The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containersSystem administration is in a sad state. It in a mess. I’m not complaining about old-school sysadmins. They know how to keep systems running, manage update and upgrade paths. This rant is about containers, prebuilt VMs, and the incredible mess they cause because their concept lacks notions of “trust” and “upgrades”. Consider for example Hadoop. Nobody seems to know how to build Hadoop from scratch
