[aero142]

This is not the only variant of DevOps. There are companies where the developers are responsible for creating the automation scripts to deploy their code into production as services and expected to keep in running in production.

[nulagrithom]

I'm inclined to think they're 'doing it wrong', especially when you cross in to the "keep it running in production" territory.

[beat]

If your production deployments are fundamentally different than your dev deployments, you're doing it wrong. For the most part, you should only be localizing a common deployment pattern.

I've suffered through enough three week deployment cycles because the prod environment is almost nothing like dev and everything is done manually. I think I know what "doing it wrong" looks like there.