Doing DevOps
Doing DevOps You’ve probably heard the parable of the people who encounter an elephant in a pitch-dark room. Each touches a different part of the animal – and describes it completely differently. The leg is a pillar; the trunk is a tree branch; the tail is a rope. Everyone’s right about the specifics – but it takes the whole group to understand what they’re “seeing”. This parable is a useful and common metaphor for how DevOps effectively brings together divergent viewpoints to improve the speed, predictability, and efficiency of app development and deployment. Before the DevOps movement took hold, groups within IT – Operations, Development, QA – were siloed, functioning within their own universes. Each group had its own way of looking at the development and deployment cycle. Each group’s ideas about the nature of the beast were based on that group’s goals, role [ more… ]
