DevOps => Operations

[josegonzalez]

DevOps is not a type of work, but more of a "way" of working collaboratively with other departments to achieve common goals.

[krzysztof-magosa]

DevOps is commonly used as shortcut for "DevOps Engineer".

[josegonzalez]

Yeah but these are operations-related questions. The following are devops questions:

• What is DevOps?
• How they would you communicate a change if no procedures existed?
• Which is more important to the success of any DevOps community: how people communicate or the tools that you choose to deploy?

[ckrough]

"DevOps Engineer" is not a role. Dev+Ops is a cohesive team that engages in both Development and Operations tasks, or it's individual Operations and Development teams that work very closely together. If it's a separate role then it's probably just "Ops".

[krzysztof-magosa]

@ckrough tell that to 90% of companies ;-)
I'm not saying it's correct usage, but it's just popular.

[josegonzalez]

So let's correct it?

[dijit]

I agree, DevOps "as a role" is a poor choice of words and should be avoided if possible; we should not propagate incorrect assumptions from people who do not wish to understand what words mean.

[landergate]

Ops is more correct, of cource.
But changing "DevOps" means this repo wouldn't be found anymore in Google/GitHub Search by those people (many of them) who are searching for interview questions in context of "DevOps engineers".

[dezechristophe]

Yes stop using devops as a role. 😃