Differences in AWS, Azure to look at as a recruiter

Hi all! As stated in the title, I am a recruiter working in FinTech and newer into my role. I'm looking for ways to distinguish between a truly experienced Azure DevOps engineer versus someone more green in that area with previous experience in AWS.
A few thoughts below, I'm sure there are a ton of other questions and ponders that haven't come to me quite yet! Feel free to comment as you see fit, be it on a listed question or else!
Is it an easy migration from AWS to Azure?
Huge differences in the two, ie would someone with a strong background in AWS (10yrs+) and a few years of experience in Azure be as skilled in Azure as someone with say, 5-6 years in total experience in Azure?
What are some differentiators to look out for when looking at resumes with both experience types when I'm hiring for Azure? Biggest notable things that I should see on a resume for an Azure DevOps Engineer versus that of an AWS Engineer?
Thanks in advance!

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I got an interview call from Google and the designation for which they are hiring is Strategic Cloud Engineer.

What question should I expect in the Google interview for strategic cloud engineer ? I am first time giving interview for google. Just need an idea regarding the same.

Thanks in advance!

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Fresh College cybersecurity grad. Opportunity in DevOPs

I recently graduated from college with a degree in cyber security. I feel quite efficient but never learned any language of coding. I would consider myself a beginner in the coding realm. Recently applied to a gaming company that took interest in me, but put me more in a Devops position. I have 1 week to complete an assignment and have 3 days left. The last two question are out of my realm. I've been searching the internet and reddit and have gotten answers but want additional clarification. As I said I have very little coding knowledge and am running iOS. For one of the task they want me to provide a powershell which I had no idea what is was prior to this assignment and have more knowledge on it now but still, scratching the surface. Below I provided some of the info. Still I am not sure what to do and if I should use what i found online regarding the code. Then should i submit it on the word sheet or on visual studio code? Still haven't been able to download powershell on VS Code and not sure how to tackle this. I've also attacked the website that I was going to base the code off of, but not sure how to submit it all.

Any insight helps. Thank you

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FluxCD + TekTon

hi - I am planning to bootstrap the k8s cluster setup using FluxCD for -

 

- installing tekton crds and dashboard
- install/update pipeline definitions
- sealed secrets

 

is this a good approach or is there a better practice to manage tekton+pipelines prior to servicing git webhooks?

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EC2 auto management!

Hey everyone. I work for a company that has a cloud management technology especially for EC2 / EBS (through auto selling RIs on the secondary market and reducing cost by 50%) and I was wondering if anyone in this subreddit would be interested to hear / chat about it :)

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Azure Kubernetes cluster pulling images from AWS (ECR)

Heyy,
Is there any documentation available where my Kubernetes cluster in Azure would be able to pull images from Amazon container registry (ECR).

Please help.

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Build triggers and branching using Directory Structure for Terraform Environments in Azure DevOps

I am hoping for some pointers/confirmation/advice regarding a Terraform setup I am currently designing. I have a fairly simple Azure platform and want to automate the infra deployment. There are Dev and Prod environments, separated into their own Subscriptions. The Dev env will be long lived with various short-lived resources for ad-hoc projects and POC's. Therefore I have opted to use a Directory structure, rather than Workspaces to manage this separation.

If a change is made to Dev/ and/or the Modules/ directories, then I only want a Build and Release Pipeline to run to deploy/update the relevant resources in Dev. Similarly for Prod. (This means that a change to Modules/ will launch two pipelines simultaneously).

I was challenging my thinking in terms of the Branching strategy to support this approach. I was going to have "dev" and "prod" branches in Repos to manage the changes and trigger the pipelines, but quickly realised that the modules would become out of sync across branches. So I have opted for a single "main" branch that I can then PR into when making changes.

I was thinking of then having two build jobs - 1) triggered by any changes to modules/ or dev/ and 2) any changes to modules/ or prod/. Each job will run terraform plan and apply after changing the working directory into dev/ or prod/, respectively, depending on where changes were made. This will allow for Dev and Prod to have their differences with the downside of potentially some code re-use that could not be taken up by the modules.

Has anyone done something similar?

