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abigserve posted:I assume that's the pipeline for deploying/testing the code itself not actually running it (it probably runs as a daemon within the container once it's deployed I assume). That's the entire delivery pipeline, yes. The total platform is designed for a ton of use cases and has to be flexible, including delivering projects to our restricted prod environment. Using it for just my project is definitely overkill, but still cool how it all comes together. I'll be moving a bunch of other automated powershell projects over there in the next few months.
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Sepist posted:On our whole wall whiteboard someone drew two circles to represent switches and a huge U shaped wire connecting them. Since we have an open office this huge network dong is hanging out with upper management constantly walking by. This is great That is the best. Bonus points if you add the Mean Jerk Time equation (with no context) from Silicon Valley.
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Bigass Moth posted:I’ve never done any podcast listening but I downloaded an app and am now paralyzed by choice. What do you guys like? I’m looking for networking and Cisco choices but am open to any IT topics. I just don’t know who has good presentation or whatever. Only one that I've listened to that comes to mind is Packet Pushers: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/packet-pushers-heavy-networking/id370842767 Half the time they talk about stuff that doesnt necessarily interest me or apply to my career but they do have some good topics from time to time. If you're looking for other podcasts that arent related to IT at all though I'd recommend The Omnibus and Revisionist History by Malcolm Gladwell.
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Proteus Jones posted:That is the best. From the middle out!
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Bigass Moth posted:I’ve never done any podcast listening but I downloaded an app and am now paralyzed by choice. What do you guys like? I’m looking for networking and Cisco choices but am open to any IT topics. I just don’t know who has good presentation or whatever. My Brother, My Brother, and Me The Dollop Revolutions None of these are IT related because I can't imagine listening to an IT related podcast. I'm not sure that I had even thought that could be a thing until now.
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Proteus Jones posted:That sucks. We’ve got backups. It seems to be the ryuk ransomware. Already have at least one report of fraudulent bank activity from a user who had their direct deposit info saved on their network home drive. Trying to figure out a way to notify users while email is down without causing a huge panic. Will be interesting to find out how this got in but i have a feeling I’ll be on this call for the next 24 hours straight.
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Tetramin posted:We’ve got backups. It seems to be the ryuk ransomware. Already have at least one report of fraudulent bank activity from a user who had their direct deposit info saved on their network home drive. Trying to figure out a way to notify users while email is down without causing a huge panic. Will be interesting to find out how this got in but i have a feeling I’ll be on this call for the next 24 hours straight. Seems to be a new variant or push using another exploit going around. We got hit 2 weeks ago after not having an issue with ransomware for ~4 years. Have heard of quite a few other people being hit recently. It was fun.
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Docjowles posted:Kubernetes is cool and good, though This is only true if you run orchestrators for fun and don't have any actual work to get done
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Comradephate posted:This is only true if you run orchestrators for fun and don't have any actual work to get done i wouldn't wish it on the worst garden-variety WordPress shop though
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Things are crazy at work this week. We’re being acquired and some of my coworkers are taking it rough. This is my 3rd acquisition, so I’ve been through this before, but many of my coworkers have been with the company 10,15, even 20 years and have never gone through this. Middle management is getting hit hard as it always is during these things. My boss has been through 17 company acquisitions and this is the first time he’s on the side being acquired
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skipdogg posted:Things are crazy at work this week. We’re being acquired and some of my coworkers are taking it rough. This is my 3rd acquisition, so I’ve been through this before, but many of my coworkers have been with the company 10,15, even 20 years and have never gone through this. It's funny how so many baby boomers have been able to coast through a few jobs during their entire careers. Must have been real nice. I haven't had one that has lasted more than 5.
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I’m 15 years in though the 2 prior acquisitions, but yeah, it can be hard. Severance should be good though.
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skipdogg posted:Things are crazy at work this week. We’re being acquired and some of my coworkers are taking it rough. This is my 3rd acquisition, so I’ve been through this before, but many of my coworkers have been with the company 10,15, even 20 years and have never gone through this. How does this work? Does the acquirer go to upper management and go "Hey we'd like to keep x% of your workers, give us recommendations? or Lottery or Hunger Games?
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Defenestrategy posted:How does this work? Does the acquirer go to upper management and go "Hey we'd like to keep x% of your workers, give us recommendations? or Lottery or Hunger Games? I’m not involved, but they look at the overlap and redundancies. You don’t need 2 HR VP’s or 2 help desk managers, things like that. In my experience middle managers and execs across the board get hit hard, HR, Finance, sales those groups. IT it just depends. Productive worker bees can usually find a home in the new org. Sometimes budget or other reasons come into play. Help desk guys are probably the safest. Was talking to one of our site support folks for a 350 person office, she’s safe for sure I could go either way in this one. I don’t support an office directly, and I WFH, but I know I’m less expensive than the folks in high COL areas and have valuable skills they’ll need in the new org. I’ve done multiple AD migrations in the past and no one on their staff has any migration experience. That doesn’t touch on the rest of my skill set. Whoever ends up in power in the new org can influence this a lot. Our CIO, COO, it security, and sales execs are the new head honchos for their departments, so that can help as they want to keep their people.
