Koen Rottiers

@TomKerkhove I can relate 🙂. For next time I'll think I'll do a quick recap every week so I can copy a summary but if only I would remember to do that 🤔

"tell me what you did past 6mo" I hate this question, my memory is terrible.

Creating clarity where there was previously confusion/chaos is one of the most valuable and underrated skillsets

@pdtit @Ned1313 Seeing this as well at a lot of enterprise customers. Even those in more tech oriented businesses. The way of working has been validated and is evolving based on the feedback of these companies.

@Ned1313 Based on the (almost) weekly Microsoft DevOps training I'm delivering, most organizations are only starting their journey... So instead of dead, it's getting out of kindergarten 😉

There's been a lot of speculation about #DevOps being dead. I assure you it is not. Is it evolving? Of course. That's the whole point behind having a feedback loop.

Saw an podcast episode on "Kafka on Kubernetes" in my feed. Pretty sure the first question is "Why?!" followed by laughter.

@NillsF Must read for a better (global) understanding of impact of culture is The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business by Erin Meyer goodreads.com/book/show/2208…

In my case, this has led to funny situations: Customer call. Post-call debrief with colleagues. I feel great: "Hey, customer seemed really happy." My colleagues with fear in their eyes: "Did you not hear them say X, Y, and Z?" Me: "Oh, yeah, but I didn't take it as bad."

Big difference between EU and US culture is directness. In Europe, if a customer is unhappy, they'll typically tell you they're unhappy and then why. In US, the customer will give you the reasons, but won't explicitly voice their discontent.

Who is going to tomorrows @azugbe sessions?

@GeertBaeke I think you are a few days late 😉

From now on, I'm gonna deploy apps manually on VMs with a public IP. Done with all this IaC, "DevOps", Front Door, API Management, Ingress Controllers, ingress resources, URL rewriting, certs and secrets in KV, cert syncing to K8S, a gazillion identities, ... Back to the 90s! 😉

@TomKerkhove Jura machine. Bit more expensive but high quality and limited maintenance in contrast to other machines.

Any tips for a good coffee machine? #dta #coffee

@TheAprilEdwards @editingemily To me it's all about culture and create a sense of shared ownership together with clear communication and collaboration. This doesn't mean that everyone needs to know and need to be able to do everything in the chain but have the awareness.

@editingemily Devs don't want to learn Ops, we get that, but understanding dependencies and impact is important vs how to configure DNS. Anyways if it's all deployed using IaC that's magic bullet, right? (sarcasm)

I’ve been saying for a while now that devs don’t want to deal with operational concerns, for the most part. And I always get push back. But I swear the last dozen consulting calls I’ve been on have been about how to pull ops responsibility off devs while still being DevOps.

@TomKerkhove Congratulations and enjoy the time off with a family of four. After that chaos 😉

Last week our scaling action was completed and we are happy to welcome Vic in our family 👶🎉 Time to take some time off, see you after Easter 🐰

@NillsF Seems to be true for every enterprise size company. Getting information to flow freely and make it easily accessible and structure is a challenge.

Working at a large company like MSFT, I feel like success is dependent on knowing people who know other people who know people. I'm looking for a piece of information right now, and going down a chain of 5 people to get to the info.

@GeertBaeke @Pixel_Robots Isn't the possibility of having official support the main reason for going that route? Sometimes misused as an escape goat.

@Pixel_Robots I tend to use the community version but in enterprise scenarios, when talking to network teams etc…, they tend to prefer the NGINX maintained version. There are some subtle differences but I rarely need them…

I would love to see what you are using #Kubernetes #K8s

@TomKerkhove @BenCodeGeek

@BenCodeGeek 200 is 5 min of pipeline work

How many commits on a feature branch is too many? I just passed the 200 mark

This is an important read wrt crypto and web3: blog.dshr.org/2022/02/ee380-… cc @kelseyhightower h/t @markrussinovich for the pointer

@Pixel_Robots @pdtit @SoniaCuff Fully agree but a lot of ops/infra people are already stretched thin wearing multiple hats at the same time in an increasingly more complex landscape.

@KoenRottiers @pdtit @SoniaCuff The basic principles are the same. Keep things updated etc but you use different tools. So, for example, windows VM's WSUS etc AKS weekly automated schedule or cli or portal. Still need to worry about app uptime etc.

Random question of the day: If you have a background in on-premises Windows Server systems administration, to what extent does your current day job deal with containers and container orchestration (onprem or cloud)?

@Pixel_Robots @pdtit @SoniaCuff I don't see a lot of people doing both. The way of operating both is so different which means people continuously need to shift if you need to do both.

@pdtit @SoniaCuff AKS still uses VMs but yeah not doing basic VM stuff much now.

@SamVanhoutte @GeertBaeke Mijn vrouw geeft ook STEM in het 4de jaar en het is inderdaad wat het wilde westen waar geen grote lijnen worden bepaald en de meeste er iets proberen van te maken gebaseerd op hun huidige kennis en kunde. Dus leerkracht heeft heel veel invloed.

@GeertBaeke Onze zoon is afgehaakt doordat er te veel op analyses en theoretische probleem aanpak werd gefocust. Leek alsof de fun uit techniek werd gehaald. Maar hangt van elke school apart af. Ieder zijn eigen invulling

Mijn dochter volgt STEM onderwijs. Het is wel maar het eerste jaar maar ik stel me vragen bij het curriculum en hoe het onderwezen wordt. Wat zijn jullie ervaringen en ideeën hieromtrent?

@BenCodeGeek For people coming from the infra side I think that maybe looks a bit more logical. Looks easier to relate that to existing concepts like a load balancer to a service later on.

Devising a mini Kubernetes lab thingy which assumes zero k8s skills. I want to drip feed concepts. Don't know if deploying pods first, and wiring app up by pod IP is a good way. Then say "that's silly" and replace IPs with Services.

With the vaccination of younger children it becomes even more apparent that we need to have scientists explaining their science in straightforward, uncomplicated terms with references to well known things.

@TomKerkhove @jandedobbeleer Sometimes it looks a bit like witchcraft 🧙😉 but once you get the hang of it, it can be like solving a mystery game. 🕵️

@jandedobbeleer For me it's the opposite 😅

I hate networking.