Should I get into DevOps for money despite being interested in web development?

I am an accountancy graduate but gonna do my Masters in Computer Application. I want to enter IT field so I am deciding which role should I give all my focus to. My Masters would be of 2 years, so I wanna give my all to learn about the role I am gonna choose. As the title says, I am inclined towards DevOps because of the Stack Overflow Survey which showed it being one of the highest paying role. Although, I think I am more interested in learning web or android development.

So should I get into DevOps just because it shows better financial growth? I think I can do either of them, but I have done few personal projects in web development so it would be easy for me since I have little to no knowledge about DevOps. I am also learning Python.

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AWS or Azure specialization?

As I advance my devops journey I'm curious if you all would recommend specializing in one or the other? Ultimately my question is: which pays better? Is there a difference? AWS has more marketshare, so more opportunities for work, but Azure has less competition who specialize...thoughts?

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scaling question: best way to scale 6000 jobs when each job takes an hour

how would you scale 6000 jobs when each takes an hour.

What I am thinking here is auto-scaling group or min max pods in a kubernetes deployment?

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Terragrunt cache folders size

Anyone using terragrunt
It works well but for any new folder the way we have
One repo for infra
One repo for modules

Each new folder for new infra duplicates entire code in cache

If anyone keeps it same or clears out this periodically

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Is DevOps consultancy right for me? (EU)

Hey everyone. This past Monday I started my first project as a consultant and to be honest I'm already a bit disappointed.

I arrived Monday and was told that the person who was supposed to guide me and explain most things was on holidays for a week.. Basically this week I've done fuck all and no one else even bothered reaching out to ask if I was busy or not.

Is consultancy really technical? I'm getting the idea I'll be going from stupid meeting to stupid meeting now and the actual technical tasks will be 1/5 of my job. This worries me as the field moves faster than this and "wasting" 2 years working on a project like this where I don't get to learn anything will only destroy my career in the long run. My background is in Linux engineering, automation, public cloud and containers btw.

Any advice?

Cheers

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Kanban scaffold boilerplate backlog items and tasks

Like the title says, is there an easier method to create new projects typical tasks? For example, every time we start a new project we create a SQL database project, a domain project and web project and all the general tasks associated with them. Is there a way to save a story/backlog and copy it into a new project?

We use Microsoft devops server on premises. Please and thank you.

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How do we check to what address the application is set?

How do we check to what address the application is set? I have an application and the application needs Docker Traefik to have it accessible at local.website.com, but I am wondering how I can check to what address the application is mapped to if I don't turn Docker Traefik on. I have checked the Docker Traefik docker-compose settings and I don't see any mapping, so I am trying to figure out to what address the application is mapped to. What are some commands I can use to check this? It's an apache application using an ubuntu box using php, node and apache, although the node is just for compiling css.

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Updated Resume Review for Cloud/DevOps Internship/Entry Level

I posted my resume about here about a week ago

Here's the new one. I tried implementing a lot of the feedback but obviously couldn't do everything within 1 page. Anything else anyone suggests? hopefully it looks better than the old one.

Also if anyone would happen to be able to help me out with a referral somewhere I'd appreciate it (closed mouths don't get haha)

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Is Bamboo Considered CD?

When you run the build or deploy, is this considered a CD? Is this continuous delivery or deployment at all?

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Looking for DevOps Hangouts and Events

Hi everyone!

I've been in my role as a DevOps engineer for almost a year now and would love to hang out with like minded people outside of work. I recently got an invite from a colleague to take part in a game coding event called Ludum Dare. I never heard about it before, but I really enjoyed it. Mostly due to the mix of free creativity and socialization between like minded people. This event led me to the idea, that it would be awesome if there was some sort of live hangouts, meetups or events that are more specialized towards DevOps topics. Nonetheless, I would also be interested in some other technical/coding hangouts not necessarily being directly related to DevOps.


