Re:Ask HN: Solo-preneurs, how do you DevOps to save time?
by martijnvds on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @08:13AM
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Next step up is something like Ansible to manage it all.
Re:Ask HN: Solo-preneurs, how do you DevOps to save time?
by oauea on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @08:38AM
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Yes. Then you realize that people may still SSH into your servers and manually tweak things when they need the fix "now". So then you start restricting SSH access and forcing everything through Ansible. And now you're deep in deployment best practices again ;)
Re:Ask HN: Solo-preneurs, how do you DevOps to save time?
by malwrar on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @08:46AM
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I think you’re describing the growing pains that justify paying the costs of more complicated tooling. The big difference is that instead of needing to figure it out as a solo founder with bigger problems, in this scenario you get to figure it out as a solo founder with a team and presumably some extra $$.
If you have multiple people on the team that have access to servers, this will shoot you in the foot a year or two later. Good luck replicating that server setup when no one has any clue whatsoever about all the small tweaks that were performed ad-hoc over the years.