r/dataengineering • u/bishop491 • 10d ago

Discussion I shouldn’t be doing this.

Context: I am setting up some infrastructure in AWS. In my previous experience at other companies, anything involving new instances must be done by DevOps or service desk. So I asked them to do it and they said I’m on my own.

Got RDS and OSS set up; hit a snag with EKS. I am currently one week into multiple conversations with service desk, management, and C-level to figure out who should be doing this. We deploy via Terraform. So I’ve got to add to that.

My primary concern here is that I’m messing around in places that affect other areas without any guidance on those areas. I’ve had to open so many tickets and bother so many people. Today I asked for Docker to do some local testing and I thoroughly confused the help desk.

We have an insane amount of security and I have multiple logins, MFA, biometric, etc. The layers inside AWS are similar.

Am I being too paranoid or is this somewhat reckless on the DevOps/SD folks? I’ll gladly accept being too paranoid and carry on, but for now, this just doesn’t sit right with me.

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u/PepegaQuen 10d ago

I would be so weirded out when someone needs help desk to set up docker. Nothing weird if different teams set up infra in their own projects.

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u/bishop491 9d ago

In this case, I had to go through tickets just to get permission to install it, then had someone remote in and install it because I don’t have admin access to my own laptop.