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by tutfbhuf 817 days ago
Well, maybe he never wants "someone" to deploy his project. I think it is perfectly legitimate to handle it this way for a one-man hobby project.

For a project where multiple people are involved, I think it's better to split concerns. Deployment should be handled transparently and reproducible in a CI pipeline that the team members who are allowed to deploy have access to.
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rglullis 817 days ago
But if you are a one-man show (and you want to keep it that way) you are in no condition to tell what would be the best practice for a team.
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pdimitar 817 days ago
Yes you are. You are telling yourself what's the best way to do things in your own team, that is comprised of only yourself.
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rglullis 817 days ago
If your argument can only be made in a very specific set of conditions and only applies to yourself, it's just a preference.

I don't care how you prefer to do things on your own, but if I were interviewing you for a senior position in a team with a handful of people, and you tell me that's how you want them to work, it would be an almost immediate NO HIRE.

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pdimitar 817 days ago
Yes, but you are moving goalposts. I was under the impression we were talking about the one-man army case only, not how they conduct themselves on interviews which is a VERY different topic.
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rglullis 817 days ago
The blog post was about the context of a team with multiple people.

OP's comment was "I do this for my Go project's" and goes on to describe how to use a (open source) library that even deploys to Hetzner.

So, either the commenter was trying to extend their practice to the point of the blog post or the comment was just expressing a preference when working by themselves, which has little to do with the content of the post.

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pdimitar 817 days ago
Sure, I don't think we disagree as much as I thought an hour or two ago, I am still little puzzled why you found it so bad though.

If a deployment procedure is easy for non-DevOps people then by definition that also makes it friendly to programmers, so why wouldn't they do it if it they can do it properly with minimal effort. But I do realize that "properly" is doing a lot of work in this sentence.

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