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> At the scale of our systems, any grumpy sysadmin would have spent at least several days untangling the dependencies and carefully restarting all servers in th
by kazen44 8y ago
> At the scale of our systems, any grumpy sysadmin would have spent at least several days untangling the dependencies and carefully restarting all servers in the correct order after some manually `sudo apt-get`ing (and probably forgetting a few of the lesser used systems).
if you are operating at suchs a large scale, your sysadmin should be automating things (not necesserly with docker mind you).
This automation has been possible on *nix for the better part of a decade by now.
- mmt 8y agoAgreed. As a (potentially) "grumpy" sysadmin, I wouldn't be manually apt-getting or forgetting anything. In fact, one of the lessons I've learned is that, at large enough scale, automated mass upgrades can do the forgetting for me, so verifying (also automated) is important. As for any "tangle" of dependencies that may exist, I've never seen that be caused by any choice made by "Ops" but, rather, solely by those writing the appllication code being deployed. As such, it would apply just as much to a Docker image as to (what I view as) a traditional deployment.