[dilyevsky]

I once misconfigured iptables and locked myself out of our buildserver. Had to call lab support in a different country. Is Linux too complicated? Joyent famously took down their whole region by rebooting wrong nodes. It’s almost like running distributed networks of supercomputers at scale is hard or something...

[KronisLV]

> Joyent famously took down their whole region by rebooting wrong nodes.

In case anyone's interested, here's a pretty funny and educational talk by Bryan Cantrill about that particular incident:

GOTO 2017 • Debugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30jNsCVLpAE

[regularfry]

For two systems of equal functionality, the one that allows or encourages fewer footbullets is the better design. Not all complexity is essential.

[dilyevsky]

What kubernetes complexity is non-essential and can be replicated by simpler solution?

[tormeh]

I once did an `apt autoremove` on a custom install of CentOS handed to my team. Apt uninstalled python (and a lot more), and apt depends on python to run, so that was a bummer. The easiest way out was to reinstall the OS.