There’s a lot of confusion about what DevOps exactly is, and what it takes for enterprises and individuals alike to succeed. Some argue it’s about successfully using collaboration toolsets. It’s not. DevOps is about collaboration between software developers and IT operations teams. DevOps grew from the need for a more agile organization, and to knock […]
Is Ops the quarterback of the DevOps team?
Without stepping too deeply into the charged debate on whether or not developers are at the pinnacle of the IT food chain, I’ve recently observed that many of the DevOps leaders I’ve been speaking with are from operations. For me it begs the question – are the ops folks quarterbacking the DevOps process at most […]
The Push to Make Ops More Social
Given that social coding is a thing, what about the other side? Operations has the same image of lone wolves solving problems in the dark. The culture of on-call is built around the concept that when you’re holding the pager, you’re the one on the front lines, so that everyone else can sleep. Social operations, […]
Organizational Dysfunction: The original vulnerability
During your teenage years, you may have figured out a way to get a ‘yes’ from your parents by playing off of the responsibility and knowledge gap between them…walking up to your mom and saying something like, “Hey Mom, Dad said he would drive me, can I go out tonight?” and then proceed to your […]
VMware IT Private Cloud — DevOps Provisioning
VMware IT has deployed a private cloud based on the vCloud Suite. Dev and Ops teams are one tenant using the cloud to automate dev test provisioning and streamline application development. Automated provisioning has improved how these teams work together. And here is how.