There are plenty of DevOps myths circulating the developers’ community. This is no surprise, considering how much excitement the DevOps concept has...
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This is such an informative post!
Couldn't agree more on points no. 1, 5, and 6. Have personally been around people who think DevOps = CI/CD (it's just a method to build, test, and release software) and is solely about the tools rather than whether it actually solves a problem. Emulating everything bigger tech companies do won't necessarily help unless the use-cases are similar.
Adding some more points that could qualify as myths
Great points, thanks Vinay :)
Great dissection! The thing about bottlenecks is that there is always a bottleneck. Removing one bottleneck reveals the next, so after making a process improvement it's important to see where the bottlenecks have moved. That reveals you next target for DevOps improvements.
I totally agree Adam, thanks for the comment :)
Rightly said, a list of them should be a good way to plot a roadmap for the DevOps practice in any company.
To bust myths it would require that a clear definition of DevOps exits. But when I recap the last ten years, the technology/ definition of DevOps has completely changed from the early beginnings till now (for example CI/ CD was not part of DevOps in the beginning at all). So it’s more about the definition of what DevOps currently is before myths around it could be busted ...
Nice article, but from this writing it is still not clear what DevOp is exactly? I was looking for a definition before one trying to clear up myths. Saying that "using machine learning and artificial intelligence, you can automate the setup, deployment, and monitoring processes" is more like creating myths than clearing it up. Now ML and AI is part of DevOP? Another Myth LOL...
I am an ML engineer and it has not much to do with automate this kind of setup...
This sentence doesn’t state that ML and AI are part of DevOps, but simply that implementing ML and AI can help DevOps practices get closer to NoOps :)
Hey, sorry for a reply to a month-old post. Just wanted to say Thanks for your write-up. I'm currently putting together some information for some of the bosses at our company: "What should we change about our 'DevOps' initiative?"
I've worked on it for a few days; in its current state it touches on some of the major points you hit as well.
I'm going to reference your post along side a few others as sources.
You had me at #6. Good stuff.
Geat article. A PaaS is good step towards NoOps. NoOps is worth striving for as Ops is a big drain on developer productity no mater what tooling/tools are used.
A good post. Thank you for sharing the knowledge. The 1st point is really apt and on top of the list :)
Thanks :)
Thanks for the post Sara!
Well stated Sara, if you don't mind I am going to use this article going forward to help explain some of the issue and myths around Devops to clients.
Thank you.
Thanks Benjamin, feel free to use it :)