How do you keep organized?

I was trying to think of the subreddit to post this in. This isn't really the right one, but I've worked with DevOps & IT people for many years and I know they always have like fifty different things to do, so I guess I'll ask here.

I work for a small nonprofit. I'm a Linux server admin, a webmaster, I take support phone calls for both employees and customers, I manage livestreams from the company, and I manage google analytics and adwords for the company. The way the work load is balanced in the company, there is simply no one else to take any work off my shoulders, and that's fine. We're all very passionate and believe in what we are doing.

I work within a team of three, but I more or less have complete autonomy. On top of that I have a one year-old son, I take care of my one year-old step-granddaughter, and I have one more baby on the way. That means I really only get five hours of focused work a day (when we can afford to have a babysitter here). Beyond that I have 2-4 hours of work where I'm simultaneously cooking, taking care of children, etc. Beyond that, I have tremendously bad short term memory, to the point where sometimes forget what I'm doing as I'm doing it. No it's not some horrible brain illness, stop worrying about me, I've been dealing with it for most of my life and I'm fine.

Okay, all that aside: my life is chaos. And every attempt I have made at organizing it has fallen apart. To do ist, calendars, sticky notes, all that shizz - it's not enough, often times because I forget where I put what I was doing. I don't know how to prioritize or how t learn how to prioritize tasks. When I look around, all I see is fires to put out, and not enough time to do it.

The only time I have really been successful is if I get myself into a routine and execute that routine every day. But the problem that I'm having is I have to deal with so many fluctuating variables that I never establish a routine.

So I want to ask -- you professionals out there in demanding companies that want you work functionally thrice as much as you are physically capable of - what tips and tricks do you have for being organized and getting your work done?

Thank you.

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Is there any tool to create diagrams with Git Branches? Something like PlantUML?

I am looking for a tool to design git branches flows declaratively, like PlantUML or something.

I know I can do this in tools like Draw.io but I wanted to do it via "code".

Does anyone know of any tool that allows me to do it?

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Any recommendations for trying to pick up short contracting gigs on top of full time work?

Right now I’m working as a devsecops engineer.

I make good money but I’ve got some debts I want gone immediately.

I figure I could suffer through a 3-month contract gig and double my income for that period and really roll in the dough.

Does anyone have experience with doing this?

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What are your actual job titles?

My boss (CTO) has offered that I come up with my own job title to be listed within the company (and part of my email signature).

My current title is just “Manager”, but when I join meetings, it’s hard for others to quickly understand that I’m more of an architect/devops with a few managerial responsibilities.

I’m assuming many of you are in a similar role, so what the job title encompasses "Senior Software Engineer/Team Lead/Architect/DBA/DevOps with some Managerial Responsibilities”?

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Monitoring/Observability on Fargate

Howdy. I’m currently evaluating a few monitoring solutions for our EKS clusters and have run into some headaches while setting up Datadog for Fargate workloads.

What is everyone using to monitor their clusters and applications?

The whole idea is to have observability into our clusters but also into our applications running in those clusters.

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Remote DevOps Hiring - What Sites to Use?

My US-based company is hiring a 100% remote mid- to senior dev ops position. We are focusing on hiring in South/Central America/Mexico.

What job posting sites for a remote dev ops position will get the most visibility in these markets?

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My 2022 Roadmap

Hi /r/DevOps

Mods - let me know if this is not good and I should remove it!

My boss just recently asked me to put together a roadmap for 2022 and I took that as an opportunity to modernize everything. Some will be harder than others just because but I am excited about it.

Things I have put on my roadmap:
- IaC and Immutable Infrastructure w/ Terraform
- Disaster Recovery with AWS Backups and Terraform
- Site Reliability/Observability, Monitoring, Logging w/ Loki, Jaeger and Prometheus
- A bunch of different bots in Python to check the site, feeds, anomaly detection and different personas to navigate the site
- Nomad, Consul and Vault because life is good :)
- Packer to build docker images and AWS AMIs
- All configuration management with Ansible
- I am adding some PCI and security scans as well.
- A bunch of pipelines for service configuration, server configuration and code deployments.
- Tests of all kids from performance budgets to integration tests.

There is also some Governance, Guidelines and whatnot. I am not brave enough to migrate an eCommerce site to Kubernetes yet Nomad does very nicely for me.

Anyways, I was wondering if you have anything that you think I should add to my roadmap or at least to my R&D Backlog :)!

Goal is to automate everything and treat every piece of IT/code/configuration/services as disposable because it can be recreated on the spot. All secrets and data go to their respective vaults/databases!

