Next steps in devops career

Hi all,

I am currently a devops engineer with a strong focus on cloud and automation. I am earning very well for UK standards and it's unlikely that I would be paid more where I live any time soon even if I were to leave my current company.

However, I am still quite early in my career and I would like to plan for what I need to do during the next few years to be able to reach for these higher salaries. I think I might have to make some changes to my career but it is not clear to me what direction I should take and what these changes would be. Before anyone suggests, I am not interested in going into management. What is the career progression path for devops? What is at the end of this path? How can I make myself more valuable on the job market? I already hold some certifications in the tools we use.

Any related suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks

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Need help introducing Terraform in our K8S deployment workflow

Hello redditers,

I am a backend ruby developer a small company. Last year, we moved away from Heroku to a GKE hosted Kubernetes cluster. So I have been transitioning into becoming a devops guy week after week, discovering tools and best practices as I went along.

So far, we have been using a messy bash script called from the CI to automate things like helm and kubectl deployment. Our main app contains a k8s directory with all the yaml files, etc.

Lately, I started looking at Terraform to manage and track the cluster's state. I had done all the configuration by hand, either clicking around in the Google Cloud console or using the cli. I have followed a quick Terraform udemy course and I am now in the process of importing our environments in Terraform states. I have set up an infrastructure repo (we are on gitlab) with a CI that validates, plans and applies the configuration. It is now live and working.

Now I need to know where the limit is. I have seen that Terraform can manage Helm and Kubernetes and I have started importing cluster-level services like prometheus, grafana, and our traefik ingress using the helm and kubernetes providers.

I think this is ok, since we are managing services that are tied to the clusters: if we need an environment, we definitely need monitoring, etc. set up.

But what about the apps? I have seen blog posts advising to stick to kubectl commands, but maybe this was before the kubernetes provider hit 2.0, and before the beta feature that allows for CRD deployment... I see two options:

- Keep a k8s directory in the apps. The app's CI will then be in charge of packaging the app and the deploy stage will be a series of kubectl and helm commands.
- Externalize the deployment by manually editing the infrastructure project whenever there is a change in pod count, new services, etc. - but that seems complex because I need to keep track and sync the two projects. The app's CI would just run kubectl rollouts to update the images.

What is the best practice here? Is there a third way?

(cross-posting this to devops and terraform subs)

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Reviews on Techworld with Nana devops bootcamp

Can anyone please throw light on Techworld with Nana bootcamp and if it had helped someone to transition to a devops role?

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Resume Review for a DevOps/Cloud related internship

Hey all,

Expected to graduate Dec 2022, looking for an internship or possibly a jr level position related to DevOps/Cloud. Would just like to upload my resume here and see if anyone has any tips that could help. Thanks

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Logging aggregation using a specific docker app

Hello , Is there any docker app that sutomatically runs on docker host and Is able to capture all logs of all containers running on this specific host and display them via web? I nave a suite of 4 docker running inside a docker-compose environment , and i like to have an additional docker-compose service that Is able to gran all logs and display them in a Simply web interface

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Best way to create a log for api

Hello,

I need to admit that I'm not that skilled in coding, hence I typically outsource my IT developed to 3rd party...

I have a company that does backend stuff and another that does front-end...

Clearly in between there are APIs :)

Backend blames front-end for performance and vice versa...

Now I want to check myself and create a little "ping" application, recording in a log the results such as:

- time of ping
- response time
- response code (200, 401 etc...)
- is body response empty or not...

Where do I start? Please

Note: at the moment I'm using VS code "REST API" extension for individual tests...

Thank you :)

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🔥 When Jenkins deployment goes wrong in DevOps

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🔥 When Jenkins deployment goes wrong in DevOps

Jenkins is an open source continuous integration/continuous delivery and deployment (CI/CD) automation software DevOps tool written in the Java programming language. It is used to implement CI/CD workflows, called pipelines

See what happens when Jenkins deployment goes wrong in DevOps...

