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Top reason to resign from my current job, A DevOps style?

taragurung on April 03, 2019

Finally, I quit my job. 2 years ago, I joined a company as python programmer and a DevOps enthusiast. The beginning days are always so exciting but...
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Dave MG • Edited

My friend I think you have just described literally every frustrated DevOperator who picked up and read both The Phoenix Project and it's companion The DevOps handbook.

You've certainly described my current frustrations. Let me both offer you my best wishes finding a new and better environment, and try to spawn a discussion off of this:

How have others here found success kicking off and getting real momentum behind your devops transformations given the frustrations shared here by @taragrg6 ?

I think they're familiar to a lot of us, and we've heard similar tropes before, read about them across various blogs and communities for years but the same cultural issues exist when companies and teams hire a DevOps.([engineer|architect|manager]) but maintain siloed, monolithic status quos (complete with a broken linting pipeline).

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David J Eddy

"...Always looking for low budget employee similar to t2 micro..."

You speak the truth! Some places are willing to pay, but those are few and far in between.