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While the main DevOps team was working on the enablement process around declarative file creation for the rest of engineering, a small group from the DevOps team was working on the actual implementation process. The first of many issues that the DevOps team had was that the scope of required support and the available tools did not align. But once the team had looked into Ansible and Harness, although they both could support the required platforms and functionality, engineering leadership would require evidence of evaluation for the other tools available.
The team could not show a list of desired functionalities and a list of current functionalities and then assume that was sufficient. Especially since Ansible and Harness had associated costs, whether that was support or licensing cost, the team had to show due diligence in qualifying a tool or solution.
This meant that the DevOps team needed to present the tools that they evaluated, the functionality that...