[StressedDev]

Typically, developers have to tell the operations/sys admin/devops people a lot of things to get their application running in test/pre-production and production. Here are some examples:

- Network ports the service listens on - What security permissions does the application need - What commands have to be run so the application starts - What platform does the service use? Java, Node, C#, C/C++, Go, something else? - What GIT repository or repositories contains the service's code? - How does the build work? - What needs to deployed to the machine? - Any configuration changes the application needs

There are also a lot of join decisions where the operations engineer and the software engineers have to work together. Here are some examples: - What cloud will the team use? (AWS, Azure, GCE, etc.)? - What cloud technologies will the team use? - What database will the team use? - How will logs and alerts work? - How will the on-call rotation work?

My main point is you cannot just tell an operations person to deploy something and expect good results. They will have a lot of reasonable questions and software engineers should be able to answer them.