Mr. Mitchell was true to his word. The boss was given his papers, and you are heading up the DevOps initiative with a budget to get a good start. One problem, where do you start? What needs to be done first?
After a day of reflection, reading, and learning, there were very few articles on the subject. What you found was limited and not as helpful as expected. Then, the "Aha" moment hit you; what do we have already? Frank is always talking about this Orchestrator to do his VMware administration, you think. "Hey Frank, how's it going?" He responds with "Good! I am pretty busy today; what can I help you with?"
You begin by explaining your dilemma and ask where he started with his and what he does with what he develops. He lights up with pride as he explains how he got started and why he decided to script, "I ran into numerous times when clicking through things that I had too many things to do and not enough time to do it, so I started looking into...