dwilson

Oh my god, it's full of hype!

[dwilson @dwilson]

So much tech.

[dwilson @dwilson]

"Our customers infrastructure is not here to let you build a buzzphrase filled résumé." #containers

[dwilson @dwilson]

"If we can run it on an hour a weeks attention for six years why would a 4 month migration appeal to me?"

[dwilson @dwilson]

"We hired 32 new operations staff in Q4. I think I'd keep 2 of them. We are not the google, we don't need -all- their stuff."

[dwilson @dwilson]

"#puppet had a very nice little openstack community but the rackspace #ansible stuff on stackforge was too good to overlook for production."

[dwilson @dwilson]

"We tried to teach them #puppet but it was quicker for them to half ass a Dockerfile. Turns out you can paste chunks of blog posts in those"

[dwilson @dwilson]

"We were going to kill the tech internally but then we won a community award and we all felt guilty so we left it running. In dev."

[dwilson @dwilson]

"discussing a move from #puppet didn't get us anything so we'll see how much the next major release breaks and justify it with that"

[dwilson @dwilson]

" 'Java is a language backed by a single company, we should use something like #golang instead.' we all needed the giggle"

[dwilson @dwilson]

"No, i love being told 'I wrote the slides last night', I only paid a few thousand dollars to attend. You be spontaneous."

[dwilson @dwilson]

"We sent 5 people to vegas for #aws reinvent, we gave a different 5 a week off and told them to watch thevideos. That seemed to work better"

[dwilson @dwilson]

"We have RHEL 4 Extended Lifecycle Support, the future doesn't bother us" - regarding ruby versions.

[dwilson @dwilson]

"#Serverspec has a bigger dependency tree than my actual application does. And it's in gems, which is like dog years of version pain"

[dwilson @dwilson]

And now on to the testing part of the discussion. The #chef people seem rightly comfortable in their tool chain.

[dwilson @dwilson]

@analogp1xel although if it has loops and variables then is not a programming language?

[dwilson @dwilson]

@analogp1xel the context was a discussion of the new puppet server implementation.

[dwilson @dwilson]

Everyone seems interested in making their modules better but the tedious boilerplate is as high a barrier as the technical learning curve.

[dwilson @dwilson]

"It's like they said, 'which languages do admins know? well, let's not use any of them'" #puppet #server

[dwilson @dwilson]

The number of #puppet users here discussing their migrations to #ansible is quite surprising.

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