Click ops is great for most shops, as long as it has advanced configs available and you have at least one expert on staff for when those configs are needed.
At Netflix our goal was always to build tools where the majority of devs just check into source control and click a few buttons, but could go as far as configuring kernel tunables if necessary (but also making that as unnecessary as possible).
But the infrastructure underneath the stuff the devs use was almost certainly not click ops’d. I’m fine clicking a deployment into prod, I am not fine making advanced cloud or build configurations via a UI
Precisely. Even very small companies, should they grow (and we hope they will) should not be doing ClickOps architecture. They will pay for it later when their team is larger and trying to sort head from tail.
