Develop a DevOps Mindset
It's not enough to understand that there are servers and networks; it will be mandatory that operations teams understand how they are abstracted with virtualization and thus how they can be automated with templates and scripts.
Instead of having developers crank out an endless assembly line of VMs for operations to deal with on their own, developers collaborate with operations to deploy and support applications. These applications are built from smaller, task-specific micro-service components that can be replicated easily, and orchestrated according to the needs of the specific service. That provides a much more efficient and flexible way to build and adapt services, and even alter the purpose of an entire data center at a moment's notice, making what used to be difficult and costly far more manageable.