Ep 4: Myth: DevOps is just a tool
In one sentence: you can’t buy DevOps. Tools help, but DevOps is how a team works: shared ownership, automation, small changes and fast feedback.
The myth
Section titled “The myth”“We installed Jenkins / Docker / Kubernetes, so now we do DevOps.” Teams that think this often keep the wall between Dev and Ops. They just add new tools on both sides of it.
The truth
Section titled “The truth”DevOps is a set of practices:
- Automate anything you do more than twice (tests, builds, deployments).
- Ship small changes often, so each one is low-risk.
- Share ownership: the team that builds it helps run it.
- Measure and learn from production.
The tools are how you do those practices, not a replacement for them.
Automation: is it a tool or a practice?
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A practice. Automation is a habit: noticing repeated manual work and turning it into a script or pipeline. Tools like GitHub Actions are just where that habit runs.