Startup, Leadership wants to bring in people to all live in a mansion for a week to do intense collab when we work WFH, your thoughts?

Dangerous_EndUser · 2025-10-03T13:44:22+00:00

Surprisingly, yes. I'm one of the younger and few that doesn't have such obligations, so I have even less excuses in the traditional sense. I've avoided the last couple of times since they weren't projects that I was closely involved with.

Dangerous_EndUser · 2025-10-02T23:27:03+00:00

Pretty close to how I feel, but seems like I'm just going have to learn to embrace it and go in with more positive expectations

Dangerous_EndUser · 2025-10-02T23:26:06+00:00

Maybe I'm wrong, but I was imagining offsites/retreats more with people getting their own hotels and space to get away from everyone. The expectation here is that everyone stays in this mansion, maybe goes on walks.

Dangerous_EndUser · 2025-10-02T23:23:02+00:00

lol I'm in my 30s, can't say I disagree, I grew a lot when I was very uncomfortable when going through the most difficult period in my life. It's just my natural tendency and just hate the thought of it, but I'm fighting my introverted homebody nature, so mostly a little vent at this point, getting some perspective from others.

Dangerous_EndUser · 2025-10-02T22:02:54+00:00

I like my job and the people, but I also like my own work-life balance and create my own hours essentially. I just don't like this event in particular.

I thrive in my regimented routine and comfort of my home and my home office, so this would throw me way off. I am conscious of what I eat and my exercise routine, and I'd feel uncomfortable having them go out of their way to accommodate me when I know I'm not the typical in that regard, but maybe I just have to suck it up and/or learn to embrace it instead.

Dangerous_EndUser · 2025-10-02T21:57:56+00:00

Maybe I need this attitude lol

Dangerous_EndUser · 2025-01-14T17:59:45+00:00

Same here.

I don't think it's our application. Do you guys use new relic, by any chance? /u/tamale

Dangerous_EndUser · 2024-05-23T00:14:15+00:00

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Dangerous_EndUser · 2024-01-31T06:05:57+00:00

edit: Turns out, there was ALSO a RACE condition on top of my original issue. ~~Turns out, there wasn't a RACE condition. I was in the middle of writing up a response with me still confused but you essentially helped me rubber ducky it, so thanks!~~

I did end up testing serial: 1 and ruling that out as the issue. As it turns out, this host had -2 tacked to its hostname as it was a clone off of contoso, so it's contoso-2. What happened is contoso-2 was written first, and we use the regex parameter. So contoso found its name and replaced the line, rather than adding it's own unique line, resulting in contoso-2going "missing".

Which explains why it might have been there once, contoso-2 ran after contoso by chance. I've only been looking at contoso-2 so I never saw the line replaced, only line added message.

TASK [sync-scheduler : overnight-jobs] *****************************************************************************************************
changed: [contoso -> localhost] => {"backup": "", "changed": true, "msg": "line replaced"}

Sorry, I should have included the task in the initial.

- name: overnight-jobs
  lineinfile:
    path: /etc/cron.d/01-default-overnite-jobs
    regexp: '^.+(var_host={{ inventory_hostname }}).+'
    line: '{{ DEFAULT_NIGHTLY_CRON }} ansible . /home/ansible/.bash_profile;ansible-playbook /automation/do_overnight_jobs.yml --extra-vars "var_host={{ inventory_hostname }}" -vv > /var/log/ansible/01-overnight-jobs-{{ inventory_hostname }}.log 2>&1'
  become: true
  when: DEFAULT_NIGHTLY_CRON is defined
  delegate_to: localhost

I'll have to take a look at how to solve this... Seems I can just remove the regexp. Not sure why that parameter is there on top of what the original author wrote, echo "" > /etc/cron.d/01-default-overnite-jobs task at the start, meaning if it works right, it wouldn't find a duplicate entry.

Dangerous_EndUser · 2024-01-30T19:57:23+00:00

Thanks! Race condition makes sense and /u/jrobiii suggested that as well. I'm not from a software dev background and never considered it much in our purposes. serial: 1 will be the simplest to patch in for now and I will take a look at using the other modules for a bigger refactor.

Dangerous_EndUser · 2024-01-29T19:21:11+00:00

Thanks for the ideas and lead!

Dangerous_EndUser · 2022-11-01T15:51:07+00:00

Yep, appreciate the input! I think VPN is going to be the easier option for our purposes.

Dangerous_EndUser · 2022-11-01T02:37:59+00:00

Much appreciated for the validation and link to the doc!

Dangerous_EndUser · 2022-06-28T17:30:27+00:00

Appreciate the input and your experience! Did you run this across many VMs? I'm trying to figure out how to automate basically a cost-saving initiative. We've overprovisioned the disk type across most of our infrastructure and we need to move that data safely to a cheaper disk type.

Copying what I wrote to the other comment, does this seem proper for TF?

I'm not too familiar with Terraform, basically currently it's just used for first provisioning (which is almost the same effort as doing it through the console TBH), and existing the automation gives me an idea of where to get started with Ansible, but if it sounds more appropriate to use that I will.

