[trabant00]

Another attempt by Dev to make Ops a commodity? I was there when Microsoft announced ~20 years ago they're doing away with sysadmins with a GUI. Then Suse tried as well if I remember correctly. The conferences erupted with anger and booing, I was shaking my head and laughing.

Then came the great YAML plague and we had to give up our title and general purpose languages in favor of silly names, templates and DSLs. But you still have to understand the OS, the hardware, and have real world experience with availability, redundancy, etc. So the new generation of "DevOps" who was raised directly on terraform and k8s failed miserably in achieving any results.

Anybody saw any junior Ops (DevOps, SRE, GitOps, wtfeverops) job openings in the last few years? No? I wonder why. The tools are better, no? It should be easier than ever to deploy. We have all this micro-service orchestration and all those beautiful public clouds. All the conferences and the marketing are saying it's a breeze. You don't have to worry about ha, replication, iops and so on, we'll put that on your bill thank you very much.

So here comes Dev again with a solution: click-click-drag Ops. Surely this will fix things, surely you can now hire right from the street and train to deploy. Or will my old admin ass get even pricier as the demand ever rises and the supply is dwindling? Stay tuned to find out.

[holoway]

Nothing about SI is intended to make ops a commodity. This is a power tool built by Ops people.