[GCP] VPN Gateway shared with other projects

Hey, I've already posted on stackoverflow but you know how it goes over there more often than not...

I'm in the process of starting the design of the networks (VPC, subnetworks and such) as part of the process of moving a rather complex organization on-premise structure, on the cloud.

The chosen provider is GCP and I read and taken the courses to be associate engineer. However, the courses don't go into details of the technical aspects of doing something like this, just present you with the possible options.

My background is of a senior backend, then fullstack, developer. So I lack some of the very interesting and useful knowledge of a sysadmin unfortunately (on that topic, if you have some "for dummies" resources to use, i'd appreciate as well)

My situation is as follows:

* On premise VMs on several racks, reachable only inside a VPN - I've no control over this, an external company manage them
* Several projects on the GCP Cloud
* Two of them need to connect to the on-premise VPN but there could be more going on
* Some projects see each other resources (VMs, SQL, etc) using VPC Peering
* Gradually we will abandon the on-premise, unless we find some legacy application that really is messed up

Now, I could just create a new VPN connection for every project from `Hybrid Connectivity -> VPN` but I'd rather create a project dedicated to having the VPN gateway set up and allow other projects to use that resources.

Is this a possible configuration? Is it a valid design? As far as I explored the VPN creation, it seems that I'll have to create a VM that will expose an IP acting as gateway, if that's the case I was thinking to be using the VPC peering to allow other projects to exit into the on premise VPN.

No idea if I'm talking gibberish here. I'm still waiting for some information (IKE shared key, etc) before attempting anything, so I'm rather lost at this point.

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Stats on "you build it, you run it"

Does anyone if any studies have been done on the adoption of "you build it, you run it" vs. a more traditional IT setup? I'm curious about two figures:

1. What percentage of large companies are working at least partly on a "you build it, you run it" model these days?
2. Any stats on whether those companies are more/less successful

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ansible + jenkins role

Can someone recommend a good Jenkins configuration role? I would like to see how its downloaded but more important configuration (plugins, security, etc..)

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Continuous Integration with IAR Embedded Workbench

https://sakurautio.github.io/2019/10/18/Continuous-Integration-with-IAR-EW/

Hey everyone!

Working with the IAR tools, I didn't really find any verbose community guides on how to set up a proper CI pipeline with the IAR tools (mainly automated builds, static analysis and unit_tests).
So I decided to write a blog post about it which could hopefully help people in working with the tools.

Now the blog post is pretty "bare-bones" and just showcases how to get started really. It doesn't go over the CI system configuration (like how to set up Jenkins or so...) because it was not the point - the point was to show how to integrate the IAR tools to a CI environment.

If you have anything to add or to critisize, feel free to speak your mind. If you have any questions, I will try to answer to them.

I hope this blog post will be of help for someone.

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The friendly socket and TCP handshake (E04)

Fourth video in the series explaining sockets and TCP 3 way handshake! All sorts of feedback is welcome.

Video link: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6tePc9Pqxw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6tePc9Pqxw)

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Zipkin or Jaeger? The Best Open Source Tools for Distributed Tracing

[https://epsagon.com/blog/zipkin-or-jaeger-the-best-open-source-tools-for-distributed-tracing/](https://epsagon.com/blog/zipkin-or-jaeger-the-best-open-source-tools-for-distributed-tracing/)

The article talks about the two popular open-source projects and compares them.

Do you use Zipkin or Jaeger? Why one over the other?

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Symbolic links in Virtual File System for Git

Hi!
I'm have merged 2 repos together as one monorepo. Getting files through Virtual File System for Git ( [https://vfsforgit.org/](https://vfsforgit.org/) ) works very well. It's really fast and easy to use. But when I try to get symlink from that repo it doesn't get resolved as link and just file with address to target is downloaded. When I try using plane git symlinks get downloaded as symlinks. So I guess the problem is in GVFS.
Has anyone had the same problem or could someone give hints what to research?

