Do Github actions have an IP address?

I tried to connect to a server through SSH, but I kept getting I/O timeouts. Tried doing it through a VPN server and somehow it worked, so I am wondering what's the IP of the Github action. Is there a way to easily find out? Is it a static IP or does it change with every action? How do you whitelist the IPs? Do you just enter all of the possible IPs in the AWS whitelist?

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Kbrew: Install any complex app on Kubernetes with one step!

https://github.com/kbrew-dev/kbrew

As a Kubernetes engineer I wanted something that would install any complex app in one command assuming the context of my environment. Please checkout, and would love feedback!

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DevOps Role - Now a days

Hi folks,

I dont know whether this is my understanding, Now a days the line between DevOps, SRE and Prod Support is getting thinner n thinner. When I have started working in DevOps area, there are DEVs, DevOps and Prod Support team, all 3 are having the different role to play. Now, Org are expecting DevOps to do the On Call Support and Play role of SREs in case of issue.

What is your take on this?

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What are some open source container orchestration tool?

Azure Kubernetes service is a good tool but it’s costly.
Is there any open source and reliable orchestration tool?

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Can you point the host to a microtik server in a Github action?

name: staging
on:
push:
branches:
- 'gh-pages'
jobs:
docker-compose-down:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: compose-down
uses: appleboy/ssh-action@master
with:
USERNAME: admin
HOST: vpn.presto.com
KEY: ${{ secrets.MY_KEY }}
port: 2247
script: |
cd /github.com/mydashboard
docker-compose down

Ok, so this Github action no longer works, and I am thinking it's because the DNS config for [vpn.presto.com](https://vpn.presto.com) was changed. If I ssh into it, it's a Microtik server and so I can't do any linux command like cd and ls. The reason why I think there was a DNS change is because in the Github action config you see ubuntu-latest when a Microtik server is a routing server that's not Linux based, or at least it seems so. Also, I can't find the folder /github.com/mydashboard inside of it.

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Banzai Logging operator : Fluentbit > Fluentd > Loki 'entry out of order'

Hi Everyone,
Has anyone faced this issue with FluentD and Loki ?


Tried adjusting buffering time, timestamp, flush interval, upgrading fluent bit to 1.8.3 , upgrading Loki to version in master and etc


Nothing helps, part of the logs is lost in "out of order" and doesn't get pushed. From time to time, logs stop flowing into the Loki
Any ideas are welcome :)






2021-0x-0x 17:00:17 +0000 warn: #0 clusterflow:logging:all-logs-to-loki:clusteroutput:logging:loki-logging-output failed to write post to https://loki.xxx:3100/loki/api/v1/push (400 Bad Request entry with timestamp 2021-08-03 16:22:28.463529755 +0000 UTC ignored, reason: 'entry out of order' for stream: {, format="json",entry with timestamp 2021-08-03 16:52:28.463548525 +0000 UTC ignored, reason: 'entry out of order' for stream:

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Alternative to CD based on ssh

So, your CI creates artifacts and store them somewhere (e.g. Cloud storage), if you don't want the CI/CD tool to directly trigger the deployment via ssh, what are the alternatives? I can guess something like a cron job or Puppet can do it, but I'm curious to see what else is used (beside k8s-based approach).

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Advice for a Junior DevOps Engineer.

Hey Everyone! I am 31 years old Junior DevOps Engineer (I know , I started the tech career pretty late).
Currently I am interviewing to a Senior role where I will be reporting to CTO. It will be expected a lot from me.
I am 90% sure that I passed the interview and they are going to give me an offer. And they are moving very fast.

My questions are: should I reject that offer even though it is a good opportunity to grow?

Yes, I admit. My resume looks good on a paper. However, I am not that good as my resume states.

Should I just reject the offer and save myself from an embarrassment?

Or they will accept me as I am and let grow in the company?

Thanks in advance!

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What do you think a Cloud/DevOps Architect needs to master?

As the title says, in your opinion what are the skills and knowledge to become a good Cloud/DevOps Architect. Both hard and soft skills

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Ansible - Create a role that includes other roles

# SOLVED:


In `meta/main.yml` I can just have the following:

---
dependencies:
- role: role1
- role: role2


_______________________

I have organized all my playbooks into roles. Now that I have all the roles, I'm trying to create a new role that would include all the other roles.

In Ansible, is it possible to create a role that just calls other roles? If so, is it possible to do it as a list, like in a playbook:

---
- hosts: webservers
roles:
- role1
- role2
- role3

Thanks ahead.

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Alerts Based on Dashboard



Hello Community,

I need some guidance on setting up the alerts, we have the 2 replicas of an application running in a namespace for which I need to set up alerts for the following conditions met,

At 60% threshold, a warning should be triggered

At 75% threshold, an high severity should be triggered

Please note we are fine with using Grafana alerting system, and I understand we need to first create a dashboard to set up alerts in Grafana. What is the query to create the dashboards for a specific pod and namespace cpu and memory utilization?

Thanks,

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Dev to Devops with concerns

Peers,

I am interested in moving to devops team from the software developer side. I pioneered the deployment at my company at the request of the director of release management / devops. Whom doesn't know how truly to build a deployment pipeline let alone coordinate infrastructure as code. I was solicited to join the team. The problem is - this team works crazy hours. So I know I do not want to participate in deployments multiple nights a week which is overtime hours without the overtime pay.

