DevOps – a controversial term?
December 18, 2012 — Jonathan ThorpeRecently I had the pleasure of chatting with a gentleman who had some extremely strong opinions on the use of the term DevOps by vendors. To put it bluntly, he hated the way vendors are using the term DevOps. To him, DevOps is purely a mindset, not a product suite as he argued vendors are spinning DevOps.
I’ll admit he had a point, but at the same time it also illustrated why Electric Cloud has a great approach to DevOps.
To us, DevOps isn’t the latest cool space to be in that we are desperate to attach a DevOps tag to our existing product suite.
DevOps will help you get your products to market faster, with higher quality, we firmly believe that and whether you choose to use our products or not we firmly believe it is the way to go. As you are reading this blog you probably visited the website and notice that we mention DevOps a fair amount. At Electric Cloud we take pride that our tools enhance your processes, we don’t try to take over your processes.
DevOps is about you, not about us. While we are passionate and have great ideas to help practitioners become more successful we also want to hear about you. What does DevOps mean to you? Answers on a virtual postcard to feedback@electric-cloud.com.
A lot of people have been doing DevOps related things forever, before it had a name. By development teams have always full access to production, deployed code, monitored systems, etc. They knew 10x more about our environment than the system admins did. DevOps is just a buzz word vendors latch on to.
I completely agree with you, companies, including ones I worked for have been doing DevOps style things for many years. I had my first taste what is currently classified as DevOps back in about 2002. That said, I have been surprised by how many companies are doing things manually and very much in silos with Dev and Ops sometimes having an us vs them mentality.
At least having having a name for a way of working that people can latch onto is getting companies that have manual processes which operate in silos to pay attention to what the DevOps buzz word is all about and to perhaps take another look at how they work.