PaaS and DevOps: A Marriage of Seamless Collaboration

Grazed from OpenShift. Author: Krishnan Subramanian.

PaaS and DevOps are much discussed topics these days in meetups and conferences around the world. The ambiguity around the very definition of DevOps is pushing people to wonder if there is any connection between DevOps and PaaS. I want to briefly touch on this topic in the hopes of generating a conversation on the role of DevOps and PaaS.

Putting the discussion in context
From my vantage point (as someone who was an analyst up until four months ago, viewing the industry from 30,000 feet), I see two schools of thought inside the DevOps movement:

• Hosted "NoOps" PaaS – This school insists that operations ceases to exist on the side of enterprise IT and defines DevOps narrowly as developers using code to manipulate the underlying infrastructure. For example, analyzing application performance and performing on-the-fly optomizations to underlying components for delivering a more seamless end user experience. From this perspective of DevOps, operations in enterprise IT is unnecessary…

• Hybrid "DevOps" PaaS – This group consists of enterprise PaaS vendors and many in enterprise IT (including enterprise developers). They argue that DevOps is about Developers and Operations collaborating effectively to remove any barriers or silos between developers and the operations team…

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