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Building Tiny Python Docker Images

I've been building docker images and optimizing dockerfiles for a while now.

However, until just recently, I hadn't found a way to cleanly build my python dependencies in one docker stage, and install them in another.

I found myself chasing down numerous modern tools, like poetry, hatch, and pipenv.

In the end, it was the familiar setuptools and wheel that worked for me.

I'd like to share my experience optimizing a docker project using this strategy.

https://medium.com/@ethan.edwards/building-tiny-python-docker-images-b029b194171d

*Note: I am not selling anything. All views and opinions expressed in the above article are those of my own, and do not necessarily reflect those of any past or present employer or organization.*

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Help me understand DevOps and how better I can organize the complete process

So I work in a small team where we manage roll out of specific tools for different user.

We have same application being installed on multiple servers with different DB in the back end. This is mainly for multiple sub organizations we have.

I am part of a team in which one person handles 1 or more sub-orga. We roll out the new versions, handle customization etc.

Roll out:

\- This is a bit more complex process due to the fact that there needs to be many pre and post manual steps involved.

\- These are handled in "excel".

\- It only gets more complex as 1 excel is being used for all (for better overview)

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Customizing:

\- There are whole loads of customization that can be done to the apps and each orga wants it differently.

\- Documenting them is only getting difficult.

there are whole load of manual job which I think is a waste of time. Unfortunately I don't have an idea for documentation/automation.

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my questions:

1) How can I co-relate this to a "DevOps" job?

2) What tool sets do you guys use in terms of handling such scenarios including rollback?

3) I am trying to understand more simpler yet robust processes for such scenarios, which I couldn't find any.

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DevOps Jobs That Pay > $200k TC

What are you seeing out there? If you have one of these jobs, what do you do, where do you live, and how much do you travel?


I'm looking for a new job and I'm seeing a lot of jobs that pay $120k-130k base. They are middle of the road (aka "competitive", average). I have seen a good number that pay $160k base plus bonus. I've seen a couple that pay $180k-200k base plus bonus. They are out there but they're rare. These jobs are in cities that aren't SF, NYC, DC, or Seattle. I have seen a good number of 100% remote job that pay $150k-170k base.

For those of you who make $200k+ in DevOps / SRE / cloud what are you doing? Job seekers, what are you seeing?

EDIT: This thread is for jobs that aren't in SF NYC Seattle DC London or other super high cost of living areas.

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InSpec vs. Ansible check mode?

I've seen some people speaking highly of InSpec here lately but looking at it, I'm not sure what use it would be in my environment.

My company currently uses Ansible to do all the configuration, including security configuration, of our hosts, e.g., setting our sshd config options to comply with our security standards. The security configuration is baked into the Ansible playbooks we always run against all our hosts (and that we run when we build our OS images).

To test whether a system's configuration has deviated from the expected configuration, we can run `ansible-playbook --check` and see if it would modify any security settings.

From reading its web site, it seems like InSpec is a framework for checking that system configuration settings match some expected state, which is the same thing Ansible check mode does. What would adding InSpec to our setup buy us that we don't already get from Ansible? Is InSpec mostly of value in environments where it's not practical to fully automate host configuration?

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CCNA before focusing on Cloud? Yay or Nay?

Want to learn networking fundamentals and still on the fence about getting the CCNA because of a few posts I’ve seen on here. Posts usually are about Cisco certs not really being optimal for the cloud because of how abstracted the networking is etc

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A noob sys admin here, some insight please!

Hi all,
This is the first time that I am posting in this subreddit although I constantly go through the informative threads in here.

I am in my early twenties and from Sri Lanka which is a small south asian island located near India. I just graduated with an Engineering degree and signed up as a Sys admin in a local company. I do have few questions to ask.

1. I am hoping to hop in to Devops as soon as possible. In order to do that I hope to acquire certifications on AWS, Docker, RedHat, Kubernetes and Ansible. Are these important or are there any missing important exams?

