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Re:After 15 Years, I Use Outlook as My Build Pipeline by Traubenfuchs on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @09:05AM (#46057507)
If your build pipeline is anything more than a deploy.sh file containing

  docker build -t your-docker-registry/xxx:latest .

  docker push your-docker-registry/xxx:latest

  kubectl rollout restart deployment xxx-deployment
you are a hack, a fraud, an overengineer and someone who should NOT work as software or devops engineer.
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Re:After 15 Years, I Use Outlook as My Build Pipeline by dxdm on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @09:09AM (#46057544)
Mom, didn't we talk about not posting to hacker news when you're like this?
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Re:After 15 Years, I Use Outlook as My Build Pipeline by skinner927 on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @09:31AM (#46057704)
Thankfully k8s is not overengineered or you’d have pie on your face.
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Re:After 15 Years, I Use Outlook as My Build Pipeline by pprotas on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @09:27AM (#46057676)
If your build pipeline is anything more than a monkey scratching bits into a spinning disk using a needle, you are a fraud.
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Re:After 15 Years, I Use Outlook as My Build Pipeline by dctoedt on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @05:47PM (#46063196)
> If your build pipeline is anything more than a monkey scratching bits into a spinning disk using a needle, you are a fraud.

Obligatory XKCD cite: https://xkcd.com/378/

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Re:After 15 Years, I Use Outlook as My Build Pipeline by Atotalnoob on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @10:25AM (#46058288)
There are so many issues with what you have here… where to start…

You aren’t running tests, unless you put them in the dockerfile which is a bad idea…

You aren’t running security scans. how do you deploy manifest changes? Using Latest as a tag has so many issues.

This is a trivial and niave pipeline I would expect from a junior or intern.

Build pipelines are becoming more complicated because software is more complex. You can still promote ownership of the full pipeline while giving developers control.

Don’t shy away from it, understand it, embrace it. It’s just going to continue getting more complex

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Re:After 15 Years, I Use Outlook as My Build Pipeline by Traubenfuchs on Thursday November 27, 2025 @03:39AM (#46067115)
Adding steps for code quality scanning, dependency vulnerability analysis and a license scanner certainly makes it look like you actually achieved something in the next performance review, I will give you that.
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Re:After 15 Years, I Use Outlook as My Build Pipeline by ptdorf on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @11:15AM (#46058944)
People don't get sarcarm :/

Totally unrelated, if you need to suffix a k8s deployment with "-deployment" you are a hack, a fraud, an overengineer and someone who should NOT work as software or devops engineer.

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Re:After 15 Years, I Use Outlook as My Build Pipeline by dxdm on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @04:07PM (#46062311)
> People don't get sarcarm :/

Famously so. If you want to remain unmisunderstood, make sure to use sarcasm. Draw a clear line into the shifting sand while cocking a single eyebrow. It's widely appreciated, it's an artform, and the comments are a blast. :)

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Re:After 15 Years, I Use Outlook as My Build Pipeline by probably_wrong on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @09:28AM (#46057686)
No plan survives contact with the enemy.

Sure, "docker push" is all fine and well until "after two weeks, [your] coworker still does not have access to the server endpoint that he and [you] would need". And then what? Do you quit your job for fear that someone calls you a hack?

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Re:After 15 Years, I Use Outlook as My Build Pipeline by afavour on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @09:22AM (#46057636)
Wait, my docker registry has no authorization? Uh oh
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Re:After 15 Years, I Use Outlook as My Build Pipeline by Traubenfuchs on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @10:54AM (#46058652)
The executing system provides an authenticated kubectl.
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Re:After 15 Years, I Use Outlook as My Build Pipeline by micahdeath on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @10:28AM (#46058322)
I like [x]copy deployments personally, then you have 1 command =)
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Re:After 15 Years, I Use Outlook as My Build Pipeline by Traubenfuchs on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @10:51AM (#46058622)
I bow!

We had that at my first job where I deployed .war to a remote production tomcat directly from eclipse with one tool button click.

Zero lines of code even, depending on definition.

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Re:After 15 Years, I Use Outlook as My Build Pipeline by slackfan on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @09:58AM (#46057980)
If your build pipeline is anything more than a deploy.sh file containing

go build binary

scp binary root@server:/deploymentlocation

you are a hack, a fraud, an overengineer and someone who should NOT work as software or devops engineer.

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Re:After 15 Years, I Use Outlook as My Build Pipeline by Traubenfuchs on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @10:52AM (#46058635)
2 commands -that‘s 33% better than my solution!
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Re:After 15 Years, I Use Outlook as My Build Pipeline by formerly_proven on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @10:40AM (#46058470)
Look what “real” devops engineers have demanded respect for. They have played us for absolute fools!
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Re:After 15 Years, I Use Outlook as My Build Pipeline by dijit on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @09:23AM (#46057642)
Yes, all development is just backend web development and CRUD apps.

If you're doing anything else, are you really an engineer?

bwahaha.

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Re:After 15 Years, I Use Outlook as My Build Pipeline by rmonvfer on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @09:28AM (#46057680)
Uses kubernetes, blames others for over engineering. Are we living in a parody? Oh wait…
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Re:After 15 Years, I Use Outlook as My Build Pipeline by worthless-trash on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @09:46AM (#46057859)
For a moment there I thought this was the parody llm HN site.
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Re:After 15 Years, I Use Outlook as My Build Pipeline by bn-l on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @02:29PM (#46061408)
Please give me the link
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Re:After 15 Years, I Use Outlook as My Build Pipeline by dxdm on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @04:15PM (#46062404)
https://news.ysimulator.run/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46036908

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Re:After 15 Years, I Use Outlook as My Build Pipeline by fHr on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @09:25AM (#46057655)
yeah sure....
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