Background: 15 years of experience in software and apparently spoiled because it was already set up correctly.
Been practicing doing my own servers, published a test site and 24 hours later, root was compromised.
Rolled back to the backup before I made it public and now I have a security checklist.
And this is why every time a developer asks me for shell access to any of the deployment servers, I flat out deny the request.
Good on you for learning from your mistakes, but a perfect example for why I only let sysadmins into the systems.
You’re not wrong! Devops made me lazy
Please examine where devops allowed non-system people to be the last word on altering systems. This is a risk that needs block-letter indemnification or correction.
It’s not that devops made ya lazy. I’ve been doing devops since before they coined the term, and it’s a constant effort to remind people that it doesn’t magically make things safe, but keeping it safe is still the way.
Ah not to discount devops, I mean that in a good way.
Devops made me lazy in that for the past decade, I focus on just everything inside the code base.
I literally push code into a magic black box that then triggers a rube goldberg of events. Servers get instanced. Configs just get magically set up. It’s beautiful. Just years of smart people who make it so easy that I never have to think about it.
Since I can’t pay my devops team to come to my house, I get to figure it all out!