Is cloud computing killing the IT support jobs?

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

Killing is a very strong word. No, it's just changing them. Instead of managing servers one-by-one manually, admins now have to learn how to configure and customize DevOps software like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt Stack, Capistrano, Nagios, Cacti, New Relic, and the like. Before the point-and-click days of servers, admins had to write shell or batch scripts. Then things became a bit more GUI-heavy (on some server types at least). Now things have swung back in the direction of writing scripts, but they're designed to run on many servers at once by nature.