How to learn DevOps being broke

Hello folks!

Not sure if anyone already asked this, but today I was talking with a friend and she's trying to find her path into SRE positions, but the openings always ask to have knowledge (and some experience) around some of the big cloud providers.

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As we're from a third-world country (hello from Argentina) paying services like AWS/GCP and even DO can be pretty hard for someone that lives with the exact amount to survive.

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So here is my question, is there any way to learn how to use these cloud providers in a cheap way?

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Is devops really fancy name for sysadmin in many companies?

Is it true?

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Question: Docsets for SQL Server and other proprietary programs

Hi, i am looking for docsets for non open software. Docsets are offline documentations for tools like zeal or dash. Does anyone hast a tipp or source? Thank you very much!

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DevOps Improvement Plan

I have fought hard for several years to implement DevOps practices in my organization but we are now stuck. Although configurations for our systems and applications are being managed by Ansible (AWX) and git, many of the playbooks and roles haven’t been developed in an idempotent way. Sysadmins basically took their old scripts and converted to Ansible using the command module. To make matters worse, there is little management and oversight of our git master branch. This has led to changes being made directly in that branch where over 100+ playbooks are now stored. Sprawl has taken place. Wading through the new complexity has slowed everything down. Proper testing has taken a backseat to throwing darts at a wall. We are troubleshooting more than ever in production.

Since our DevOps initiative is in danger of being scrapped for the “old way” of doing things I am attempting a draft overhaul plan for our current messy approach. It must be streamlined, scalable, and self-service. Everything must be measured so leadership can not only see the value, they can see problems as they develop. Sysadmins should be given zero room to continue bad habits. Has anyone ever attempted this before?

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If a docker container is in deployment how do you exchange that to another newer docker container seamlessly (from user's perspective)?

If a docker container is in deployment how do you exchange that to another newer docker container seamlessly (from user's perspective)?

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learning path: how to continue

Im kinda new in IT, mostly in DevOps. Since last summer, Im working as DevOps engineer, before that, I was QA engineer for 2 years.
I use a lot of things, like zabbix, VMware, Azure, Cisco IOS, (python, bash, powershell scripting) etc, but zero docker and container. You would say, its SysAdmin.

I wanna make plan to the future.
-learn Docker/k8s and become DevOps engineer without any specialisation
-learn security, like AppSec, and go for DevSecOps, or just security engineer
-learn Azure and become Azure DevOps engineer

Which one would you choose, and why?

I started to learn CKA, AZ900, CCNA, Comptia sec+. They are all basic stuffs

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New job with complex infrastructure - How do you approach?

I have been offered a (contract) job today, with a large multinational investment bank. (I suppose it would be hard to find an investment bank that isn't multinational! - but anyway) that is looking to modernise their Devops processes

They have a large complex infrastructure, and a considerable number of applications. Part of my job will be to decipher a lot of it and come up with strategies to achieve their goals.

At this point I don't know how organised / chaotic it will be, but I'm curious what approach you lot take when landing on such a site.

Do you have a process to bring yourself up to speed quickly? Any hints / tips / etc

(My previous experience has been mostly with startups so I've built everything that existed)

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AWS re:invent 2022 - what to see

What are your plans for this years reinvent in case you are going or attending in person ? Are there any must attend sessions or any other recommendations would be much appreciated

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"2022" CI/CD design

Let's say you are in a situation where your CI pipeline unit tests the code, has docker containers built and you have helm charts built and published.

How would you design the rest of the pipeline to make sure your CD pipeline can deploy to multiple environments, including production as soon as a developer merges to master.

It will be interesting to see how the landscape has changed over the last few years.

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Need Some Advice For My New Role As Junior DevOps Engineer

Hi. So I've been working as a developer for about a year and a half (I graduated last fall). I am starting a new DevOps position soon and I'd be lying if i said i wasn't nervous. As it's a junior position I'll be learning a lot on the job. It's just that since I have no real life experience with DevOps (except for working with AWS cloud, Jenkins and overseeing builds and deployments), I am nervous.

I know I'll actually get a taste of the job while I'm on it and slowly get my hands dirty but does anybody have any advice for me?

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AWS Lambda debug with Python.

Does anyone know how I can debug a Python AWS Lambda function in VS Code? I see loads of VS solutions but no Python ones that work.

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Remote Job Board for Devops

Hi all,

I created a job board specifically for .NET devs looking for remote work. We also get quite a few DevOps jobs submitted as well.

New jobs are submitted weekly and emailed to subscribers. This way you don't have to scour the internet for jobs.

Hopefully, you get some use out of it. Please consider bookmarking or subscribing to the site if you enjoy it!

https://dotnetremote.com

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Interview - Solution Architect Infrastructure

Hi,

I have an upcoming interview as a Solution Architect at AWS focused on infrastructure and DevOps.

However the job description has the below spec.

1. CI/CD pipelines,
2. Patterns and how to implement them;
3. Programming,
4. scripting;
5. IaC;
6. provisioning and orchestration; 7. automation;
8. configuration management,
9. deployment strategies,
10. branch staging,

Do you know what is meant with:

2, 6,8,9,10

Thank you

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Rsync with Jenkins

Hi there,

I’m currently facing an issue with Rsync & symlink that throws a ‘file exists’ error. After rerunning the Jenkins job it works for some magical reason. And in my source code the symlink removes the files and re-links them if found so there’s no issue there.

Does anyone know where should I at least start?

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GitHub actions workflow updating file in different repo, trouble keeping things in sync.

We have a GA workflow triggered on push, which will build a docker image and deploy it to ECR.

This workflow will update a k8s deployment file( image tag. This is in a separate repo where all K8s files are stored) which then triggers ArgoCD to deploy the changes.

However a potential issue emerges when multuple workflows are triggered simultaneously.

Eg imagine that 2 commits are pushed to the source code repo at the same time.

The image version is 1.2 before hand

Workflow A increments the version to 1.3

Workflow B also increments the version to 1.3

The version in the K8s deployment will be 1.3, however it should be 1.4.

Is there a better way to do this?

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Sonatype Nexus PRO only compatible with AWS S3 - Why

I‘m currently trying to implement my new nexus-repo with Dell EMC S3, but Sonatype Nexus only supports AWS S3 according to the docs.

Has anybody experience with such a combination? What is the reason for this incompatibility?

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Opensource services similar to Sonarcloud ?

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EKS/GKE vs self managed Kuberbetes on cloud instances

Am I right in thinking that, in most situations, compagnies would ops for an EKS/GKE solution rather than having a self managed control plane with workers nodes on ec2 instances.

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azure application insight

How do I calculate to azure application insight resource cost ?

I don't see this resource in pricing calculator.

I see there is azure monitor in the pricing calculator.

Can I use azure monitor in calculator to derive application insight cost ? Will it be same.

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Is 80% of what you do at a large company just navigating how to get things done in the organization?

I swear if all we had to do was create dockerfiles, CICD pipelines, and helm charts to deploy people's code, it would be easy, but we spend 80% of the time working around firewall rules, company proxy ssl certs, submitting jira tickets, backlog grooming, planning poker, security patching and regular meetings to get other departments to make simple changes, like adding a dns record or upgrading a ruby gem.

Is this normal devops work in a large organization?

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Overnight - how do you handle automatic escalation when site goes down?

We had a situation where site went down right after midnight - We didnt find out or fixed until the morning.
Yes there were 100 emails and slack messages but aint anyone gonnna be checking them at midnight.

small team - 2 op guys - cannot blame them for missing it.

how do you handle escalation and notifications overnight?

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