I agree that it's harder than it should be. I think are some great tools, but they're not easy for most organizations to integrate unless there is a really big push to make it happen.<p>I've been playing around with Blueprint [1] because I like the idea of being able to dip a toe in without plunging in the deepend with Chef/Puppet.<p>[1] <a href="http://devstructure.com/blueprint/" rel="nofollow">http://devstructure.com/blueprint/</a>
Hey, nice to see someone cares enough to post and comment on my blog.<p>BryantD, if you work in a place where testers review Puppet manifests that's awesome. It's fair to say I was generalising. I believe that the tools should be doing more to encourage it.
"Are testers reviewing Puppet manifests?"<p>Yes.<p>"Do sysadmins typically contribute to Jenkins projects?"<p>Yes.<p>Tools are what you make of 'em, man.
How about dev ops service providers? It seems like service companies with dev ops expertise are either website builders or hosting providers. The former is not interested unless they are building a new site (DevOps and upward in the stack). The later is not interested unless they are hosting everything (DevOps and downward in the stack).
Best part: "Whilst the benefits of this specialisation have been understood since Adam Smith profiled the original Pinterest[asterisk] we still need to acknowledge their impact on collaboration."<p>[asterisk] Featured Pin Factory in the Division of Labour (it was a hot startup, sweeping the 1776 Crunchies)