lewaldman

At work each team uses the tool that they deem better.

My team (DevOps) have a git repository where we put all our docs, post-mortems, etc...

Other teams uses Confluence, some uses GoogleDocs... etc...

I'm not getting the problem with the meetings...

Why you don't just... log on Zoom on the correct time and leave it running while you do actual work on another screen/monitor/window?

Eventually they will get to their senses and stop being late.

For me the key to avoid isolation are my hobbies...

The main two that helps me with that are to ride my bicycle at least twice per week and to play Jazz jam sessions on a pub nearby.

also... wife + kids + regular family time... all that helps a lot! =)

Hmm... With an internet connected ring + a internet connected locker... it's quite doable and simple.

The deliver guy comes... push the ring... you answer it on your phone and unlocks the box from it.

This `Ask HN` prompted me to give a look on bash.org after more than 10 years!

LOL

such a young soul...

Oh... This Makefiles stuff is interesting... mind to share a little more about it (or maybe some links)

I'm a script junkie... So it may be really useful for me to learn about this! =)

Sure! =)

For the starter... It only needs one single component to work , my computer!

Puppet/Salt you need a master server (with HA, load balancing, etc...) and a client running on every machine.

This by it self already add an order of magnitude more complexity than using Ansible.

And for Chef... Oh boy... you need a master server, a client running on every node plus a client running on your computer! (really... for me this by itself is already more than enough reason for me to plain refuse working with Chef).

Now... putting this details aside, the way that I use Ansible allows me to use the dynamic inventory feature (so... I don't store actual infra state on the automation) and to create playbooks that act as DevOps helpers if you may...

So... let's say that I need to setup a MongoDB Replicaset... I just call the `playbooks/provision-mongodb-replicaset.yml` playbook with the needed parameters and... the playbook takes care of everything. From the EC2 provisioning till the Hard disks partitioning (up to the RAID setup) going over OS settings, security roles, apps installations, etc..., till it goes, install MongoDB and create the replicaset for me.

All this with a single command from my computer without the need of anything else! =P

(and I have this `provisions-` and `update-` playbooks for everything that we run on my current job + for the things that I set up when freelancing... Including AWS only stuff like VPCs, or OpenVPN + VPC + Peering + etc...)

Mate... I manage hundreds of servers with it... including EKS Clusters lifecycles + creation of golden images, several databases stacks and AWS/Cloud provisioning.

It's far far far better than anything else... (specially Chef... It's light years ahead of Chef!)

I really like cssh...

Yeah... I have tmux, all my infras are on Ansible, etc, etc, etc... But there are times where I need to log to several boxes at once and when the time comes this tool is invaluable!

> We would still have to solve the politics of applying those technological advances uniformly rather than the benefit of a relatively small percentage of the species.

This is solved already... Capitalism makes it work across time.

(What is discovered now will with most certainty be available specie-wide in a couple of decades... and it's accelerating).

Brazilians also eat them a lot! (probably it came with the colonisation! =P)

And I was planning to learn Mandarim... =/

For me as a Portuguese mother tongue guy... masticate is easier to understand than chew! =P

"Mastigar" => To chew in pt-br

In Brazil the drivers would get better salaries than our doctors... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