Whether or not to automate operations

The automatic operation and maintenance

Automation operations has been hot lately, why is it hot? Either is to be fooled too many people, or estimated that a lot of people have nothing to do, learn something long insight, have some fun out. See here, many people must start to despise. Yes, I have to say that some of the automation at that time was to reduce the burden of people, a deployment of multiple use, save time and reduce workload, but the negative factors are also very many.

For the current automation products, most of the automation products are open source, lack of commercial support and services, small and medium-sized enterprises can not rely on a few automation products to complete a complex matter, specifically to solve what problems can not solve any problems, but also need to look at the current business needs and environmental conditions.

As each company's business needs and environmental conditions are very different, especially the original production system has been more formed, so many of the solutions need to be the technical staff to mix. Although a qualified company can do two development on the basis of open source software, it is by no means able to understand in a short time by virtue of season. Some technical personnel have their own obsessive-compulsive disorder, see people in the use of automation, they want to automation, see people in the standardization, but also to follow the standardization, but in the end all efforts are likely to become unnecessary waste.

Some people say that there is no need for automation operations, but the operation of the tool itself is also required to be operational, as monitoring software itself to monitor the same, operation and maintenance tools, the impact of the problem will be more serious. The open source features and bugs of the operations tool itself are a greater challenge to the technical capabilities of the operations team. If you do not read and maintain the full source of human resources, blind on all kinds of open-source operations tools is to bury themselves a big thunder, not sure when the bomb. After all, man is always the soul of the operation, and any absence from the human being in the work is meaningless or untenable.

Operational KPIs are availability and failure rates, and dry surface work and image engineering are not useful for operations. Although change is the eternal law, but if the original scheme is good enough to meet the current and even future needs, do not easily change it, unless you know exactly what you are doing, what the risk is, how to avoid & reduce these risks. There is nothing wrong with doing something shiny, but the key is to be tolerant, to keep things safe, and to reassure leaders. For operational efficiency and system stability, it is clear that the pursuit of stability more determine the soundness of their own rice bowls.

Operation and maintenance is a more pragmatic position. Operational needs are changing with the size of the company's business, and nothing is one step. The road is a step-by-step, experience is 1.1 points piled up, focusing on the most important moment. A man's operation of a dry method, 10 People's operation is a dry method, 100 people's operation is another level ... No tools used to live the same dry, dry is not bad, but it is people tired point. On the tools if you increase the risk, the cost of preventing the risk also needs to be considered. In the past, the wrong operation at most one, now I am afraid that all lost in the operation. Therefore, pragmatism is the most important.

If not the boss, hundred will consider the business operations tools, at least the vendor support, if the boss chose the open source tools, simply to save money, but after the incident, blame is not the open source community, but themselves. To manufacturers 100W, manufacturers have to pay 1000W responsibility, because manufacturers have to embrace the market and reputation; you give employees 2W, he will pay you 5,000 of the responsibility, the remaining 1w5 is you choose to use open source, you need your own pocket, other losses.

So the conclusion is:

1. Choose whether to use automated tools and what automation tools to use, depending on your needs and circumstances

2. Even with the use of automation tools or more intentions, nothing is a once-in-a-lifetime peace of mind, at least people are changing you do not change, sooner or later is to lag behind

3. Pay more attention to their own related to all, to their own professional positions have a clear understanding, do not because of some external factors on their own occupation or post of doubt, there are meaningful, do their job

About New technology Learning

Automation operations is not a new technology, just like OPS is not a new profession, but at least it is a kind of innovation, so it is also a link between the two (automated operation and technology).

The current technology update is fast, the old technology has not gone, the new technology comes again. Everyone in the heart can not resist the temptation to look at the current comparison of "fire" technology and topics. For ordinary technical personnel, it is impossible to understand a technology at a short time the core, but do not want to lag behind, hoping to catch up with the technology trend, the result of tragedy, physical and mental exhaustion, unbearable burden. First of all, do not say the basis of the pursuit of what the trend is no use, blind pursuit of new technology will be driven crazy by technology. The emergence of a technology must be to solve one kind of problem.

Before starting to learn new technology, it is necessary to understand the emergence of this new technology to solve any problem.

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A thing "fire" has never been the motivation to learn this thing, at most, a cause. When should you take the initiative to learn a new technology? In general, there are several situations:

• You have difficulty with the existing skills to complete one thing, so go to Google, search a technology just can solve your problem, and then decisively learn it.

• A technology fire, you went to look at its official website, and then a beat the head: "I am, this is not what I have always wanted, with this technology after doing XXX is more convenient," and then decisively learn it to the mother.

• Encountered a problem, already have the idea to solve, want to abstract the solution into a library or framework, and then found that there are similar, some small loss in the heart, but still decisive to learn it.

The birth of new technology has a clear purpose, must be with the purpose of solving the problem to learn a new technology, otherwise you will not understand the new technology design and concepts, so will learn very painful.

Come back and say the basic question. To learn the foundation, this is absolutely right, with the foundation to discover and understand a new technology to solve the problem. But different technologies, the need for the basis is not the same.

Refer:

For the average programmer, how to prevent the tide technology to be exhausted? http://www.zhihu.com/question/36069929
Programmers who have worked for two years are busy and don't know what they are up to, can anyone give a hand? http://www.zhihu.com/question/21647278

Finally put a sentence: "Man is in the meaningless universe of life, the existence of human beings itself is meaningless, but people can be on the basis of the existence of self-created, live wonderful." "Source: Existentialism."

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Whether or not to automate operations