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>The command to reboot the select set of new systems that needed to be updated was mis-typed, and instead specified all servers in the datacenter. Unfortunately
by bignaj 12y ago
>The command to reboot the select set of new systems that needed to be updated was mis-typed, and instead specified all servers in the datacenter. Unfortunately the tool in question does not have enough input validation to prevent this from happening without extra steps/confirmation, and went ahead and issued a reboot command to every server in us-east-1 availability zone without delay.
"To make error is human. To propagate error to all server in automatic way is #devops." -@DEVOPS_BORAT [1]
[1]https://twitter.com/DEVOPS_BORAT/status/41587168870797312 https://twitter.com/DEVOPS_BORAT/status/41587168870797312