Hot Takes, Myths, And Falsehoods - Why Everyone Is Wrong About DevOps Except For Me
A presentation at swampUP 2021 by Matt Stratton
Hot Takes, Myths, And Falsehoods Why Everyone Is Wrong About DevOps Except For Me @mattstratton
Don’t believe everything that you read on the internet @mattstratton
@mattstratton
“DevOps is more than just tools” @mattstratton
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
“There is no one true de nition of DevOps” fi @mattstratton
FALSE • There are over 8 million results when I search “de nition of DevOps”, and 8 million people can’t be wrong • What else would we argue about on Twitter? • It’s way too hard to explain nuance to senior management anyway fi @mattstratton
“Kubernetes won’t solve all your problems” @mattstratton
FALSE • Kubernetes came from Google • @crayzeigh deployed his blog on Kubernetes and now it only goes down twice a month • YAML shows your commitment to precision @mattstratton
“If you DevOps, you still need testing” @mattstratton
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
“You can’t buy DevOps” @mattstratton
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
“DevOps does not work for everyone” @mattstratton
FALSE • Then why did all the sysadmins become DevOps Engineers overnight? • It’s not fair for me to not be able to sell everyone DevOps • “Every company is a DevOps company” some vendor, probably @mattstratton
“You can do DevOps on Windows” @mattstratton
FALSE • A key component of DevOps is a smug sense of self-satisfaction • Something something slashdot • Some other joke @mattstratton
“Cats are more aligned with DevOps than dogs” @mattstratton
FALSE @mattstratton
For more DevOps hilarity… devopspartygames.com @mattstratton
Everyone has an opinion about DevOps. The problem is, most people’s opinions are wrong. In this Ignite, I’ll spin through some of the more popular misconceptions about DevOps of the last year or so, and clarify them as only I know how.
Will Kubernetes save your soul? Are enterprises too stodgy for DevOps? Is immutable infrastructure even a thing? Can you devops without kitten gif’s? I’ll bust myths and take down thought-leaders with my tongue planted firmly in cheek.