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Where do you host your CI/CD tools that involves iOS development (Xcode)? I want to move my local hosted Jenkins

Where do you guys host your CI/CD tools that involves iOS development? Because, I want to move my local hosted Jenkins to the cloud, but I saw that Mac's VPS are too expensive for my personal (hobby) projects. Do you have any suggestions?

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Learning path

Hello everyone,

I am 18 years old, looking forward to learn about DevOps (I know this is a methodoly of work, but in terms of tools and concepts). What do you recommend to learn to start entering this field? I have been using Linux Ubuntu for almost a year, some Git and watch some tutorials of Docker, Jenkins and Kubernets.

Thank you.

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How to know if the progress made is good progress?

I have been DevOps Intern for six months since July 2020. I have been full time DevOps engineer in same company till date.
My working hours have been different in different times. In all this time, I have gained 2 AWS certifications(CCP and SAA-C02). I have experience with containerization using docker as a tool, kubernetes for orchestration. Experience with AWS as well. I am proficient in use of Terraform for IaC. I can write decent python scripts as well. I also have experience with CI/CD in AWS.

I know I am blaberring about tools, but these are what I worked with.
Last but not the least, I know DevOps is not about tools, its about culture, and I get the big picture, design of resilient architectures, security, etc. And I am gaining experience with those as well.

The problem is here, I have a very small team where I work. So, in a way, I don't know if what I am learning is actually what is used in real world. Seems like I have way too less exposure. And all new job descriptions expect high level of experience in such roles. And I feel that maybe I haven't progressed at all, or maybe for my experience I should be doing something crazy.

TLDR: need a review/evaluation of my profile/progress to know if its good skills/ what all more is needed and how much would companies be willing to pay me for my current skills

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I built an open-source GraphQL powered search engine for your AWS infrastructure.

Hey all!

CloudGraph is an open-source search engine for your public cloud infrastructure, powered by DGraph and GraphQL. Within seconds, query assets, configurations, and more across accounts and providers. CloudGraph also enables you to solve a host of security, compliance, governance, and FinOps challenges in the time it takes to write a single GraphQL query.

CloudGraph currently supports select services on AWS, with more added each week. Support for Azure and Google Cloud is coming soon as well. I'm also looking forward to contributions from the community and have endeavored to make contributing new providers and services as simple as possible.

I posted about my OSS project on r/aws on Friday and was truly overwhelmed by the support I received there so I thought I might share it here too in the chance that anyone finds it useful and would be willing to provide me with feedback. I figured there might be some users here who are not a part of that sub?

Anyways, I would love any feedback you have! Not looking to self-promote just genuinely want to get feedback on how I can make this better and more useful for fellow dev/sec/ops folks and hear about potential usecases. In particular, are there any features/providers/capabilities that would be cool to add? Thank you so much for your help - it's hard to get a new project off the ground so your ideas mean a lot!

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How Much do you make?

Curious about those of you with strong programming skills and strong ops skills. What's your level (junior, mid, senior, staff), salary, total comp and where do you live? I'll go first:

Senior, $215k, $310k, Seattle

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Do you need to know how to code to be a DevOps Engineer?

A topic I see come up regulalry, particularly with people in traditional sysadmin roles or operational roles is whether or not they need to know how to code, and if so, to what degree.

In this post I lay out my thoughts on the matter, the value of knowing how to code - if it's required at all - and whether or not it's really coding that's the important facet.

You can read the article here: https://brailsford.xyz/2021/09/do-you-need-to-know-how-to-code-to-be-a-devops-engineer/

As a complete aside, I'm trying to get into writing my thoughts on technical subjects down, this being my first attempt. As much as I welcome discourse on the subject matter, feedback on the writing style, presentation, etc. is more than welcome too! :)

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Cheaper hosting options for headful Puppeteer?

Hello dev op engineers.

I made a Puppeteer app that needs to run in headful mode since it's recording audio/video. For those that don't know, Puppeteer is just a tool to spin up chrome and do things automatically via code. Headful means that it will open it just like you or I do on our desktop, headless meaning it just simulates it in the background but you never actually see it.