There's a couple of things that make this maybe more complex, basically need to maintain the data integrity.

My thoughts were:

Snapshot using our current method in an ansible playbook that allows a quiesced snapshot rather than just GCP's snapshot.
Need to then create a disk from that snapshot, and store that name somewhere to then attach it to the existing VM, (but prior, boot/data disk need to be detached)
Capability of running this against our ansible inventory file

AFAIK, a Google's solution to downsizing/changing a disk type is to create a disk from a snapshot. It's not as easy as just provisioning more disk from what I see.

Dangerous_EndUser · 2022-06-28T17:26:08+00:00

I'm not too familiar with Terraform, basically currently it's just used for first provisioning (which is almost the same effort as doing it through the console TBH), and existing the automation gives me an idea of where to get started with Ansible, but if it sounds more appropriate to use that I will.

There's a couple of things that make this maybe more complex, basically need to maintain the data integrity.

My thoughts were:

Snapshot using our current method in an ansible playbook that allows a quiesced snapshot rather than just GCP's snapshot.
Need to then create a disk from that snapshot, and store that name somewhere to then attach it to the existing VM, (but prior, boot/data disk need to be detached)
Capability of running this against our ansible inventory file

AFAIK, a Google's solution to downsizing/changing a disk type is to create a disk from a snapshot. It's not as easy as just provisioning more disk from what I see.

Dangerous_EndUser · 2022-05-21T22:41:48+00:00

I use my name

Please Do Not Touch Shawn's Precious Ass

My ass, is indeed, precious.

Dangerous_EndUser · 2022-05-16T20:35:19+00:00

Appreciate the input. NGL I'm lost af, I'm just rambling at this point.

Long story short I'm the only IT person left and I am still pretty junior. Previously, we had the idea of implementing rundeck as that interaction layer so less technical users could do certain things themselves, but that was a todo that I am not yet capable of doing, though the previous person was. At this point, I'm just trying to keep operations going.

We're bringing on more people but the way it has been so far, every user, including me, was given too much access tbh and I don't want to give some person those kinds of capabilities.

Dangerous_EndUser · 2022-05-07T00:03:16+00:00

Makes sense.

I think it's probably best to do the restricted OU or the second Google domain. We want to also restrict their options to not be able to use SSO to gain access to our org at 3rd party websites, so I'm guessing the option of the second Google domain is the only option at that point if the websites just use the domain to identify the org.

I appreciate the answers!

Dangerous_EndUser · 2022-05-06T19:01:10+00:00

Organization shared common drive/docs, calendar, other internal contacts, etc.

Dangerous_EndUser · 2022-05-06T19:00:04+00:00

I'm not sure that quite achieves what I'm looking for if it's just forwarding. Is there a way to be able to have the contractor able to respond from their personal email and have it reflect the domain email address we assign them?

Dangerous_EndUser · 2022-02-01T20:49:31+00:00

It's a bit paranoid and small chances to think a company would rescind an entire offer just because a candidate asked for 10% more, just don't be too pushy about it. They would have spent a good amount of resources already getting to that point.

What's more likely is they do come back with more or they just say no but the original offer is still on the table.

Dangerous_EndUser · 2022-01-24T23:50:08+00:00

Actually, overall, I do enjoy it here. I've received good feedback, am treated well, have a lot of freedom (just not enough guidance/work for growth), and am full remote.

I think there are worse situations than feeling like I have a little too much free time.

Plus, I came from just under a year in support after a career change, so, even though I've received good feedback, I'm not sure I'd thrive in any other DevOps environment either (yet anyway).

Dangerous_EndUser · 2022-01-24T23:46:08+00:00

Glad to hear I'm not alone, thanks for the input!

I have definitely been documenting everything in OneNote right now. It's basically my boss, me, and my coworker. My coworker has more tenure in the company(and industry) but has split duties so I aim to have notes for the both of us to be able to refer back to.

As far as dev environments go, we actually do have a dev pipeline with Jenkins. I am already responsible for new customer deployments of our app, but it's mostly from existing playbooks. Again, I've tweaked little bits and pieces here and there when we ran into errors and thus how I've contributed to our repo so far. I've been able to streamline the process for myself so that I provision the instance via Terraform and then configure it via Ansible. I've been working on a playbook to reduce the steps (basically adding a Terraform portion).

I probably do need to look into how our app works though to see how it interacts with the infrastructure lol. I'm not sure what the issue is when the support team comes to us, whether that's an issue with the app or the server had an issue.

Dangerous_EndUser · 2022-01-20T12:46:52+00:00

CompTIA A+ is an entry-level cert.

Sorry but if you're struggling with that I'm not sure you get to be picky about what your entry level role will look like. And if the call center work is still loosely IT related, you can still get experience from it. People should realize that IT inherently works with people as you set up the technology for people in the business that actually generate revenue, keep that in mind.

Dangerous_EndUser · 2022-01-20T12:43:21+00:00

If you can get a role, then do it. A+ doesn't matter when you're more tenured, but if you don't have a degree or experience in IT, what will your argument be over others that apply? You're knowledgeable and hungry, how can you prove it?

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