Three DevOps Trends to Pay Attention to
Wherein I package my gut feelings about the tech industry as insider information.
I’m not entirely sure how to begin this one; I know what I want to say, but I’m not sure how to descend into that madness without being incredibly blunt. Usually, I’d start with some sort of short personal story or a parable, or some kind of recent news reference, but there’s none of that here. This piece is really just a culmination of some growing concerns I’ve been having for the past year or so about the state of the DevOps/SRE industry, so I guess I’m left with being blunt: the state of the industry is terrible.
Orchestrated Homogenization
There’s a number of reasons that have drawn me to my conclusion, but I want to start with what I think is the biggest and most egregious reason: we have allowed our industry to be taken over by Kubernetes. I’ve written about my dislike of Kubernetes in the past, but this goes far beyond personal feelings or misgivings about a platform. We’ve given K8S so much control of our environments that we’re starting to get to the point where we can’t really run anything else. We constantly see products do complete pivots to support Kubernetes as their core model, completely forsaking their foundations. Rancher is a good example of this.
