In today’s world of IT, its all about speed, innovation and automation – and this applies to the products and company that makes them. Traditionally, ITOps has been ensuring that systems and applications are running well for the business but with the introduction of DevOps and cloud technology, these ITOps people would find it hard to relate or thought that it would be totally in-practical to believe in methodologies which are promotes continuous changes and unpredictable stability to be used in their environment.
As automation was always been my passion in my journey of being the laziest person alive and let the robot do my job, understanding these methodologies would help me to expand my knowledge horizon, improve the way I do things and strengthen my believes. I always scratch my head and ask myself “How can I make ITOps and DevOps work together so that I can achieve NoOps?” and “What kind of tools do I need?
I personally like to reference to the diagram below to explain what automation is
DevOps practices which focuses on continuous changes, continuous updates, continuous delivery, team communication and features oriented and automation is about how scripts and tools can help us minimize human repetitive works, minimize time to perform that job, decrease human errors – the idea of let the human control the robot.
So to recap…..
- IT Ops is about ensuring systems and applications are in good shape so that business operates as usual and lights are always on
- DevOps is about practices which focuses on continuous changes and updates or the idea of pushing new changes to their application as fast and many as possible
- Automation is about how to let the machine help the human to do the job so to lessen human mistakes, time taken and increase productivity
If I were look at things at another angle, isn’t it that IT Ops repetitive works contributes to Automation ideas which then we can utilize DevOps practices to roll out the Automation idea as quickly as possible to help IT Ops? – did I just reached NoOps?
Well, I would like to keep this post short on explaining my view on why these methodologies works together. I will leave it to my upcoming post which will focus fully in-depth on technical concept explaining my point of view of how I achieve NoOps and which tools I’ve used so stay tuned!
WeiXiangKoh 
