[from-nibly]

Hello. I have found the mess of shell scripts. Please don't do this.

I was able to deal with the weird skaffold mess by getting rid of it, and replacing it with argocd. I was able to get rid of jenkins by migrating to github actions. I have yet to replace the magic servers with magic bash scripts. They take just enough effort that i can't spend the time.

Use a tool i can google. If your bash script is really this straight forward and takes you from standard A to standard B, and it's in version control then bash is AMAZING. Please don't shove a rondom script that does a random thing on a random server.

[Danjoe4]

Bash is good but can grow out of control. The problem is solo engineers and managers who push/approve 500+ line bash scripts that do way too much. A good engineer will say it's getting too complicated and reimplement it in Python.

[ffsm8]

Wasn't there a rule about that?

Something like "in software development the only solution that sticks is the bad one, because the good ones will keep getting replaced until it's so bad, nobody can replace it anymore"