> These days often DevOps is done by former Software Engineers rather than "old fashioned" Sys admins.
Yes, and the world is a poorer place for it. Google’s SRE model works in part because they have _both_ Ops and SWE backgrounds.
The thing about traditional Ops is, while it may not scale to Google levels, it does scale quite well to the level most companies need, _and_ along the way, it forces people to learn how computers and systems work to a modicum of depth. If you’re having to ssh into a box to see why a process is dying, you’re going to learn something about that process, systemd, etc. If you drag the dev along with you to fix it, now two people have learned cross-areas.
If everything is in a container, and there’s an orchestrator silently replacing dying pods, that no longer needs to exist.
To be clear, I _love_ K8s. I run it at home, and have used it professionally at multiple jobs. What I don’t like is how it (and every other abstraction) have made it such that “infra” people haven’t the slightest clue how infra actually operates, and if you sat them down in front of an empty, physical server, they’d have no idea how to bootstrap Linux on it.
Yes, and the world is a poorer place for it. Google’s SRE model works in part because they have _both_ Ops and SWE backgrounds.
The thing about traditional Ops is, while it may not scale to Google levels, it does scale quite well to the level most companies need, _and_ along the way, it forces people to learn how computers and systems work to a modicum of depth. If you’re having to ssh into a box to see why a process is dying, you’re going to learn something about that process, systemd, etc. If you drag the dev along with you to fix it, now two people have learned cross-areas.
If everything is in a container, and there’s an orchestrator silently replacing dying pods, that no longer needs to exist.
To be clear, I _love_ K8s. I run it at home, and have used it professionally at multiple jobs. What I don’t like is how it (and every other abstraction) have made it such that “infra” people haven’t the slightest clue how infra actually operates, and if you sat them down in front of an empty, physical server, they’d have no idea how to bootstrap Linux on it.