1) The document discusses mythical creatures like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster and compares them to the concept of a "DevOps Engineer". 2) It explains that DevOps is a culture shift that encourages collaboration between development and operations teams to build better quality software faster and with more reliability. 3) The goal of DevOps is to create a high performing organization by removing waste like manual testing processes and long approval times from a software development lifecycle.

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In search of mythical creatures
Short Version
3/13/2015
No You are NOT a DevOps Engineer

2. Top 5 Mythical Creatures
that mankind is infatuated
with proving its existence

3. #1 Bigfoot

4. #2 – Loch Ness Monster

5. #3 - UFOs

6. #4 – Noah’s Arc

7. #5 – DevOps Engineer

8. It must be true, I saw it on the Internet

10. So what is DevOps?

11. So what is DevOps?
DevOps is a culture shift or movement that encourages great collaboration
(aka teamwork) to foster building better quality software more quickly
with more reliability.
- Better quality, faster to market, more reliable

12. DevOps is NOT….
• A role, person, or organization
• Something only systems administrators do
• Something only developers do
• Writing Chef and Puppet scripts
• Tools

14. What is the Goal of DevOps?
To become a high performing organization

15. DevOps should focus on……
Removing waste from the system
Examples of waste:
• Manual testing processes
• Inconsistent environments
• A domain expert as a bottleneck
• Long approval processes
• Stale data in testing environments

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Continuous Operations
“characteristics of a data-processing system that reduce or eliminate the need for
planned downtime, such as scheduled maintenance” --- Gartner
Maturing Towards Continuous Operations
Mature over time. Evolve.

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