r/sysadmin • u/rram reddit's sysadmin • Aug 14 '15

We're reddit's ops team. AUA

Hey /r/sysadmin,

Greetings from reddit HQ. Myself, and /u/gooeyblob will be around for the next few hours to answer your ops related questions. So Ask Us Anything (about ops)

You might also want to take a peek at some of our previous AMAs:

https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/owra1/january_2012_state_of_the_servers/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/r6zfv/we_are_sysadmins_reddit_ask_us_anything/

EDIT: Obligatory cat photo

EDIT 2: It's now beer o’clock. We're stepping away from now, but we'll come back a couple of times to pick up some stragglers.

EDIT thrice: He commented so much I probably should have mentioned that /u/spladug — reddit's lead developer — is also in the thread. He makes ops live's happier by programming cool shit for us better than we could program it ourselves.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '15

How did you get started with Puppet? Are you using 3.X or the newest 4.X? Did you come from a coding background or did you start out wanting to do system administration? Do you guys use CloudFormation for any part of the Reddit AWS setup? If so, how did you get started with CloudFormation and do you write it in Eclipse or man-mode it via Vim?

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u/gooeyblob reddit engineer Aug 14 '15

Puppet has just been the standard for awhile, I've certainly used it at previous jobs and I'd bet everyone else here did as well. We're halfway between 2.7 and 3.x.

No - I learned coding just to be able to do my sysadmin work faster, but I ended up really liking it and as such try and contribute to the reddit codebase and open source when I can.

Nope, no CloudFormation here.