Write for Us DevOps: DevOps Blog Guest Post Guidelines

DevOps content is mostly rehashed tutorials. What this blog wants is a real change your team made, the pipeline you fixed, the incident that taught you something, or the practice that cut deploy pain, with what it did to speed or reliability.

My readers run technical teams or the businesses around them. They want the practice and the result, so a DevOps post has to teach from your team's experience, not a getting started guide.

60-second DevOps guest post check

A strong submission can answer yes to all five points:

• Have you done the DevOps work you describe
• Do you have a deploy time, a failure rate or a result
• Does your opening answer the reader's question straight away
• Have you removed any pitch for a platform or vendor
• Could an engineer learn from your change this week

Read the guidelines and submit your guest post.

What we publish

• A pipeline change and what it did to deploy time or failures
• An incident and the practice you changed afterwards
• Cutting build or test time, with the before and after
• Monitoring or alerting you fixed and the noise it removed
• A migration in your infrastructure and what broke on the way
• Automating a manual ops task and the hours it saved
• A DevOps practice you dropped and why
• Measuring reliability honestly and what it revealed

If your post could be published on any DevOps site with the logo swapped, it is not for us.

What we don't accept

• Tool tutorials with no team experience behind them
• Posts that promote one platform or vendor
• Definition posts explaining what DevOps is
• Previously published posts republished from another site
• Thin content under 800 words with no first-hand work

What you get

• Your article in front of an engaged audience of business owners, marketers and founders
• One relevant, contextual link back to your own site
• A byline and the credibility of an established, high-traffic blog
• Editorial help to make the piece as strong as it can be before it goes live

How to submit

Send your pitch or draft through the contact form. Include the topic, the one specific problem the post solves, and a line on your first-hand experience with it. One idea per pitch works best. You will hear back on whether it is a fit before you write the full draft.

What a strong DevOps pitch looks like

A weak pitch says "I want to write an introduction to CI/CD pipelines." A strong one says "We split one slow test suite into parallel stages and cut the pipeline from 22 minutes to seven, so I want to show the stages and the two flaky tests that were hiding the real time." One is a brochure. The other is worth reading.

The angles that get accepted fastest

• A pipeline change with the deploy result
• An incident and the practice it changed
• A build time cut with the before and after
• A change another team could copy this week
• A contrarian view on a DevOps orthodoxy

Looking for more places to pitch? The free write for us finder lists sites that take guest posts in your niche, and the free backlink checker shows what a placement is worth.

Frequently asked questions

Does Lilach Bullock accept DevOps guest posts?

Yes. DevOps guest posts are welcome from an engineer or team leads and similar writers who have done the work and can share what happened. We publish practical articles with real examples and decline tool tutorials copied from docs.

What DevOps topics do you accept?

We accept pipeline changes and deploy metrics, incidents and the practices they changed, cutting build and test time, monitoring and alerting, infrastructure migrations, and measuring reliability. The common thread is a specific lesson with a result attached, not a general overview of DevOps.

Can I include a link back to my own site?

One contextual link back to your own site is fine when it is relevant and helps the reader. Posts written purely to build a backlink with no real value are not published.

Do you accept previously published content?

No. Every submission must be original and not published anywhere else first, including your own blog, Medium, LinkedIn, or a guest slot on another site under a different name. Republished or lightly reworded content gets declined, and we check before it goes live.

How do I submit a DevOps guest post?

Send your pitch through the contact form with the topic, the specific result or lesson you will cover, and a line on your own experience doing the work you are writing about. One idea per pitch works best, and you will hear back before writing a full draft.

Do you accept sponsored or commercial partnerships?

Commercial and partnership enquiries are handled separately from editorial guest posts. If you are a brand or agency wanting to work together rather than pitch an article, say so in the contact form and you will get the right details back.

How long should a DevOps guest post be?

There is no fixed word count, but posts that do well here usually run from 1,000 to 1,800 words. Long enough to show the example and the numbers, short enough that a busy owner finishes it. Cut anything that repeats what the reader already knows.

What makes a DevOps pitch stand out?

A real result in the first sentence. Say what you did, what changed and over what period, then say what the reader will be able to copy. For example: We split one slow test suite into parallel stages and cut the pipeline from 22 minutes to seven, so I want to show the stages and the two flaky tests that were hiding the real time.

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