Just wrote a script that takes anything correctly tagged and pushed to master from gitlab, pushes it to the server, builds a jar and creates a docker image from it. On the one hand I'm happy that I don't have to do it from hand anymore, on the other hand I get the feeling I'm automating myself out of a job...

Never be the person to put yourself out of a job. Instead, automate something else and put someone else out of a job :p

@Player2 I'm not trying to but I can only stand those stupid repeating tasks for so long before I seriously consider jumping out a window. ^^

The secret is...no one needs to know you automated it. Just use that spare time to be even more productive. You will be a hero.

I don't suffer from that fear because I can say for sure that running "ansible-playbook taskName.yml" would be a real challenge for my peers... They still struggle with git merge after 2 years....

Recently did something similar, but not containerized....

@azous I know this feel...No one else in my company knows how to deploy if it requires more than FTPing up files and importing a DB in phpmyadmin. I was finally able to convince the bosses to use digital ocean for some of our bigger clients with higher traffic...And part of that was that I had to automate EVERYTHING so that no one other than me would have to open a terminal.

@Treighton amen, almost the same here, all ported to digital ocean already and automated with ansible... My boss keeps trying to ask for ssh permission but so far I've managed to escape his horrendous security issues like giving access to interns after I gave him access...
So far so good. 🙏

@azous I'm definitely no sys admin, but I still don't trust anyone haha... I have all users set up with key pairs with passphrases and disabled password log in, disable remote root, strict permissions etc...I'm sure I fucked something up along the way, but hey I'm learning...

@Treighton that's the spirit, keep going :), neither am I 😂