Dozens of people wrote to me, aghast at the idea that I provision servers manually, wondering how I could refuse to use the rube goldberg machines that define the modern "cloud-scale" computing trends. It looks like it didn't take long for my approach to be validated.
Salt is complicated as hell. k8s, Docker, Ansible, they're all the same. Complicated systems break more often and more severely than simple systems. It's a simple fact, and I hope that our industry gets over its collective devops fetish sooner rather than later.
https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-04-20-prioritizing-simplitit...
Dozens of people wrote to me, aghast at the idea that I provision servers manually, wondering how I could refuse to use the rube goldberg machines that define the modern "cloud-scale" computing trends. It looks like it didn't take long for my approach to be validated.
Salt is complicated as hell. k8s, Docker, Ansible, they're all the same. Complicated systems break more often and more severely than simple systems. It's a simple fact, and I hope that our industry gets over its collective devops fetish sooner rather than later.