DevOps Is Not Just Hosting — Stop Reducing It to That

Let’s get one thing straight:
DevOps is NOT just hosting something on a cloud provider.

But sadly, this is what it’s becoming for many — spin up a VM, click deploy, stare at dashboards, and call it a day.

If this is what DevOps means to you, then I’m sorry, but you’re just another employee managing dashboards, not an engineer who understands or builds systems.

Real DevOps begins when you stop saying:

“It’s not my money, I’m not the one paying.”

Because if that’s your mindset, then no — you’re not doing DevOps. You’re just sitting there making billing charts and praying the infra doesn’t collapse.

It’s Not About Hating the Cloud — It’s About Owning the Responsibility

I don’t hate AWS, Azure, or GCP. They’ve built great platforms.

My problem is the lack of awareness.
And worse — even when we are aware, we refuse to take responsibility.

If infra is slow, if costs spiral out of control, if migration turns into a nightmare — we should be the ones answering, not hiding.

That’s what DevOps stands for.
Not shifting blame.
Not saying, “It was EKS auto-scaling delay.”

Know Who You Are — You’re the Builder, Not Just a Button-Clicker

DevOps is about owning what we create.

If we keep treating this work as just another job — then honestly, only God can save your infra.

So ask yourself:

• Are you here just to deploy YAML files written by someone else?

• Or are you here to design systems that scale, cost less, and give you real control?

Apni asli takat pehchano.
You’re not here to follow dashboards.
You’re here to build the dashboard itself.

From the Next Blog Onwards — We Talk Solutions

Enough talk about problems. We’ve seen the truth.

Now it’s time to build.

From the next blog onwards, I’ll be sharing:

• Step-by-step guides to run infra on VPS and bare metal

• How to scale without burning cash

• Vendor-agnostic setups

• True DevOps workflows that put you in charge

Because talking is easy.
Building is what we do.

If you’re ready to break the pattern and take ownership — stay tuned.