Best Devops team to join in Sydney

I get a lot of messages from recruiters in LinkedIn - Devops is a really hot topic. I am also considering changing my job soon. Well paid at the current job, but lack meaningful work, tired of politics and not a healthy vibe in the team :(

So, I was wondering if Sydney Devops lads could brag about their job, their teammates and overall satisfaction from work.

I’d rather focus on getting the job I want than going through dozens of interviews and trying to guess if the interviewer hide unpleasant sides of the work.

https://redd.it/nldigv
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My experience using AWS CDK #1

Hi Everyone,

Let me share with you my first experience using AWS CDK:

https://medium.com/@eilon.lotem/aws-cdk-route53-apigateway-lambda-cloudfront-flask-and-nuxt-a34f1ffdae80

Thank you!

https://redd.it/nlliza
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New to cloud learning, a lot going over my head.

Hey all. I'm a graduate software developer trying to expand my cloud knowledge. I've passed the AZ900 exam and that was fairly straightforward. I have done a course for AZ204 (not done the exam) and despite learning a lot, a lot went over my head quite easily.

Does anyone have any good material for reading over/watching, for someone in my position? Any projects I could crack on with?

I do feel like a lot of it would come with experience based on a lot of people in the course being actual cloud engineers whereas I'm just trying to learn for now.

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Top Back-End Frameworks to Explore in 2021

Some of the most popular backend frameworks of 2021.

I must say I wasn't totally wrong back in 2017.

https://hellboundbloggers.com/top-back-end-frameworks-to-explore/

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DevOps in Production with Windows Workloads

Interested in hearing how you have moved traditional Enterprise environments to DevOps practices.

My organisation relies on software from a multitude of third parties which run on Windows with the usual .Net and MSSQL server stack.

While we don’t have the Development component of DevOps I do want to embrace IaaC and the other elements.

Containers aren’t on any of the supported environment lists. Terraform and Packer can probably get us a fair way forward (What about backups?) but keen to hear thoughts or experiences from others.

Note: Im using the AWS CDK for edge cases where we are doing Development or something new, it’s fantastic but sadly an edge case.

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AWS DevOps Teacher

I am tired of online courses that are showing you always the default things and not related to real problems. I am a junior AWS engineer trying to learn more and more but its really hard sometimes. So i am looking for someone with Experience in AWS to teach me some stuff. Of course not for free. Please if you are really interested , DM .

Thanks in advance

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Copying of thousands of small files is slow with AWS EFS

Our current workflow is that we prepare a Docker image with all the required files (thousands of small files related to composer packages and node modules) for the application and then run a Kubernetes job with the sole purpose of copying files from the container to the PV. Before using AWS EFS we used AWS EBS and the job completed in roughly 3 minutes. However, we scaled out and thus moved to AWS EKS for ReadWriteMany support.


The completion went from 3 minutes using EBS -> 20+ minutes using EFS. I also tried the Max I/O mode, but nothing really changed.


Are you aware of any configuration that could improve the performance?


I know, our workflow might not be perfect but it is what it is now...

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Semaphore, RunDeck and AWX Ansible

Hi folks,

I am going to manage the Ansible Playbook from GUI. Right now I am confuse which should I need to go with.

I just want to run the Ansible playbook from GUI and want to manage the inventory and task completed detail nothing else

Please let me know thanks in advance

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Gitlab deployments on kubernetes

Hey Folks,

Need some suggestion on the GitLab authentication with the Kubernetes cluster. I have generated the kubeconfig file based on the token to authenticate GitLab for my deployments onto Kubernetes. However, when I try to deploy any objects via gitlab pipelines, it fails with the following error ?


gitlab runner console logs,
$ kubectl --kubeconfig=$QA_KUBECONFIG apply -f xyz/templates
unable to recognize "xyz1/templates/deployment.yaml": Unauthorized
unable to recognize "xyz2/templates/route.yaml": Unauthorized
unable to recognize "xyz3/templates/svc.yaml": Unauthorized


Able to auth and see the cluster objects from the local machine, using same KUBECONFIG used above for gitlab
$ kubectl get pods
No resources found in src-xyz-qa namespace


Using the working config file on my local on the GitLab as kubeconfig to authenticate the deployments, but not sure why it's failing? Does the kubeconfig that works on the local machine, doesn't work on GitLab? I am missing anything here?


Thank you so much.

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Should we test Infra/provisioning/configs ?

That's a large topic so let's just put an open question. I would like to know your take on this.

I'm thinking of writing an article about this subject if I can't find what I need.

I've thought about it a lot (and still do), and read multiple articles relating this subject, and tried various libraries and methodology (TDD).

What do you think should be tested, and what's your rationale to test it (or not). Also, I would very like to hear about your personal/professional experience on that matter, and if/how rewarding/expensive the adoption was.

Thank you

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Monitoring multi-dyno Heroku app

Hello there.

I'm trying to set up some metrics monitoring on Heroku which would eventually be wired to Grafana Cloud. The formation on Heroku is multi-dyno (one web dyno running Rails and two dynos for some workers), with dynos potentially scaling up (especially web dyno).

I've gave a shot at setting up Prometheus, trying out different Ruby gems (discourse/prometheus\_exporter and prometheus/client\_ruby) but with no luck. The problem I'm facing is that dynos are isolated, so even both of these gems have multi process support, it just doesn't work on Heroku. E.g., the official Prometheus client has DirectFileStore
which writes to the same file on the filesystem so that different processes can write to it and then expose the same metrics when /metrics
is called. This doesn't work on Heroku because each dyno gets its own filesystem, so the file can't be shared.

