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We ran into this issue last week with several legacy applications we soon hope to commit to the bone yard...

+1 to the "Skype for Business is Garbage" argument.

We're forced to use it and it is horrible and relatively unreliable.

Thermite and a video camera.

Or you could boot into a live disk of some sort and use DD to wipe the drive(s).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix)#Disk_wipe

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I prefer vi... I've been burned by not having nano in the past and forced myself to learn vi because of that.

Same here. I've seen Fortune 100 companies production brought down because no one knew vi and nothing else was available in a crash.

These scenarios are so out past the moon for most of us that they would rarely occur. Like buying 4 servers to protect from 2 of them dying.

Now this doesn't mean don't learn Vi (I try and learn myself) I just don't like the interface.

We have over 1000 Linux servers and Vi is the only option on the greater majority (75%+). None of our QA, Stage, or Production systems come with anything else.

I like and use Vim, and go with Vi if that's all I've got. Here's a great book for anyone looking to become a Vim power user: Practical Vim (https://pragprog.com/book/dnvim2/practical-vim-second-edition)

At that point, why do you even need to touch any individual server rather than using your management platform of choice (salt, tower, etc.)

We don't normally unless we have to investigate any issues that might arise. And even then we don't normally need a text editor.

"Ultimate KVM Setup" = "KVM Hypervisor Installation and Configuration for Windows / VMWare Users"?

Not gonna lie, thoughts of virt-manager GUI makes me feel a little dirty.

Why do we need a Fedora box for virt-manager? You should be able to install it on any flavor of linux, including a VM being run on your Hypervisor. As long as you have X-forwarding you can just connect over SSH and initialize it remotely.

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I got triggered cause there can be only 1 KVM MASTER

It's weird that you're attempting to take the KVM Master role with a GUI install

Why is that any more weird? The CLI is still there to be used, but as far as a tool goes, a GUI is just another one. . .

It's wasted resources. I'd think the KVM Master would be as efficient as possible.

If a tool is needed, why would it be wasted resources? I get what you are trying to get at here, but a tool is a tool is a tool.

If you need a GUI to do something (whatever it is) and it's the best approach "you" know then why bash the tool?

So my old users who say they can't operate a computer shouldn't learn the right way to file things digitally. We should be okay with her using paper because she understands that? I understand what you're saying, but how far down that rabbit hole do we go?

Why would your user be the administrator of the computer? Why are CLI's the golden child tool, and GUI's are the bastard tools?

My point is it's a tool to be used, why not use it if it's available?

It's just an argument for learning the most efficient/best way to do things. I have a lot of failures and some successes with my learning, but I am learning how to do things in the most efficient way I can.

We could start installing hyper-v as a role because i don't know powershell, but the reality is i should learn powershell to manage hyper-v anyway.

The argument is flawed though.

Tools are only meant to make the process efficient. You're stating that using a GUI is counter efficiency. Which in terms of resources required to use the GUI, makes sense.

But the GUI it's self is there to eliminate wasted time remembering powershell (and human error) by providing a button to start a specific VM etc.

That's what scripts are for...

I think a curl against ifconfig.me works as well.

I'm finally taking the time to sit down and install this on an Ubuntu VM right now.

Also, this might be useful:

https://github.com/agis/git-style-guide

https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-git

@IRJ I'm just saying don't sell yourselves short. A lot of "DevOps" engineers that consider themselves as having only an Infrastructure skillset are practiced Software Engineers. Its something that almost happens organically as a result of being put into the role.

@Obsolesce

The idea of managing that many "Snowflakes" inspires both rage and uncontrollable anxiety.

I'll take 10,000 cattle any day.