The Deployment View

Abstract

The term DevOps grew out of conversations that Patrick Debois, a system administrator at the time, and Andrew Shafer, a software developer, were having in 2009 along with others sharing their frustrations in how difficult it was to move development to operations. They observed that the agility, automation, and communication barriers between development and operations teams were common across many organizations. The developers put the responsibility on operations and mismatches in the deployment environment. The operations teams assumed that the problems culminated from the implementation. The teams clearly lacked a common deployment and operations view of the system, one of the key aspects of any system's architecture.