Re:The Art of Automation
by mxuribe on Sunday September 27, 2020 @01:21PM
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Totally agree, and i've seen this many times (and have had my teams "clean up" after others). however, what can help mitigate - maybe not fully prevent - in some cases are the following 2 approaches:
1. Build automation so that it is NOT such a blackbox. I even go so far as to build automation with scripting languages...that allows myself/my team to at least peek at the source code to see what is happening.
2. And, of course documentation. i know this is simplistic of me to state...but it is invaluable nonethelss. I should also clarify that i mean there should exist documentation both for users, or by extension those who benefit from the automation, as well as, for developers/sys admins/sys maintainers (say, within the code itself).
1. Build automation so that it is NOT such a blackbox. I even go so far as to build automation with scripting languages...that allows myself/my team to at least peek at the source code to see what is happening.
2. And, of course documentation. i know this is simplistic of me to state...but it is invaluable nonethelss. I should also clarify that i mean there should exist documentation both for users, or by extension those who benefit from the automation, as well as, for developers/sys admins/sys maintainers (say, within the code itself).