It seems like a way to translate your title's question would be, will better software/automation and processes have an impact on the jobs of System Admins (quantity and level of technical skill required)?
And as will pretty much any profession, the answer is yes.
@scottalanmiller is actually talking about more part of the practical implementation of DevOps, rather than what DevOps is.
One way of looking at DevOps is Developers and Operations working together to accomplish the goals that actually help the business as a whole, rather than accomplishing their own separate goals - which can conflict and end up not actually providing value to the business.
Another way to look at it is the way software development applies Lean manufacturing methods.
When someone is advertising for a "DevOps Engineer" as a job description they probably don't know what they're talking about and what the role actually is is a System Administrator at a company that develops their own software who knows certain tools/workflows. (or it's fake)
If your company doesn't develop any software, then you're not doing DevOps. You are just using better tools that to do system administration, and your workflow will have some resemblance to a developer's workflow. But using Git and Salt and editing yaml files is not software development, you're just Ops using certain kinds of tools.
I've heard that GitLab uses Azure in order to test their resiliency
@flaxking said in Resume Critique:
I heard somewhere to put your title, then the role that actually applies in brackets beside it
But thinking about that now... Is that kind of like calling your previous employer a liar in your resume?
I heard somewhere to put your title, then the role that actually applies in brackets beside it
@scottalanmiller said in the benefits for a small company that wants to use a virtual server:
@thwr said in the benefits for a small company that wants to use a virtual server:
Use the tiny layer of abstraction that comes for free, use one of the popular (and license free) Type 1 hypervisors (Hyper-V, Xen, KVM, VMWare ESXi etc) and you won't regret it.
It is worth noting that within this list, ESXi really doesn't fit. Your short list of options is KVM, Hyper-V, and Xen. ESXi is ridiculously crippled and worthless in its free version; and ridiculously expensive otherwise.
If the other three did not exist, it would be a fine product. But from a market perspective, it's a garbage product that should be generally avoided as it doesn't even remotely compete with any of its alternatives. So just ignoring it is often best, there's no way for it to be chosen in a small environment until you are already dedicated to paying many thousands of dollars for vendor support.
It's kind of kick in the pants that Salt Cloud currently fully supports VMWare, but Vagrant support isn't out of development yet.
@scottalanmiller said in Project management for internal IT projects and tasks:
@flaxking said in Project management for internal IT projects and tasks:
My new workplace uses Jira
We used that at the last job, it's horrible. Super slow and complex to use. Requires way too much training.
I haven't really used it that much yet, but I'm part of the team that's going to decide whether on not we're going to get Jira Service Desk.
My new workplace uses Jira
@smartkid808 said in bat script for uploading file to ftp:
@romo said in bat script for uploading file to ftp:
Server – The FTP Server you are uploading to. You can either enter the DNS name (ftp.myserver.com) or IP address (1.2.3.4).
UserName – Your user name for connecting to FTP server.
Password – Your password for connecting to the FTP server.Got that already It connects, but I need it to 'put' the file
This is where I am confused.
REM Usage:
REM UploadToFTP [/L] FileToUpload
REM
REM Required Parameters:
REM FileToUpload
REM The file or file containing the list of files to be uploaded.
REM
REM Optional Parameters:
REM /L When supplied, the FileToUpload is read as a list of files to be uploaded.
REM A list of files should be a plain text file which has a single file on each line.
REM Files listed in this file must specify the full path and be quoted where appropriate.
Looks like you pass it in as an argument when you call the script
How about Powershell?
$uri = "ftp://uploadpath.com/in/fstest.txt"
$file = "c:\localpath\fstest.txt"
$user = "username"
$pass = "password"
# create the FtpWebRequest and configure it
$ftp = [System.Net.FtpWebRequest]::Create($uri)
$ftp = [System.Net.FtpWebRequest]$ftp
$ftp.Method = [System.Net.WebRequestMethods+Ftp]::UploadFile
$ftp.Credentials = new-object System.Net.NetworkCredential($user,$pass)
$ftp.UseBinary = $true
$ftp.UsePassive = $true
$ftp.EnableSsl = $true
# read in the file to upload as a byte array
$content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes($file)
$ftp.ContentLength = $content.Length
# get the request stream, and write the bytes into it
$rs = $ftp.GetRequestStream()
$rs.Write($content, 0, $content.Length)
# be sure to clean up after ourselves
$rs.Close()
$rs.Dispose()
Might have to remove options like $ftp.EnableSsl = $true and $ftp.UsePassive = $true
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
It's time for Harry Potter 2 on HBO!!
ouch
Yeah, the first two are pretty bad. But getting ready for the good ones.
I actually prefer the first two to the rest of them. Some fantastic costumes and sets, and some great casting.
You just have to deal with child acting and a not smoothed out book to movie translation.
If we have kids they're going to be shocked the first time they find out HP movies exist.
I don't mind the kids in teh first ones, they had to be rough, they were so young. It's the insanely trimmed story lines and focus on super goofy effects instead of the story. They went for so much broom flying, computer characters flailing around, and running from event to event and not establishing a mood. They are so trimmed, that if you don't read the books, they don't even quite make sense. My six year old complains that they are so cut compared to the books.
I haven't seen any movies made after the Goblet of Fire because of how drastically they cut the story down.
You quit too soon. They get better and better and by book seven they are amazing.
I'm starting to reconsider trusting everything you've ever said
We tried to go through all the movies again and made it through six before we gave up and declared it as not worth it.
