The Big Red Button: The Dream of a SysAdmin
In preparation for our SysAdmin Day celebration, we’re posting one former sysadmin’s hopes, dreams, and (implied) disasters as inspiration for your own short work. You have until 11:59 PM PDT tonight (that’s in approximately 9 hours) to submit your short sysadmin story to sysadminday@puppetlabs.com. Winners will be published on the blog and honored with snazzy t-shirts and Pro Puppet books. From Luke Kanies, CEO of Puppet Labs and longtime sysadmin extraordinaire:
“Here’s what I spent a lot of time dreaming about while writing automation tools, ten years or so ago: I automate everything in my infrastructure, such that if anything anywhere breaks or any work needs to be done, a big red button on the wall starts flashing, and all I have to do to fix it is hit the button. I have my own entrance, and no one else enters my office, so all anyone else can see is that when I’m in the office problems get fixed immediately and all tasks are accomplished right away, but the fact that it’s completely automated is actually obfuscated.
This was obviously not something I would actually want to happen, as I’d be bored, but asking what it would take to get to that point led me to write a lot of great tools.”
Send submissions to sysadminday@puppetlabs.com now!
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