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> "DevOps" aka "let people who have never heard of Unix cobble together Docker containers I saw a script written by a devops employee where they zeroed out all
by bluedino 5y ago
> "DevOps" aka "let people who have never heard of Unix cobble together Docker containers
I saw a script written by a devops employee where they zeroed out all the partitions when they added a new web server.
- Bellyache5 5y agoIf this web server was running on AWS EC2 with attached EBS volumes then zeroing out a new partition was actually AWS' recommended practice to initialize the disk for performance reasons. EBS no longer requires this. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-initialize.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-init...
- bluedino 5y agoThese were just plain-jane docker images, but it's interesting that this could be the source of it.