The top-voted GIFs from the 2016 Sysadmin Day contest

We hope you had a low-stress and high-appreciation System Administrator Appreciation Day last Friday — or that seeing the GIFs people submitted to our contest gave you a bit of a laugh at least.

Without further ado, here are the GIFs from the community that brought in the most votes:

When Developer comes asking for help!!

by Saandeep Jogiparti

When you ask the user what they did, and they reply "nothing"

by Robert Blasi

When you run 'puppet agent -t' for first time...

by Bapi Loya

Troubleshooting servers after a DEV deployment

by Shujaat Siddiqui

Trying to implement Linux in a Windows only company

by Aaran McGuire

When somebody needs "an account on the box just in case"

by Oli Wood

How you feel when a developer asks you if your puppet module broke their code!

by Joseph Karns

Intern hitting production

by Arthur Gautier

Waking up for 4 AM maintenance

by Eugene Thomas

When you have to come in for maintenance

by Andy Ogan

Honorable mentions

Here are a couple GIFs we particularly enjoyed that didn't quite get enough votes to win:

When you "puppetize" all your infrastructure

by Luis Ramirez

When you're waiting on EC2 instances to start up

by Mike Shepet

When you write reusable puppet code

by Andrew Wippler

Honorable mentions: employee edition

Many Puppet employees have a special place in their heart — and emails and chats — for GIFs. Here are a few of the top-voted GIFs from the folks here at Puppet.

When you don't have time for strategic work

by Jeff Weiss

That first hour of training on the puppet/git workflow

by Owen Rodabaugh

It worked on my machine

by Kristina Psaris-Weis (Full disclosure: That's me.)

First day on the job

by Britt Gresham

"...but the wiki is up-to-date, right?"

by Tom Linkin

When they ask what I do every day

by Eric Sorenson

Sysadmin vs. user perspective...

by Michal Bryxí

How I feel when a deploy works

by Michael Prasuhn

When you finally realize it's because of SELinux

by Carl Caum

Thank you

Thanks to everyone who voted, submitted a GIF or told a friend about the contest!

We've contacted the winners who were eligible to receive a prize per the contest rules — and a few extras. And to anyone who questioned the validity of the voting, we heard you, we looked into it, and we addressed it.

We hope you had a great Sysadmin Day! From all of us here at Puppet, we appreciate you. It’s a tough job (that most of your co-workers probably don't understand), but you keep everything running and deploying.

Want more? You can see all the GIFs here.

Kristina Psaris-Weis is a senior content marketing manager at Puppet.