I was that sysadmin, and I really disliked it 😁
So we started using Jenkins^w Hudson to automate Debian package creation so Cfengine could deploy them (with Perl scripts of course)...
That, for sure. Just meeting the same people at conferences over the years confirms it.
No amount of tools will fix your problems if you ignore humans in the loop.
Sit together. Understand each other’s problems. Understand how — and why — the tools are meant to help.
Then the platform can actually become useful.
And it’s not a fatality either. We’re not doomed to fall back into silos and endlessly reinvent DevOps.
Breaking the loop (see illustration) is actually rather simple: remember humans. 🙋♀️🙋♂️
That’s where this all started. And that’s still the crux of the matter.
And then, slowly… these teams became silos again: CI/CD silo, Kubernetes silo, sometimes the siloed teams are even (ironically) called DevOps Engineers.
This cycle isn’t a moral failure. Every step in it is a rational response to the previous one.
Platform teams specialized in the art of defining and running abstractions: clarifying interfaces, responsibilities, scopes, and enabling collaboration at scale.
A new generation then learned about DevOps mostly through those tools.
They learned CI/CD, Kubernetes, pipelines, YAML.
The tools turned into platforms.
I felt like standing and clapping. This approach is often missing from technical conferences.
Silos, collaboration, artefacts, responsibility, scopes: these were the problems the DevOps movement originally tried to solve.
Over time, DevOps succeeded.
And as it succeeded, it produced tools.
When asked how to onboard engineers on a platform, one answer was beautifully simple:
“Make the new devs sit for a day next to an SRE, so they understand what it’s like.”
DevOps Solves Silos — and then Recreates Them...
Yesterday at Cloud Native Days France, there was a keynote roundtable that really resonated with me.
Several speakers emphasized something critical but often forgotten:
human collaboration matters more than tools.
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I do not wish for American ideals to fail.
On the contrary, I wish for them to succeed—not by returning to a hypothetically great past, but by aiming for greatness today, with their eyes firmly fixed on those ideals.
We're watching— and I for one want to be hopeful.
And yet, might this moment also be a unique opportunity for true greatness: for the people of the United States to humbly accept that greatness is not inherent, and to rebuild their nation in genuine alignment with these self-proclaimed ideals?
equality before the law, the rule of law over raw power, democratic legitimacy, individual liberty, pluralism, and the universality of human dignity?
Wouldn’t it be ironic if the attempt to “make America great again” ultimately revealed that U.S. dominance was never a sign of inherent greatness, but the product of temporary geopolitical circumstances, and that the country failed to uphold even the values it claimed to uniquely embody:
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A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
Maybe that's why he said they would be speaking German if not for the US. He thought he was in Aberbaïdjan.
post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers
I hate to sound sarcastic here, but who are your allies?
Il y a 15 ans, on cherchait comment résoudre le problème d'interfaces Dev/Ops et on n'avait aucun standard.
OCI et Kubernetes ont fourni une interface claire et complète. Ça ne résoud pas les problèmes humains, mais ça les simplifie beaucoup.
AI security isn’t just prompt filters and guardrails.
If the workload isn’t sandboxed, it isn’t secure.
Layers still matter.
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The eBee Quest is live! 🐝✨
Complete the most Cilium & Tetragon labs before year’s end and win prizes.
Perfect time to start if you’ve never tried a lab 👇
isovalent.com/blog/post/a-...
Enrica Porcari, first CIO at CERN.
“CERN has a long history of pushing boundaries; we were doing big data before big data was a thing.” Enrica Porcari, first CIO at CERN.
Cloud native infrastructure is key to CERN’s operation as they contribute to and co-create the next generation of scientific computing. #KCDRomandie
Jess keynoting at KCD CERN.
Top incidents and takeaways: change safely, status visibility, new mistakes only!
Working in CAD hardware, @jess.dev realized she wanted the config-as-code from software (so she built it!)
Of course, this means interesting new outages to learn from. One of their values at Zoo is “new mistakes only”.😹 #KCDRomandie
Sarah on stage
Community > Company; Distribution > Centralization; Improvement > Stagnation; Automation > process
In an open source community, things grow to look like the people that are most active. Ross Gardler
Sarah closing her talk.
Trust in open source communities: figuring out where humans connect (not just companies and tools.)
Whom do we trust? Trust requires context and judgement.💯
@sarahnovotny.com
#KCDRomandie
Oh nice! I live close to Lausanne and did not know about this, I'll take note of it!
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An LLM-driven scheduling algo?
- Autism is all in your head
- Well, actually, that's not really wrong...
Let's go prepare KCD Suisse Romande!
il est tout frais celui-là 😅
