Yeah, the whole DevOps thing is weird - it's like these guys have forgotten than there was a time when every sysadmin worth his salt was a competent Perl or Tcl programmer who regularly worked on thousand-line scripts for automation. We just took it for granted in the 90s that if a sysadmin needed a tool and didn't have it, he'd make it. One of my former cow-orkers, a dyed in the wool sysadmin, happily used C++ and Motif.
Maybe the sort of "Redhat certified" sysadmin you get these days can't even shell-script and they think this is some radical innovation.
Maybe the sort of "Redhat certified" sysadmin you get these days can't even shell-script and they think this is some radical innovation.