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Discussion on: SRE Vs DevOps. What are the factors that overlap?

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Dian Fay

DevOps is technically a discipline, not a role, although in practice it's become a metonym for "developer who can also manage a deployment pipeline and administer servers/clusters". I see SREs in particular as having more of a stake in the running system. The code having been built and deployed isn't the whole picture; there are also availability, observability, and scale considerations.

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Pavan Belagatti

Thanks for this. So SREs can be DevOps but DevOps cannot be SREs, is that the case?

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Dian Fay

They're different things. The video rhymes posted explains that SREs can practice DevOps as part of our remit. Strictly speaking it's not possible to be DevOps, but the role named by the vernacular usage of the term has significant common ground with the SRE role: build and deploy pipeline construction and management, cloud and server administration, automation and tooling tasks.