Thanks in advance

BA

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Do I need to upgrade log4j again (since last Friday Dec 10 2022 ) ??????

https://blog.360totalsecurity.com/en/log4j-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-exists-in-apache/

https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/compare/log4j-2.15.0-rc1...log4j-2.15.0-rc2

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Job Interview Question - When To Disclose DUI Incident To Potential Employer?

Hello,

I am currently interviewing for a job that I feel pretty confident that I am going to get an offer for (been through 3 rounds of interviews, each one successful, and have one last interview with the hiring manager). I am currently a seasoned IT professional and have been in the industry for around 10 years or so. Unfortunately, I have a DUI which I am not proud about. The incident occurred several years ago at this point and is something I attribute to being a dumb kid in his 20s that has come a long way since then (have a wife and kids now) and learned a great deal from.

Question - If I get an offer, I was thinking of disclosing the DUI (only at this stage of receiving an offer), because I assume if I accept the job offer, they will need to run background checks on me, and the DUI will pop up as a red flag. I just wanted to make sure if this was the best approach? and I should NOT try hiding the incident from the employer / recruiter and basically keeping quiet regarding the DUI incident?

Any feedback / thoughts / advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Is it possible to Jump from a Help Desk job to a Devops position?

Hello everyone, I may potentially start a Help Desk position soon and I am really interested in working with the cloud in the future. With that being said, I'm really interested in DevOps. I only have two certs at the moment. I also have some coding experience. I know I will have to get a Cloud cert but idk if I should get an AWS or Azure one, but i really want to jump from Help Desk to DevOps in a year or a year and a half.

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Do you prefer push mode or pull mode for monitoring your systems?

Pyroscope is an open source continuous profiler and in v0.4.1 we added pull mode support (particularly for Go integration): https://github.com/pyroscope-io/pyroscope/releases/tag/v0.4.1

As an open source project we have less quantitative data to help us understand whether users prefer push mode or pull mode (in general) or even more specifically for getting profiling data about their applications.

Also for context, our Pull mode implementation was greatly influenced by prometheus and most commonly requested by prometheus pull-mode users (fun fact: Github copilot was able to write \~50% of our docs page on this topic likely because of it seeing so much prometheus).

We suspect more people prefer push mode (fundamentally easier to be precise -- in our case specifically about timestamps), but were definitely surprised by how many people requested a pull mode...

Whether its prometheus, datadog, influxDB, etc -- which method do you prefer for monitoring your systems?

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Move from SRE to backend software engineering

Did any of you make this jump? I am considering moving away from SRE because I am simply finding this position to be stressful, I am getting burnt out quickly, works feels unappreciated and the on call is constant.

I have learned coding at uni but I am revisiting concepts with CS50, then I plan to learn OOP and just make the jump.

How hard was it to land a job? Does sre experience counts for the lack of developing experience?

Thanks.

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Ansible with azure key vault

Have anyone tried getting secrets into ansible from azure key vault?
I've spend few hours without any luck...

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WinRM I/O timeout during packer build when using private subnet

Overview of the Issue

I'm trying to create an AWS AMI with packer but it seems like I am running into an issue where it seems WinRM keeps timing out when I use a private subnet.

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I've taken a look and can see there is a IGW attached to the VPC and when I do try this with a public subnet, its able to connect to WinRM just fine with no issues.

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My question is what can be stopping winRM from connecting and how to prevent timeouts from occurring?

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Reproduction Steps:

Launch the template and attempt to create AMI (packer build .)

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Packer version

1.7.8

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Simplified Packer Template:

packer {
requiredplugins {
amazon = {
version = ">= 0.0.2"
source = "github.com/hashicorp/amazon"
}
}
}

source "amazon-ebs" "windowsserver" {
amidescription = "TestAMI"
aminame = "TestAMI"
amiusers = ["${var.amiusers}"]
associatepublicipaddress = false
communicator = "winrm"
instancetype = "${var.instancetype}"
region = "${var.awsregion}"
securitygroupid = "${var.securitygroupid}"
forcederegister = true
forcedeletesnapshot = true
sourceamifilter {
filters = {
architecture = "x8664"
name = "WindowsServer-2019-English-Full-ContainersLatest-*"
root-device-type = "ebs"
virtualization-type = "hvm"
}
mostrecent = true
owners = "amazon"
}
subnetid = "${var.subnetid}"
userdatafile = "./bootstrapwindows.txt"
vpcid = "${var.vpcid}"
winrminsecure = true
winrmport = 5986
winrmusessl = true
winrmtimeout = "60m"
winrmusername = "Administrator"
}

build {
sources = ["source.amazon-ebs.windowsserver"]

provisioner "powershell" {
script = "./SetNetwork.ps1"

]

}

}

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Operating system:

