> From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] > On Behalf Of Yves Dorfsman > > 3) If you use AWS as a cloud infrastructure, then surely, you've automated > the > installs etc... You should be able to move to a different provider in a day or > two. To be honest, you're so technical and picky about all the details that I > don't understand why you don't rent a bunch of physicals from OVH or Peer > 1, > run VMWare, and run your own cloud.
You inherit an airship when you start your new job - all the production servers were previously built by someone else, it's already in flight, you need to start maintaining it. You are not rebuilding systems on a regular basis - no there is no automated build process. You go to efforts of identifying all the services used by the system, and identifying processes to backup and/or migrate those services, but it's a huge complex system with lots of moving parts and tiny details. So you build a test system, cloned from the original, and even THAT took some weeks. I think you get the idea. Not easy to migrate. If I were building it myself, I would almost certainly do it on VMWare. But it's too late for that. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
