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Devops has added a web of complexity that distance users from the underlying technology. Suddenly mounting filesystems is a 'storage driver', using networking
by throw2016 8y ago
Devops has added a web of complexity that distance users from the underlying technology.
Suddenly mounting filesystems is a 'storage driver', using networking technology built into the kernel is a 'network driver' or using an Nginx reverse proxy or Haproxy load balancer is an 'ingress controller'. This new vocabulary confuses rather than informs and ends up adding more layers of complexity.
What happens when things break? Simply knowing the json/yaml layers above is not going to help without an understanding of networking and the underlying technologies.
Facebook, Google, Netflix are not 2 engineers running devops, they all have unique architectures and an army of experts to run their infrastructure. The idea that you can be 'webscale' without ops experts is complete fantasy.