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Why DevOps is not a team.

I really want people to stop talking about DevOps but I really want people to keep asking questions about DevOps.   This does not make sense right?

The problem is DevOps is getting a bad name in lots of places because people don't understand it.  DevOps is not CI, CD, Infra as Code, Cloud, Agile, Lean.....  DevOps is a culture of continuous improvement and scalable IT.

We really should talk about DevOps from a leadership level and talk about automation separately.  Leaders need to remove obstacles, manual tasks, and improve processes all while demonstrating people and teams working together.  These things will naturally allow people to innovate and grow towards automation.

You can do automation anywhere and you should do automation.  A company could be a large enterprise with silos of people that don't trust each other with competing goals but even those can do automation like CI and Chef.  They likely are doing it at a silo level and everyone doing it differently.

This is really why there should not be a DevOps team.  You can start an automation team but not a DevOps team.  If a company has a posting for a DevOps manager or DevOps engineer, their culture might be a long way away from a DevOps culture.  Just be careful.


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