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Writing infrastructure code is a pain because it's so much more than everyone think it is. I think this article puts it well and hopefully makes it easier for f
by isodude 8y ago
Writing infrastructure code is a pain because it's so much more than everyone think it is. I think this article puts it well and hopefully makes it easier for folks to explain it to their team/boss. There's many single-devops out there facing this challange.
- vinceguidry 8y agoI'd say it's mostly a pain because it interfaces with parts of the system that you only touch a few times a year if it's working correctly, but yet is totally outside of your domain expertise. Nobody works with directly Ansible or EC2 instances enough to be an expert at it. Like how every time I need to renew a SSL cert, I need to reread the man pages for how to make certs and cert requests. You'd think a replicable procedure could be documented, but there's just enough variables so that it's slightly different every time.