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> I still shake my head at the ops nightmare that is RDPing into hosted Windows Servers. Can you elaborate? I have all of my boxes saved in the MSFT RDP manag
by Ntrails 11y ago
> I still shake my head at the ops nightmare that is RDPing into hosted Windows Servers.
Can you elaborate? I have all of my boxes saved in the MSFT RDP manager doodad (before which I used RoyalTS or seomthing). When I want to get on it I double click and it logs me in and there it is - a fully featured interface from which I can do whatever admin I need opening up the relevant tools etc using the point and click you dislike so much.
- ianmcgowan 11y agoProbably that logging in snip-snap, one-server-at-a-time, and click-clicking on various boxes in the (admittedly convenient) GUI leads to a bunch of unique snowflake[0] servers that are prone to drift. If each server is doing one thing, that's obviously ok, but if you have 1000 web servers then treating them as immutable (aka phoenixes[1]) is conventional devops wisdom[2]. [0] https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/devops/entry/snowflakes_or_rubber_stamps?lang=en https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/devops/en... [1] https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/moving-to-phoenix-server-pattern-introduction https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/moving-to-phoenix... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4226099 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4226099
- UK-AL 11y agoif your doing that, I would recommend powershell DSC.