Best tools/resources for improving “developer experience.” Need to submit my 2023 asks next week.

Accepted a DevOps job earlier this year only to have a new director of engineering come on and want to restructure the team.

The good news is that the director of engineering really likes me and wants me to be in charge of the org’s developer experience.

From research and his expectations, it seems like the main idea behind developer experience is to improve the process around developers, so they can focus on coding. Which I think I might actually like a lot.

There’s some team-culture things I’ve read about that sound really interesting, but am looking for any tips on tools, conferences or workshops I can submit resource asks for that you would endorse.

Would appreciate any insights you may have as well as costs.

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Are these any hidden fees or gotchas that I should consider before starting to use GKE autopilot?

Debating whether it is time for us to move away from self-managing scaling to allowing GKE do it for us. Would like to hear from those who have gone through the migration.

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Got a job offer as a MS Azure DevOps what should I remember or need to learn?

A little background, I have 3 years experience only on both Shopify/Wordpress Front End developing, just finished a full stack web dev bootcamp last month. Tried google about it and its a really broad topic. Any tips or recommendations on what I should practice first?

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Best course of action Infrastructure(ops) to DevOps

Hi All
First off, I’ll start by saying I’m actually known as Automator lol by peers in tech community. I love automating almost anything with python. I work as infrastructure support engineer, operations mainly. I had massive aspiration to work as a network automation engineer(half way through CCNP). However one of the main reason behind that was not necessarily the route and switching aspect-it was the automation side.

As support engineer I am automating all aspects of our infrastructure. Recently automated saving configs of all network L2/L3 switches with a single python script. Also automated a spreadsheet of connected device for inventory(show mac address) this was done using python/panda lib and netmiko(ssh based module).

This resulted in saving countless hours of manual work as techs would have needed to trace each switch-port to each device.

Again another was the manager didn’t know which access switches all of the lIghtweight access points where connected to. Again I wrote a python script using using regExp/netmiko which shows which switch and port each APs was connected to etc.

Writing scripts such as end point availability ping to many devices in single broadcast domain etc.

At the moment I already have setup CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins/GitHub for all my scripts(hopefully will write a blog on how to setup a Jenkins pipeline with Terraform and checkout from GitHub) Very good with Terraform too!

My Linux skills is slightly below par, but currently using Ubuntu for day to day tasks.

Last but not least I absolutely love Docker! And have containerised all my python scripts. I already pushed few to Azure container registry. To cut the long story short I love automation! I believe devOps is way forward for me.

My background is freelance IT worker and now for past year work as infrastructure engineer in corporate environment. I hold a BSc in Computer Science(long time ago lol) and have several other certifications(MCP,CompTIA server+/net+ etc) What is the best course of action to move from support/infrastructure to devops? I’m currently working on obtaining az-700 and hopefully terraform cert after. Many thanks in advance!

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aws architecture questions

I want to do something similar to this:

https://github.com/aws-samples/amazon-textract-serverless-large-scale-document-processing/raw/master/arch.png

I have an app that uploads files to an S3 bucket, they get processed and the results get saved to another S3 bucket.

My questions:

1. How can the app retrieve the result? Should it poll the S3 bucket or the SQS queue?

2. How can I convert this architecture to handle multiple users? I mean multiple users using the same client app that uploads to a single S3 bucket. Is using presigned urls for upload (input) and download (output) a good way to do this?
It is important that user1 only has access to user1 files, user2 only to user2 files and so on.

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Simple automation for a static AWS S3 hosted site



hello,

I have a simple static landing page hosted in AWS S3... in order to host it, I have followed the instructions here: https://channaly.medium.com/how-to-host-static-website-with-https-using-amazon-s3-251434490c59

Now, I will probably "launch" few more landing pages (about 10) and I was wondering how to automate the S3 provisioning and update once in a while the landing as well...

I use VScode, and trying to see if Terraform or Ansible would do the job...

As far as I am concern, for VM/container provisioning is typically done with Terraform, while Configuration management (push updates) should be done by Ansible....

the challenge here is that I am not provisioning a VM/container, but only an S3 bucket and setting up all the SSL certificates....

anybody can suggest the right approach, please?

Thank you

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can a kubenet reuse docker bridge/service code?

If I have multiple AKS clusters using kubenet, can they all use the same docker bridge and service cidrs? I remember reading it in the docs, but wanted to be sure. Should we just reserve a 172.0.x.x/16 for docker bridge and some other unused cidr for service? I just want to make sure this won't conflict with any other vnets as we use internal ips only via a policy.

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Recommended repo strategy for multiple Dockerfiles

I have been tasked with moving over \~100 Dockerfiles that an old dev team have been keeping on their onedrive and have been building manually for years into repos and create appropriate build jobs etc.

My manager requested that we put them in a single repo and have a directory for each Dockerfile.

My question is. Is this way a good way to manage this? Wouldn't this make the build jobs more complicated? I understand a single repo being the source of truth for all "team X" Dockerfiles but the best way i can see builds properly running is by extracting the directories that contains diffs and build these but for some reason i don't know if this is a good approach.

