There is definitely Sysadmins blaming devs, but not because they're monkeys.
The attitude that Devs have about Sysadmins comes from arrogance. Devs are arrogant that Sysadmin work is monkey work, and "they could easily do it if they had to because it's not nearly as complicated as writing code". It's a complete lack of respect for Sysadmins.
Sysadmins blame Devs because as soon as Devs are put in the position of doing ops work, they completely and utterly fail, but instead of changing their attitude about Ops work (i.e. that it's actually a real and separate skillset than dev work), they maintain their arrogance that the work is dumb and "I could do it if I really had to".
Both issues are caused by arrogance of the Devs... the way Devs see Ops work, and the way Devs interact with Ops people which is then reflected back at them by Ops.
And in your example, Ops has it right. If Devs cannot do a basic thing like provide specs on the environment/tools they need to do their own work (what, you really don't know that 'git' is a tool you use, even though you type the word 'git' 20x a day?), how is Ops supposed to do anything about that?
The attitude that Devs have about Sysadmins comes from arrogance. Devs are arrogant that Sysadmin work is monkey work, and "they could easily do it if they had to because it's not nearly as complicated as writing code". It's a complete lack of respect for Sysadmins.
Sysadmins blame Devs because as soon as Devs are put in the position of doing ops work, they completely and utterly fail, but instead of changing their attitude about Ops work (i.e. that it's actually a real and separate skillset than dev work), they maintain their arrogance that the work is dumb and "I could do it if I really had to".
Both issues are caused by arrogance of the Devs... the way Devs see Ops work, and the way Devs interact with Ops people which is then reflected back at them by Ops.
And in your example, Ops has it right. If Devs cannot do a basic thing like provide specs on the environment/tools they need to do their own work (what, you really don't know that 'git' is a tool you use, even though you type the word 'git' 20x a day?), how is Ops supposed to do anything about that?