I already know about CodinGame, which is quite good, but I find it somewhat limited in the aspects of creative and social expression. I also tried to search on Google, but nothing seemed convincing enough or most of the results seemed more like some info events for random companies or their products.

If anybody have any suggestions I would love to hear them!

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Need help getting started

i’ve been on this subreddit for a few days now and realized that most of you here are devops professionals.

as someone who just started her second year in uni (cs major), how would you suggest to go about devOps. where do i begin?

any help would be appreciated! :D

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Devops Engineer role - feedback wanted!

Hello Everyone,

I am interviewing for a DevOps Engineer role at a startup company and wanting to get some feedback from everyone (Don't get me started that they are looking for a "DevOps Engineer" when in my opinion, DevOps is a culture / mindset, not necessary a role). The company mainly consists of Software Devs that have been wearing other hats to get things going (BA, DBA, Security, etc.) as quickly as possible. I had an initial interview with the manager, and from our discussion it sounds like he wants to focus more on the 'operational' tasks rather than DevOps items for now. Mainly he wants to focus on being able to enable the developers to deploy easier (automation), focus on IAM / Permissions, etc.

I work at a fairly large company today with a lot of these responsibilities divided up into separate teams (Automation Team, IAM Team, Security Team, Cloud Team, etc.) and don't have a lot of exposure with smaller startup level teams.


My question: Is this a 'normal' ask for a DevOps Engineer position to kind of be the jack of all trades in this case (IAM, Security, Automation)? It sounds like they really need an SRE (Operations) person and mainly just a few people to handle the 'operations' side of the house.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Thanks!

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trying to implement orderbook/exchange API

Hi everyone, being developer and not devops, i'm trying to implement a system of orderbook with performances, I've come with an idea so far but would like to know what you guys think about it, what tools should i use or any other advices.

1. orderbook as micro-service, with grpc to expose functions

2. my APIs (websocket, rest, grpc), connecting to those orderbook micro-services

3. a Envoy Proxy for the front end to use the grpc API

What do you think about it?

what tool would you use for this in production?
The first idea I have in mind is kubernetes but I might be missing a point.

Thanks for any advices.

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State of uptime monitoring

Hi! I'm doing some research and would highly appreciate your professional opinions. I've been in software and devops for 15 years - from small startups and consultancies to mid-sized SaaS/platform companies. One thing that has always intrigued me was no-downtime approach to infrastructure, be it deployment or chasing uptime nines. No matter how good the team has been, a reliable monitoring solution is crucial when things go wrong. I've used various tools such as CopperEgg, Uptimerobot, StatusCake, Pingdom, New Relic, Datadog etc. but especially when it comes to startups or small companies, I've never had stellar experience with the services for one reason or the other. Especially for the cases where there's no financial backing or a steady revenue stream, and every cent counts.

I'm curious to know, how's the broader experience using uptime monitoring services. Is all well? Is it something you prefer to handle in-house or outsource to a service? Does the standard pricing model make sense? Any thoughts and opinions for this niche are helpful.

Disclaimer: I'm doing market research for various services ( including uptime monitoring) with the purpose of starting a solo venture myself in a niche where there's a clear need for a solution that doesn't exist or improves greatly on what's already out there.

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What to charge for setting up AWS Account + Application

Hi everyone,

first of all: I'm not sure whether I'm posting in the correct sub. If not please notify me and maybe point me to the correct sub if you know.

Now my question: I've been texting with another user on Reddit who represents a small company in South-America. They asked about how to set up a docker-based application on AWS and had some questions regarding AWS ECS. I answered the questions but they pointed out that it is too complex of a setup for them.
Instead, they asked me what I would charge for setting up the account properly, building the infrastructure and help them to get started. They also offered payment and I'm inclined to help them out because it's a new kind of application for me and would be a great opportunity to get exposure and learn.

My question now is: How much should I charge for setting up: AWS landing zone + small application + knowledge transfer? My background: Certified AWS Architect with a couple of years experience and DevOps background.

