The Ultimate
DevOps Test
Marta Paciorkowska, @a_meba
Three of Coins, @3ofcoinsnet
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Even bacterias have culture, so:
I took some blogs you know and love,
parsed them and fed a Markov chain text generator,
generated sentences... (the only thing I did was add dots and
commas)
All to see if you're devops
for real.
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Rules:
1. I give you a sentence.
2. You try to guess if it's human
or computer generated.
3. ???
4. PROFIT
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Question #1
''Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur
adipisicing elit.''
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Answer #1: Real!
''Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur
adipisicing elit. Proin nibh augue,
suscipit a, scelerisque sed, lacinia in, mi.
Cras vel lorem.''
– devopsinstitute.org
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Question #2
''Ops have to help you vertically scale''
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Answer #2: False
''Ops have to help you vertically scale''
– Andrey Markov!
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Question #3
''When I get done with you, you don’t
have a devops.''
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Answer #3: Real!
''Devops Isn’t a Deliverable - When I get
done with you, you don’t have a devops.
It’s possible that the things we’re working
on will bring you closer to a lifestyle and
culture that is devops.''
– Bratty Readhead
http://blog.brattyredhead.com/blog/2013/04/05/devops-consulting-why-i-don-slash-t/
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Question #4
''A devops team is one and everything.''
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Answer #4: False!
''A devops team is one and everything.''
– Andrey Markov
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Question #5
''Integration is a blade grinder.''
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Answer #5: False!
''Integration is a blade grinder.''
– Andrey Markov!
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Question #6
''Automation tooling, as it involves
orchestration, is about perspective.''
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Answer #6: False!
''Automation tooling, as it involves
orchestration, is about perspective.''
– Andrey Markov!
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Question #7
''A DevOps culture can be the nucleus of
a good software development lifecycle''
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Answer #7: True!
''A DevOps culture can be the nucleus of
a good software development lifecycle.''
Automation, tooling and cheap access to
computing resources have greatly
empowered individual engineers on the
operations and software development
sides of the tech industry.''
– Darryl K. Taft
http://www.eweek.com/developer/slideshows/10-ways-to-hire-top-notch-
devops-engineers.html