The Beginning, Present, and Future of Sysadmins
summary
Argues that classic sysadmin skills remain valuable and portable while tooling shifts: virtualization (KVM, VMware) and cloud migrations use Terraform; configuration via Ansible and API calls replaces manual console work; monitoring moves toward Prometheus and Elasticsearch with packetbeat; reliability requires SRE practices (SLO/SLA, postmortems) and chaos testing using Gremlin chaos experiments; blockchain appears in infrastructure as Hyperledger DIDs for immutable audit trails; quantum key distribution detects eavesdroppers via photon entanglement; HPC/Beowulf and CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab) still matter.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:11Past, Present, Future of System Administration
- 1:00Social Media
- 1:51TOPICS
- 3:30Common Skills
- 6:47Past Skill Sets
- 12:58Forms of Communication
- 15:01Infrastructure/Automation Engineer (PRESENT)
- 18:51System Architecture
- 20:22TOGAF
- 20:49Finance
- 22:04Site Reliability Engineer
- 23:55Chaos/Intuition Engineer
- 27:47Blockchain Engineer
- 30:26Quantum Computing
- 30:58Quantum Cryptography Example
- 31:58Entanglement
- 33:51Other Thriving Areas
- 36:48Summary
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