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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Intro and Outro music credit: Tri Tachyon, Digital MK 2
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