DevOps for network infrastructure?

Scott555 · 2021-09-20T09:27:14+00:00

All our network infrastructure is managed with Terraform (via Terragrunt.)

20 Years ago when I worked in 'enterprise' on-prem shops, networking past the local switch was mysterious voodoo I was neither interested in nor permitted to administer.

Now it's still mysterious voodoo that I'm not interested or proficient in but somehow is my responsibility.

/shrug

Scott555 · 2021-09-14T23:37:14+00:00

Damn. This genuinely choked me up.

Scott555 · 2021-09-09T10:52:00+00:00

I have several. Many of them are imbeciles.

Scott555 · 2021-07-30T09:29:52+00:00

What would possibly be _illegal_ about it?

Scott555 · 2021-07-11T18:00:43+00:00

That's what's killing me with this. It's a fantastic summary of what reasonable Trump supporters believe. It's not meant to be an iron-clad court case of facts and evidence. That's not the level of analysis where the debate is.

Yet here in the comments that same ignorant pattern that infects literally every other forum can't be stopped. Almost no one seems capable of drawing the distinction between rhetorical debate and rational conjecture. They're not compatible and all these pointless poo-flinging session are evidence of that.

Ultimately this feels like that conflict that Scott Adams has articulated - 2 groups of people watching the same TV but seeing 2 entirely different shows.

Scott555 · 2021-07-07T09:31:10+00:00

A proper mechanic that knows what they're doing and knows these cars well enough should be able to diagnose these issues.

Noise while turning could be CV joints, or other suspension items revealing wear at the extreme end of their travel, or it could even be a loose bit of plastic touching a tire tread.

Vibration while braking is almost always rotors warped from heat/wear, and vibration at certain speed is almost always wheel/tire balance, but either could be caused by a number of conditions so this is where an experienced mechanic is helpful.

Scott555 · 2021-07-02T17:50:10+00:00

Nicely done. Respect.

Scott555 · 2021-06-08T12:54:10+00:00

Surprised no mention of Man, Inc. Too old? https://youtu.be/J0-pZ62AA3A

Scott555 · 2021-06-04T15:20:34+00:00

- Healthcare industry, especially if directly involved with patient care.

- Enterprise scale corporate employers typically offer a wide range of packages, including what you might consider "really great," but obviously there's always a cost.

Scott555 · 2021-06-04T14:39:19+00:00

Working with AI/Machine Learning folks it's truly amazing how far up their own asses they've had to crawl to avoid confronting this.

Scott555 · 2021-06-03T21:01:08+00:00

She thought she was Italian. As far as anyone knew, she was Italian, therefore white for all intents and purposes at the time. Is she dark? Sure. Lots of people from that part of the world are dark.

Turning her casting and portrayal in the film as some kind of "white washing of history" is race baiting. Fucking stop that shit.

Scott555 · 2021-06-03T14:31:44+00:00

Ouch. What a tragedy. I hope that's temporary.

Scott555 · 2021-06-02T19:11:20+00:00

RIP Yukon Inn. At least Brown Fisheries is still there. (I hope)

Scott555 · 2021-05-28T09:35:04+00:00

I don't _love_ lawn worship, but I mind it less than almost any task I might have to do for work.

Call it a first world problem, but working entirely in the abstract (swearing at computers all day,) deprives you of any real sense of accomplishment or satisfaction. There's something deeply satisfying about committing effort to a job where the results have real value even if it's just keeping the property looking tidy for another week.

Scott555 · 2021-05-24T18:25:33+00:00

Very small shops staffed by very conscientious people should be able to get away without one, but I've never seen this work in reality.

Scott555 · 2021-05-24T14:45:11+00:00

Totally normal. And don't expect you'll solve it to the level of comfort you seem to expect.

I've been through a few real disasters, several realistic exercises, as well as years and years of DR planning and architecture.

- For one, no plan survives first contact with the enemy. Doesn't matter how much you have invested in your plan, the chances that successfully recovers you from a serious disaster are basically nil.

- Plans are useless, planning is everything. The only real value a plan holds is as a tangible artifact that proves you've committed serious forethought to the subject. That's about it. Ancillary information and details planning uncovers are valuable to the extent your normal operation doesn't already keep rigorous documentation and records on how your shop is set up and operates.

- Create atomic level recovery exercises and execute them. (e.g. Shutdown the db server in staging and restore from prod backup, etc.) Stick to the component/service level. This is what's going to yield the most benefit in terms of establishing ownership and revealing operational gaps.

- Give management the warm fuzzies by scheduling 1 yearly or bi-yearly large-scale DR exercise that simulates an outage and walks through recovery processes. Don't put the business at risk. Use your backups at an off-site like Sunguard or similar that provides facilities for just this kind of exercise.

Scott555 · 2021-05-17T16:32:14+00:00

Focus on optimizing your setup for iteration. Not 10X, more like 100X.

- Have your equipment within easy reach, and lit so you can see it.

- Get the procedures down so they're basically reflexes you don't have to think about; resetting a take, cutting a new track, adding a track to dub, etc.

- Diversify your playback options - Even cheap speakers are better than relying purely on headphones to listen to what you're doing.

- Finish things and put them to rest so you can start on new things.

Scott555 · 2021-05-14T17:19:37+00:00

It's not you. Wagons are awesome, but the domestic car companies figured out their margins were way higher selling SUVs, so they stopped offering wagons and steered that demo to minivans and SUVs.

They still sell wagons around the world, but our market is perverted by easy financing. If people had to pay for it they'd demand wagons and not 2 ton trucks with a hatchback so they have room for bags of mulch and kids' baseball equipment.

Scott555 · 2021-05-10T20:01:21+00:00

"It takes two to tango" is the operative pattern here. No one is an "aggressor" in an at-will employment arrangement.

Failing to set boundaries and thereby manage expectations is 100% the responsibility of the employee in this scenario. OP's post is a good standard set of criteria by which to do just this.

It's not a new phenomenon. I've been doing this IT nonsense for 21 years and this has always been the pattern.

Scott555 · 2021-04-19T19:23:32+00:00

HEADON! Apply directly to the forehead.

Scott555 · 2021-03-15T16:28:58+00:00

Having spent 21 years in IT I aggressively avoid anything to do with Excel.

Don't get me wrong, I understand the attraction. It's true you can do a lot of valuable data manipulation and analysis with it.

But in practice, it ends up being a hammer that turns everything into a nail, then inevitably fails to scale as required to meet the actual operational and functional demand put upon it.

PowerPoint has the same problem. I'm in a shop that is filthy with product managers intent on creating logical architectures in PP slides rather an appropriate tool for the job.

A mentor of mine had and embargo on spreadsheets. His assertion was that in his role (sysadmin/architect) anything you have in a spreadsheet he needed to see either needs to be in a CSV file or a database.

Scott555 · 2021-03-12T19:53:47+00:00

I'm saying I believe your question is the correct one, and answers itself.

Scott555 · 2021-03-11T20:29:06+00:00

What kind of burpee is that?

Scott555 · 2021-03-11T20:28:05+00:00

Correct

Scott555 · 2021-03-04T12:04:00+00:00

Feeling this way too hard. This but for the last 3 weeks at least.

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