I don't say that to be snarky. The last 4 places I've been at, DevOps had extremely different roles at each place.
The current place I'm at, DevOps is chartered with such things as: care-and-feeding of the Jenkins continuous build server, care-and-feeding of the Git source control servers, tasked with making the projects that comprise the product to build faster and more reliably, tasked with reducing the warnings in the code base to zero (and not by disabling warnings!), tasked with being the scouts to try out and certify the latest compilers against the code base, tasked with working with the build teams to help make the build process better from the repo to publishing the executable, tasked with helping the localization team be plugged into the build system, tasked with helping the technical documentation team be able to do their jobs, tasked with doing audits and working with legal, and I'm sure another dozens tasks and charters I've missed.
That's a lot of work!
But I've also been at other places where DevOps did none of those things. Thus, my question.
What does DevOps do?
I don't say that to be snarky. The last 4 places I've been at, DevOps had extremely different roles at each place.
The current place I'm at, DevOps is chartered with such things as: care-and-feeding of the Jenkins continuous build server, care-and-feeding of the Git source control servers, tasked with making the projects that comprise the product to build faster and more reliably, tasked with reducing the warnings in the code base to zero (and not by disabling warnings!), tasked with being the scouts to try out and certify the latest compilers against the code base, tasked with working with the build teams to help make the build process better from the repo to publishing the executable, tasked with helping the localization team be plugged into the build system, tasked with helping the technical documentation team be able to do their jobs, tasked with doing audits and working with legal, and I'm sure another dozens tasks and charters I've missed.
That's a lot of work!
But I've also been at other places where DevOps did none of those things. Thus, my question.
DevOps is so broad, no doubt. Every company or team can adapt the concept of DevOps to different practical tasks. It's tough to answer your question.