[talk] Containerization

[Jesse Callaway]

On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 12:19 AM, Sujit K M <kmsujit at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 4:17 AM, Mark Saad <mark.saad at ymail.com> wrote:
> > All
> >    I have a thought experiment head over to
> http://99percentinvisible.org/
> > and listen to the current talk on containerization ; and how it
> transforms
> > the dock cities . It has some good background on 70's urban blight with
> the
> > decline of the dock worker jobs and how this drags the related economies
> > down .  So now think about how this works with regards to computer
> > containers. Does docker / vms supplant the old way of by hand rolling
> > software ? Do we loose admin jobs like we lost longshoreman? Is a super
> > container ship on the horizon for operating systems. It's damn
> interesting
> > to think about . Does the shipping industry parallel developers and
> > administrators dealing with docker and vms ? You decide .
> >
> Too Much Automation?
>
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I used to work for a small web design firm that needed someone to manage
their TWO servers, to cram all the customers we could into one box and help
troubleshoot email issues, as their dedicated sysadmin. I had seriously a
single 100 line bash script that did my job, and the rest of the time I
spent tuning our phone system to improve call quality to the SF office.

Eventually I had to quit because they couldn't make payroll during a lull
in acquiring customers. I don't think this position is available anymore,
but the good news is that the people working there continue to make great
custom websites. They have absolutely no need for someone in particular to
maintain an operating system on a given piece of hardware, and that's great
for their business.

Now at my current position we have a very small team who manages quite a
large amount of infrastructure. Millions and millions of dollars of
hardware and networking. However, I've never seen any of it. Someone DOES
have the job of racking it all up and replacing broken hard disks on the
SAN, but I'll never know who or even what brand of disks they use or even
what type of SAN. There are fewer of these jobs per resource managed due to
increased efficiency, I would assume.

So that small business admin maintaining a LAMP platform is gone. That job
doesn't exist. Soon enough, and it's happening right now at my employer,
the dedicated DevOps team also will go. Their jobs will be given to three
positions which will not go away.. the accountant/controller, the security
chief (one person), and the application developer who is also interested a
bit in plumbing.

Remember what "computers" used to be when they were people? No, nobody
does. Yes the traditional sysadmin has been replaced by a computer program.
There is a rack-and-stack person and a person who designs datacenters and a
person who ensures uptime and someone who makes sure the VPN is up. But
nobody is upgrading Apache in-place and crossing their fingers.

-- 
-jesse
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