I am a sysadmin, been working in IT for 17 years and want to become a devops engineer. How?

What is the best way to do this? I have some experience with powershell, react, python and git control. Any resources or help would be great!

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Advice for working at my first startup company

As the title suggests, I'm joining my first startup as a DevOps engineer. Previously I worked at mostly large enterprise shops.

Any advice on navigating through the quirks of a startup?

How does it differ from enterprise?

What to expect?

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Assign domain to service in docker swarm

I have 3 manager 5 slave swarm, which ip address should i use in domain mapping to make my system fault tolerant.

Ps: if i assign it to any of my managers, if it goes down then my entire swarm in unaccessible.

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Career advice needed.

Hello everyone,

Request you to advice me on career path between Devops and Full Stack

My skills are
Linux, HTML, AWS, Python, SQL

Kindly advice to choose between Devops and Fullstack

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What permissions do you assign to your pipelines?

I've worked at multiple companies within DevOps environments and always found that deployment pipelines are assigned almost full access, purely because of what they need to deploy and execute. This definitely isn't great from a security standpoint. How do you handle permissions and access requirements for your pipelines, without giving almost full access?

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DevOps: What was your last salary review percentage , comparing to a total salary?

Small check, to see what is normal for current DevOps market.
Typical raise for Europe/US is like ~ 5 percent early( in case u stay on same position)

View Poll

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Landing pages

Landing pages and Ecommerce, go hand in hand. At some point, your ecommerce store needs advertisements to drive traffic. Well, those ads need to send potential customers to a landing page. The same goes for inbound links from blogs and publications. If your visitors don't land on a relevant landing page, they're going to be rather confused.


So the big question is which landing page builder should you choose?

When it comes to ramping up your conversion rate and creating a customizable environment where you can connect with your audience, there are plenty of options out there. Landing page builders come in many different shapes and sizes, from solutions designed specifically for WordPress, to market-leaders like Instapage and leadpages.

I am keen on recommending Instapage because of its beautiful templates, collaboration tools and heatmapping.

Customers get up to 400% more from their digital ad spend with Instapage.

For more information about Instapage, please visit this site: https://sites.google.com/view/landing-pages-best/home

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Does CloudFlare cache query params?

I am doing a deploy to a server behind a CF and on example the url /css/custom.css is being cached, so I "fixed it" with additional parameter so it looks like /css/custom.css?tag=123456 and finally I am getting the newest CSS, but I do not know if this tag parameter will be cached.

Is using such query parameter a valid way to bypass the old cached files?

I would be happy if CF would cache content under that query parameter so I could use it with some abstract build number or something

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Book on SSL Certs

Can anyone recommend a good book on SSL certs? I'm dealing with a variety of setups and I keep running into trust issues.

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Configuration for Linux Rundeck to communicate with Windows nodes in same domain

I have a linux RHEL8 Rundeck server and want to make sure it can communicate or essentially run powershell commands or scripts on any host in my domain. Some of the windows machines are older (WinServer 2008, etc) and probably have an old version of powershell. What is the recommended way to allow linux Rundeck to communicate with any server in my domain? I was thinking of using a windows jump box (winserver 2019). Rundeck server is configured to only talk to it and it will kick off powershell commands or scripts for other nodes in the domain. That isn't working out so well. Is there a general configuration that I have to run on all machines in my domain so they can fully communicate?

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Why / how do use helm?

It seems I can't grasp the concept of helm and I have heard many different people tell me many different things about it. What problem did it solve for you? How? We have infra as code so we write code that outputs yamls for us and I was wondering if helm can expend / complement / replace it.

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Best way to learn Kubernetes in 2021?

Hello!

What learning resource can you recommend to a beginner?
My aim is to learn how to deploy, manage and secure Kubernetes.
Right now I am preparing for the RHCSA certification exam and would like to start with Kubernetes at the same time. I have a small Dell T20 with enough power to host Linux vms for Kubernetes.

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Thank you in advance!

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Is learning Linux through VM sufficient?

Hello all,

I’m still a little early in my IT journey, so please bear with me. My end goal is to be in devops or a cloud engineer.

