I never thought of the DevOps movement having any sort of connection to community building. Perhaps that’s why I so enjoyed reading the poignant comparisons offered by Venessa Paech in her self-titled blog. The overall message is that everyone will be more effective if they work together. I’ve only included an expert of the full blog and I highly recommend reading the whole thing, if for no other reason than to learn why no one celebrates ’Middle Aged White Man’ day.
A nice Ben Rockwood (@benr) article on devops.
Let us first consider “devops”. It is a cultural movement which codifies various characteristics, including the zen like interweaving of development and operations, better integration of “IT” with the business objectives as a whole, infrastructure as code, agile (or lean depending on who you speak with) operations, etc, etc. Alright. As I’ve stated in the past, its all the things ITIL claimed to be but somehow more hip. Alright, capture that in your minds eye and then move it aside.
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Dmitriy Samovskiy has an interesting post where he attempts to further explain the difference between a Devops and Sysadmin. Noting the main activities performed in an IT Operations environment, Dmitriy explains what belongs to the sysadmin and how devlops came to handle application specific tasks.
- activities around hardware purchased from vendors
- activities around software purchased from vendors (excluding software delivered as a service)
- activities around software and infrastructure delivered from vendors as a service
- activities around open-source and/or freely downloadable software
- activities around software developed in-house
Read more at http://somic.org/2010/10/06/devops-and-sysadmin/
