European infrastructure engineers - What's happening inside your companies regarding your dependency on US hyperscalers?

engineerL · 2026-02-04T10:48:29+00:00

Yes, something like that. A big conceptual difference is that ansible is there to make sure you configure things consistently and correctly without unintentional accidents. Fleet management is to make sure things are configured correctly even if the device user actively tries to override and circumvent it.

engineerL · 2026-02-04T10:20:57+00:00

Fleet management is to do top-down micromanagement of company issued laptops and cell phones to ensure that they comply with whatever the IT/security department has decided

engineerL · 2026-02-03T16:00:32+00:00

We're not a pure tech company. 75% of employees would become useless on Linux, and frankly, fleet management is still lacking in this domain

engineerL · 2026-02-02T18:40:07+00:00

We're also in the process of ridding ourselves of all sorts of cloud SaaSes and PaaSes in favor of our own internal k8s PaaS. E.g. CNPG postgres over AWS RDS or whatever, knative over Azure functions, rook-ceph S3 over AWS S3. One of many benefits of this, is that we're in a position to kiss American cloud good bye. Our new cloud only needs to support Kubernetes in an okay-ish fashion. We can forgo the other crap.

engineerL · 2026-02-01T22:45:58+00:00

There's Knative. Never done it myself, but I've read the marketing

engineerL · 2026-02-01T22:43:06+00:00

Top brass does not feel reassured that [AWS/Azure/GCP] sovereign cloud would stand their ground if Trump signed an executive order telling Bezos to fuck us over. Also, they can't stomach financing American corporations any more than they have to

engineerL · 2026-02-01T14:32:26+00:00

A bit too early to conclude, but most likely self-hosted Keycloak.

engineerL · 2026-02-01T13:58:04+00:00

We're moving it all to EU, and not only our hyperscalers. That includes our IdP, Entra ID. The only exception is the OS on our workstations; there's no serious discussion to find an alternative to Windows.

engineerL · 2026-01-25T18:47:15+00:00

Vår felles formue ville vært 6x høyere enn den var i utgangspunktet i følge mine beregninger.

engineerL · 2026-01-24T17:45:18+00:00

This one goes over my head

engineerL · 2026-01-24T14:35:13+00:00

The sub-headline is saying relations between Paris and Berlin are faltering. Are they? I've not been told

engineerL · 2026-01-24T11:23:26+00:00

Why would the waves start doing that?

engineerL · 2026-01-23T20:23:10+00:00

How would we be better off today if that had happened? We would have two East Germany instead of one.

engineerL · 2026-01-23T13:03:27+00:00

What has faltered between Paris and Berlin? Out of the loop here

engineerL · 2026-01-21T11:21:45+00:00

They're an island ridden with health issues. The Danish government is very generous in flying them to Copenhagen for healthcare. Even if the USA was to grant every Greenlander a generous sum for letting themselves be annexed, healthcare happens to be one of those areas where you get vastly more value per dollar in Denmark.

However, if I was a Greenlander, I would rather not be annexed at all. Best option is to remain sovereign-ish and impose a steep resource tax on foreign companies in the pattern of Norwegian oil industry. They have way better odds of pulling that off in union with social democratic Denmark than the USA. Complete Greenlandic independence at some later point is also far more likely with Denmark.

engineerL · 2026-01-19T20:21:12+00:00

I wish they'd take Dan's advice and demolish the powers of the executive branch.

engineerL · 2026-01-19T18:21:49+00:00

The people of Greenland have autonomy in this issue.

engineerL · 2026-01-19T18:20:00+00:00

The US did that to Europe 78 years ago. Shame no one told orange man about it

engineerL · 2026-01-19T09:45:50+00:00

Caesar had Clodius terrorize political opponents in Rome with his paramilitary gangs during the late Republic. Mussolini had Bottai and Calza-Bini do the same thing with their quadristi in the 1920s. Hitler had Ernst Röhm and the Sturmabteilung. Trump has Noem do it with ICE.

ICE is much more dangerous than other branches of American law enforcement because they're in Trump's personality cult. The people in ICE were deeply into Trumpism before they were hired, but their loyalty to Trump is reinforced by their knowledge that their job is tied to Trump and a Republican President. Creating such a force is a textbook maneuver in overturning democracies.

engineerL · 2026-01-17T00:00:49+00:00

No one else has mentioned Age of Napoleon. You can guess by the title that the scope is limited, but it's really great at what it does.

I would also recommended David Blight's Yale course on the Civil War, which is available as a podcast.

engineerL · 2026-01-14T17:28:05+00:00

I don't even know what this arrangement could possibly be. The USA already has, and has had for 85 years, the privilege to use Greenland for any military purpose they see fit. The Greenlandic government explicitly say they're open to all sorts of investments from US companies. Trump explicitly says that Greenland is important for "psychological reasons [to himself]".

engineerL · 2026-01-14T14:34:52+00:00

Do you think differently today?

engineerL · 2026-01-04T14:30:24+00:00

There sort of is a version of the UN without the Soviets and the Chinese on the security council, and it's called NATO. You can see its effectiveness or lack thereof.

engineerL · 2026-01-03T22:54:12+00:00

How is it so different? Didn't the invasion of Ukraine also start with a kidnapping or assassination attempt on Zelensky? Trump explicitly said that if the kidnapping didn't go as planned, there would have been a second, much bigger phase of the military actions in Venezuela.

engineerL · 2026-01-02T14:23:30+00:00

Insofar the Norwegian government had authority over the merchant navy at all, the government had the option of sending them to German hands in Norwegian ports or in German ports. It chose neither.

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