≠ Automation

Many people think that they are DevOps when they have some CI/CD pipelines deploying applications to production. But there a lot of things between development and it's customer, you need to keep on your mind and implement if you wanna be DevOps.

One of the most important things is communication and feedback.

By Tomas Filip on September 27, 2020 in the DevOps

Avoid three silos

By Tomas Filip on October 28, 2020 in the DevOps

It can be quite tricky and it can happen very quickly that you create a third DevOps silo between Development & Operations.

Do NOT name a team “DevOps team”

By Tomas Filip on October 26, 2020 in the DevOps

Calling your team as “DevOps team” will lead people to associate the DevOps philosophy with a specific role. Do you want to start doing automation? Do you want to start making changes in general?

“DevOps” is NOT a job title

By Tomas Filip on October 06, 2020 in the DevOps

... and DevOps is NOT even a methodology. It’s a philosophy, it’s a state of mind. When you are looking for “DevOps”, what exactly you want want to find? What do you want to achieve? A lot of processes are manual and it is necessary to automate? Or do you need some cultural change in general?