Should LOPSA "lead the march" to DevOps?
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Anyway, it seems to me that DevOps is more about management than technique. It starts with management giving permission and direction for development and operations teams to work closely together. Once the wall comes down, then technical improvements can be made. But first and foremost, it requires direct management support, particularly in large, complex organizations where development and operations are separated by several layers of management.
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I should say that I'm on the Ops side, and in the past, I've been in what would have been a very good candidate organization for a DevOps environment. I just always had problems convincing the developers to share information with me, and I could get them to have no interest in anything that I was doing.
I guess I didn't know how to broach the gap.
I've spent most of my career as what a colleague called a "one man devops team", basically serving as a sympathetic liaison to both sides. The root cause of the problem is organizational walls between dev and ops, but the industry-wide result is a sort of mutual distrust and even contempt.