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The tools aren't the problem, leadership and culture is. Tools can't fix problems with leadership and culture. "Executive buy-in" is conspicuously missing from the post. When companies are "doing DevOps" by wiring up manual deploys and manual approvals in GitHub Actions, it's not the tool that's at fault. When developers are applauded for deploying once a month, it's not the fault of the YAML engineers who were hired to build the pipeline that's used once per month, it's the fault of the executives putting their hands together and clapping.

No tool in the world is going to convince an executive to trust their people, to take risks with uptime and stability, and to break production as a necessary part of organizational learning. No, that requires executives to feel supported by other executives. Tools do not create collaboration and trust; people do.