The Ultimate DevOps Test

Brought to you by the George Carlin of DevOps, created exclusively for devopsdays Belgium 2014.

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1. The Ultimate
   DevOps Test
   Marta Paciorkowska, @a_meba
   Three of Coins, @3ofcoinsnet
   

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2. 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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3. 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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4. Question #1
   ''Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur
   adipisicing elit.''
   

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5. 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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6. Question #2
   ''Ops have to help you vertically scale''
   

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7. Answer #2: False
   ''Ops have to help you vertically scale''
   – Andrey Markov!
   

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8. Question #3
   ''When I get done with you, you don’t
   have a devops.''
   

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9. 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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10. Question #4
    ''A devops team is one and everything.''
    

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11. Answer #4: False!
    ''A devops team is one and everything.''
    – Andrey Markov
    

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13. Question #5
    ''Integration is a blade grinder.''
    

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14. Answer #5: False!
    ''Integration is a blade grinder.''
    – Andrey Markov!
    

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15. Question #6
    ''Automation tooling, as it involves
    orchestration, is about perspective.''
    

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16. Answer #6: False!
    ''Automation tooling, as it involves
    orchestration, is about perspective.''
    – Andrey Markov!
    

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17. Question #7
    ''A DevOps culture can be the nucleus of
    a good software development lifecycle''
    

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18. 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
    

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19. So... how devops
    are you?
    Thanks!
    Photo credits:
    Slide no2: http://www.nano-antimicrobial.com/
    Slide no4: http://lenguajesculturales.files.wordpress.com/
    Slide no6: http://archive.maryknollogc.org/
    Slide no13: http://wikimedia.org
    Slides no1 &19: shho, http://www.freeimages.com/profile/shho
    Slide no15: Derek Gleeson, http://www.wikimedia.org
    Slide no17: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Article_Creation_Workflow
    Slide no20: Lucid Nightmare, https://www.flickr.com/photos/lucid_nightmare/101912798
    

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20. ♥♡♥♡♥
    ♥♡BTW,♡♥
    ♡Let's all thank♡
    ♡the organizers!♡
    ♡♥♡♥♡♥♡
    

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