DevOps and the Death of the CMDB | UpGuard

This article critiques DevOps as a niche approach that can conflict with established ITIL practices and argues that traditional configuration management and CMDBs cannot keep pace with cloud-driven, rapidly changing environments. It forecasts the obsolescence of CMDBs due to data volume, velocity, and complexity, and promotes greater automation and cross-team collaboration (e.g., tools like UpGuard) to mitigate human error. The piece ultimately predicts that current practices such as DevOps and CMDBs may be superseded by more adaptable methodologies.