The Death of Sysadmin
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And they are using us to do it, how classy and heartless
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How do those things not need system admins? If anything, it seems like the needs increase.
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@Emad-R said in The Death of Sysadmin:
push code to the cloud
And who builds and runs the cloud? System admins.
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nope, it will be a set of processes and cloud running by itself. all build by automation.
The number of servers one sysadmin is handling is increasing and increasing, I think even you said it yourself.
back in the day 1 sysadmin can manage = few servers, afterward it is 50-100, now it is expected to be able to manage 100-500. One day we wouldn't need to manage anything.I think it all went down hill when DevOps role was created, and it became the new Sysadmin and then they easily killed that term and made SRE, site reliability engineer, and now SRE are basically ppl who know abit about everything and that frees developers to do developers work, but in short term everyone will be full stack dev and rely on cloud hosting platforms and FAAS and CAAS to run their code easily with high uptimes cause of stuff like GKE, and others.
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@Emad-R said in The Death of Sysadmin:
nope, it will be a set of processes and cloud running by itself. all build by automation.
The number of servers one sysadmin is handling is increasing and increasing, I think even you said it yourself.
back in the day 1 sysadmin can manage = few servers, afterward it is 50-100, now it is expected to be able to manage 100-500. One day we wouldn't need to manage anything.I think it all went down hill when DevOps role was created, and it became the new Sysadmin and then they easily killed that term and made SRE, site reliability engineer, and now SRE are basically ppl who know abit about everything and that frees developers to do developers work, but in short term everyone will be full stack dev and rely on cloud hosting platforms and FAAS and CAAS to run their code easily with high uptimes cause of stuff like GKE, and others.
Perhaps you should grow your skill set as technology changes and improves, instead of complaining you can't do the same job the same way your whole life.
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@Emad-R said in The Death of Sysadmin:
nope, it will be a set of processes and cloud running by itself. all build by automation
Yeah, that's the imaginary world, but not reality.
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@Emad-R said in The Death of Sysadmin:
The number of servers one sysadmin is handling is increasing and increasing, I think even you said it yourself.
back in the day 1 sysadmin can manage = few servers, afterward it is 50-100, now it is expected to be able to manage 100-500. One day we wouldn't need to manage anything.Yes, but then the value and expertise of that system admin keep increasing, too. And there are loads and loads of private clouds. Each cloud is the new "computer".
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@Emad-R said in The Death of Sysadmin:
but in short term everyone will be full stack dev and rely on cloud hosting platforms and FAAS and CAAS to run their code easily with high uptimes cause of stuff like GKE, and others.
And cloud hosting platforms are run by system admins (or whatever label you want to slap on them.)
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@scottalanmiller said in The Death of Sysadmin:
@Emad-R said in The Death of Sysadmin:
The number of servers one sysadmin is handling is increasing and increasing, I think even you said it yourself.
back in the day 1 sysadmin can manage = few servers, afterward it is 50-100, now it is expected to be able to manage 100-500. One day we wouldn't need to manage anything.Yes, but then the value and expertise of that system admin keep increasing, too. And there are loads and loads of private clouds. Each cloud is the new "computer".
Exactly what we call DevOPs now is the new System Admin. They are higher paid and more knowledgeable. Things have been going this way for awhile so you should not be surprised. Imagine what you'd be worth if you had AWS / Azure certifications right now
In fact, this is an opportunity for you to go this route. You have to leave the old mentality behind to grow in a new, ever changing environment.
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@IRJ said in The Death of Sysadmin:
@scottalanmiller said in The Death of Sysadmin:
@Emad-R said in The Death of Sysadmin:
The number of servers one sysadmin is handling is increasing and increasing, I think even you said it yourself.
back in the day 1 sysadmin can manage = few servers, afterward it is 50-100, now it is expected to be able to manage 100-500. One day we wouldn't need to manage anything.Yes, but then the value and expertise of that system admin keep increasing, too. And there are loads and loads of private clouds. Each cloud is the new "computer".
Exactly what we call DevOPs now is the new System Admin. They are higher paid and more knowledgeable. Things have been going this way for awhile so you should not be surprised. Imagine what you'd be worth if you had AWS / Azure certifications right now
In fact, this is an opportunity for you to go this route. You have to leave the old mentality behind to grow in a new, ever changing environment.
And really, only barely different than we were back in 2006. DevOps isn't really new, just a new "brand name" on the same work that we did then. If we moved my 2006 environment into 2019 with zero changes, we'd call it devops.
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Not good DevOps, but acceptable DevOps
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@scottalanmiller said in The Death of Sysadmin:
@IRJ said in The Death of Sysadmin:
@scottalanmiller said in The Death of Sysadmin:
@Emad-R said in The Death of Sysadmin:
The number of servers one sysadmin is handling is increasing and increasing, I think even you said it yourself.
back in the day 1 sysadmin can manage = few servers, afterward it is 50-100, now it is expected to be able to manage 100-500. One day we wouldn't need to manage anything.Yes, but then the value and expertise of that system admin keep increasing, too. And there are loads and loads of private clouds. Each cloud is the new "computer".
