Hot Takes, Myths, And Falsehoods - Why Everyone Is Wrong About DevOps Except For Me

A presentation at DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2019 in June 2019 in London, UK by Matt Stratton

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Hot Takes, Myths, And Falsehoods Why Everyone Is Wrong About DevOps Except For Me @mattstratton

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Don’t believe everything that you read on the internet @mattstratton

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@mattstratton

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“DevOps is more than just tools” @mattstratton

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FALSE • If it was more than just tools, why would we have so many of them? • Nobody cares about your culture • There are a LOT of tools on DevOps twitter @mattstratton

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“DevOps is more than just automation” @mattstratton

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FALSE • The “A” in CAMS is the only vowel • Vowels are more important than consonants • Therefore, automation is the most important @mattstratton

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“Kubernetes won’t solve all your problems” @mattstratton

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FALSE • Kubernetes came from Google • Docker is boring and old • YAML shows your commitment to precision @mattstratton

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“If you DevOps, you still need testing” @mattstratton

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FALSE • Remove the human element and remove the human error • If your microservice only does one thing, it can’t have an error. That would be an additional thing • QA people are annoying anyway @mattstratton

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“You can’t buy DevOps” @mattstratton

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FALSE • You may not be able to buy it, but I can sell it to you • Seriously, I would love to sell you some devops • What will it take to get you in a devops today? @mattstratton

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“DevOps is not a title” @mattstratton

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FALSE • Nobody can tell you what titles to use in your organization • I suppose your HR people can • But what does HR know anyway? @mattstratton

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“You can do DevOps on Windows” @mattstratton

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FALSE • A key component of DevOps is a smug sense of self-satisfaction • Windows is all click-next, right? • Something something slashdot @mattstratton

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“Cats are more aligned with DevOps than dogs” @mattstratton

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FALSE @mattstratton

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Pagey Says…. @mattstratton