Successful cloud native deployments largely hinge on DevOps’ ability to break down silos and other inter-organizational barriers by directly engaging all stakeholders, including business teams, developers, operations and other otherwise separate groups throughout the entire process. But aside from the general description, DevOps can mean a lot of different things to many different people.

In some extreme cases, DevOps’ role in cloud native development and operations might just represent a job ticket for some organizations, such as when a developer discovers a security vulnerability in an application’s code in a cloud native deployment. He or she then merely delegates fixing the security hole to an on-staff security staff while their responsibility ends there.

What Cloud Native DevOps really means, as well as its future, was a main theme of this podcast, hosted by The New Stack Editor-In-Chief Alex Williams during The New Stack pancake breakfast held during Cloud Foundry Summit Europe 2018. Devin Davis, vice president, marketing, for the Cloud Foundry Foundation, served as the co-host. The panel consisted of the following guests:

Abby Kearns, executive director, the Cloud Foundry Foundation;

Chisara Nwabara, technical program manager, Pivotal software;

Dieu Cao, director of product management, Pivotal software;

Frederic Lardinois, analyst and journalist, TechCrunch;

Julian Friedman, the Cloud Foundry project lead, IBM.

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