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Questions tagged [sysadmin]

For questions about the sysadmin - short for (IT) system administrator - role, traditionally in Operations and, from the DevOps prospective, in the Ops side of DevOps.

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Who is this Chaos Monkey and why did he crash my server?

I had a perfect server, it was so pretty and rock solid and so I named it Petra. It was perfect in every way, everything was configured and tuned just right, it had perfect 100% service record and 753 days of uptime. I've spent a lot of time and…
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What is the difference between the traditional Development and Operations Model and Site Reliability Engineering?

"SRE is what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operations team." – Site Reliability Engineering Since Google's Site Reliability Engineering Book was released, on more than one occasion I have been told that SRE is an extension…
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How can a Sys. Admin skill up to work as a DevOps engineer?

I am looking for recommendations on how to skill up to be a dedicated DevOps Engineer. I have always wanted to work on Development related projects as I love coding but unfortunately I have never got the chance. I have previously worked on freelance…
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AWS Temporary Permission Granting Tool for Account/Service "Firefights"

I'm looking for a service or third party solution that allows for granting temporary access to an IAM user (or group) to one or more services in an AWS account. The example I have is there is an outage in a production account, and I would like to…
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How can I allow admins to run Django Admin CLI commands against a Django application deployed live as part of a Docker Swarm cluster?

Specifically, I want them to run the following: https://django-q.readthedocs.io/en/latest/monitor.html I am looking to write a minimal wrapper-script which would simply allow them to run a single command, for example, myproject-admin manage qmonitor…
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Can kubernetes `--force` delete of pods be disabled by administrators?

Using kubectl delete pods PODNAME --force removes the pod from the Kubernetes API without checking the underlying pod deleted successfully. In most cases this means resources are locked indefinitely, and since there's no list of them anymore it's…
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Bugzilla 4.2 to 5.0.4 'Can't locate parent.pm in @INC'

I've just updated Bugzilla from 4.2 to 5.0 on our Centos 6 vps, using the tarball method: bash$ cd /var/www/html bash$ wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/webtools/bugzilla-5.0.4.tar.gz bash$ tar xzvf bugzilla-5.0.4.tar.gz bash$ cd…
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Is there a Way to Run a Docker Image without installing it in server?

I have created a Laravel application that I tried to deploy in a shared host (other apps running). It creates a conflict with the other project at the point to observe CSRF interferences at the other applications. So I decided to containerize my…
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How to do maintenance work in kubernetes cluster

We just moved to kubernetes, but the engineer that helped launch it is on paternity leave before we had hoped (never trust a baby not to be eager!). Now we're trying to do maintenance tasks and one off work and having nodes get killed in the middle…
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What are the daily job duties of a devops?

I have been working for linux management over 10 years. In the last 5 years, I have added a lot of coding experience through software development like php, ruby, go, etc. I wanna be a devops, but I have no idea how to get into it.
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