Hi Nicky, Adrian Howard wrote: > * You might want too look at some of the more ops-related projects > (chef, puppet, vagrant, etc.)
As an aside, http://ansible.cc/ is another in the chef/puppet area. > I'd also - in the long term - think a bit about not wanting to code. > More and more stuff in the ops field need some developer skills to go > along with the ops skills. Agreed. Even a pure sys. admin. needs to be able to investigate problems, set up ad hoc monitoring, poke around data, read the source of a program to fill in the documentation's gaps, and analyse a running program, e.g. strace(1). Ability to knock together shell scripts and a couple of dozen lines of Python is very handy. It's a bit like debugging a program but on a bigger scale; the OS and all the dynamically-loaded plugins it's running, commonly known as programs. :-) Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-03-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
