Comment by Retric
3 hours ago
CI is really only significant on the programming side of things. Networking, systems administration, hardware, etc often don’t have that workflow.
3 hours ago
CI is really only significant on the programming side of things. Networking, systems administration, hardware, etc often don’t have that workflow.
I see you have not discovered infrastructure-as-code (IaC). We have CI for our infra.
I’m familiar, the issue is IaC only works on a subset of system administration.
If your job is to maintain the computing infrastructure in a research lab, every piece of hardware may be significantly different.
sysadmins CI is hoping the machine still boots after an update. Unless you are lucky you got two identical machines to have a test env.
Also the case of 'learning that someone did updates directly on AWS console instead of terraform and losing 0.5 or more days cleaning up the resulting mess'