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> if you disappear for some reason, or even just your laptop gets stolen, does the company grind to a halt As in, no one in the whole company knows how to scp
by Toutouxc 6y ago
> if you disappear for some reason, or even just your laptop gets stolen, does the company grind to a halt
As in, no one in the whole company knows how to scp a binary?
- saurik 6y agoTo be fair, scp was officially deprecated: it is effectively "legacy knowledge" now, and so soon it will be difficult to find anyone who can use it effectively. https://lwn.net/Articles/835962/ https://lwn.net/Articles/835962/ In contrast, we all know that knowledge of the Docker container format is both universal and likely to "stand the test of time". That anyone would believe that merely downloading a binary and then running it directly could ever be easier than first downloading and installing Docker so that you can then run docker on yet another file clearly has never worked as a systems administrator.
- minusf 6y agoif the app in question can be installed by dropping some files on some servers, how could another full layer of abstraction be easier? an encapsulation is by definition adding complexity.
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- primitivesuave 6y agoI mean that it promotes a style of operating where a sudden change, for whatever reason, can cause all kinds of problems.
- gravypod 6y agoWith CI Boss: "Alice, can you release Super Mega Money Maker" Alice: clicks deploy on a UI It'll be out in 5 minutes. Boss: "Thanks!" Without CI Boss: "Bob is out sick, can you deploy Super Mega Money Maker?" Alice: "Ok. hmm... I pulled the code and I'm trying to run the build but I'm getting an error. It wants a super-secret-token.pem file. Do you know where that is?" Boss: "Let me call Bob" "Ok, he said it's a file on his laptop but he left his laptop in the office. He's on his way in."