Exactly what we call DevOPs now is the new System Admin. They are higher paid and more knowledgeable. Things have been going this way for awhile so you should not be surprised. Imagine what you'd be worth if you had AWS / Azure certifications right now
In fact, this is an opportunity for you to go this route. You have to leave the old mentality behind to grow in a new, ever changing environment.
And really, only barely different than we were back in 2006. DevOps isn't really new, just a new "brand name" on the same work that we did then. If we moved my 2006 environment into 2019 with zero changes, we'd call it devops.
What were you using in 2006 for your CI/CD pipelines?
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@Obsolesce said in The Death of Sysadmin:
@scottalanmiller said in The Death of Sysadmin:
@IRJ said in The Death of Sysadmin:
@scottalanmiller said in The Death of Sysadmin:
@Emad-R said in The Death of Sysadmin:
The number of servers one sysadmin is handling is increasing and increasing, I think even you said it yourself.
back in the day 1 sysadmin can manage = few servers, afterward it is 50-100, now it is expected to be able to manage 100-500. One day we wouldn't need to manage anything.Yes, but then the value and expertise of that system admin keep increasing, too. And there are loads and loads of private clouds. Each cloud is the new "computer".
Exactly what we call DevOPs now is the new System Admin. They are higher paid and more knowledgeable. Things have been going this way for awhile so you should not be surprised. Imagine what you'd be worth if you had AWS / Azure certifications right now
In fact, this is an opportunity for you to go this route. You have to leave the old mentality behind to grow in a new, ever changing environment.
And really, only barely different than we were back in 2006. DevOps isn't really new, just a new "brand name" on the same work that we did then. If we moved my 2006 environment into 2019 with zero changes, we'd call it devops.
What were you using in 2006 for your CI/CD pipelines?
CI/CD is one of those new "long after DevOps was a thing" things. Even people doing DevOps were called DevOps before those were common. In 2006, it was insanely rare for even developers to use those things or be familiar with them. It's a very recent thing to start associating those with either field.
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CI/CD is also one of those things that is just "one approach" in both IT and Dev circles. XP made it popular, it existed before but no one talked about it, and XP was only popular in "what people have heard of", not what people actively do. The majority of developers don't use it today. And many, maybe a majority or maybe not, don't think that it is appropriate even today. Regular integration is important, but many people believe that frequest, rather than continuous, is a better approach.
It's much like test first. It is a recent concept, not an old one. And while essentially all developers and DevOps know what it is, extremely few adopt it. It's today where CI was eight years ago.
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CI/CD is also one of those things that is just "one approach" in both IT and Dev circles
Uh what are the "other" approaches?
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@stacksofplates said in The Death of Sysadmin:
Uh what are the "other" approaches?
Frequent Integration is more common, for example. If you work with developers, CI is something everyone knows, but the majority don't do. In fact, almost none do in the real world. Good ones might mostly do it, but the average developer isn't a good developer. The average development shop is still struggling with source control, CI isn't even on their horizon.
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@scottalanmiller said in The Death of Sysadmin:
@stacksofplates said in The Death of Sysadmin:
Uh what are the "other" approaches?
Frequent Integration is more common, for example. If you work with developers, CI is something everyone knows, but the majority don't do. In fact, almost none do in the real world. Good ones might mostly do it, but the average developer isn't a good developer. The average development shop is still struggling with source control, CI isn't even on their horizon.
That's not an other. That's part of CI/CD.
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Pick a project on GitHub/GitLab. If they have a .travis yml, Jenkinsfile, .gitlab-ci.yml, bamboo.yml, etc they are leveraging at least CI. I don't think I've noticed one without a build file for quite some time.
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@scottalanmiller said in The Death of Sysadmin:
CI/CD is also one of those things that is just "one approach" in both IT and Dev circles. XP made it popular, it existed before but no one talked about it, and XP was only popular in "what people have heard of", not what people actively do. The majority of developers don't use it today. And many, maybe a majority or maybe not, don't think that it is appropriate even today. Regular integration is important, but many people believe that frequest, rather than continuous, is a better approach.
It's much like test first. It is a recent concept, not an old one. And while essentially all developers and DevOps know what it is, extremely few adopt it. It's today where CI was eight years ago.
Are you referring to the Agile approach of working? That's not the same thing as DevOps.
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@stacksofplates said in The Death of Sysadmin:
Pick a project on GitHub/GitLab. If they have a .travis yml, Jenkinsfile, .gitlab-ci.yml, bamboo.yml, etc they are leveraging at least CI. I don't think I've noticed one without a build file for quite some time.
Yeah, but that's why I pointed out that most projects aren't up to using Git yet. You are filtering out the most likely to have CI as a starting point.