2. I am blown away by the salaries people post here who work remotely. (In our countries local pay levels are much lower as the living cost is not much high as in other countries.) What are the pros and cons of working remotely?

3. Any other advise from the experienced giants are much appreciated as I need win through my life! Any thing!! (These questions feel cheesy but that is I being honest (Early twenties, lots of hopes, lots of dreams, stupid and naive I guess))

Thank you very much for bearing through the long post and looking for valuable insights!

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AWS and IAM permissions, trial and error?

I've worked with AWS for about 3 or 4 years now, and I love everything about it, but for the love of sanity I just can't get over how difficult it is to define permissions when attempting to apply least privilege approach. Am I the only one out there who just does it 100 times by trial and error in incognito window until you get the permissions just right? Is there a better way?
,

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Cargo culting...? [discussion]

It seems like the entire industry is following one "right" approach and whenever something shifts towards some "new" technology everyone just follows without actually thinking about it (ehem, Kubernetes). What is your opinion about cargo culting in the DevOps world and IT in general? Why does it happen - is it lack of education, time constraints... something else? Is it a cause of us reusing too much and trying not to reinvent the wheel?

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Kubernetes Patterns : The Service Discovery Pattern

**Folks,**


The client is responsible for determining which service instance it should connect to. A load-balancing layer exists in front of the service instances. The client connects to the well-defined URL of the load balancer and the latter determines which backend service it shall route the request too.

Here's this week article Kubernetes Patterns : The Service Discovery Pattern.

**What's inside:**

* Why do we need Service Discovery?
* inter-app communication Scenario.
* connecting to an outside resource Scenario.
* Why use a Service to connect to an external resource?
* Accepting outside connections Scenario.

[https://www.magalix.com/blog/kubernetes-patterns-the-service-discovery-pattern](https://www.magalix.com/blog/kubernetes-patterns-the-service-discovery-pattern)

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Policy as a code services

Hi guys,

Any recommendations/reviews on Policy/Compliance as a code services?

[Sentinal](https://www.hashicorp.com/sentinel/) by Hashicorp looks interesting.

Thanks!

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When can someone call him/herself a DevOps Guy?

I'm just getting into things as it's my internship going on.

Was just curious about when can someone call him/herself a devops engineer? i.e. what skills/knowledge/achievements are the ones that are very very necessary? And experiences too?

I am just a beginner so I don't know much about it.

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Ideas for maintaining SOX compliance with feature toggles and frequent deployment?

Feature toggles (or feature flags) enable me to deploy unfinished features without comprehensive manual testing of features toggled off. We can toggle the feature on for certain users, try it out, and then choose to toggle it off or on for all users. This enables more frequent integration as suggested by version control strategies such as [Trunk-Based Development](https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/), and more frequent deployment of the trunk (master) branch into user's hands.

Sarbanes-Oxley rules require that all features that are in user's hands be fully tested.

So if I have a SOX-compliant system, how do I proceed with using feature toggles without having to do full manual testing of the feature toggled ON? It makes sense to do regression testing with the feature toggled OFF, but the most common need is to integrate and deploy good code but not incur the manual testing cost for a feature toggled off.

**So any suggestions on ways to have SOX-compliant feature toggles without comprehensive manual testing on every release?**

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Open source tool to track software release for various products

Looking for a simple way to track software releases across various products. Ideally, I’d be able to notate what releases an organization should stay away from due to known vulnerabilities or bugs.

Any recommendations for something to use?

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How to install Traefik 2.x on a Docker Swarm

Here's a little article that I've wrote about the installation of Traefik on a Docker Swarm. This will be the first article on a series on swarm. May I have some reviews?

Hope it helps someone :)

[https://creekorful.me/how-to-install-traefik-2-docker-swarm](https://creekorful.me/how-to-install-traefik-2-docker-swarm/)

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