And we've made it through all of the Bond movies.
The last two movies are REALLY good, a leap ahead of even #6.
I remember watching #8 in theatre on opening night. I didn't mind it then, but now watching all the movies just doesn't feel worth it.
I hope someday we get a BBC Harry Potter, though it would have to be WB partnered since they have the film rights.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@momurda said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:
@kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
@tim_g said in What Are You Watching Now:
Books are always better with everything.
Books contain so many more details and a ton more "time". If you duplicated a book to a movie you'd have like a 12+ hour movie and spend a billion dollars. YOu just can't. So it's all pick and choose.
I think Peter Jackson did a decent job with LotR, at least remaining true to the spirit of the story while not including 100% of the details.
Tolkien was terrible with prose. He couldn't write himself out of a box if he tried. His world building though was phenomenal, and that's really the only reason you read the LoTR or the Silmarillion. The Hobbit was slightly better but still only for the world elements.
Actually, I don't like his world building, either. I find his worlds to be two dimensional and nonsensical. It doesn't feel like a "living" world. Things are big and overdramatic in a world that is empty and pointless.
Only my 2nd downvote ever on this site. You choose HP over LOTR, come on. Not even in the same league. HP is double A minor league in comparison to LOTR.
As movies go, LOtR rocks. But as books, very weak
HP the opposite.
JK Rowling is a fantastic author. I think I've read all of her books. We listen to the Harry Potter audiobooks every winter.
@tim_g said in What Are You Watching Now:
Books are always better with everything.
Books contain so many more details and a ton more "time". If you duplicated a book to a movie you'd have like a 12+ hour movie and spend a billion dollars. YOu just can't. So it's all pick and choose.
Sometimes there are exceptions to the rule. The Hunger Games books are pretty bad. The first movie was REALLY bad, but then I believe it was the 2nd and 3rd movies that were actually better than the books. But the 4th movie was meh.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
It's time for Harry Potter 2 on HBO!!
ouch
Yeah, the first two are pretty bad. But getting ready for the good ones.
I actually prefer the first two to the rest of them. Some fantastic costumes and sets, and some great casting.
You just have to deal with child acting and a not smoothed out book to movie translation.
If we have kids they're going to be shocked the first time they find out HP movies exist.
I don't mind the kids in teh first ones, they had to be rough, they were so young. It's the insanely trimmed story lines and focus on super goofy effects instead of the story. They went for so much broom flying, computer characters flailing around, and running from event to event and not establishing a mood. They are so trimmed, that if you don't read the books, they don't even quite make sense. My six year old complains that they are so cut compared to the books.
I wouldn't really say they are trimmed. All of the events are there, but it just jumps from event to event. All of the 'inbetween stuff' is what makes it flow in the book and helps set the mood. You can't really do that in a movie, but they didn't modify things so that they could set the mood through the strategies that movies have to use.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
It's time for Harry Potter 2 on HBO!!
ouch
Yeah, the first two are pretty bad. But getting ready for the good ones.
I actually prefer the first two to the rest of them. Some fantastic costumes and sets, and some great casting.
You just have to deal with child acting and a not smoothed out book to movie translation.
If we have kids they're going to be shocked the first time they find out HP movies exist.
I don't mind the kids in teh first ones, they had to be rough, they were so young. It's the insanely trimmed story lines and focus on super goofy effects instead of the story. They went for so much broom flying, computer characters flailing around, and running from event to event and not establishing a mood. They are so trimmed, that if you don't read the books, they don't even quite make sense. My six year old complains that they are so cut compared to the books.
I haven't seen any movies made after the Goblet of Fire because of how drastically they cut the story down.
You quit too soon. They get better and better and by book seven they are amazing.
I'm starting to reconsider trusting everything you've ever said 
We tried to go through all the movies again and made it through six before we gave up and declared it as not worth it.
And we've made it through all of the Bond movies.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
It's time for Harry Potter 2 on HBO!!
ouch
Yeah, the first two are pretty bad. But getting ready for the good ones.
I actually prefer the first two to the rest of them. Some fantastic costumes and sets, and some great casting.
You just have to deal with child acting and a not smoothed out book to movie translation.
If we have kids they're going to be shocked the first time they find out HP movies exist.
@scottalanmiller said in Resume Critique:
What are "lean on time IT services"? Whom did you lean on while doing it?
I'm assuming that this means something, but it sounds super funny when you see it on a resume. I can't figure out what work you did as a Field Tech, only that it was leaning on something.
If you were just a cog in a company practising Lean, then I don't think you need to mention it on your resume.
If you were required to have a solid understanding of Lean (and have the ability to help a company use Lean), then maybe move it to something like a Skills section
@jaredbusch said in Who is at Fault?:
@flaxking said in Who is at Fault?:
@jaredbusch said in Who is at Fault?:
As well as whoever allowed an admin account to be a daily driver. That is totally relevant, even if you try to claim it isn't.
It is relevant, however it complicates the scenario at lot more and is beyond the people currently in the scenario.
But one or both actions could have been impossible had that not been setup in the first place.
But it is a predefined constraint that the tech, user, and software support tech all have to work with.
@jaredbusch said in Who is at Fault?:
As well as whoever allowed an admin account to be a daily driver. That is totally relevant, even if you try to claim it isn't.
It is relevant, however it complicates the scenario at lot more and is beyond the people currently in the scenario.