Author: Patrick Debois and Kris Buytaert

Some call this phenomenon devops, others agile system administration. Truth is that agile techniques used in development have an impact on the way operations organizes it work. Similar, operations and sysadmins are becoming programmers because of the virtualization and automation trend where everything is managed through an API. That's how DevopsDays 09 was announced last summer.

This talk will summarize the different ideas behind DevOps, and will show that this goes beyond tooling and becomes a way of thinking, where ultimately both developers and sysadmins will stand together to support the business.