DevOps for Embedded

Three particular comments stood out to me:

> It’s not necessary to automate the 100% of your infrastructure

This is true IMHO, although it's a good goal to strive for, even if you fall short. I will add that if you get to 95 or 99%, the remainder should be well documented and that documentation shared within your team. There's nothing more frustrating than finding that the automation almost works, but there's those one or two manual steps that require that one guy who is on leave this week. Even more so if those steps could have been easily automated. Rediscovering this stuff is usually wasted effort.

> Some would argue that also the coffee machine should be also included in the automation process

Unfortunately, even in companies worth $1bn+, I've seen the devops guys working on the coffee pot because it's more interesting than automating that last 5% of stuff that only they know about.

> You need only to find the simplest solution for your problem.

This is another thing I've seen devops teams fall foul of - using a much more complicated solution than is necessary, introducing extra tools with extra dependencies when a line of bash, python or perl somewhere would have done the trick. They could/should have invested the time they would have spent on the complicated solution finishing off that last 5% of automation that is missing from the source control repository and/or documentation.