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I'm aware of the "lift and shift" mentality that some people have. I know several people who work at another company that decided to just uplift their on-prem VM-based software sta…

"A sysadmin doesn’t want to automate his job and let the cloud provider manage what they can manage" There may be some people like that, but I never said that I didn't want to auto…

Thanks. I have thought about something like that, but I wouldn’t know what to write or blog.

I was wondering about that. Every time I looked at AWS pricing, it seemed insanely expensive for the people that just forklifted their on-prem services into the cloud without re-ar…

"google for a while and then call the vendor" This is unfortunately how most of our organization works. For certain types of things, we're actually required to do this due to regul…

I'm not sure why it's as difficult as it is for me. I'm sure there are people for whom it's not as much of a herculean task.

"Okay, first off, being a sysadmin or an ops person is important!" This is the first time that I have heard or read anyone say this in years. Thanks

I do enjoy automating infrastructure. I guess I feel somewhat obligated to dive into the development side due to the industry trends and the constant "Anyone can code", "Coding boo…

Thanks I think that some of my issues possibly stem from a combination of my previous job being a hostile work environment as well as repeatedly being told by other coworkers (and …

I have been wanting to try out things like AWS and containers and such, but I haven't had the chance yet. I think part of it is that I haven't had the chance in a work setting to c…

Thanks, this is good to know.

Thanks for the response. As far as debugging other people's work, I do that a fair bit within our configuration management system. I also write "fresh" config management states (we…

I am currently a Linux administrator at a state university in the US. I do the standard variety of administrative things that one would expect: provision servers and VMs, manage st…