This is a perfect example of the problem in the devops world. People want to do something that has slight variations from time to time. There is a well established concept for this, called a function. Programmers use functions every day and understand their semantics. Devops tool developers do not implement functions but some other abstraction with different semantics. Programmers use this abstraction and confusion ensures.
Why the people who implement these tools, who presumably are very accomplished programmers, cannot 1) see they are implementing something that is already well known and/or 2) implement it with standard semantics, is baffling to me.
Why the people who implement these tools, who presumably are very accomplished programmers, cannot 1) see they are implementing something that is already well known and/or 2) implement it with standard semantics, is baffling to me.
Kids, just say NORWAY to devops.