Anyway, in order to host this I've just been using an Azure VM, but this is really expensive. Even when when running it on an Ubuntu Server VM with Xfce, the lowest I can turn down the VM to until it can't open chrome and load pages in a timely manner costs about $50/month.

Anyone know of a cheaper way to host this? Or is the fact of the matter just that if a host needs to be powerful enough to run a desktop like Xfce and open the chrome browser, it's going to be about this expensive?

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Cloudflare dynamic worker URL

I created a Cloudflare worker and added "example.com/url/look" as an additional worker route and it worked, the only issue is the worker that I have created is dynamic as when I try adding another route to it, it gives an access denied error.

For example, "something.workers.dev"(my worker URL) points to a page and "something.workers.dev/route/variable" is another page and it's dynamic since that "variable" will give different result everytime(it checks for a particular thing and gives result according to that). I need this routing possible with my additional route. If I go to " example.com/url/look/route/variable", it performs that check and gives me the result according to my "variable".

This is the best I could think of to explain my issue.

Thanks

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Folder / scripting naming convention and layout

Hi all,

We are a network team which uses python scripts and Ansible playbooks to help us with daily tasks, pushing configuration to devices etc. The scripts work with different vendors and perform a wide range of functionality.

Needless to say the current folder structure in which we keep our files is a complete mess. I would like to optimize this, do you all have some advice, best practices and / or how do you manage the structure on a centralized tooling machine?

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Looking For Capstone Project Survey Respondents and Interviewees

Good day everyone!

​

My groupmates and I are undergraduate students currently taking up a degree in Information Technology. We are in the process of creating our capstone project entitled, "Development of a DevOps Infrastructure as a Learning Toolkit for DevOps Self-Practice and Team Development". The capstone project aims to provide a learning toolkit which helps people learn the different concepts of DevOps through different cases in a DevOps pipeline.

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My group are currently looking for DevOps professionals and practitioners to answer a survey and to have an interview with so that we may know what kind of realistic cases and production environment which should be used for the learning toolkit.

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If you want to learn more about our capstone project, the link to our capstone project proposal can be found here.

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Link to the survey and interview scheduling here.

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TightVNC without password

Has anyone tried to use tight vnc on linux boxes without any authentication? I want to connect to the vnc via ssh tunnel and don't want to use a password. Any idea how to start the server without password ?

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Hands-On Learning Resources to Master Containers, Kubernetes, and Clouds

Hi, fellow Dev & Ops people!

I spent quite some time recently reviewing interactive learning platforms, and I'd like to share my findings.

What platforms I was looking at:

* teaching Linux, Containers, Kubernetes, and other Clouds Native stuff;
* offering free-play sandboxes and/or guided hands-on labs;
* providing in-browser SSH terminals, online IDEs, or temporary cloud accounts.

A [crowdsourced list](https://twitter.com/iximiuz/status/1441826086489235456) got \~15 positions, and I closely reviewed every platform mentioned there. The [resulting analysis](https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/learn-by-doing-platforms/?utm_medium=reddit&utm_source=r_devops) contains a brief platform description, available content and playgrounds, and, of course, the price.

Initially, I was doing it mostly for myself (have some thoughts on augmenting my blog with learning playgrounds), but then I figured that other people also might find the results useful.

Cheers!

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RPA(Blueprism) -> cloud computing (AWS)

I am an experienced professional with 5 yrs of experience in RPA (Blueprism) and now wish to switch career in cloud computing...would be really helpful if anyone who has explored this path earlier would share some ideas/leads...
Just to add I have done AWS solutions architect certificate as starting point... It would be really helpful if someone can help me with some projects ideas to start with and some tips to build the resume for interviews.

Thanks in advance !!

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CertBot Lambda

Hi mates, i need using certbot inside Lambda function. Actually i found some workarounds but it is not working clearly. I need use certbot's all functionality. Btw it may not be in only just a fuction.

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