Ask HN: Lone sysadmins of HN, what do you take on vacation?
3 by LastZactionHero | 4 comments on Hacker News.
I'm leaving on a two week vacation, and I've found myself as the only developer left at a company that can maintain the infrastructure. I'd really like to travel without my laptop- it's expensive, it's a distraction, and I want to disconnect as much as possible. The founder who configured everything recently departed. We have two other developers on the team, but one has shown no interest in dev ops, and the other was just hired. We have a lot of documentation for handling common stuff. Our infrastructure rarely needs intervention, so I'm not very worried. Still, stuff has happened, so I don't think it would be responsible to head out without some way assist in a major fire. I've considered: - VNC by iPad/keyboard to a cloud hosted server configured for infrastructure management - Dirt cheap laptop: Still a laptop, but light, and ok if lost or destroyed - RaspberryPi: Enough power to load some sites and ssh to some servers. Hook it up to the TV in my AirBnB. - Screw it: let go, trial by fire for the other dev What do you guys do?
I'm leaving on a two week vacation, and I've found myself as the only developer left at a company that can maintain the infrastructure. I'd really like to travel without my laptop- it's expensive, it's a distraction, and I want to disconnect as much as possible. The founder who configured everything recently departed. We have two other developers on the team, but one has shown no interest in dev ops, and the other was just hired. We have a lot of documentation for handling common stuff. Our infrastructure rarely needs intervention, so I'm not very worried. Still, stuff has happened, so I don't think it would be responsible to head out without some way assist in a major fire. I've considered: - VNC by iPad/keyboard to a cloud hosted server configured for infrastructure management - Dirt cheap laptop: Still a laptop, but light, and ok if lost or destroyed - RaspberryPi: Enough power to load some sites and ssh to some servers. Hook it up to the TV in my AirBnB. - Screw it: let go, trial by fire for the other dev What do you guys do?
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