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You lost me at UI. But I’m one who believes if you don’t write your software defined infrastructure as software, you’ll regret life pretty soon.
by fnordpiglet 3y ago
You lost me at UI. But I’m one who believes if you don’t write your software defined infrastructure as software, you’ll regret life pretty soon.
- Demmme 3y agoWe have 99% IaC. I still don't mind upgrading a k8s cluster on the UI, monitoring it's healthy and than patching the tf code for the newest minor version.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoI’ve found no megacorp makes a good UI for their products that speaks to my infra. Frankly I usually use something like Grafana and write my own TUI for the rest ;-) but there are tons and tons of infrastructure management and visualization software products out there. Generally I look at cloud providers for their api, capabilities, etc. Their UI ability is so far down the list that Id rather buy someone else’s for purpose single product strategy than the “oh yeah the console” version the providers must be providing given the economics of things.
- Waterluvian 3y agoA UI for cloud services is super helpful to have when exploring, troubleshooting, and noodling around. But yeah, massive red flag if anyone’s using it to deploy production services.
- brianwawok 3y agoI deploy my sql with Ui cuz ugh… I do it once per year max, and it’s docker everywhere else.
- paulgb 3y agoThat’s a pretty myopic view of what a UI can be used for. I’m all in on IAC but still like having a UI to click around to observe state rather than memorize a bunch of CLI commands.
- elguyosupremo 3y agoAnd even if I can get what I need via CLI it's nice that higher level people in the org can click around and get what they need without having to bother me to retrieve the data for them.