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Defenestrategy posted:How does this work? Does the acquirer go to upper management and go "Hey we'd like to keep x% of your workers, give us recommendations? or Lottery or Hunger Games? Not the person asked, but my last employer was acquired in 2013. 1) Company is bought out. Acquiring company says there aren't layoffs planned. Uninvested talent bails. 2) Six months in, layoffs happen. Unfilled positions (holes left by aforementioned talent) are cut, as well as bottom performers. 3) Make do with less. Billy Bob wasn't much of an asset, but honestly, even a warm body would be nice to pick up the slack. 4) Year 2: Growth sucks, so more cuts. Since the bottom performers have been culled, well staffed teams have to sacrifice some members. 5) Year 3-4: Death spiral. Growth still sucks, and everyone's overworked. The "been with the company for 15 years" crew is watching their junior staff bail and do pretty well for themselves, but it's too late to start looking. Empty positions aren't filled, or are downgraded (our network engineering dept director and senior engineer are replaced by a single line manager position). 6) Year 5: Consultants are hired, and the company closed the office on their recommendations. To prevent a mass exodus, positions are cut in a staggered fashion. I get a lowballed retention bonus and bail. Good times. If anyone else ends up in the same boat, it's not all doom and gloom. At the time of the buyout, I was a junior engineer. My manager bailed and his position was cut, so I got to grow up fast. I got a 25% raise within 18 months of the buyout. The trick though, is knowing when to step off the carousel. The network team for our largest campus all quit within six months, and left me holding the bag. I stuck it out in hopes of getting a senior position, but instead my awesome VP was forced out and the office was shuttered. If I had to do it all over again, I'd have taken what I got initially, then bailed within a year or two. That seems to be the sweet spot between "time in new role" and "putting time in a dead end position."
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Comradephate posted:This is only true if you run orchestrators for fun and don't have any actual work to get done Using AKS has been great for us.
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Vendor offers us a chance to go to some HP thing and watch a baseball game for free. A p cool thing to listen to a sales pitch and a fun morale booster to get out of the office for a day. New director doesn’t want anyone to go because “things need to calm down a bit first” We haven’t had any notable issues in over 6 months where at the beginning of 2018 we were having major incidents every week. The environment is stable and we are working on his dumb busywork. Way to take the fun out of work
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Volguus posted:You should just tell them beforehand to expect a coding interview on a whiteboard. What i got from a company in their preparation email: I appreciate this feedback. We're definitely not a Google, but we're trying to get some of the talent that may not want to move to Bay Area. The biggest thing we want to avoid is passing up a good candidate because they got blindsided by our interview.
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Small ops/support group, 11 people overall on our side of the house. Recently lost 3 people. One because he was a dumbass 21 year old who was padding his timecard, other two got big raises to go elsewhere. New director is dragging her feet on re-hiring for "reasons". I think those reasons are she's never run an IT department before and has no loving idea what she's doing. 
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DigitalMocking posted:Small ops/support group, 11 people overall on our side of the house. Reason is most likely because she wants her numbers look good by running the department/team with less staff than budgeted. This hardly ever works out since you either overwork your staff or they stop caring and start slacking off. This type of manager is usually not in it for the long haul but just want some impressive numbers for the resume. They’ll jump to a different department / company before long term effects become visible.
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Bigass Moth posted:I’ve never done any podcast listening but I downloaded an app and am now paralyzed by choice. What do you guys like? I’m looking for networking and Cisco choices but am open to any IT topics. I just don’t know who has good presentation or whatever. This is old now but it's still available and it's great: Nigel Bowden's "Wi-Fi For Beginners" podcast. If you are already a wireless networking expert it will all be review for you, but my experience has been that non-wireless specialists are not especially knowledgeable about wireless. The podcast is great and not just surface-level.
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guppy posted:This is old now but it's still available and it's great: Nigel Bowden's "Wi-Fi For Beginners" podcast. If you are already a wireless networking expert it will all be review for you, but my experience has been that non-wireless specialists are not especially knowledgeable about wireless. The podcast is great and not just surface-level. Sometimes they like to pretend they are though! The amount of misonformation in wireless is staggering. I should do a podcast about it
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waloo posted:Maybe it was https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/ instead? This was it. Thanks!
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Contingency posted:Not the person asked, but my last employer was acquired in 2013. My last 2 acquisitions have been positive, and growth orientated. Companies on the rise, expanding and growing, adding to their portfolio. I don't think this is the case with this acquisition. I have a feeling this one is going to go a lot like this. So far my team and my direct boss are good, but the company acquiring us has been on a downward trend, and borrowed heavily to buy us. The writing on the wall is clear as day that once integration is done there will be very heavy cost cutting across the board unless our industry magically starts growing at an insane rate again. Everything for us will stay the same (pay, benefits, pto, etc) through 2019, but is subject to change in 2020. There's no way I'll keep my Cadillac health insurance plan or the generous amount of PTO I currently get. Maybe I'll be surprised though. They've already curbed business class travel for long flights, home broadband reimbursement, and use of personal credit cards for corporate travel expenses. I'm going to ride this out though, but I'm passively looking for better opportunities for sure.
