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DevOps: The Funeral

ops: the funeral Devops is dead, they say. But the death of Devops is no more than the death of a word.

By supporting direct management of operating system resources (files, directories, permissions, users, packages, …), Puppet and Chef were the structured replacement of adhoc bash scripts previously used by competent sysadmins. Perhaps the same phenomena I've been finding in multiple projects over the last couple of years: cloud sysadmins who think they are doing Devops; project managers who think that developers with no infrastructure experience can deliver high quality operations; team leaders who think that a “Devops” team of 20 people is the way to go, and that “Ops” can be decided upon by consensus; deployment pipelines that break every 3 weeks; nicely spread across directories, Terraform code which must be applied in a sequence of multiple steps following a specific, undocumented order; creation processes dependent on deployment pipelines themselves dependent on names of cloud resources created by the very creation processes! Let’s see if Platform and Reliability magically succeed where Dev and Ops have failed; or if, due to the persistence of the same practices, we will soon attend the funeral of another two words.

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