Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
Having a repository from which to pull files — be it git, an S3 bucket or "whatever" — and an automation framework (Vagrant, cloud-init/cfn-init or their equivalents) means never having to worry about having a suitably customized environment.
...Well, if you're not using workspace that's controlled by corporate policy-nazis, at least.
That said, getting overly-reliant on a tricked-out environments can be paaaaaainful if you ever pursue consulting and become a frequent "guest" user. Even absent having to cope with corporate policy-nazis, you simply may not have sufficient access to do a quick, programmatic customization. That's ultimately what broke me of that habit. I'm now mostly a "least common denominator" kind of guy when it comes to environment setups. :(
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Having a repository from which to pull files — be it git, an S3 bucket or "whatever" — and an automation framework (Vagrant, cloud-init/cfn-init or their equivalents) means never having to worry about having a suitably customized environment.
...Well, if you're not using workspace that's controlled by corporate policy-nazis, at least.
That said, getting overly-reliant on a tricked-out environments can be paaaaaainful if you ever pursue consulting and become a frequent "guest" user. Even absent having to cope with corporate policy-nazis, you simply may not have sufficient access to do a quick, programmatic customization. That's ultimately what broke me of that habit. I'm now mostly a "least common denominator" kind of guy when it comes to environment setups. :(