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The EC2 is Windows Server 2019

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\### Packerlog output:

2021/12/13 09:02:59 Using host value: EC2InstancePrivateIP
2021/12/13 09:02:59 packer-plugin-amazonv1.0.1x5.0linuxamd64 plugin: 2021/12/13 09:02:59 INFO Attempting WinRM connection...
2021/12/13 09:02:59 packer-plugin-amazonv1.0.1x5.0linuxamd64 plugin: 2021/12/13 09:02:59 DEBUG connecting to remote shell using WinRM
2021/12/13 09:03:29 packer-plugin-amazonv1.0.1x5.0linuxamd64 plugin: 2021/12/13 09:03:29 ERROR connection error: unknown error Post "EC2InstancePrivateIP:5986/wsman": dial tcp EC2InstancePrivateIP:5986: i/o timeout
2021/12/13 09:03:29 packer-plugin-amazonv1.0.1x5.0linuxamd64 plugin: 2021/12/13 09:03:29 ERROR WinRM connection err: unknown error Post "EC2InstancePrivateIP:5986/wsman": dial tcp EC2InstancePrivateIP:5986: i/o timeout

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GraphQL vs REST - a low-code API showdown

REST and (the newer) GraphQL APIs are the core technologies behind the vast most of today's integrations. These APIs allow external developers to tap into the functionality of the major platforms and build in their custom functionality to suit their needs.

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https://linx.software/graphql-vs-rest-a-low-code-showdown/

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"infrastructure in a bottle"

Hi,

In most of the jobs I worked, there's always a complex issue of testing new code. We always have the "dev" copy of infrastructure. But it's never in sync with prod, used by someone else to experiment with next push.

I am looking for something like VirtualBox but for entire infrastructure. Single command to spawn entire fleet of mock machines, with networks, dns, volumes etc. So I can do end-to-end on a one powerful enough machine.

An infrastructure in a bottle.

I was thinking about Kubernetes, but before I dive into 300 pages book on the subject, I figured it does not hurt to ask here first.

Does anyone know a language of decribing infrastructure, that can be just as much deployed on prod AND deployed locally?


By prod I don't mean AWS or any other provider in particular. On the opposite, I am happy to setup my own machines if that gives me this single use case.

Kind Regards

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Where are you finding high paying jobs?

I keep reading that DevOps and SRE jobs are high paying in the $300k+ range but I rarely see any for that. I am located in Canada but looking for a remote US job and seeing almost none in that salary band. I wanted to ask and see where people are finding these high paying jobs? I currently make decent enough money but not close to what others are saying they make. Advice?

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Improving Application Availability with Pod Readiness Gates

Hi /r/DevOps,

Today I published an article titled "Improving Application Availability with Pod Readiness Gates", where I explain how to use Kubernetes Readiness Gates to create custom Pod status conditions and to implement complex readiness checks in places where liveness and readiness probes just aren't good enough.

Here's the link: https://towardsdatascience.com/improving-application-availability-with-pod-readiness-gates-4ebebc3fb28a

Feedback is very much appreciated!

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How to get the Kafka confluent developer or administrator certification ?

Hey everyone I just started working as a Devops engineer and I have been working with Kafka for about a month now, in order for me to make sure that I really understand Kafka and that I am fully autonomous while using I decided to pass the confluent official certification in 2 months. (And also use it as an argument to get better jobs proposal).

I have 2 questions :
- The certification is only valid for 2 years, do I need to pay again to extend it ?
- Do you have any tips to get the certification ?

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How do you test your cloud based resources if its written as IaC? Do you apply the same testing pyramid concepts?

I actually have two questions here,

The first would be on automation testing for the IaC itself, as I've recently started reading about different tools which can do this (e.g. terratest - it requires go knowledge though, RSpec - requires some ruby knowledge)
I'm interested to know more about your implementations for testing IaC, how did it benefit you/your team and the ROI of applying it.


The second question would be on how you guys do performance and stress testing? as I'm interested to know real world experience regarding it.

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Noop Question: Is it possible to Automate the Creation and Configuration of VM in Azure?

Hello there!

Currently, I'm working with a small team on a huge project, because that we need to do pretty much everything in the project (backend, frontend, support, business stuff, and DevOps).

I was thinking in find ways to get rid of support things, that can be massive sometimes. One of the things is the task to create and configure new Virtual Machines to Client when requested.

What we currently:
\- Clone Machine (the machine can be new or some that already exist)
\- Enter the VM and execute a script that will configure it:
\- Change hostname
\- Change username and password
\- Update few certificates
\- Enter the Server and add a new machine to the list

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So can it be automated, or some part of it?


Thanks!

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