For the past couple of years everybody from your cat to the Gartner analysts have been talking about devops, but what is this devops thing. Why does it matter .. and what does it have to do with Open Source?
We've come a long way since introducing new ideas in server automation and deployment, and also in creating a culture of collaboration between the traditional silos in organizations. But how does this impact the traditional sysadmin world? Are we all a DevOps now? Does a DevOps person = sysadmin 2.0? Will DevOps put us out of a job? I will give a brief overview of how culture, workflow, and behavior have evolved.
After evaluating the past and the present, I will talk about the future, identifying technical gaps in monitoring, packaging, and data collection and identifying emerging human, organizational evolutions.