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DevOps => Operations

Open josegonzalez opened this issue 8 years ago • 8 comments

DevOps is not a type of work, but more of a "way" of working collaboratively with other departments to achieve common goals.

josegonzalez avatar Mar 29 '16 23:03 josegonzalez

DevOps is commonly used as shortcut for "DevOps Engineer".

krzysztof-magosa avatar Mar 30 '16 13:03 krzysztof-magosa

Yeah but these are operations-related questions. The following are devops questions:

  • What is DevOps?
  • How they would you communicate a change if no procedures existed?
  • Which is more important to the success of any DevOps community: how people communicate or the tools that you choose to deploy?

josegonzalez avatar Mar 30 '16 15:03 josegonzalez

"DevOps Engineer" is not a role. Dev+Ops is a cohesive team that engages in both Development and Operations tasks, or it's individual Operations and Development teams that work very closely together. If it's a separate role then it's probably just "Ops".

ckrough avatar Mar 30 '16 22:03 ckrough

@ckrough tell that to 90% of companies ;-) I'm not saying it's correct usage, but it's just popular.

krzysztof-magosa avatar Mar 31 '16 14:03 krzysztof-magosa

So let's correct it?

josegonzalez avatar Mar 31 '16 14:03 josegonzalez

I agree, DevOps "as a role" is a poor choice of words and should be avoided if possible; we should not propagate incorrect assumptions from people who do not wish to understand what words mean.

dijit avatar May 26 '16 10:05 dijit

Ops is more correct, of cource. But changing "DevOps" means this repo wouldn't be found anymore in Google/GitHub Search by those people (many of them) who are searching for interview questions in context of "DevOps engineers".

landergate avatar May 30 '16 07:05 landergate

Yes stop using devops as a role. 😃

dezechristophe avatar Aug 19 '16 09:08 dezechristophe