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Sysadmin long enough and you'll find yourself inadvertently scripting in Bash. A few languages and API later and you'll realize that you may be coding. That is

• jprd 5y ago
  "DevOps" == *nix admins before IaC I cut my teeth on ancient VAX, AS/400, Solaris, HP-UX and Irix connected via NFS and Fibre SANs. Runbooks became shell scripts, then a DB backend, etc. Chef/Ansible/Puppet/et al all evolved from this practice. At the time I moved on to greener pastures, I left behind a global Enterprise Storage environment that was semi-automated by workflow. Directly descended from ksh/bash and then moved to REST once that started to be available. Vendor tooling cost $ and sucked. "Oh, you need to report on all your disparate proprietary backup environments, success/failure, generate reports and ServiceNow incidents? Cool, we'll just bang that out in python and store in Mongo." Today, that would be a startup SaaS play (adjusted for technology of course). It is amazing the stuff you learn and create to prevent burnout/churn while maintaining critical infrastructure as a cost-center org.
  • pnathan 5y ago
    This might be pedantic, but DevOps originated in the idea that ops and devs needed to work very closely together to deliver capabilities. It _then_ turned into a role "cloud sysadmin" and then lately seems to be "build engineer". Language shifts, man. Weird stuff.