Getting into DevOps

Hello,

I’m after some information that would help me get into the DevOps role as I unfortunately flunked out of my CS degree (final year) as I was not in a good situation.

Currently, I am in the “do everything from web dev, customer service, setup and configure networks, AD management, to backups, patch management for software and servers, AV endpoint management, incident response, Azure/365 admin, diagnose common problems with software, hardware and all three major OSes, hardware repair, random security related tasks and the list goes on” role at a small company for 1 year. (Don’t even know the title for my job would be)

I am working towards getting entry-level AWS certificates and RHCSA as I see them to be the best for getting my foot in the door (would prefer to be vendor agnostic with Linux), as well as playing with Git, Docker, Ansible, Terraform and K8s, while concurrently playing with Python, Golang and ML. Going to start with Jenkins soon. I have always been interested in the Pen testing role (also working towards OSCP), but am open to the wider InfoSec/CyberSec role.

Am based in the UK. Any suggestions on what I should do break into the space? Not many junior roles around me and worried that the lack of degree would close a lot of doors on me.

Thank you.

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Development databases in Docker aren’t good enough

Hi r/devops,

Full disclosure - I'm a software engineer working on Spawn. We've put together this blog post to discuss why we think Docker falls short of giving you realistic and useful development database environments: https://medium.com/spawn-db/development-databases-in-docker-arent-good-enough-503ea95e7545

Your thoughts and opinions on this would be very welcome!

We've certainly felt the pain of using development database environments only to find out that our changes go wrong when they reach production. We built Spawn to try and make that pain go away by making it possible to instantly provision realistic production-like environments for Dev and CI workflows.

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Six mistakes to avoid while considering DevOps transformation

Discussed a few common mistakes that businesses should avoid to achieve transformational change with DevOps. What to Avoid When Considering DevOps Transformation

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What is your opinion on Incident Management Tools

Hey Folks,


I am interested in what other teams are using for incident management tooling.
Are you rolling your own or using a SAAS provider such as Pagerduty / Splunk On Call (formerly Victorops) / Squadcast.
I am currently going down the journey of implementing a third party service to intelligently handle alert / event notification and routing.


From what I have seen so far a lot of the providers seem to have feature parity with the key difference coming down to price.

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setting up a new environment in azure (beside the existing AD)

hey guys,

coming from google cloud, so azure is kind of new for me (and the company I joined as well)...

i want to setup a somehow separated cluster for k8s and create all the needed stuff like networks, etc. with terraform.

we already use office365 and the azure AD, but nothing else like VMs or DBs.

how can I avoid destroying the AD while creating my k8s stuff? no on in the company has knowledge about that, and I maybe google'd the wrong stuff.

can I just create a "project" like in google cloud (is that "Tennant" the proper equivalent thing for this?) or do I need to do something else?

Best,

dejeckehoot

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Currently joined as a devops engineer

Its been few days since i joined as a devops engineer and i Have little/basic experience of 6 months from my previous job,

Currently i have been asked to look into their application stack and below is the stack,

Frontend: angular
Backend language: C#
Backend framework: .net core
Cloud: Azure, soon to be shifting to AWS
Database: postgresql
CI : jenkins

I have to shortly design and implement an architecture by myself which i am very excited and frightened at the same time to create three environments for test, demo and production with high availability and scalability.

This is how i am planning to implement on AWS as cloud provider,

Code > gitlab > jenkins > ansible > docker

The code will be pushed to gitlab and the code will be pulled automatically to jenkins to run a job via webhooks.

In Jenkins i need add a few ssh commands to push the build version to dockerhub with env variables and add a post build action towards ansible to run the deployment and service yaml scripts

Now i am stuck in thinking with three big questions

1) if i should use only docker and docker swarm to deploy the web application.

2) Or shall i use Kubernetes cluster in place of docker from above architecture stack for both containerization and orchestration.

3) this is my major stuck point, how the hell do i go about attaching the database to the web application if i am using docker or Kubernetes.

Please advise

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Azure Devops installation

Hi all,

I would like to get Azure DevOps setup and was wondering if I need to install Git before I can use DevOps?

Thanks in advance.

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Can you link to any videos which explain how a server farm backs up its data? It must be a very large amount of data to backup & I’d like to learn more about how it’s done.

Is it typically raid drives, on-site removables aka iron mountain, off-site using a wide pipe, etc.

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What motivates you?

I became a devops engineer from developer and I feel I am no longer driven or motivated. As a developer I used to be excited to write code and create applications and now I feel my job is to run what others are writing. There is no true product innovation in that. Any thoughts or suggestions?

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Measure the uptime of the kubernetes services with prometheus?

