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1. just an actual husbear (guizzy@pleroma.guizzyordi.info)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Nov-2020 13:31:54 EST just an actual husbear
   Question to other fedi sysadmins; would I regret it if I started learning AWS?
   
   From where I'm looking, it seems to me like not diversifying into cloud is gonna cap my opportunities career-wise.
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Nov-2020 13:37:18 EST lnxw48a1

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      @guizzy I'm doing the same: learning cloudy stuff (AWS, Azure, thinking about Google Cloud) because I don't want to restrict my options.
      
      Too bad I didn't spend more time on AWS when @musicman was starting to learn it and offered me an account in his auth group.
      
      (I suspect it was partly due to one of those "work 12-16 hour days" assignments; added to "log in from hotel Wi-Fi", it usually means the end of anything you're working on.)
      1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Nov-2020 13:40:27 EST lnxw48a1

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         I was indirectly answering your question, but let me be direct: learn cloudy stuff. Even if you stay where you are now, at some point, management will say "what if we moved some of our stuff to the cloud?" and you want to be the one that says "I've been running cloud instances for years so that I'd be ready when you are."
         1. just an actual husbear (guizzy@pleroma.guizzyordi.info)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Nov-2020 13:47:23 EST just an actual husbear

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            @lnxw48a1 We already are moving stuff to the cloud. I'm not seeing it so much as a move for my current employer (we're moving to Azure, while I'm more inclined to learn AWS), but for my future prospects.
            1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Nov-2020 13:56:22 EST lnxw48a1

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               @guizzy When I first looked at Azure, it seemed like even the simplest site needed multiple moving parts. I think I was just used to having all the pieces in a single VPS server instead of starting from the beginning with a database instance, a web instance, a compute instance, and so on.
               
               That's why I decided to start out with a couple of courses, then move on to building a couple of projects on my own.
      2. just an actual husbear (guizzy@pleroma.guizzyordi.info)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Nov-2020 13:44:29 EST just an actual husbear

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         @lnxw48a1 @musicman I'm not learning it yet, but a friend/ex-colleague has been bugging me about it for a while. My main problem is that I don't do well with organized learning; I'm a hands-on, build something for myself kind of learner. Not just practical exercices; to get me interested, I need to have personal interest in what I'm building.
         1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Nov-2020 13:47:53 EST lnxw48a1

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            @guizzy A retro-gaming site! 16-bit Quebecois!
            
            @musicman
            1. just an actual husbear (guizzy@pleroma.guizzyordi.info)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Nov-2020 13:52:46 EST just an actual husbear

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               @lnxw48a1 @musicman And I could probably even pay for the AWS instances by writing articles about online casinos!
   2. musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Nov-2020 17:06:37 EST musicman

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      Perhaps you would be better served learning K8s as all the major cloud providers have that