Re: Demand for programmers who know system admin stuff

2022-01-07 Thread Thomas Scott via PLUG-discuss
I'm in the opposite realm - was a programmer and kind of an admin (glorified script kiddie?), went into networking, and then got back into programming, because it was a "thing" to automate networks. It's now my full time job, and I enjoy it a ton. The network to code slack is full of network

Re: Demand for programmers who know system admin stuff

2022-01-07 Thread Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
With the whole transition to libera.chat for irc and taking some time off from work, I've taken to hanging out there a bit, and this is a common thing I'm seeing in the #networking chat. I'm seeing a lot of devs showing up in #networking asking for hosting/sysadmin stuff lots, ala "how to make

Demand for programmers who know system admin stuff

2022-01-07 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Hi, I've watched more than a few of NetworkChuck's videos. Here he is on a programmer's channel talking about programmers learning networking. I've always thought all web programmers have some Linux skills, and maybe that is not what he is talking about.

Re: Jan topics?

2022-01-07 Thread der.hans via PLUG-discuss
Am 07. Jan, 2022 schwätzte Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss so: moin moin Steve, der.hans via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 7 Jan 2022 06:54:01 + (UTC) moin moin, anyone have a presentation they'd like to give next Thursday? I'm tapped out right now, so not likely to have something this month.

Re: Scripting/automation method/language

2022-01-07 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
A lot depends on complexity. A few questions: 1) Is this easier to understand, or harder to understand as Bash 2) Is it more or less work to maintain as Bash versus a more general purpose language 3) What options exist for general purpose languages to accomplish the task Depending on answers to

Scripting/automation method/language

2022-01-07 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
Hello Linux folk. I'm making some bash scripts, mostly for templating purposes. In the past, I've used bash scripts to make basic configs of systems. Eventually I went to ansible, but came across trouble pushing to some OSs, as they needed python installed to work with ansible, but was not