SysAdmins are Dead — Long Live SysAdmins!
/via https://xkcd.com/705/ One of the side-effects of the DevOps craze is the refrain that SysAdmins are no longer relevant, that the world of Container Orchestrations (and Continuous Delivery! and Serverless!) make Operations a thing of the past. Lets play with this for a moment. Take a look at your environment — your DevOps-fu is strong, you have the ultimate in Continuous Delivery, and whenever you merge into master , stuff ends up in Production. Cool, isn’t it? A little twist here though, turns out that you’ve got a bunch of assets that are best served from a CDN ( Cloudflare perhaps). Which leads to a whole thicket of issues — • Who gets to decide whether the changes you want to make to it are viable? • What if those changes conflict with somebody else’s needs? • What happens if that other team has a problem — do they call you? • Heck, what if you want to switch to CloudFront ? There are all sorts of ways you c...