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Re: Advent of Sysadmin 2025

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Post by esseph »

swyx wrote: post #31
cobertos wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Re: 6. ... Github Actions Github Actions left a bad taste in my mouth after having it randomly removed authenticated workers from the pool, after their offline for ~5 days. This was after setting up a relatively complex PR workflow (always on cheap server starts up very expensive build server with specific hardware) only to have it break randomly after a PR didn't come in for a few days. And no indication that this h…

bugs happen to all of us. whats your better solution - gitlab?

GitLab pipelines are really good.

Re: Advent of Sysadmin 2025

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Post by 0xedd »

swyx wrote: post #31
cobertos wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Re: 6. ... Github Actions Github Actions left a bad taste in my mouth after having it randomly removed authenticated workers from the pool, after their offline for ~5 days. This was after setting up a relatively complex PR workflow (always on cheap server starts up very expensive build server with specific hardware) only to have it break randomly after a PR didn't come in for a few days. And no indication that this h…

bugs happen to all of us. whats your better solution - gitlab?

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Re: Advent of Sysadmin 2025

#44

Post by Balinares »

esseph wrote: post #41
swyx wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

bugs happen to all of us. whats your better solution - gitlab?

GitLab pipelines are really good.

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.

Re: Advent of Sysadmin 2025

#45

Post by shoo »

swyx wrote: post #31
cobertos wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Re: 6. ... Github Actions Github Actions left a bad taste in my mouth after having it randomly removed authenticated workers from the pool, after their offline for ~5 days. This was after setting up a relatively complex PR workflow (always on cheap server starts up very expensive build server with specific hardware) only to have it break randomly after a PR didn't come in for a few days. And no indication that this h…

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

Re: Advent of Sysadmin 2025

#46

Post by technion »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #14

Here's 12 Sysadmin/DevOps (they're synonyms now!) challenges, straight from the day job: 1. Get a user to stop logging in as root. 2. Get all users to stop sharing the same login and password for all servers. 3. Get a user to upgrade their app's dependencies to versions newer than 2010. 4. Get a user to use configuration management rather than scp'ing config files from their laptop to the server. 5. Get a user to bak…

I know its a common view that sysadmin/devops are the same these days, but witha current sysadmin role nothing youve mentioned sounds relevant. Let's give you my list:

1. Patch Microsoft exchange with only a three hour outage window 2. Train a user to use onedrive instead of emailing 50mb files and back and forth 3. Setup eight printers for six users. Deal with 9gb printer drivers. 4. Ask an exec if he would please let you add mfa to their mailbox. 5. Sit there calmly while that exec yells like a wwe wrestler about the ways he plans to ruin you in response 6. Debate the cost of a custom mouse pad for one person across three meetings 7. Deploy any standard windows app that expects everyone be an administrator without making everyone an administrator 8. Deploy an app that expects uac disabled without disabling uac 9. Debug some finance persons 9000 line excel function

Re: Advent of Sysadmin 2025

#47

Post by nstart »

NooneAtAll3 wrote: post #29

what's the deal with 12-days advent calendars lately?

Time pressures during christmas/holidays mean that the original calendars were becoming too stressful to handle. Seen several calendars switching to 12 consecutive days or 1 every 2 days challenges.

Re: Advent of Sysadmin 2025

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Post by bionsystem »

sharts wrote: post #35
swyx wrote: post #31

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bugs happen to all of us. whats your better solution - gitlab?

honestly jenkins really isnt that bad

Yeah I was thinking of using it for us actually. Connects to everything, lots of plugins, etc. I wonder what the hate is from, they are all pretty bad aren't they ?

Will test forgejo's CI first as we'll use the repo anyway, but if it ain't for me, it's going to be jenkins I assume.

Re: Advent of Sysadmin 2025

#49

Post by swyx »

shoo wrote: post #45
swyx wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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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