[digitalsushi]

I wrote a shim layer for all our packer/vagrant OS workflows to operate against an unreliable vsphere ecosystem. It exposes a suite of posix sh functions for sysadmins/developers to easily operate against this very unreliable environment. It adds automatic logging, retrying, and adjustable verbosity because of the numerous ways this environment randomly fails.

People can just . source the file in from a shared location and often find that their scripts just start to work better. It's not perfect, nothing's perfect. It's not even that clever. But when builds and deploys start to work twice as good, even with the remaining failures, well, that's something. None of the 65000 employees using it will ever know, but it feels good to know we were dropping 2/3 orders and now we're dropping 1/3.