I tend to think it is a culture that recognizes and seeks after the tao. I've been part of cultures that think IaaS, CI/CD etc are varying levels of important. Some are zealots about CI/CD but then don't care at all about IaaS (they provision everything manually). I've also been part of cultures that won't do anything manually. So maybe it isn't a culture in itself, but it's definitely related to and enabled by a culture at the least.
> Getting a good engineer is only as good as that engineer's freedom to act.
That made me cheer in my brain. Absolutely true :clap:
Yes, it's a culture. And it's not a culture. It's also a toolset, and not a toolset. So I see "culture" on the same spectrum as "tools". Which is more Taoism, I suppose.
If you're doing DevOps right, you'll have good culture and good tools, for sure.
I tend to favor automated, or at least scripted provisioning... if it can be exercised quickly and easily, it's more likely to be exercised more often, meaning one can be more trusting.
> It isn't even a culture.
I tend to think it is a culture that recognizes and seeks after the tao. I've been part of cultures that think IaaS, CI/CD etc are varying levels of important. Some are zealots about CI/CD but then don't care at all about IaaS (they provision everything manually). I've also been part of cultures that won't do anything manually. So maybe it isn't a culture in itself, but it's definitely related to and enabled by a culture at the least.
> Getting a good engineer is only as good as that engineer's freedom to act.
That made me cheer in my brain. Absolutely true :clap: