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Cake day: October 20th, 2020

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  • Although plausible, and part of it, it’s not just that. The second part is much more important (people unwilling to adapt), but one should think about why.

    • How sudden & drastic was the change?
    • How well trained were people?
    • How much support did they get when something went wrong?

    That’s the kind of stuff where companies & public administrations usually suck, “change management”.









    • Professional services usually refers to have consultants for contracting. The more the demand for your services, the more people you have to hire to content your clients. Because salaries are usually one of the biggest costs in any company, this kind of business can be a bit more risky when there are economic downfalls and you cannot fire workers quick enough (I’m talking from the perspective of the business owner, leaving ethical aspects aside).
    • Subscriptions don’t imply having people personally interacting with the client, because what you offer is not expertise, but a product that can be served to big amounts of clients, independently of how big is your team (of course you end up having to hire more people, but this team growth is much slower).

  • Their product offers many more features (and more complex ones) than the other services you mentioned. And they also took the time to provide a commercial product, with paid support, integrations…

    This is key for companies, as it makes it easier to be productive, plus the SLAs give some peace of mind too.







  • It uses the docker’s cli interface, so as far as I know, it should be compatible… with a two caveats:

    • Podman is not explicitly supported, and aliasing the podman comand to “docker” won’t make it, because Avatar-CLi won’t know that this alias exist.
    • In case you use a hard/soft link in the file system to overcome the first mentioned issue, must be noted that Avatar-CLI is not compatible with the rootless mode (yet), because it needs root access (just once in the whole process) to generate some special files that will be mounted inside containers (basically /etc/passwd).

    Having said that, I definitely want to improve it and officially extend its support to Podman. I just need some time…