Comment by raw_anon_1111

20 days ago

> Part of it was repetition. My days had become predictable: check the dashboards, respond to tickets, debug whatever broke overnight, push some Terraform, go home. Maintain the HashiCorp Vault clusters, manage the secrets pipelines, answer the same support questions. Repeat. The work that used to feel engaging had become routine.

This isn’t “DevOps”. This is “IT Support”.

But honestly, if you aren’t embedded into a team where developers and infrastructure folks are working together - you aren’t doing anything differently than old school operations people did 25 years ago

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k__  20 days ago

Yeah.

In most companies, IT people just started coding and called it DevOps.

Still better than IT folks who refuse to code.

  • raw_anon_1111  20 days ago

    Smart IT people were automating things with Perl and later Powershell since I started professionally working in Windows shops in 2000.

    Before that I was working on DEC VAX machines where IT was using DCL.