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> They accrete so many of these rules and restrictions that people can't do their work. I hear this from software engineers, from time to time. What do you me
by Kalium 5y ago
> They accrete so many of these rules and restrictions that people can't do their work.
I hear this from software engineers, from time to time. What do you mean they aren't allowed to SSH into prod anymore? How will they debug, update, or maintain anything?
Sometimes this is your standard-issue hostile reaction to change. The old approach is what they are used to and they don't understand the need to change it (and "ask to understand" mostly so they can try and negotiate). This new world just seems to get in the way for no clear reason. Management neither appreciates nor understands the reluctance and just pushes on.
Usually what needs to happen is a series of changes across the org. You roll out the change with references to policy to support it. Workflows get updated and reworked so that SSHing into prod is not, in fact, the way to update systems or view logs or whatever.
Most of all, educational materials are provided. Often I find that people object to changes because they don't know another way to work. If all you've ever known is SSHing into prod to read logs, you've probably never heard of Kibana or used OpenTelemetry.