Inside DevOps with Félix Brunet Girard from TELUS Health
Blog post from Octopus Deploy
In this installment of the Inside DevOps series, Félix Brunet Girard, Lead DevOps Specialist at TELUS Health, discusses his perspective on DevOps as a culture that aligns development and operations teams, emphasizing the importance of understanding deployment impacts and security implications. He shares insights from his DevOps journey, which began at Croesus, where he transitioned from a developer background to focus more on DevOps tools and practices. At TELUS Health, they have implemented best practices like a "golden pipeline" for streamlined application deployment and use Octopus for continuous deployment to enhance efficiency and standardization across various environments. Félix highlights challenges such as mastering diverse cloud technologies and tool integrations, while also noting the rewarding aspects of helping others achieve their goals and constantly learning new technologies. He advises newcomers to start small and be curious, recommending several books for further learning, and shares an interesting personal fact about his third-degree black belt in Chinese Kenpo.