Admin Admin Podcast Admin Admin Podcast #103 – That’s how I role
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Dec 19, 2025 The hosts tackle recent cloud outages and the importance of thorough post-incident reports. They dive into migrating legacy services to the cloud and compare various migration tools. Discussion turns to configuring developer laptops using Ansible, and they share tips on managing complex dotfiles. The debate on the roles of sysadmins, SREs, and DevOps leads to insights on observability and metrics. Finally, they explore balancing reliability with costs and designing systems for graceful degradation during failures.
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Cloud Outages And Post‑Incident Transparency
- Al, Gerry and Stim discuss recent cloud outages caused by input validation issues like empty arrays and DNS records.
- Gerry and Al praise public post-incident reviews (GitLab, Azure) for building user trust during outages.
Migrating Legacy Systems To Cloud Services
- Gerry describes migrating an on-prem Windows server and SQL Server to AWS and Azure managed services using Transfer Family and Azure SQL MI.
- He highlights modernizing 10–15 year old systems while preserving third‑party interfaces.
Automate Laptop Setup With Dotfiles
- Use Ansible or similar automation to preconfigure developer laptops and preserve dotfiles.
- Store SSH and GPG keys securely and automate core tools to speed onboarding.