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skipdogg posted:My last 2 acquisitions have been positive, and growth orientated. Companies on the rise, expanding and growing, adding to their portfolio. I don't think this is the case with this acquisition. I have a feeling this one is going to go a lot like this. So far my team and my direct boss are good, but the company acquiring us has been on a downward trend, and borrowed heavily to buy us. The writing on the wall is clear as day that once integration is done there will be very heavy cost cutting across the board unless our industry magically starts growing at an insane rate again. Everything for us will stay the same (pay, benefits, pto, etc) through 2019, but is subject to change in 2020. There's no way I'll keep my Cadillac health insurance plan or the generous amount of PTO I currently get. Maybe I'll be surprised though. They've already curbed business class travel for long flights, home broadband reimbursement, and use of personal credit cards for corporate travel expenses. Yeah, I'd expect to get stuck with whatever the parent company uses. We went from BCBS (gold standard in Alabama) to Aetna. Sick days and vacation were combined into PTO, so sick people come in to avoid spending vacation days. A few months after I left, the company eliminated PTO--all those people sitting on weeks of PTO probably wouldn't be able to cash out when they resign.
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LochNessMonster posted:Reason is most likely because she wants her numbers look good by running the department/team with less staff than budgeted. This hardly ever works out since you either overwork your staff or they stop caring and start slacking off. This is what my current director is trying to do, but joke's on her, me and my boss both had vacation scheduled this Friday and the office is going to be unstaffed.
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Vargatron posted:This is what my current director is trying to do, but joke's on her, me and my boss both had vacation scheduled this Friday and the office is going to be unstaffed. That’s a nice outcome. Make sure to forward all calls to the director before you head out :v When it happened to my team 3 people got a burn out and another coworker got terminally ill. We had 2 unfilled vacancies which left me running an 8 man team by myself.
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Licensing just responded to an e-mail with "per stakeholder request" and my eyes nearly rolled out of my head. Just tell me we didn't renew the license!
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IBM licensing is such loving garbage.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:K8 was shorthand for 'gitlab pipeline sends the build to Jenkins, which loads that build to jfrog, then rancher pulls the image and provides config maps to run the project in k8s'. Huh, you guys are running rancher internally? Were you using cattle before the move to k8s kicked in? I run rancher with cattle for my home lab stuff, but I wasn't aware it was used in larger companies. We're deadset on getting k8s setup, but as a "cost saving" measure we're having to set it up ourselves without a managed platform. Surprise surprise it's incredibly complex and given none of us really have experience doing it, it's taking a while.
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PBS posted:Huh, you guys are running rancher internally? Were you using cattle before the move to k8s kicked in? lol how do you feel about getting internet traffic into the cluster
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We got hit by LockerGoga a couple weeks ago. Took us entirely by surprise, had most of our poo poo cryptoed to the nines before we even started getting alerts. Couple days of 12-14 hours, some tense restores and all is mostly well again. Plus a week of uninterrupted downtime was a great opportunity to upgrade almost everything, from server 2016 to the wiring in the switch closet to replacing an old firewall and cleaning up rules. And get this. We were originally going to be "paid" in time in lieu, but an offhand comment about "also working for money" that was overheard by the CEO fell on sympathetic ears, and we all got actual honest to god cash bonuses, a full week's pay at 1.5x. Actual real money! I'm going to make "I survived Crypto Crisis 2019" stickers and t-shirts.
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PBS posted:Huh, you guys are running rancher internally? Were you using cattle before the move to k8s kicked in? We're new (1 year ish) into the k8 project, including research and planning. Rancher was picked by the devops steering team as the best suited solution for us. As I'm not on that team I have no idea what they compared against or why they made the choice, but rancher is pretty sweet. Having no previous devops experience I've been cruising through rancher to spin up all sorts of new stuff.
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Sometimes you guys start talking and I have no idea what the gently caress is going on and at this point I'm convinced it's all one big joke I don't understand. Ranchers? Cattle? "STEERing" team? These are all just puns and not real things, right?
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Judge Schnoopy posted:We're new (1 year ish) into the k8 project, including research and planning. Rancher was picked by the devops steering team as the best suited solution for us. As I'm not on that team I have no idea what they compared against or why they made the choice, but rancher is pretty sweet. Rancher seems like one of the best options for a more or less 'turn key' on-prem setup. It may be worth it to spin up a cluster in AKS to get an idea of how a 'complete' cluster works, or read through Kubernetes the Hard Way to get an idea of everything involved in the backend: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way
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CloFan posted:IBM licensing is such loving garbage. Yup. What bullshit you run into?
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