I'm having soooo much trouble interacting with DevOps. I am trying to set up some POCs in the AWS sandbox environment. These POCs are critical pieces of a target state ML infrastructure. Some of these are open source platforms that require certain IAM permissions and of course DevOps refuses to grant me access even though it's a freaking sandbox environment. It's just really frustrating! I literally can't do anything whenever I have an idea for a platform POC I want to try out and implement. It really discourages innovation when you have to constantly get DevOps' approval and they won't budge. This was never the case in my previous role and I had much less seniority back then too. It was a lot easier to get the right IAM permissions from administrators and was never a constant battle like it is now. Wondering if others have experienced this at their companies or if this is common across big name tech companies? Any advice would be greatly appreciated as well. #tech #devops #engineering #workplaceproblems
Are you not part of a DL(distrbution list) that might have access to what you need? Or a aws account containing your say for example all the people in that org and all of them have a specific access to specific aws resources in a given region? I forget the aws terminologies maybe groups is it? But, what you are facing i have faced it, the last resort would be to escalate? I have seen whenever i try to “involve” any senior leadership personality then the work gets done in a jiffy 🤷♂️ but alas you cannot resort to this everytime, theres only so much one can get done.
It used to be like this in my previous company so maybe I'm used to having all the privileges I needed and got spoiled. But now in my current company, they're really annoyingly particular about giving access and DevOps is always the gatekeepers. This is why I created this post because I'm not sure if my last company is the outlier or are all companies like this.
Understood.
There are no circumstances where you would need admin role for an application POC so figure out what IAM permissions you need
Not an application POC. It's an open source platform and unfortunately the terraform script it's using requires AWS IAM role policy which they're iffy about granting.
Sounds like a problem your manager needs to resolve
Why do you want to be in the territory of cloud foundations and seek such extensive privileges for one time operations? Seems like this can be negotiated over a simple meeting. You can just assume the role any number of times.
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Nobody wants to hand out admin for a POC. Spike it and figure out what privileges are actually required, then make that request with evidence of why you need it, and you’ll get it. “Give me everything because I’m lazy” will cause pushback.
Nothing to do with laziness and I wasn't necessarily saying I need admin access. I'm also part of the Platform team so it is part of my responsibilities to build platforms which do sometimes require admin level access. One open source platform requires AWS IAM role (the ability create a new role), and they wouldn't even grant me that level of access.