Mike Harty big time plus 1 from me.
You stated the case so well. A unix admin with out automation skills
to me is like a fine chef lacking knife skills. It’s absolutely critical for
your job, it’s critical to function effectively and it’s critical to scale.
Also as mentioned, the more automation the less error. This is the
case in everything whether it’s automated systems administration or automated
self driving cars and even aircraft. The more the machines do the more
reliable it is by a long shot. Compared to we big bags of meat and water
machines are pretty reliable.:)
I also feel like the more work I can accomplish in a given time the
more valuable I am.
Over all though, you’re going to see a lot more automation of all
flavors. My local grocery store now has robots and there are many more coming
and I love every bit of it. MacDonald’s is working on rolling out robot cooks
and automating the drive through and walk up counters. Machines, deep learning
and machine intelligence are coming to a job near you, doesn't matter the
industry. Completely exciting.
On Mar 20, 2020, at 6:41 AM, Mike Ray <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Cloud and cloud providers would not exist without automation.
The single biggest advantage of automation is reliable and consistent
repeatability.
If complex tasks are always manual, then there will be more mistakes.
What makes it possible for me to spin up a four node MongoDB cluster on
Digital Ocean is a combination of their automation and my Ansible code.
If somebody calls me and says "I want a four node MongoDB cluster", I
can ALMOST do it in real time while they are on the phone.
If it was left to manual configuration it would take hours.
And if it was not being spun up in the cloud, they would have to procure
the machines, the volumes, the network infrastructure, the site, and so
it goes on.
I can also test any combination of machine/OS/cluster with virtual
machines using Vagrant and VirtualBox.
Using VirtualBox without Vagrant would be a lot harder.
I can also spin up and configure a swarm of Docker containers with
docker-compose, much more readily and accurately repeatable with automation.
On 19/03/2020 21:35, Jessica wrote:
Devin. I don't know I just don't like automation. If used rightly it can be
a good thing.
But far to often its used because people don't want to take time to look
things up.
I guess this is an older/younger person battle. Older people tend to not
like automation. And younger people do.
Nothing wrong with automation I suppose. But I never was fond of automating
things.
When you automate. If something goes wrong and there is not an escape
sequence a lot of damage can be done.
Just my two cents worth on that subject. Automation isn't bad. Its just not
me.
Jessica
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