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> So devs decided they could do it themselves (with better tools). And failed. Other people’s jobs always look easy from the outside
by funnybeam 2y ago
> So devs decided they could do it themselves (with better tools).
And failed. Other people’s jobs always look easy from the outside
- benfortuna 2y agoActually devs focusing on Ops lead to development of the automation we use today for most Ops activities, so I would say that is a success.
- pjmlp 2y agoWe already had such automation tools under system administration umbrella. What do we think we were using Perl for?
- teqsun 2y ago> "What do we think we were using Perl for?" Job Security (joking)
- benfortuna 2y agoScripting is not in the same league as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc. Automation at scale required the development of tools like these.
- pjmlp 2y agoMost of those predate DevOps phenomenon, and have roots in systems administration.
- drewcoo 2y agoNot scale in terms of your company scaling. Only scale in terms of number of companies using the same off the shelf tooling. The difference with those tools is that they were off the rack and not bespoke. There were plenty of bespoke systems before, used in fewer places because bespoke systems are expensive.