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Discussion on: DevOps Jobs - I don't get it!

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John Peters

Develops should know the entire pipeline to production.

In large companies production pipelines are highly controlled, for good reason. Only experts work there.

There is one aspect where software has to be pushed to thousands of computers. That part, automating the delivery is a science and takes lots of planning and effort. There are entire teams that only do that.

With newer Cloud services much of the expertise for pipeline degrees has been diminished. Just push a button to spin up entire production level machines.

One large company I worked with had two master degree devops engineers. They made releases go flawlessly.

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Michael Vogt • Edited

Develops should know the entire pipeline to production.

I could not agree more!

One large company I worked with had two master degree devops engineers. They made releases go flawlessly.

thats my point, thats not DevOps, that Ops!

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John Peters • Edited

All depends on definition. To me devops is collaboration of developers and operations. The entire pipeline is from developer code to delivery and subsequent maintenance.

Devops is the entire development to release and maintenance of software. So you are right it's everything dealing with software releases.