@BrowningMachine when I laid off my IT staff c. 2008 I spent months upgrading everything from a mishmash of versions & distros. Old IT guy >
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@BrowningMachine didn't want to touch stuff, bc it was "brittle" and "good enough". PRob was, it WASN'T. ...and it was getting older by day1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@BrowningMachine so ~15 machines all got pushed upto Ubuntu 10.04 or so. Documented the hell out of stuff. Threw out old servers. New DHCP,1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@BrowningMachine new DNS server. Documented everything. Created my useraccount w same pwd on all machines. Set up port tunneling on router2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@BrowningMachine new subversion server. Moved all 1-off, undocumented production config files into source code control. Set up cap deploy >1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@BrowningMachine to redeploy ALL software to the two servers. Switched servers from centos to cloud machines running ubuntu. etc.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@BrowningMachine MASSIVE PAIN that lasted MONTHS. But oh so totally worth it. Infrastructure still there ~7 yrs later.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@BrowningMachine and now I can fix stuff for my client (new owner) in 15 minutes. * ssh here * make change * svn commit * cap deploy DONE1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@BrowningMachine I'm a recent convert to git. Using it a lot more over the last yr. Might even move client (my old firm) subversion -> git
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