> people calling themselves SREs who have never operated a server that wasn’t in a cloud
Wait. Since when this is a requirement?
Wait. Since when this is a requirement?
In my career so far, the best Ops-adjacent people all had homelabs. I view it as a huge green flag if you have one. Not necessarily a red flag if you don’t, but it warrants some more questions. That’s not to say “I have a server” means you’re great; you could just be running Plex with nothing in IaC, no config management, no monitoring, etc.
The field has changed, everything is in the cloud. Yeah most engineers can’t troubleshoot low level stuff, but they rarely Need to. There’s no need to be grumpy about it and just accept their jobs are mainly configuring abstractions rather than being some bare metal guru who knows kernel intricacies.
I work with like 15 ops/system engineers. None of them know anything about cpu schedulers and raid arrays. We’re just old man
> no need to be grumpy about it
Counterpoint: I know both cloud and metal. It can be done, you just have to care enough to learn. That’s my bugbear: people by and large aren’t learning things for the sake of learning, they’re just learning what they need for the role.