Tools of the trade
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Tools of the trade
Ask any SysOp what kind of tools they prefer and you get very different answers. And that is a beauty, because any SysOp whom has been in "the field" have build up their preferred toolchain
In the last decade (or so), I've grown quite fond of Ansible, for system automation and orchestration. It is not perfect - far from it. But it allows me to manage fleets of machines and keep everything running well
I was asked to partake in a project. Big (sub)client, quite a high pay. It required being comfortable with Terraform. No previous experience, just being comfortable with it.
I told them I was willing to give it a go and learn it on the fly. But heck, I ended up throwing in the towel after one week - due to it seriously draining my energy (and with that, my mental health).
High pay is nice. But your mental health should never, ever be for sale. No amount of money should weigh up to selling your soul.
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Tools of the trade
Ask any SysOp what kind of tools they prefer and you get very different answers. And that is a beauty, because any SysOp whom has been in "the field" have build up their preferred toolchain
In the last decade (or so), I've grown quite fond of Ansible, for system automation and orchestration. It is not perfect - far from it. But it allows me to manage fleets of machines and keep everything running well
I was asked to partake in a project. Big (sub)client, quite a high pay. It required being comfortable with Terraform. No previous experience, just being comfortable with it.
I told them I was willing to give it a go and learn it on the fly. But heck, I ended up throwing in the towel after one week - due to it seriously draining my energy (and with that, my mental health).
High pay is nice. But your mental health should never, ever be for sale. No amount of money should weigh up to selling your soul.
[/rant]@h3artbl33d Never!
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@h3artbl33d Never!
Well done!Never ever. Fun fact - when I finally gave them the "no, can't do that, not even for my weight in diamonds" - the following day I was contacted by a new client with a project for months, that suited me way better.
Just came back from them a couple of hours ago, and I am very happy to be able to go there again tomorrow!
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Oh, yeah, totally. Don't even get me started on AWS - as I am ready to be shipped off to the looney bin in literal hours tops.
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Oh, yeah, totally. Don't even get me started on AWS - as I am ready to be shipped off to the looney bin in literal hours tops.
I mean, I can provision a physical host from new to fully operational with a single command, with Ansible (configure IPMI, iDRAC, iLO, mount an image, install the f*cker, configure the workload).
Now why the AF would I dabble with burden that are vastly different API's, their major quirks - all within a single ecosystem?
FFS, I even managed to setup an AWS S3 bucket that was configured so strict that even the seasoned 'cloud engineer' with the root account couldn't undo it
Really, all that complexity has zero advantages.
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Tools of the trade
Ask any SysOp what kind of tools they prefer and you get very different answers. And that is a beauty, because any SysOp whom has been in "the field" have build up their preferred toolchain
In the last decade (or so), I've grown quite fond of Ansible, for system automation and orchestration. It is not perfect - far from it. But it allows me to manage fleets of machines and keep everything running well
I was asked to partake in a project. Big (sub)client, quite a high pay. It required being comfortable with Terraform. No previous experience, just being comfortable with it.
I told them I was willing to give it a go and learn it on the fly. But heck, I ended up throwing in the towel after one week - due to it seriously draining my energy (and with that, my mental health).
High pay is nice. But your mental health should never, ever be for sale. No amount of money should weigh up to selling your soul.
[/rant]@h3artbl33d
A bit off-topic - I would do that for food (and a roof over my head). Because it's not easy to find any job in the last years.I won't work for fascists or, say, cryptoscammers, but in case of working with a shitty tech - yeah, go on, just pay me.
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Never ever. Fun fact - when I finally gave them the "no, can't do that, not even for my weight in diamonds" - the following day I was contacted by a new client with a project for months, that suited me way better.
Just came back from them a couple of hours ago, and I am very happy to be able to go there again tomorrow!
@h3artbl33d Some would say it’s Karma. I’d just say that good things eventually happen, if you’re brave enough to wait for them.
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