[dijit]

Everyone having their own idea of what devops means is problematic.

I think it’s best to consider the original source which is this talk from Flickr: https://youtu.be/LdOe18KhtT4

("10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr").

Directly it talks about joining developers and operations into the same team- later Patrick Debois would refer to this as DevOps and a year later the first DevOps days in Ghent was organised (also by Debois).

[dasil003]

Thanks for reminding me that someone else remembers this. It seems like it took no more than 5-6 years for everyone to simply adopt the term as a replacement for sysadmin with no change in operational practices. Coincident with that it seems most infra engineers started calling themselves SREs to distance themselves from the diluted concept.

[peterwwillis]

Yep. It's more of a concept of cooperation than anything else. Which, since it's not a concrete thing, makes it harder for people to understand. But then there's specific practices that arose out of trying to drive best practices in Ops at the same time (like IaC, II, CattleVsPets, automation, etc) so now DevOps "means" a jumble of slightly related things.

We really need some new terminology.

[mongol]

Is that the original devops talk, which is like the origin if the devops "movement"? Very cool, did not know it had such a clear origin.