> TLDR; don’t be ridiculous. Smart people do this stuff professionally and then you come along and think you’re some hot shot who can do it in a few minutes?

Basically, yes. Mainly because I do this professionally too.

Just because I haven’t been assigned to do it this time does not mean I can’t.

How about you are generous and interpret my comment as if I know what I’m talking about, then I won’t be an ass and nuance my previous statement a bit.

Something can (and probably should) take a month the first time around. Then, if you’ve actually fulfilled your promise as ‘devops’ any second time you are doing this thing it should take significantly less time. Maybe you’ve not automated all parts, but certainly the most common ones.

I think we’re now at iteration 20+, and it still takes a month for every new environment (dev, sqa, prod) of the same application.

Now it’s definitely possible there is a reasonable explanation for that, but it’s starting to get a bit suspect. Enough so that I’ll make a frustrated comment about it on HN when the subject comes up.