Also, I'm not familiar with the legal obligations that come with such stuff. Has anyone here some advice for me?

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Best and thank you for your time

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Which kunernetes cert to get for an EKS devops engineer?

My company is new to kubernetes, and we’re going to use EKS and my team is going to manage the cluster. I was looking for a cert to level up my game and I thought that the Certified Kubernetes Administrator would fit, but now that I’ve started studying for it, it looks like it focuses on a lot of things that EKS abstracts away like managing etcd. Would I be better off going for the Certified Kubernetes Application Deveoper? Keep in mind my team doesn’t write any code but we are going to help train the devs on kubernetes. I already know my way around the basics of kubectl and helm.

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Need some insights

Hey, how are you guys?

I'm 24 and currently I work at a company and I'm kinda of a jack of all trades. I am the sole responsible for CI(Jenkins), release, deploy, database structures and I'm also having to code some tools(not the tools that we use to automate our process, but actual portfolio tools that goes to the clients) since the guy who was with me took another offer. The entire company relies on Windows. The devs only do the dev stuff, so I have to guarantee that what they do is delivered to production. Most of the time I hear "not my problem, it works on my machine!!!". If something happens, it is implied that the problem came from me, the Infraestructure guy.

I'm kinda stressed with all this. I started in 03/2020 as a intern, got hired in 08/20, and became this main guy for everything since the other fella left in March this year. Don't get me wrong, I loved and took this opportunity with the most enthusiasm you could even imagine. My bosses probably think that if I can take care of everything, than there is no need to hire another guy to help. They gave me two raises and all that talk of me deserving it, but actually it's because I'm doing two people's jobs by myself. I know that. And the pay is not even that good. And the overtimes, Jesus Christ, sprint every week, people calling me late night because the bosses need something delivered by the end of the day. Its things on top of things that need attention at the same time. I can't say no. Give multiple stuff to me and I will deliver in the next hour. Probably that was my mistake, showing what I can actually do.

I'm trying to learn new things. Got in love with the DevOps culture. But I need to learn so much. I'm a fast learner. I can adapt really well. I started with Linux and Docker, and I know the basics of it. Can I start applying for other jobs that requires it? What are my chances? Are companies willing to get a guy who is ready to learn, with passion and hungry, or to they need those skillsets asap?

I feel like I'm stuck. Knowing a bit of everything won't get me far.

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what is Lightweight, self hosted CICD in 2021 ?

what is the

lightest
simple
self-hosted
easy installable

CICD ?

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Self-service automation portal - recommendations?

Looking for recommendations of self-service web portals with approval flows to front automation scripts/tools.

Typical use-case: developer wants to request a new integration environment. They go to a web portal and login with SSO. Choose "new environment" from a catalogue of options and fill out some info. Request is emailed to manager for approval of the cost. Once approved the portal calls our CI which executes terraform and other scripts.

Looking into ServiceNow automation which is functionally perfect but big $$$.

Looked into Ansible Tower but the self-service portal seems quite new and basic.

Anyone got any recommendations on tools that work for you?

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What agile methodology (if any) do you prescribe to for your DevOps work?

My company runs the development team through a Scrum-based methodology for development (this is basically required for our app anyway). I do most of my work within the development team so I haven’t really questioned my DevOps work also being part of Scrum at least on the ticket side.

But I’ve recently realized it doesn’t truly prescribe to the Scrum methodology as new tooling/update to pipelines/logging are “released” as they’re finished and tested, not on the sprint cycle, so it’s more of a Kanban approach. To me, that seems better suited to the DevOps cycle.

What do you use? And if you’ve used both, what advantages/disadvantages did you see between them?

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deploying code to bare metal fleet

We have a growing bare metal fleet that we want to automate deployment of our python and go code via our pipeline.

Ideally with a push button deployment, rather than fully automated.

Currently using ansible, but maybe that is not ideal.

I have used ansible AWX in the past, but keeping up with the versions and constant breakages is painful.

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