DevOps is not about “one-click deployment"

DevOps is not about “one-click deployment"

Manager: “Why do we still need so many DevOps engineers? Everything is automated now.”

DevOps Engineer: “Because automation also needs engineering.”

Manager: “But deployments are one-click now.”

DevOps Engineer: “Yes… until production crashes at 2 AM.”

Manager: “That rarely happens.”

DevOps Engineer: “Last week we had:

• a failed deployment
• an expired SSL certificate
• Kubernetes node issues
• monitoring alerts
• and a rollback that didn’t work.”

Manager: “Oh.”

DevOps Engineer: “Automation removes repetitive work.”

Manager: “Exactly.”

DevOps Engineer: “It doesn’t remove operational responsibility.”

Silence. 😭

People think DevOps is about making deployments faster.

Real DevOps is making systems survive when things go wrong.

Post by : Kartik Kathuria