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Sysadmin doesn't wanna automate his job? Where did that come from? I am trying to automate as much as possible, because doing repetitive tasks is boring, I'll m
by lousken 8y ago
Sysadmin doesn't wanna automate his job? Where did that come from? I am trying to automate as much as possible, because doing repetitive tasks is boring, I'll much rather read HN instead :)
But I see your point, the problem with cloud services is that they don't share the same features so if you know AWS and then you move to azure you have to re-learn not just the naming but also how to work with a new toolset which is annoying, so most sysadmins will automate, but just not at the cloud provider level but below. I think this isn't wrong though because setting up an environment can be a lot more painful if you need to switch providers for whatever reason.
But I haven't worked in a large company, only below 200 employees so my thinking might be a little different.
- scarface74 8y agoFair enough. I guess the larger issue is how much is the entire organization willing to rethink their architecture - hopefully led by the cloud experts - to be cloud native? If you are just hosting a bunch of VMs and not taking advantage of the providers manager services, from my experience, it will always cost more than just staying on prem.