Can any body help with this or give me an idea how to go about it, I struggle to find relevant content on google about this

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Which is a good book or tutorial to learn operating system concepts as a foundation for DevOps

Hi iam looking to learn operating system concepts as a foundation for DevOps learning. Could you please help with a tutorial or book

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OAM for Non-Containerized Apps

Has anyone tried Open Application Model (OAM) to simplify , abstract infrastructure for Non-Containerized Applications ?

OAM Spec

I could see only reference implementation for Kubernetes, Containerized Apps.

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Tracking TechStack versions

Hi mates, guys how can i track or monitor my tech stacks versions? For example we are using our infrastructure Java, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Nodejs and others.I wanna monitor all these technologies's versions.I create some platform or some scripts which these give informations about TechStack and also track new, latest versions notifications about it.

P.S sorry my english. Ty

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What's the typical markup rate by Randstad for a devops engineer position.

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out a typical markup rate by Randstad for a devops engineer position with 10 years of experience going through them to the client.

I know there are many unknown variables to consider but I'm generally trying to understand from their recruiting stand point on what's the lowest they can do.

Knowing that might give me a little perspective on quoting the contract rate while working Corp to Corp engagement.

Regards.

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OAM for Non-Containerized Apps

Has anyone tried Open Application Model (OAM) to simplify , abstract infrastructure for Non-Containerized Applications ?

OAM Spec

I could see only reference implementation for Kubernetes, Containerized Apps.

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What do you all think of cloudbees ci?

Team is considering whether to refactor our Jenkins systems for Kubernetes or use Cloudbees solution.

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Terraform UI for non technical CLI users

I currently have a server build process that uses Terraform and deploys a server all from code.

I'm looking for a web UI with forms that I could either populate specific fields and or do API get commands against a VCenter or wherever the server is being built to populate the specific fields. The fields that get populated would be stored as the variables.tf file and when someone hits submit, it would run the actual Terraform command terraform apply to build the server based on the variables. My guess is the terraform binaries would have to live on there so it could run in the background.

It doesn't have to be some super fancy web page, just something that I could potentially make look cool for Director level folks.

Also, I don't want to use TF enterprise, yet. I've looked into a couple of open source projects (atlantis and terrahub) but none seem to be what I'm looking for.

I'm far from a web developer so any help would be awesome.

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What do you think would be a modern vision on integration?

What do you think would be a modern vision on integration? I'm noticing more and more a trend to event-driven architectures, with possibly lots of consumers, sometimes with a centralized event bridge or stream.

This does eat away some from the more synchr natured systems, altho I feel they too have their place in the ecosystem.

Would one be preferable over the other with ideas about scaling out, future work and ops? Is a vision, event-driven, unless there is a specific need for sync ? Or the other way around?

And talking about event bridges: Contracts for message structure are now possible not only at the endpoints, but also at the middle layer and I wonder if that is a good thing to do?

I'm pretty interested in you guys' opinion and experience.

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How do you prefer to learn a new platform that your company purchased?

Hello engineers! I work in customer education and we are building an academy for the product we build (cloud native security platform). I'm curious to know:


how do you like to learn about a new tool? In-product education? eLearning in the form of a course? Short video tutorials?
Do you go straight to the docs?
Do you jump right in to the tool and try things out?
Do you register for webinars or in-person training?

What academies are out there that you think are great examples of product education? What about ones that are kind of terrible?

I want to make sure we are building the right type of training for our audience, and not just doing a 'product feature dump' in the form of self-directed courses which are really just 'prettified' versions of our docs.

Thank you!

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Create CD with ansible

In our git repo, there's an important python file which defines all our production servers.

Each server is an object that has values and these can be queried against. For example: I can query a request to get all servers where region=US and it would return an array of these servers.

Right now, there are big changes in the company and a lot of attributes are being changed. Each time someone pushes such a change, I have to run an Ansible playbook on that server and it automatically does the rest. (In the Ansible playbook, I just have to change the value of -hosts: to the changed server and run the playbook. The playbook automatically knows what changes to make by querying the python file).

Is there a way to create a continuous deployment sort of thing where if someone changes certain attributes for a specific server, it would automatically run the ansible playbook against that specific server?

Please excuse the question if it's dumb, I'm not very familiar with devops culture.

Thanks ahead!

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Redis Sentinel HA Setup Configuration and how it works?

I don't know is this the right place to ask this. But because Redis usually used in devops environment, I will ask here.

So, I just learn about Redis and want to bootstrap an HA Redis using Sentinel. I read a lot of articles, one from here: https://medium.com/@amila922/redis-sentinel-high-availability-everything-you-need-to-know-from-dev-to-prod-complete-guide-deb198e70ea6


As far as my understanding, there is only one MASTER (read+write) and some slaves (read only). Then, from client perspective how to connect to this cluster? If I add LB as reverse proxy, and my LB redirect to slave node but my client wanna do write operation what will happened? Or on my client should list all 3 nodes? Or using pacemaker-->create VRRP and bond master to VRRP?

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