I’ve spent the past nine months or so overcoming resistance to the DevOps movement in both public forums and inside client companies. During that time, I’ve begun to notice a common misconception that I think is fueling much of the negative initial reaction that some people have to DevOps ideas. I want to take a shot at clearing it up now:

DevOps is not a technology problem.

Technology plays a key part in enabling solutions to DevOps problems. However, DevOps itself is fundamentally a business problem.