dwilson

So much tech.

"Our customers infrastructure is not here to let you build a buzzphrase filled résumé." #containers

"If we can run it on an hour a weeks attention for six years why would a 4 month migration appeal to me?"

"We hired 32 new operations staff in Q4. I think I'd keep 2 of them. We are not the google, we don't need -all- their stuff."

"#puppet had a very nice little openstack community but the rackspace #ansible stuff on stackforge was too good to overlook for production."

"We tried to teach them #puppet but it was quicker for them to half ass a Dockerfile. Turns out you can paste chunks of blog posts in those"

"We were going to kill the tech internally but then we won a community award and we all felt guilty so we left it running. In dev."

"discussing a move from #puppet didn't get us anything so we'll see how much the next major release breaks and justify it with that"

" 'Java is a language backed by a single company, we should use something like #golang instead.' we all needed the giggle"

"No, i love being told 'I wrote the slides last night', I only paid a few thousand dollars to attend. You be spontaneous."

"We sent 5 people to vegas for #aws reinvent, we gave a different 5 a week off and told them to watch thevideos. That seemed to work better"

"We have RHEL 4 Extended Lifecycle Support, the future doesn't bother us" - regarding ruby versions.

"#Serverspec has a bigger dependency tree than my actual application does. And it's in gems, which is like dog years of version pain"

And now on to the testing part of the discussion. The #chef people seem rightly comfortable in their tool chain.

Everyone seems interested in making their modules better but the tedious boilerplate is as high a barrier as the technical learning curve.

"It's like they said, 'which languages do admins know? well, let's not use any of them'" #puppet #server

The number of #puppet users here discussing their migrations to #ansible is quite surprising.

Watching them try to figure out why #docker containers have blocking processes is like the opening of 2001. My theory is entropy contension

Hm, a new #webops webopsweekly.com/issues/1 weekly email. Some interesting links.