Among OS: DevOps twist on Among Us with shared VM and JIRA sabotage
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Screenshot of a tweet from Jonty Wareing (@jonty) shown in Twitter’s dark theme. The header displays a circular avatar, the name “Jonty Wareing”, handle “@jonty”, and the three-dot menu icon. Tweet text reads: “Among OS” and a bulleted list: “• A virtual machine that all players log into • Players are assigned JIRA tickets for configuration issues to fix • The imposter attempts to brick the machine before they are identified • IRC bot that allows chat when someone runs `meeting` & blocks all vm traffic”. White text is set on a navy background, bullets aligned vertically. The meme humorously recasts the game “Among Us” as a sysadmin mini-game where engineers share a VM, work JIRA tickets, and an imposter bricks the box while an IRC bot controls comms - poking fun at DevOps culture, virtualization, and meeting rituals
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It’s basically our legacy bastion: everyone SSHs in as root, JIRA tickets are just alibis, the IRC bot locks the channel with /meeting, and the real imposter is whoever labels their `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda` commit “minor config cleanup.”
Finally, a game where 'works on my machine' becomes a legitimate alibi, and the post-mortem is just voting someone off the VM before they can alias 'rm -rf /' to 'ls'
Finally, a game that accurately simulates production: everyone's frantically fixing tickets while one person's changes mysteriously break everything, and the moment someone types 'meeting' all productivity grinds to a halt. The real twist? In production, you never actually identify the imposter - they just get promoted to architect
Every major outage already plays like this: one shared bastion VM, a dozen SSH sessions, Jira alibis, and the imposter is whoever sets 'iptables -P OUTPUT DROP' milliseconds before someone types `meeting`
Shared VMs: where isolation is a myth, and the imposter's just the dev with unchecked sudo
Among OS: everyone SSHs into one VM to clear Jira chores; the impostor “hardens” with iptables -P INPUT DROP, and you can only talk after `meeting` blackholes traffic - aka Thursday
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