I'm beginning to grok devops a bit more, which was greatly aided by the devo.ps blog. I am a big fan of their writing. It meanders enough to have a certain vivacity to it, but remains a great technical resource as well. It also affirmed my belief that, like Agile, it is primarily a social revelation in a technical sphere.
If I were to summarize what I've learned about devops, it would be to say that devops is about mutual respect and collaboration between developers and system administrators. I've always maintained that, in most cases, the hard part about coding is not the code itself, but the context in which it happens. Devops is about the context and the environment in which code runs, as well as acknowledging the complexities inherent in the job. Devops is about being disciplined always or never.
I'm also beginning to understand how ignorant I am about this. It's a bit overwhelming. I'm taking in a lot of information, but my practical ability still lies somewhere between installing virtualbox and being able to turn on my computer. I figure I'll take it a step at a time. First up: getting a vagrant configuration up and running.