In a previous job, I joined a team that was supposed to be introducing DevOps to the organisation.
It started out well -- we spent a few months hacking with Terraform, Docker, Vagrant, Kubernetes, and related technologies to implement an infrastructure-as-code approach -- automating the process of provisioning and decommissioning servers, and building a setup where development teams could deploy updates with a simple git push.
Unfortunately it all went downhill fairly rapidly. We ended up spending the majority of our time manually applying security patches to a bunch of snowflake servers that we'd lifted-and-shifted from another hosting provider to AWS, and fielding support requests from the development teams. Within a year, we were being told in no uncertain terms by our project manager that we were an operations team, not a development team.
It felt like a complete bait-and-switch. Within two years, I had left the organisation in question and moved on to a new job elsewhere doing actual development again. Last I heard, the entire team had been disbanded.
It sounds like the author of this article must have had a very similar experience. I wonder just how common it is. It seems that in many places, "DevOps" is all Ops and no Dev.
It started out well -- we spent a few months hacking with Terraform, Docker, Vagrant, Kubernetes, and related technologies to implement an infrastructure-as-code approach -- automating the process of provisioning and decommissioning servers, and building a setup where development teams could deploy updates with a simple git push.
Unfortunately it all went downhill fairly rapidly. We ended up spending the majority of our time manually applying security patches to a bunch of snowflake servers that we'd lifted-and-shifted from another hosting provider to AWS, and fielding support requests from the development teams. Within a year, we were being told in no uncertain terms by our project manager that we were an operations team, not a development team.
It felt like a complete bait-and-switch. Within two years, I had left the organisation in question and moved on to a new job elsewhere doing actual development again. Last I heard, the entire team had been disbanded.
It sounds like the author of this article must have had a very similar experience. I wonder just how common it is. It seems that in many places, "DevOps" is all Ops and no Dev.