I really want the new M1 Mac, and need to buy a laptop ASAP (long story).
(Also getting a friends employee discount, and enjoyed the iOS experience this past decade, so please don’t recommend a different laptop 😅)

I know i need to learn Linux if i want to achieve my goals, but it seems M1 is incapable of using bootcamp at the moment for windows and Linux.

It also seems parallels came out with a way to run windows and Linux through VM, albeit still in its early stages.

My question is:

Because i don’t know exactly what the learning process is for Linux, will I be fine running/learning Linux through a VM, or will i need it to double boot through bootcamp to get my learning done properly for some reason I’m unaware of?

Also a bonus:

Is it fair to assume that the M1 will be able to use bootcamp with Linux OS eventually?

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Ci/Cd projects

Hello guys, I am new to ci/cd world. I studied about Jenkins and realised how it works. Can you suggest some hands on ci/cd
projects?

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Can anyone explain the dip in searches for DevOps related terms in Sept/Oct 2020?

I was doing some research for an article I'm writing and noticed this: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=CI%2FCD,devops,kubernetes,docker,AWS

There's a clear dip across all terms (and all of the other DevOps/software engineering technologies I could think of) starting end of September/start of October 2020.

Interesting points:

It seems to be present across most countries with the notable exception of China
Non-technical terms don't seem to show the pattern (I tried random things like 'fender', 'water bottle', 'Ralph Lauren' and found no equivalent dip)
There seems to be a smaller dip around the start of the pandemic, though this is much easier to explain
Consumer tech doesn't seem to be impacted. Only engineering terms

Now I might be missing something *really* obvious here, but if so I'd love for someone to enlighten me.

Any theories?

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Can anyone help me with the flow for my first pipeline?

I want to do a full CI/CD pipeline where I can push code changes to my repo and they will be automatically deployed to my app. The app is a flask web app written in python. I think the flow should look something like this:

push code to repo > perform lint tests > package code into container > upload container to a container registry > use ssh/ansible to connect to server > pull container > stop old container > start new container

Is this a decent plan? This is all just for my own learning and not a production app used by anything important.

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What is your most appreciated learning experience with a DevOps tool or other?

Hi everyone,

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I started a new role which is focused on making the developer experience great. Of course I know that many people who work with a tools just look at the docs and API description to learn about a tool and its capabilities .But there is also a considerable amount of people who love to e.g. have a sandbox environment, an interactive tour through a product and so on.

I'm not a developer, so what might look solid & shiny on the outside for me, may be confusing and inefficient for real users of a given tool. Hence, it would be super helpful if you could share your most appreciated learning experience with a devops tool or any other technical product.

Thanks a lot in advance!

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Devops COP?

Hey,

I am working at a big IT company (1k Devs, 7k in total) . We have a community for EVERYTHING, including Development itself. However we do not have a community for devops. Do you think it is a good idea to fund one? Do other companies have dedicated devops communities?

I am very interested in any experience or opinion.

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packaging a SaaS cloud product

I'm looking for guidance around packaging a SaaS cloud product in a kubernetes cluster for deployment on-prem or in private cloud. The solution should be generalized to work for the broadest set of customer cluster flavors (EKS, AKS, GKE, Openshift, hard way, etc...). The packaged app consists of stateless application services and MongoDb. The driver is customer reticence to let their own customer/user data beyond the firewall.

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Portainer vs Mirantis: My Experience in 2021

A while ago, I came across a video about two types of people - one managing and writing lines and lines of code and the other using Portainer. Quite exciting, and back then, I started to compare the available GUI options in the market to get my bucks’ best value.

https://www.p3r.one/portainer-vs-mirantis-my-experience-in-2021/

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Design structured diagrams, built to increase your team's trust in your docs.

Hey,

We’re looking for feedback on a new tool we’re building for cloud teams.

IcePanel allows you to design, maintain and explore structured diagrams, built to increase your team's trust in your docs.

It would be a great help for us if you could try it out and let us know your initial thoughts.

Please check it out below.

https://icepanel.io

Thanks!

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