Understanding the obstacles of DevOps tooling

So far, we have covered all the positives about tooling in the DevOps toolchain. What about some of the obstacles that come from working with so many different tools? Here are a few things that are obstacles to the adoption of these tools:

• Lack of definition of DevOps
• Shortage of knowledge on tooling
• Evaluation of tools
• The volume of tools available on the market
• Lack of tool integration

Let's now look at these points in more detail to better understand the obstacles to adopting tools.

Lack of definition of DevOps outcomes

It goes without saying that without a properly defined definition of what DevOps is and what it means to your organization, you are going to struggle with tooling. This leads to organizations deploying tooling because their competitors are deploying tools or for other primitive reasons.

Having that definition also helps you understand what the tooling roadmap might look like...