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Azure and Azure DevOps migration

Hey all,


I haven't worked out of Azure or Azure DevOps before but work in our IT department. A few months ago we completed a Microsoft 365 to Microsoft 365 move, and now the time has come to move Azure + Azure DevOps from one tenant to the other. Team is about 25 people.

I don't fully understand Azure and Azure DevOps, which is making me concerned for the move.

Currently considering the following:

1. Migrate Azure from tenant to tenant. We're in talks with our CSM to help us with this and by the sound of it they can flip a switch...
Concerns: What will this do to permissions, ownership and groups? Possible downtime and integration to Azure DevOps will break

2. Migrate from dev.azure.com/TENANTNAME to dev.azure.com/TENANTNAME2
Concerns: Mapping of users in regards to work items, board etc. when email and AAD changes. I can't find the documentation for what happens if I simply change AAD under Organization Settings in Azure DevOps, or when that should happen during my migration. Does anyone know or have the docs?


Any help, considerations, or documentation of where to start for this would be greatly appreciated :)

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Question for Admins on Atlassian tools

I guess this kinda applies to anything really but my company is utilizing all these tools from Atlassian and the way that we do it is having each tools on each VM servers that talks to one central Postgres server.

Each time we want to upgrade, we have to go into each VM and do everything manually.

My question is. How would you do it to make this more streamlined? Is it possible to-put everything in podman containers? What’s the best approach for this?

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Roles in DevOps team?

What are the required roles in a DevOps team? In your company, are these roles done by unique people, or do you assign individuals multiple roles?

Also, is there a minimum amount of qualified people to have for a DevOps team? I'm thinking 2 qualified as a basic minimum to have a backup.

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Devops for batch scripts

Hi,
Our applications are running using batch scripts on control-m. Different batch scripts either call .net exe, ssis package or db proc, sql script or batch commands.
We want to implement devops for same.
My questions are
1. Should the batch as well as exe dotnet code shoild be together and ms build creates the exe?
2. We have 100+ control m jobs which calls batch files. Do we need to create 100 jobs in jenkins to create deploent bits and then 100 CD jobs for deployment.

Any link to understand how can implement devops for batch scripgs is appreciated

Thanks

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How do I interview a DevOps engineer?

When hiring software engineers, I typically have them demonstrate something in a language they'd be using on a team. How do I effectively get a DevOps engineer to demonstrate their skills in a 1 hour interview? I just don't know what is common out there. System design? Hands on docker / kubectl? What have you found effective?

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A Primer on the History and Evolution of Incident Management to Today

we thought itd be interesting to write about the history of incident management how concepts like ICS and NIMS were born

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Change control management for psuedo devops / cloud infra team

TLDR:

Looking for help from the community on how our team can navigate the change control process while still being agile and not being blocked. Our team manages the aws cloud infra of the non engineering team (all of IT related infra) and we also handle automation via python lambda functions / building apps in ecs/fargate. We don’t manage pipeline of engineering, but we do manage our own pipelines for our code base.

This compounds when we get past the theoretical and into reality: sometimes when working on a task, as a developer/infra engineer you realize that there are other dependencies that need to be configured/built in order to complete your task. In our current situation, that would require yet another change control request that may take days to get approved. This just simply isn’t scalable

Our goal is to maintain a way to manage production without having to wait up to a week to actually execute our code/terraform changes. How are you all handling the rift between productivity/speed against rigid change control processes?

Details:

So, our company has exploded in growth and there has been a new directive coming down from upper management to make no changes to production without a change control request that is approved by four different teams. Including break/fix. There is a change control meeting once a week where teams have the ability to get approval for production changes, and we also have emergency change controls that we can submit but only for emergency break/fix.

This new directive is extremely broad; the problem is that basically everything is considered production. This means that we effectively have to wait days or sometimes a full week to get work done (something as simple as changing a comment in our code). If we need to troubleshoot something in real time, we have to get a CR for that. IMO this isn’t scalable and is an indication of a collision between traditional IT and modern day cloud management.

Unfortunately we don’t have true dev/prod environment segregation, and the ones that we do have don’t have real parity with production.

