[aniou]

Not at all. Things like CFEengine (1993) and even Puppet predates a spread of "devops" term. Not mentioning tools for automated system installations, embedded in distributions like RedHat or Debian.

Creating a tools, that allows us doing a simple, repeatable and - usually - automated tasks, always was an important part of sysadm role. Of course, there were ones that did everything manually and wasn't able to write own code: we called them "operators".

From my point of view: "devop is that hasty one, that doesn't care about long-term support of underlying infrastructure".

[drran]

> Not at all. Things like CFEengine (1993) and even Puppet predates a spread of "devops" term. Not mentioning tools for automated system installations, embedded in distributions like RedHat or Debian.

Yep.

> Creating a tools, that allows us doing a simple, repeatable and - usually - automated tasks, always was an important part of sysadm role. Of course, there were ones that did everything manually and wasn't able to write own code: we called them "operators".

Yep.

> From my point of view: "devop is that hasty one, that doesn't care about long-term support of underlying infrastructure".

Nope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps