Ioannis Canellos iocanel

Prologue

Every now then I see on social media people sharing the same old story: “Using shell scripting to workaround the limitations of their DevOps tools”. I’ve done it, my colleagues are doing it and most likely you have done it yourself.

So it seems that shell scripting is used to do the dirty work, yet its often considered by many the last resort. If you search on the web about popular ‘DevOps’ tools and skills, you’ll probably find: