@verita84 @p It happens that nowadays system administrators are reduced to basically peons, who were either never thought how to properly handle systems, or otherwise are prevented to do so because going off the books might hamper management issuing reimbursement requests to whatever service/insurance providers they're working with.

And the books say that these days if you have not offloaded most of your infrastructure to a SaaS provider with some kind of "cloud- compatible" "solution" you're not serious enough. Mix in Agile, containers, and VPS and you get to the point we're in.