Development: we need Nginx installed on *insert server list*
Me: ok, let me get in tough with the platform team.
Platform team: This should be installed in the userspace, Unix teams don't support this.

And here I am, trying to get a reverse proxy running on servers on which I do not have sudo rights.
Since it doesn't work, it's my fault, both sides block the door.
I installed it locally on a virtual machine, but the compiled or installed code doesn't work once copied.
The joy of being an "application engineer". This job title means nothing!

@rtannerf well, I guess it was a bit of a "fuck you and good luck implementing a non standard application".

Is that even possible as non root?

@kanduvisla no, not at all, and for a good reason.
So I'm trying to install it as root on my virtual machine, changing the rights, and copying the files to the servers.
Obviously that does not work, so no I have to convince the Unix team to just do their job.

@forkbomber email them and everyone related to start a discussion about it and get it done. Show everyone you are doing your job.

@azous that's what I do, but people tend to completely ignore these emails, hoping someone else will take the first step.
It's frustrating.

@forkbomber yeah, I know, at least you have it documented ... As soon as shit hit the fan you have evidence 👍

A: set them on fire. Install Puppet and Fabric. B: Docker

@addvilz I solved it with temp root access :)
Installed it from source.

@forkbomber hang on what? What OS/platform? No vendor dist? Cray smth?

@addvilz we have Oracle Linux servers.
Reverse proxies can't be installed without root rights it seems. (or sudo)
But since we have no cloud servers yet, this thing had to be installed on the servers with the application that needed it.
The system engineering team didn't want to install it. But they turned out to be OK with giving me root access. Which allowed me to install it how I pleased.

So I'm good.

@forkbomber sorry man. :(

@rtannerf after it turned out no one wanted to be responsible, there was apparently an option to get root access temporarily through an account that had nothing but sudo su rights.
Apparently this stuff was so easy to request it surprised me...
I didn't even need management approval. One manager 3 ranks up asked me why I needed it, after I already got the access, and a simple 2 line reason without a check was enough to get "oh, ok" as a reply.

I can basically get this now without the mail threads, without attention, for whichever reason I need.
This IS going to come in handy, as long as they don't feel like I'm abusing the system.

This makes a lot of projects that previously took me weeks of trial and error, just a few minutes.