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Roll 2d6, sum result. Your CI migration target is: 2. migrate secret manager. Roll again 3. cloud build 4. gocd 5. jenkins 6. gitlab 7. github actions 8. bamboo 9. codepipeline 10. buildbot 11. team foundation server 12. migrate version control. Roll again
somehow i am really liking the kind of people that comment in the comment sections of sysadmin posts. i wonder what personality type this is
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#112what's the deal with 12-days advent calendars lately?
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#113Feedback from candidates is that they find it a bit stressful during the actual interview but love the approach once it's completed.
The interview option also makes it trivial to just send to a candidate via Zoom chat, ask them to share their screen and "just works".
Happy to answer questions folks may have about how we use it.
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bugs happen to all of us. whats your better solution - gitlab?
Roll 2d6, sum result. Your CI migration target is: 2. migrate secret manager. Roll again 3. cloud build 4. gocd 5. jenkins 6. gitlab 7. github actions 8. bamboo 9. codepipeline 10. buildbot 11. team foundation server 12. migrate version control. Roll again
- Travis
- CircleCI
- Drone/Woodpecker
- Tekton Pipelines
- TeamCity
- Zuul
- Buildkite
- AgolaRe: Advent of Sysadmin 2025
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aren't they canonically 12? 12 days of christmas etc
No, Advent is the liturgical season preceding Christmas, beginning the fourth Sunday before Christmas (which is also the Sunday nearest November 30), it is a period of at least three weeks and one day (the shortest period that can start on a Sunday and include four Sundays.) The 12 days of Christmas start on Christmas and end on January 5, the eve of the Feast of Epiphany. 12-day advent calendars are a fairly recent…
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Not in love with its insistence on recreating the container from scratch every step of the pipeline, among a bundle of other irksome quirks. There are certainly worse choices, though.
Opposite of Jenkins where you have shared workspaces and have to manually ensure workspace is clean or suffer from reproducibility issues with tainted workspaces.
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#117We use Sad Servers for evaluating candidates for DevOps/SRE roles and it's phenomenal. Feedback from candidates is that they find it a bit stressful during the actual interview but love the approach once it's completed. The interview option also makes it trivial to just send to a candidate via Zoom chat, ask them to share their screen and "just works". Happy to answer questions folks may have about how we use it.
Any other suggestions? I have sysadmin experience as a homelabber and at work with a small company as a "tech lead" but have not yet had the chance to do it full time in a larger company. Currently focused on back-filling knowledge gaps and adding certs to support my existing experience.
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#118We use Sad Servers for evaluating candidates for DevOps/SRE roles and it's phenomenal. Feedback from candidates is that they find it a bit stressful during the actual interview but love the approach once it's completed. The interview option also makes it trivial to just send to a candidate via Zoom chat, ask them to share their screen and "just works". Happy to answer questions folks may have about how we use it.
This is heartening - I'm about to start with the daily challenges today and document my experience and that sort of thing. Any other suggestions? I have sysadmin experience as a homelabber and at work with a small company as a "tech lead" but have not yet had the chance to do it full time in a larger company. Currently focused on back-filling knowledge gaps and adding certs to support my existing experience.
If you are looking into more of the "people" side of things, I would HIGHLY recommend Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss [0]. A big part of being a team lead and/or working at a larger firm is understanding where people are coming from and then convincing them that your solution is "win/win". The book is great at highlighting multiple different tactics to do that.
Turn the Ship Around [1] is also great at giving examples of how to "change organizations in place". If you end up at larger firms, there will be a LOT of legacy infra and processes that you may want to improve. Marquet gives excellent examples of how to change things WHILE ALSO getting buy in from the team.
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This is heartening - I'm about to start with the daily challenges today and document my experience and that sort of thing. Any other suggestions? I have sysadmin experience as a homelabber and at work with a small company as a "tech lead" but have not yet had the chance to do it full time in a larger company. Currently focused on back-filling knowledge gaps and adding certs to support my existing experience.
Sad Servers is great for trying out how to fix scenarios that you would probably run into while working in the real world. If you are looking into more of the "people" side of things, I would HIGHLY recommend Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss [0]. A big part of being a team lead and/or working at a larger firm is understanding where people are coming from and then convincing them that your solution is "win/win…
Great suggestions and thanks for taking the time to respond :)
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Roll 2d6, sum result. Your CI migration target is: 2. migrate secret manager. Roll again 3. cloud build 4. gocd 5. jenkins 6. gitlab 7. github actions 8. bamboo 9. codepipeline 10. buildbot 11. team foundation server 12. migrate version control. Roll again
Bump up to 2d10 and add: - Travis - CircleCI - Drone/Woodpecker - Tekton Pipelines - TeamCity - Zuul - Buildkite - Agola