EP115a - How has Sysadminning changed in the past decade(ish)

Welcome to Episode 115 Main Topic 

• How has sysadminning changed
  • System Operator
  • System Administrator
  • BOFH references galore
  • The ability to automate builds made it easier to build faster
  • But systems were still mostly manually configured
  • Now systems were not bound to hardware in the traditional sense
  • VM Sprawl
  • Meant larger fleets to manage
  • Templating and cloning makes standing up new machines even faster/simpler
  • Pets vs Cattle
  • Disposable systems
  • Containerization
  • Infrastructure as code! 
  • On-demand functions like lambda
  • Any predictions on what Sysadmin will look like in 10 more years? Or even 5?! 
• Sysadmin in the classic sense
• Early Build Automation (such as kickstart, and ghost)
• Virtual Machines, and what that meant
• Config management and automation
• Cloud Deployments
• What’s next?

 

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