I know right‽ feels like when I learnt about the FedEx arrow for the first time

We’ve been spending decades curating our perception by management in order to make sure we all have jobs. He’s gonna ruin the whole industry if we don’t shut him the hell up

Once it’s learnt this, it’ll just get better at lying when you try to punish/correct lies

IPv6 was a mistake. We should have just added an addition octet

I tell people I’m a software engineer but in reality I’m a config file engineer

Shit… I’m an idiot

Here’s a link I found that might be good if you are interested in more:

https://cloudnativenow.com/topics/ephemeral-idempotent-and-immutable-infrastructure/

https://guymorton.medium.com/persistent-and-ephemeral-infrastructure-as-code-in-aws-42b33939dcf1

There are different levels of effemeriality. The simplest example I use daily would be an autoscaling group in AWS. Especially if you use Spot Instances to save money, thi gs may scale in and out whenever.

So if a development team creates a new autoscaling group and I need to get into an instance to test something, unless I add stuff to their IaC, I’m stuck with their configuration. I need to assume that every time I ssh into one of those instances, it’s a brand new instance. But it’d be a big challenge for me to go to their repo and make a PR to alias a command whenever an instance in that resource is created

Stuff can be even more temporary if it’s something like an ECS task which creates a container with a read only filesystem only when a task is needed to be done. But I don’t want to get too deep in the weeds (or deeper than I already have)

terraform workspace will at least stick around for a while so you might be in and out of the same system multiple times.

{vi} = 2 {vim} = 3 {v=vim} = 5

I’d need to run vi at least 5 times to have a net gain in saving keystrokes. I’m typically in effemerial systems created by the users of our env, so rarely am I going to gain those strokes back

But also, why am I trying to apply logic to this? I’ll often cat a file before editing it. This shit is just illogical idiosyncrasies I’ve picked up over the years. I’m probably creating posthoc justifications for insane things I do cause it’s hard to override muscle memory

I’ll have to check tomarrow if RHEL and UBI do this.

Did some quick googling and looks like cent has that alias by default but doesn’t do it when root. Which would explain why I do get inconsistent results with vi. I never thought about it in detail besides just knowing that there are some visual changes. Thanks for the info, I’ll be noticing this now that I know!

I do most of my programming in vscode but when I need a cli editor, I use vi

I’m in DevOps so I’m in a lot of effemerial systems so in practice, I will run into systems where profile hasn’t been set up. Tho I do like the idea of making sure all systems properly have that aliased cause it’d be serial killer vibes to spend hours of time to make sure that I can save a keystroke.

Tho it’d never make it through PR. Also, wild require explaining to my coworkers that I do this

My serial killer trait is that I use vi instead of vim cause I’m too lazy to type the extra character. Tho if for some reason, vi tab completed to vim, I’d probably use vim

A lovely magical tool where you tell it what you want things to be and it does the magic of making that happen. It’s the infrastructure as code version of a genie.

Ngl, I’m such a simp for terraform that it’s license has very little effect on me. Tho I do support the effort to make it open source.

^(Maybe then I can paramatarize prevent_destroy and provider aliases in the community maintained version)

Always bugged me that platforms juice all ratings by having 1 be the lowest possible