Another option I've looked into potentially is using StatsD, but that will require running a deamon parallel with the Rails app or workers.

Was anyone in a similar situation before? Or do you use something totally different for your metrics for Heroku apps?

Thanks in advance!


P.S. I've posted the same question over at r/rails (link). Hope that doesn't violate any rules.

https://redd.it/nmscnc
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Integrate Github with Rundeck

Is there a way to "natively" integrate github with Rundeck? Specifically, the 1st step of a job is to clone github repo to an inline script (step) so the job can always have the latest version of the script. Moreover, the code can live on github as opposed to an inline script (step) in Rundeck.

https://redd.it/nmsazg
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Recommendations for Dashboard for Exec team and Business

Hi All,

Can this forum please recommend a reference architecture/implementation pattern for dashboard to measure Agile/DevOps metrics? We have just started on the journey and looking for something to measure where we are currently in a way that is easily visible to Business and the Exec Team.

Platform: Jira, Jenkins, Bitbucket Cloud, SVN (Some items will be migrated), k8s + Rancher, sonarqube On-Prem + Sonarcloud

**MVP:**

* Show completed stories within sprints tied into releases
* Show sonarqube stats for repositories
* Show commit metrics for sprints for repositories
* Read-only dashboard, no user input expected.

Things already considered:

* Hygieia
* Custom web app for dashboard using Angular, MongoDB etc. (likely more effort due to having to learn web development)
* DataDog

Anything else you guys can recommend? Leaning towards Hygieia, only issue is the lack of documentation.

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Github Example Projects for strengthning my Job application

Guys, In order to strenghten my job application I want to build a Github profile with some good projects that recruiters might find interesting. However, I have no idea on what to post on Github since most of the stuff I do seems to me to be very trivial since I am still learning and a newbie to this field. I had an idea of posting a repo that helps new users on learning DVCS especially git, but to be frank it doesn't look like a project to me or anything that has not been done a hundred times already (I know I'm stupid). Anyways can anybody suggest ideas on what to build and if anyone can share their github profile that has projects, so I can get a rough idea on what sort of things to do. If that is or seems unethical please tell me and forgive me since English is not my first language

https://redd.it/nn585n
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Any trusted software review sites? Jira, sharepoint, Monday.com, Asana, etc

Hey all.


Trying to help my company make an educated decision using hard data/ or real reviews. Is this a thing? Can I find trusted review sites, or trusted data surrounding specific professional software (revolving around project, task, and process management).


Thank you!

https://redd.it/nn0dce
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What is the difference between Engops and Devops?

I have only recently seen the term "EngOps" thrown around but I don't understand what it is. Anybody have any insight?

https://redd.it/nn2yrt
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Any course that would help me reach a level of proficiency to architecture such a complex architecture?

https://youtu.be/Rgx8dpiPwpA?t=224

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I am a full stack, I am a "senior" developer, but I am light years from being able to architecture a system that's as highly scalable and complex like the one shown in the video, so could you maybe recommend some video tutorials that would help me reach that goal some day?

https://redd.it/nnagxi
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Which are the best online platform to learn DevOps hands on which is close to real world?

Which DevOps course is close to real world scenarios? Iam a complete beginner and would like to learn hands-on and prepare for interviews. In this context iam looking for resources/websites which can give as much hands-on as possible and equip me to do job in the real corporate setup

https://redd.it/nn1sj7
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CI/CD as a NO-CODE Service (Start-up idea validation)

Hey guys,

I have following idea for a startup and wanted to ask your opinion about it. I am not a pro in creating CI/CD pipelines. For some small project of mine I had to invest a lot of time to get my application built and deployed. And most of my projects have the same steps, which had to be configured again and again. I mean you have to execute tests, package/compile, dockerize your app and to deploy it to some registry. For java you will typically use maven or gradle, for JS/TS you will use npm. My idea is to create a service, where a software developer can upload the code or connect it to some git repo. The service should then automatically recognize which framework will be used and process the required steps. The user should have the possibility to configure the steps with a UI, which could do some autosuggestion or validation.

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What do you think about that idea? The target group would be small teams, which cannot afford a DevOps engineer or just do not have the know how about CI/CD.

https://redd.it/nn15ij
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Serverless Stonks checker app for Wall Street Bets: week 3 activity report

A few weeks ago we set up an #API to monitor hot stocks via the Wall Street Bets subreddit. Since then we’ve seen quite a lot of activity in the app.

In this article, we’re showing you some interesting findings: https://dashbird.io/blog/serverless-stonks-checker-activity-report/

https://redd.it/nmutd9
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Is 39 too old to make a career change into Tech more specifically a Devops role?

Is 39 too old to make a career switch? I got turned down for a job that I thought had a great chance at. It was an entry level Cloud Position where they actually get you up to speed on cloud providers your first few months. Then shadow, and eventually on your own. I was even willing to take a pretty big pay cut from my current position (Mechanical Engineer). A couple interviewers even mentioned I was more advanced than what the role required. I have 3 AWS certs (SAP, CDA, SAA). The interviews went great, or so I mustve thought. They were hiring about 3-5 ppl for the same position, and found out today I got passed on. I have a very difficult time even getting my resume seen by the right people let alone getting a call back. Ive applied to hundreds of places within the past year with only a handful of interviews where ive since filled in and have  been filling in knowledge gaps that have showed up during these interviews. I have been applying at Jr level positions and rarely get an interview. Its been very defeating and today just made me feel like ive wasted so much time and effort in the past year to study with all of my free time and i do mean all (After work, weekends, even stopped going to the gym in order to study, Ive gained 30lbs in the past year). It makes me wonder that if at my age its just too late to enter the tech industry?

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