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I am somewhat in tears now seeing this. I spent weeks at work trying to backwards analyze GCP IAP, which apparently uses this in the background (invoked via the
by Bucephalus355 7y ago
I am somewhat in tears now seeing this. I spent weeks at work trying to backwards analyze GCP IAP, which apparently uses this in the background (invoked via the gcloud CLI).
Almost like a lost art, it was impossible to find serious tutorials other than Michael W. Lucas’s book of a couple of years ago or the O’Reilly book from 2006.
Very much appreciated. Thank you for documentation on these very important systems that many of us sysadmins who came into the field later in life missed (other than when we connect to our cloud servers). Soon, even the cloud part I mentioned will be gone mostly to because of ‘kubectl’, as Kelsey Hightower has said.
- indigodaddy 7y agoExactly, and hopefully fundamental sysadmin/nix/networking/DNS/basic troubleshooting (that we take for granted) skills won't get lost by the wayside. But I do feel that at some point this will happen, and those of us with those skills that remain in say 10-15 years will be as outdated/deprecated as say an AIX admin is today.
- convolvatron 7y agoyou would think so. but reading the foundational RFCs and learning the BSD system api 30 years ago has paid out pretty well. I always assumed we would lurch onto a new model that had a stronger notion of distributed identity, or was more data centric than machine centric, or .. something. but we keep throwing more new plywood on top of the old rotten floor and keep going about our business. the 10th layer down isn't providing any structural value any more..but does that matter?
- opsdisk 7y agoNever thought it'd stir those emotions! Hope it helps even more throughout your IT journey.