What are common challenges and anti-patterns when adopting DevOps?

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Common challenges and anti-patterns when adopting DevOps. The 'DevOps team' anti-pattern — creating a separate 'DevOps team' that becomes a new silo, recreating the wall it was meant to break. Tool obsession — buying Jenkins/K8s/Terraform without changing culture or process. 'You can't buy DevOps.' Cultural resistance — Dev and Ops have different incentives (ship features vs keep stable). Hard to align without leadership backing. Skill gaps — devs unfamiliar with infra, ops unfamiliar with code; transition takes time and training. Legacy systems — monoliths, manual deploys, old test suites resist automation. Security as a blocker — late-stage security reviews kill velocity. Solution: shift left / DevSecOps. Lack of measurement — without DORA metrics or SLOs, you can't tell if you're improving. Blame culture — fear of incidents leads to hiding them, slowing learning. Use this question to demonstrate maturity. Don't just list challenges — show how you'd diagnose and address them. The classic anti-pattern: 'DevOps team' or 'DevOps engineer' as a silo, which defeats the whole purpose.