Matt Stratton beams aboard the Datanauts starship to share his opinions and experiences with DevOps. Is DevOps a role you can hire for, or a culture you create? If it's the later, how do you get started, what are the impacts, and how do you iterate? The post Datanauts 166: Can You Hire ‘DevOps’? appeared first on Packet Pushers.
I hear about companies that create net new DevOps roles and hire “DevOps Engineers” to fill them.
And then those DevOps people fail in their roles, because no one wants to deal with the additional processes they tend to create.
I’ve wondered if hiring specific DevOps roles is doing it wrong. Is a transformative approach a better idea?
That is, take the people you’ve got and retrain, retool, and reorganize. Foster a different culture that’s DevOps-ian in nature. Then, you might be successful.
Am I right? We explore this idea of hiring DevOps on the Datanauts podcast with guest Matt Stratton. Matt is a DevOps advocate at PagerDuty.
We discuss:
* Core DevOps principles and how to separate out marketing nonsense
* Why every IT professional in an organization needs to understand the business
* Whether there are costs to an IT team to moving to DevOps, and costs for not moving
* DevOps success stories
* Dealing with the inevitable people problems
* Iterative steps you can take to creating a DevOps culture
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Show Links:
Matt Stratton on Twitter
Matt Stratton on LinkedIn
Arrested DevOps Podcast
The “Matt’s hair” tweet
Old Geeks Yell at Cloud with Andrew Clay Shafer & Bryan Cantrill – Arrested DevOps
DevOps Culture Change With Bill Joy – Arrested DevOps
Principal Engineering With Silvia Botros – Arrested DevOps
Matt’s Favorite DevOps Definitions
“DevOps is the union of people, process, and products to enable continuous delivery of value to our end users.” – Donovan Brown http://donovanbrown.com/post/what-is-devops
“A culture where people, regardless of title or background, work together to imagine, develop, deploy and operate a system.” – Ken Mugrage https://kenmugrage.com/2017/05/05/my-new-definition-of-devops/
“A cultural and professional movement, focused on how we build and operate high velocity organizations, born from the experiences of its practitioners.” – Adam Jacob https://github.com/chef/devops-kungfu
Matt’s Favorite DevOps Resources