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> Whilst DevOps automation tools like Chef/Puppet/Ansible/Whatever have undoubtedly increased in popularity, very often they are just used as nicer ways to achi
by flukus 10y ago
> Whilst DevOps automation tools like Chef/Puppet/Ansible/Whatever have undoubtedly increased in popularity, very often they are just used as nicer ways to achieve the same thing IT professionals have been doing forever in shell scripts or similar.
You'd be surprised how many sys admins and especially developers have never written a shell script.
One of our code tests is to write a simple grep clone, the results seem to indicate that none have ever used a command line. Nearly every submission seemed to think that you could only pass one "-x" (x the placeholder) switch to a command.
- giobox 9y agoThis could absolutely be true, but in the context of this discussion I find it hard to imagine someone using dev ops tools like these without having written a shell script in their lives - even the most basic use of these tools is probably going to template a shell script at some point. I'd be shocked if the shell command resource provider syntax in these tools coupled with their templating engines is not by some margin the most commonly used feature these things offer.