Hot Takes, Myths, And Fake News - Why Everyone Is Wrong About DevOps Except For Me
A presentation at DevOpsDays Riga 2018 in in Riga, Latvia by Matt Stratton
@mattstratton Hot Takes, Myths, And Fake News 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 “DevOps is more than just automation”
@mattstratton FALSE • The “A” in CAMS is the only vowel
• Vowels are more important than consonants
• Therefore, automation is the most important
@mattstratton “Kubernetes won’t solve all your problems”
@mattstratton FALSE • Kubernetes came from Google
• Docker is boring and old
• 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 is not a title”
@mattstratton 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 “You can do DevOps on Windows”
@mattstratton FALSE • A key component of DevOps is a smug sense of self-satisfaction
• Windows is all click-next, right?
• Something something slashdot
@mattstratton “Cats are more aligned with DevOps than dogs”
@mattstratton FALSE
@mattstratton noti.st/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.
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Homestar Runner
A quite amusing series of web videos, which is where the cartoons for this talk come from.
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