I work in an enterprise where we are transitioning thousand-plus apps from data centers to the cloud. It can be reduced to this, and we can also do a lot of wha

I work in an enterprise where we are transitioning thousand-plus apps from data centers to the cloud. It can be reduced to this, and we can also do a lot of what we are doing now by moving certain technologies into the DC stack, but if you equate the cloud to VPS’ (bare instances) then the missing “rent software too” changes the validity of that reduction significantly. That “rented computer plus rented software”, when it’s infrastructure, doesn’t look much like the DCs, with scripts, of old. I’m an old school sysadmin. Cloud engineering doesn’t feel like sysadmin’ing anymore. It’s different enough to mark a significant change. I like 80s music and root prompts... and at work, one of those doesn’t play anymore.