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

A presentation at swampUP 2021 in May 2021 in 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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“There is no one true de nition of DevOps” fi @mattstratton

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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

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

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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

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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 does not work for everyone” @mattstratton

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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

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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 • Something something slashdot • Some other joke @mattstratton

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

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FALSE @mattstratton

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For more DevOps hilarity… devopspartygames.com @mattstratton