A public and open declaration redefining DevOps as a software engineering discipline — not cloud system administration.
This repository hosts the official DevOps Manifesto, its principles, and the public issue where supporters can sign it with a comment.
The full manifesto is available here:
We invite you to read it, share it, and contribute to the discussion.
If you support this vision of DevOps, you can sign the manifesto by leaving a comment on this GitHub issue:
👉 github.com/alterloop/manifesto/issues/1
Your comment = your signature.
You may also include your thoughts, ideas, or your own interpretation of DevOps as engineering.
Over the years, the term DevOps has been distorted and repeatedly misused.
It has too often been reduced to a role focused exclusively on:
- operating cloud platforms
- managing infrastructure
- provisioning environments
- acting as “cloud sysadmins” under a new title
This misunderstanding has created a generation of so-called SoloOps or SiloOps profiles:
people restricted to operating tools and platforms, without the engineering skills required to shape, evolve, and sustain the lifecycle of modern software systems.
But DevOps is not operations-only.
DevOps is engineering — the ability to design, structure, automate, containerize, standardize, and modernize software across its entire lifecycle, with a primary focus on improving developer experience and development environments.
This manifesto was created to:
- reclaim the original engineering nature of DevOps
- promote a holistic view that starts from development, not production
- define standards that enable better, more evolvable software
- fight the misconception that DevOps = cloud sysadmin
- encourage organizations to value DevOps as a discipline, not a silo
Here is the list of people who have officially signed the DevOps Manifesto. This list is manually updated — add your nickname when you sign the GitHub issue.
- francescobianco - Original bootstrapper
- masenocturnal - First signatory
(Add your nickname here after signing the manifesto via the GitHub issue)
Feedback, proposals, discussions, and improvements are welcome.
DevOps is a living discipline — this manifesto evolves with the community.
You can:
- open issues
- participate in discussions
- refine principles
- propose new sections
This manifesto is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
You are free to share and adapt it with proper attribution.