A Linux microblog update:
My youngest child casually hit the power button on the front of one of my main server's today, with the confidence of someone who has probably done so a few times before.
This sheds some light on some mysterious service gaps I've noticed recently.
I fixed the situation by doing nothing. I'm a lazy enough DevOps that I knew one of my scheduled processes would automatically restore my key services soon enough.
This reveals a couple insights into my home lab devops:
1. I'm lazy enough that I build in substantial resilience.
2. I'm unattentive enough that I really should improve my logging and alerts to include "your kid pressed the power button".
And yes, I'm aware I could disable the button, but then I wouldn't get stories like this.
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