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The idea is devops as _culture_ - I come in as an expert and set it up, then show them how I did it, then run through various disaster recovery scenarios so the
by mattbillenstein 4y ago
The idea is devops as _culture_ - I come in as an expert and set it up, then show them how I did it, then run through various disaster recovery scenarios so they learn it and can handle the vast majority of problems.
And you'd be surprised how little problems you might have - I've had many VMs with literally years of uptime running without issue.
Most people focus on "devops" as a job - and they never bother to teach the rest of the team anything about how stuff works. Worse than that, modern clouds encourage you to build opaque and complicated systems which probably only someone working on them full-time has a hope to understand...
- nprateem 4y agoIf it was so easy for devs to pick up SRE companies wouldn't be struggling to find good people. Culture doesn't mean they'll know how to fix <some weird edge case> at 3am in the morning. The SRE with constant ops exposure is likely to have a much better chance, if only because they (ought to) really know how to debug it.
- nightpool 4y ago> I've had many VMs with literally years of uptime running without issue. I hope they all have fully patched base libraries and kernels, security auditing is getting to a much more common requirement these days even among very small companies. For example, anybody using Facebook Login.