2023 DevOps Is Terrible
I think the biggest issue with devops is that it originally meant &quot;socialising&quot; your sysadmins, by getting them to sit with your devs, so that shit didn&#x27;t get lost because nobody thought to talk to the right team.<p>But then it morphed into &quot;oh lets innovate with infrastructure&quot; but the innovation turned into &quot;lol lets just restart from scratch and ignore history&quot; Anybody who used early k8s can attest to how <i>un production ready</i> it was for the longest time. It _felt_ like progress because it required a lot of (to dev eyes) hidden magic to make it work.<p>Now, we are back with sysadmins, but they are called SREs. They provide a platform, which devs talk to to deploy stuff.<p>Basically we&#x27;re back where we were in 2015, just with more yaml.<p>The good things that have come out of devops has been the dashboarding and metrics tools. Its just a shame that everything else touched by it appears to be an infinite source of busy work (looking at you kubernetes)<p>(before anyone asks, I&#x27;m an SRE at a FAANG.)