How is everyone here handling this situation? Any advice on how I can convince management to allow us to use our professional discretion?

The only real solution I can think of is to leverage emergency Change control requests on a daily basis, however this will undoubtedly be shot down by management.

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How often do you all meet with your managers to discuss job performance? What topics do you typically go over during these meetings?

At my last role I met with my manager a grand total of one time 5 months in and now realize this likely isn't the norm, so I'm curious how often you all meet with your manager to discuss job performance, and what topics you typically cover during the meeting? I realize this isn't directly about devops itself but I do work in a devops context so that's why I'm posting here.

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New Relic's Helm chart repository appears offline

Just a heads up in case you're seeing similar woes -- my CD pipelines are trying to install from https://helm-charts.newrelic.com, which is currently 404.

Here's hoping New Relic gets their stuff fixed!

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Production level AKS cluster using Terraform

Hello people,

I've been exploring Terraform script to create an AKS Cluster with multiple subnets, Ingress and Egress rules.
And other extra features as what will be required for production usage. And won't seem to find anything great.

Can anyone please help on this.

Thanks.

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Jenkins vs Circle CI vs Atlassian Bamboo vs Others

Hey everyone, thanks for taking some time to read this, as this might be a bit of a long one.

So currently we have one older instance of Jenkins we have running, and myself coming in and introducing a number of DevOps concepts and having some say with web, we got another instance of Jenkins running to start off "clean". I had experience (all be it several years ago) with jenkins, and I was comfortable working with it. Getting use to the new declarative pipelines took a bit, as much needed to be done with script blocks, conditionals and so on.

Well I've been reading up about how Jenkins feels antiquated, and recently had an experience of a few plugin upgrades (much of it the core aspects of Jenkins, with a few additional plugins (like notification to bitbucket for example), where it just totally broke pipelines. Talking with a few others this seems to be a regular occurrence.

For examples in our repos that are git based, they often use sub-modules, well found out during the checkSCM this doesnt pull in submodules, so I wrote a script to ensure that they are initialized during pulls and we check out the right branch in those submodules. Well that totally broke randomly after doing updates, where script blocks no longer worked as expected. It took me about a day and a half to fix things, and even then they are still not quiet working.

So this is all boiling down into....should we keep using Jenkins when we need to be able to reliably update things, and know in doing updates our scripts dont break while giving us the functionality we need?

I've been looking into CircleCI and Bamboo because I know both of those can be deployed locally, which is very important for us. But I was wondering what are others experiences with these, or would you recommend something different? Like things you like or dont like about it, quirks that are just aggravating?

Some things we are looking for (which should be standard):

\- Smooth integration with git
\- Logging and reporting of errors
\- Custom pipelines that allow scripting
\- Some ease of integrating systems together
\- Being able to use 3rd party programs (ansible, terraform, etc)

Would appreciate any opinions or share of your own experiences.

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How should I deploy an app that is dependent on third party services like Meilisearch?

Hello, my first post in this subreddit.

I'm more of a developer but this time I need to know the most efficient way to deploy a Laravel app that has docker-compose inside with 2 services defined: meilisearch and redis. If it was only for Laravel app itself, then it would be straightforward: one web service. I'm using Digital Ocean for deployment. More specifically App Platform feature because it is a PaaS. I don't have to focus on server infrastructure so much. You can compare this feature to Heroku.

However, a service like Meilisearch has it's own url and port in development environment like https://localhost:7700. So I guess besides one web service for Laravel app itself, I need to create another one for Meilisearch and connect the app to this? That would be two times more expensive. Is there a better way to handle these things without being more expensive? is it better to use Droplets instead? Then it's more towards IaaS I suppose? Or what kind of deployment is considered as 'industry standard' or in your opinion 'most efficient' when you use docker-compose with third party services that connect with your app in development environment?

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Production level AKS cluster using Terraform

Hello people,

I've been exploring Terraform script to create an AKS Cluster with multiple subnets, Ingress and Egress rules.
And other extra features as what will be required for production usage. And won't seem to find anything great.

Can anyone please help on this.

Thanks.

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