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Generally, with cloud, you still need people with required skills. Engineers who write Terraform ("DevOps") aren't cheap. They certainly cost more than the old-
by icedchai 4y ago
Generally, with cloud, you still need people with required skills. Engineers who write Terraform ("DevOps") aren't cheap. They certainly cost more than the old-school sysadmin who will set up a bare metal server with shell scripts.
- l3uwin 4y agoYou definitely don't want them using shell scripts. That's cloud-init/Ansible work. And you can do all of those through terraform as well.
- icedchai 4y agoNow your cost has gone up. There’s a reason I said “old school.” Shell scripts are perfectly viable for setting up a handful of bare metal servers.
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