DevOps: Pushed by Circumstance or Pulled by a Dream, with Tracy Bannon

Tracy Bannon Senior Principal / Software Architect & DevOps Strategic Advisor at MITRE and ambassador for the DevOps Institute talks through the original DevOps timeline. Join as Carolyn and guest host Steve Mazzuca find out what happens when Dev fraternizes with Ops. For more resources and links mentioned in today's episode, please visit https://tech-transforms.captivate.fm/episode/devops (https://tech-transforms.captivate.fm/episode/devops) Episode Table of Contents[00:48] DevOps Strategic Advisor and Ambassador [10:34] Respected DevOps [18:35] The DevOps Pipeline [24:05] DevOps Institute Episode Links and Resources DevOps Strategic Advisor and AmbassadorCarolyn: Today, I have Steve Masuka or The Mas as I like to call him, co-hosting with me. It's always fun to have a conversation with you Steve. The hard part is going to be getting you to be quiet, so we can get our guest Tracy Bannon. He is Senior Principal, Software Architect and DevOps Strategic Advisor at MITRE, as well as an ambassador for the DevOps Institute. So welcome Tracy. Tracy: I'm thrilled to be here today. It's always fun to have these conversations. Carolyn: You are a striking woman with pink hair and you were in development, which makes you in my mind, kind of a unicorn. I would really love to hear your story. Tracy: I'll start with the pink hair and go backwards from there. I've had little bits of color in my hair for years. My mom was an art teacher. My dad's more on the math and the sciences side of it. I kind of have that left brain, right brain, need to express myself. Over probably the last two or three years, as I've been doing more remote work, I was having more fun with the pink and decided that it's the pandemic. Let's stretch things a little bit more. I'm just loving it. So that's a little bit about that piece of it. But as for me being a woman in technology, I actually like to come at it in reverse. To say that I'm a real technologist and not say I'm a woman technologist. It matters, but it doesn't matter. What's imp