The commercialization of DevOps

Damon Edwards: It is definitely an interesting topic, because people love to throw their hope into tools. First, it was Puppet. Then, it was Chef. More recently, it was Ansible, but now it's cloud-native and serverless. Each new automation tool is going to take over the world, but then the special project team working on it moves on and it becomes legacy. Now we have one of everything. Meanwhile, someone is saying that if they can bring in another new tool, then that will solve all their problems. It's a cycle that has always been there.

Nowadays, there are a lot of companies with DevOps initiatives, and their people are following the pattern that they've always followed and are looking for a DevOps tool to help them. I don't blame the vendors for offering their tools up as DevOps tools, because most of them are perfectly fine tools that solve specific problems. But don't be surprised when your DevOps problems don't go...