Blame & Complexity – Prioritizing Impact with Joe Nuspl

• omnibus-ruby

  1 1,280 6.1 Ruby

  Easily create full-stack installers for your project across a variety of platforms.

  

Joe: Yeah. And so several years ago, Chef came up with the idea of the Omnibus, so they have where it's a self-contained...it contains the Ruby, and everything is embedded within it. So it's just an RPM; there are no other dependencies. That was such a breath of fresh air because you weren't having to manage this. And so it's like, we're updating Chef, but then we also have to update Ruby and conjunctions of doing that. It just became a thing to update.

• Apache ZooKeeper

  36 11,925 8.3 Java

  Apache ZooKeeper

  

Joe: And so the mess propagates on. And a lot of times, I'll see these examples where people will say, "Oh, you got to set up this, and you got to set up this. And I've got to set up a ZooKeeper cluster to manage my other ZooKeeper clusters," and things like that. And so people read this, and then they run away from these things because there's all this stuff that they think they have to do. So they're starting off, instead of starting off small, they think they have to do a lot so that it's a higher barrier to entry for people.

• WorkOS

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• terraform

  500 41,118 9.9 Go

  Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.

  

I remember I tried to build a scraper to scrape a Magic: The Gathering website. I was trying to get prices out of this thing. And it was almost like I was competing with the development team because they would introduce some new piece of JavaScript that would break my scraper. I was probably hammering their site. I bet they saw my traffic spiking on their charts. And they're like, "What can we do to prevent this nonsense?" But that really motivated me to learn a lot more because I was just solving the little problems as I went. You may think that you need Kubernetes to solve this. How about you start with a Bash script? See if you start with a Bash script; what’s hard about that? Why that's a flawed approach, and then you go from there. Try something else; try Terraform. Try something else, building on those bridges.

• consul-template

  28 4,721 8.9 Go

  Template rendering, notifier, and supervisor for @HashiCorp Consul and Vault data.

  

Jonan: Nice. This complexity issue that we touched on a little bit, I love where software is going. The world is getting easier and more difficult at the same time, though. I think technologies like Chef...so we were talking about Chef a little bit. We had Chef and Puppet, and then Ansible came onto the scene. And now we're using Kubernetes and other...I mean, they're a little bit different tools, a lot of the HashiCorp. What is that HashiCorp one? Terraform users. It's easier, and also, there's a lot more to learn. Kubernetes is easily a multi-year education if you want to know it deeply. And do you think that we're making progress in spite of all that? It doesn't feel like progress some days when I'm banging my head against some YAML file.

• Ansible

  390 61,137 9.8 Python

  Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.

  

Jonan: Nice. This complexity issue that we touched on a little bit, I love where software is going. The world is getting easier and more difficult at the same time, though. I think technologies like Chef...so we were talking about Chef a little bit. We had Chef and Puppet, and then Ansible came onto the scene. And now we're using Kubernetes and other...I mean, they're a little bit different tools, a lot of the HashiCorp. What is that HashiCorp one? Terraform users. It's easier, and also, there's a lot more to learn. Kubernetes is easily a multi-year education if you want to know it deeply. And do you think that we're making progress in spite of all that? It doesn't feel like progress some days when I'm banging my head against some YAML file.

• kubernetes

  657 106,778 10.0 Go

  Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

  

I remember I tried to build a scraper to scrape a Magic: The Gathering website. I was trying to get prices out of this thing. And it was almost like I was competing with the development team because they would introduce some new piece of JavaScript that would break my scraper. I was probably hammering their site. I bet they saw my traffic spiking on their charts. And they're like, "What can we do to prevent this nonsense?" But that really motivated me to learn a lot more because I was just solving the little problems as I went. You may think that you need Kubernetes to solve this. How about you start with a Bash script? See if you start with a Bash script; what’s hard about that? Why that's a flawed approach, and then you go from there. Try something else; try Terraform. Try something else, building on those bridges.

• k3os

  25 3,489 0.0 Go

  Discontinued Purpose-built OS for Kubernetes, fully managed by Kubernetes.

  

Jonan: I feel judged here, Joe; I’ve got to admit because I'm looking over here at another monitor that has K3OS on it on a little cluster of Raspberry Pis that I'm building. You're telling me I don't need to use Kubernetes to run my four Raspberry Pis?

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