What is DevOps? Quotes

“it’s important not to divorce developers from the consequences of their work since the fires are frequently set by their code. So,”
― Mike Loukides, What is DevOps?

“The new sysadmin won’t power down a machine, replace a failing disk drive, reboot, and restore from backup; he’ll write software to detect a misbehaving EC2 instance automatically, destroy the bad instance, spin up a new one, and configure it, all without interrupting service. With”
― Mike Loukides, What is DevOps?

“With automation at this level, the new “ops guy” won’t care if he’s responsible for a dozen systems or 10,000. And the modern BOFH is, more often than not, an old-school sysadmin who has chosen not to adapt.”
― Mike Loukides, What is DevOps?

“it’s important not to divorce developers from the consequences of their work since the fires are frequently set by their code.”
― Mike Loukides, What is DevOps?

“Operations is crucial to success, but operations can only succeed to the extent that it collaborates with developers and participates in the development of applications that can monitor and heal themselves.”
― Mike Loukides, What is DevOps?

“Developing applications that can run effectively in a hybrid environment: that’s the responsibility of developers, with healthy cooperation with an operations team.”
― Mike Loukides, What is DevOps?

“The companies that didn’t suffer, including Netflix, knew how to design for reliability; they understood resilience, spreading data across zones, and a whole lot of reliability engineering.”
― Mike Loukides, What is DevOps?

“The new sysadmin won’t power down a machine, replace a failing disk drive, reboot, and restore from backup; he’ll write software to detect a misbehaving EC2 instance automatically, destroy the bad instance, spin up a new one, and configure it, all without interrupting service.”
― Mike Loukides, What is DevOps?

“Perl was designed as a programming language for automating system administration.”
― Mike Loukides, What is DevOps?

“Infrastructure as Code.” If you’re going to do operations reliably, you need to make it reproducible and programmatic.”
― Mike Loukides, What is DevOps?