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DevOps’ Three Ways Were Never About Tooling

Ask someone how mature their DevOps practice is and the answer will often involve CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, infrastructure as code, observability, deployment frequency, or some combination of the above.

DevOps’ Three Ways Were Never About Tooling

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Ask someone how mature their DevOps practice is and the answer will often involve CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, infrastructure as code, observability, deployment frequency, or some combination of the...

Somewhere along the way, DevOps became a tooling conversation.

All valuable tools, but that is often where the conversation ends.

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Ask someone how mature their DevOps practice is and the answer will often involve CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, infrastructure as code, observability, deployment frequency, or some combination of the above. Somewhere along the way, DevOps became a tooling conversation. All valuable tools, but that is often where the conversation ends.

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Somewhere along the way, DevOps became a tooling conversation. All valuable tools, but that is often where the conversation ends. They compartmentalize DevOps principles to […]

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