The question to those of you in here that are purely devops/deployment folks. Is it normal practice to work most evenings every week. I'm taking minimum 48 hour weeks on salary? And yes - there is more technical debt than I can count which presents the need to deploy after hours, but I imagine there would be some comp time or rolling shift schedule to prevent the whole team (< 5 people) to work guaranteed overtime.

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Application settings?

A quick poll on how you're storing and dealing with application settings.

We're mostly rendering and templating them out from yaml to applicationsettings.json with ansible.

Not crazy about this approach and would like to move towards consul/vault.

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Transitioning from AWS to Azure

Hey there. I’ve been doing devops for the past couple of years but focused only on AWS. Now I accepted a new role but it is using Azure. I was using OSX and terminal to install and run ansible, terraform, and other tools. Now I am on a windows 10 laptop and not sure what the equivalent setup should be. I haven’t used windows to develop in forever. Does anyone have any guides or recommendations for someone like me who is making this transition? How is your Windows environment set up? I’d like it to be as close to OSX as possible.

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Site reliability Engineer(SRE) @Apple, Bangalore

I have upcoming interview for SRE @Apple, Bangalore. However, I had few questions and if anyone could suggest regarding them, it would be awesome

1. How much increase in compensation one can expect?

2. What is the break up of the compensation one can expect(Base? Stocks? Bonus?)

3. How good is role change/transition process @Apple. I am aiming to transition to SDE-2 in 1-2 years at Amazon. I don't mind if it takes a bit more time at Apple due to new company. What is the scope for time change at Apple

4. What are the chances to change teams? Specifically, chances to move to a US team from India

5. What questions can I expect for the interview?

I am currently L5 System Development Engineer @Amazon

YOE - 8


#software #engineering #apple #amazon #sreinterview #sre #systemdev

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Moving From a Full-Stack to DevOps Position, what can I expect?

Currently considering a very good offer for a DevOps Position from a Big Corporation. Always considered a DevOps position to be more of a noncoding role, but my friend, who is a DevOps dev apparently codes all the time. I am 27 and I have alot of experience under my belt as a front-end and back-end dev already.

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I am just wondering, what should I expect when switching over from Full-Stack to DevOps? I enjoy coding and algorithms. I always end up doing a leetcode problem every morning before I start my workday as a sort of ritual. I am hoping the programming aspect of my job will not disappear when I start.

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Do you have to go through user-support roles (sysadmin) to get into Cloud Engineer roles

Hello Guys,

Background: 1st Line/2nd Line IT guy for O365 and Windows 10 etc. for the past 3 years looking to grow career over the coming years. Interested in Azure/Cloud/Powershell/Automation etc.

Supporting users in a traditional IT role with on prem servers or Intune is something which doesn't pay as much and isnt as cool or sexy (at least to me) as being a Cloud Engineer in Azure/AWS setting up servers and apps in servers, devips stuff etc.
Actually the pay is probably 2 times the pay for traditional IT here in the UK

Is it recommended to first be a system admin in a user support role before becoming Cloud engineer in Azure/AWS GCP, basically what I described above? Have any of you done that on your journey?

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Full suite comparison: BitBucket vs Gitlab vs Github?

Hi, so I'm about to start a new web application project and have some years of experience in Fullstack with PHP, Node and Python.
At my previous jobs, I've worked with all three of them, Github, Gitlab and Bitbucket and was wondering which one you suggest and like more, regarding issue tracking, hosting the codebase, CI/CD/Pipelines, Wiki and so on and so forth.

I'm curious what your experiences are and which one you would pick for starting a new startup company with the goal to build enterprise software and scale to a team of 50 one day? (I know, big dreams)

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Career growth as a DevOps

What are some of the career growth opportunities as a DevOps Engineer?
What are the expectations of those roles?

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Pipeline Orchestration Tool

I'm searching for a tool, or set of tools, to support automating deployment processes for our staging and prod environments. We are not ready for CD (probably never will be) so that's not on the table, but we do have decent CI. Essentially though, this tool would look similar to a CI/CD frontend where various pipeline stages are shown and the user can easily monitor the progress and logs of each task. Each task is basically a script that submits an http request, executes a database query, or executes a Salt master command (yes we use Salt stack I know it's not great). The plan is to provision all of these resources using IaC as much as we can.

In addition, some of the tasks we will perform out of band of a deployment because something went wrong with the deployment or we need regenerate data in our read caches; stuff like that. We exclusively use AWS so something that's supported there would be ideal due to the ease of integrating secret fetching and vpc endpoints, etc, although that's not a hard requirement. Most of these ad-hoc tasks do require some custom input parameters, so having a UI form would be ideal.

The best options right now appear to be AWS Stepfunctions and maybe AWS EMR. I've been looking into stepfunctions quite a bit, and it does appear to support mostly what we want, but it doesn't have a configurable form UI generator (the inputs are just a textbox in json format). The logging in stepfunctions is also a little quirky because there's no easy way to drill down into the logs (afaik). I know that we can build UIs that drive the stepfunctions, but I'm wondering if there's something that already fits our use case.

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How would the ideal infrastructure based repository look like at a startup

Working on building out the cloud based infrastructure at a startup but I am not used to having no structure at all. How would you recommend I start building out infrastructure in a gaming startup?

We are going with terraform and AWS to start with.

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