Devops, Devops, Devops, everybody talks about it but we’re still defining it …

There’s so many different interpretations possible for the term Devops , It’s automated infrastructure, it’s agile infrastucture, it’s getting devs and ops closer to eachother, it’s briding the gap between devs and ops , it’s agile system administration, it’s the movement , it’s the mindset , it’s the spirit.

Lots of people, lots of opinions .. Indeed some people have been doing this kind of work for ages, some claim the cloud is what makes devops become visible (but we’ve been doing cloud since before the cloud marketeers called it cloud)

Some define the devop as a European based , open source backgrounded , thirtysomething senior sysadmin , or should I say infrastructure architect , originated concept . Others claim it’s developers gone sysadmin gone partly developer again ..

But it seems like lots of people claim that Devops is more about the team, not about the unique individual doing a job.

You’ll have to agree however that our jobs are significantly different from the system adminstration type jobs you’ll find at the average IT department. With that in mind: How shall we call this breed of people cooking up chef stuff, playing the puppeteer or cranking up the CFEngines ?

And no I don’t like Devministrator :)