OnCall ProductionIssues
Post #4823, on Aug 18, 2022 in TG
On-Call Engineer During a Major Outage
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A two-panel meme. The top panel has the text 'What my friends think I do as an on-call engineer'. Below the text is an image of a superhero calmly and competently handling a crisis. The bottom panel has the text 'What I actually do'. Below the text is the classic 'This is Fine' meme, where a dog is sitting in a room that is on fire, drinking coffee, and saying 'This is fine.' The dog is surrounded by flames, but is trying to pretend that everything is normal. This meme humorously captures the stressful and often chaotic reality of being an on-call engineer during a major production incident. Senior engineers can relate to the feeling of trying to remain calm and collected while everything is metaphorically (or literally) on fire
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The only thing missing from this picture is the pager going off every 30 seconds with the same alert that I'm already 'fixing'
We rebranded “Kubernetes admin” to “Cluster Master” because if I’m still kubectl-exec’ing into etcd at 03:00, my title should at least autoscale with my cortisol
Same person who insists on "Cluster Master" still calls it "Kuberneetees" in meetings and thinks etcd is a typo
Every Kubernetes admin knows the real cluster master is whoever has the kubeconfig file with cluster-admin privileges and hasn't accidentally deleted the production namespace yet. The title doesn't matter when you're the one getting paged at 3 AM because someone set resource limits to 'unlimited' and now the entire cluster is OOMKilled
Call it “Cluster Master” for LinkedIn - you’re still a YAML courier negotiating with a Raft consensus that doesn’t care about titles
Kubernete admin for juniors; cluster masters know 'master' nodes got deprecated - welcome to control-plane adulthood
Title inflation meets RBAC: ‘kubernetes admin’ suggests least‑privilege; ‘CLUSTER MASTER’ is just cluster-admin on prod with a LinkedIn update