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The problem with buzzwords is that they tend to accumulate a diversity of definitions depending on the user.
So when Red Hatâs Josh Ranoa opened his âOpen Innovation: Make DevOps a Realityâ panel at the companyâs recent Government Symposium by asking panelists to define DevOps, it seemed an interesting, if basic, starting point. What the audience learned moments later, though, was actually quite intriguing.
Thatâs because every panelist, each involved in some way in bringing the increasingly popular DevOps practices to their respective agencies, defined the software engineering method differently.
This isnât to say that the panelists fundamentally disagreed on what DevOps is, but rather that each saw fit to highlight a different element.
And that then begs:Â What is DevOps, anyway?
Amazon Web Services offers this compact definition: âDevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases an organizationâs ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity,â it states.
This definition is useful because it hits on a lot of key points: DevOps is about delivering software products faster. Itâs about continuous testing and incremental development and built-in user feedback and bringing an organizationâs engineering (Dev) and operations (Ops) teams together to speak the same language.
DevOps is a job and also an organizational mindset, as Steven Grunch, manager of enterprise cloud services at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, defined it.
âI define [DevOps] as a culture of collaboration between different groups, whether that is the traditional developers and operations, or whether itâs between the business and IT organization,â he said. âThis idea that business and IT are two different things needs to change. Weâre all trying to move in the same direction.â
Simmons Lough, a self-described DevOps evangelist at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, focused his definition on the âwhatâ rather than the âhowâ or âwhy.â
âI like to concentrate on continuous delivery,â he said. âI kind of look at it as fast, frequent deployments to production without taking shortcuts.â
And over at the Department of Homeland Security headquarters, Jennifer Hoover, a digital services expert in the office of the CTO, honed in on the âwhoâ â the people.
âI always think of DevOps mostly as a people-centric focus,â she told the gathered crowd. âSo many times Iâve been at conferences and panels and people talk about DevOps in a very technological way, where itâs focused on technology. But DevOps is so much bigger than technology. DevOps is about people, processes, technology â bringing that all together and then looping in innovation as part of that so we can move better and faster so we can deliver the mission for customers.â
In the end, it was Dave Gray, director of the division of infrastructure services at the Social Security Administration, who delivered the most pithy definition. âI wish I could say that I thought of this myself, but one of my coworkers said âDevOps is really just another term for common sense,’â he relayed, to a wave of audience clapping.