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I left the IT industry last year and have found myself in the education sector. I can't speak into your future but I do recollect sharing some of your frustrati
by p0d 6y ago
I left the IT industry last year and have found myself in the education sector. I can't speak into your future but I do recollect sharing some of your frustrations as a sysadmin of 20 years. k8s felt to me like whack a mole. I was old school. I created relationships with the right people in our datacenters. My team shipped and deployed our own bare metal servers. Ansible was great for deploying VMs. Then came along k8s.
I was happy with our freebsd servers doing zfs and nfs. I was a fan of nginx as a proxy server on linux. I got redis. Mongo came and went. It wasn't rocket science to put failover services on different hardware and in different datacenters.
I would rather have a collection of small parts making up a complex solution than the complexity of k8s.
I have gotten a lot of mileage out of freebsd jails and lxc on ubuntu down through the years. I am a fan of containers. I agree with you that people use k8s for deployments which really don't need it. Unfortunately this is the world of IT; new toys and, "na, na, I know something you don't".
I moved to education as I decided I didn't want to be responsible for an IT infrastructure anymore. My new job is equally difficult but does not require the same out of hours headspace as looking after a global network.
- knowhy 6y ago> I would rather have a collection of small parts making up a complex solution than the complexity of k8s. I feel the same way. If I wouldn't have stumbled over Ansible 6-7 years ago I would have left the industry already. I don't mind complexity in general but I feel it should be in line with company needs. And k8s often isn't. You are right, FreeBSD jails, lxc, etc are great technologies. It's k8s and related topis I have my issues with. Do you regret leaving the industry? I have invested a lot of effort into my career and it would feel kind of stupid to give up on it because I have some issues with today's industry trend. On the other hand you are right, k8s is the technical side of a people problem in the industry. While I'm hopeful that things around k8s will settle on the long run, I'm pessimistic that the cargo cult and believe in easy answers to complex problems will disappear any time soon.
- p0d 6y agoI am happy to have left the industry but would not have done so over an IT fad. I left as managing an IT infrastructure takes up a lot of headspace. Even if you aren't working all the time stuff is on your mind. I'm very happy in the education sector now.