He also suggested to use a branch for each Dockerfile but i immediately denied this one since it breaks the real purpose of a branch. Maybe again i am overthinking this.

How would you guys handle such situation? Each Dockerfile on it's own repo? All dockerifiles in one repo? Tags? Branch?

Any suggestions will be highly appreciated.

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Advice on Cert Path for Entry Level Dev Ops

I'm considering jumping careers from non-IT military to a civilian IT career field. I'd like to get some advice at the certification lineup I'm following to accomplish that.

Brief background:

- project management intensive military career
- learning linux (mostly debian or Red Hat), Python, and postgresql as a hobby over the past 3 or 4 years.
- tinker with a poweredge r710, thinkcenter sff pc, managed switch, and raspberry pi in homelab
- running a few VM's and services using QEMU/KVM, docker, and podman

Cert objectives in order in current plan:

RHCSA (done) -> Sec+ (in progress) -> RHCE -> CKA

PMP (at some point before I transition)

Does this seem like a good lineup to land a job?

Edit: formatting

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Do you feel the cloud is replacing all traditional sysadmin tasks/roles slowly ? To the point where no business except the top Fortune 500 will have their own Datacenter on premise ? or everything is going Devops ?

A) Do you feel the cloud is replacing all traditional sysadmin tasks/roles slowly ? To the point where no business except the top Fortune 500 will have their own Datacenter on premise ? or it wouldn't make sense to administer large active directory domain on premise with exchange and all the rest ? or large linux env etc ? or everything is going Devops ?

B) Do you believe that being a guru of 1 os like Windows Server or Linux and all the scripting and special knowledge that come with it is being less and less important by the day because of the cloud and automation ? (large container env with K8 clusters, ansible and all the rest of cloud services you can run depending on your business needs) I talked with a few senior sysadmin who are seeing kids out of university with no knowledge of on premise who start learning the cloud right away, couldn't that cause many complex problems down the road if you don't understand under the hood how things works ?


C) Do you see the cloud starting to affect pure network engineer gears like the large cisco, jupiter stuffs like automating switch config and many others things tru the cloud instead of using ios to configure everything by hands with CCIE ? SDN seem to be changing the names of the game devops seem to be able to replace a few guys with 1 guy with the help of the cloud ?


D) What you prefer with AWS that you don't have or doesn't work with Azure or vice versa ? Is Azure still mainly Windows Server and AWS mainly linux or they both see a good showing on both theses days ? What kind of config you have seen or built that is less expensive on premise than on the Cloud ? Does Data privacy bother you ?

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Build pipelines for production jobs

I’ve got a situation, and I’m looking for opinions on the matter.

I’ve been finding it more common for Devops teams that are tasked with creating a repeatable job doing so with an azure DevOps pipeline.

What I would essentially classify as production batch jobs.

What are your thoughts on this practice?

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New to DevOps and my team

So I’m new to DevOps and just joined a new team, I have some experience from my previous job but this is my first real DevOps role. Now my problem is the team I’m in aren’t very helpful when it comes to working on tickets and understanding the infrastructure, it’s a lot of different tech that I haven’t used before and with the added issue of not getting help when I need guidance I seem to always be blocked on work and no ones willing to help. What can I do to understand the processes better without having to rely on team mates?. They mainly use AWS and haven’t really documented there processes for codebuilds and such, so I’m stuck an have to rely on others to move forward.

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sonarqube and sonarlint have diferent number of issues

I am running the latest SonarQube version (9.7.1.62043) and latest sonarlint version (7.2.1) in JetBrains IntelliJ. I have connected the SonarQube instance and add the project key of the project. In the same branch the findings are different in some times the sonarlint plugin finds more issues and in some times finds fewer issues. Although I have checked some specific files and it's the same finding.
Has anyone here the same problem ???
Is there any explanation ???


Thank you in advance.

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Devops containerization and docker virtual machine explained

Direct link: https://youtu.be/ORu4y_-u1t8

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Career change - Help.

I am an architect in the uk working for a small firm and I manage private home renovations circa £2-£10mil

It can be a stressful and overbearing role with accountability on client expectations, managing external consultants input, statutory building regulations, local authority planning conditions ñ, and that’s before we even get on-site and manage the unexpected cost and contractual matters with builders. It’s overworked and underpaid and often your time and effort is not recognised until it’s gone wrong.

I’ve recently been looking into a career in IT cloud systems, Azure, AWS, devops.

I am a techie at heart and before I studied architecture was accepted for aerospace systems engineering. I have done some html and css coding and built a few home assistant set ups/ home network builds

However I want to get serious about it and think commercial/professional career shift in IT devops cloud system.

I don’t know any SQL, Python etc even as a base knowledge.

I would need to hit the ground running and can’t afford to take time off work to study. (Online or night classes only)

Are there roles in this sector that are both creative in part (UX/UI) and also very prescriptive, steady methodological in nature on the back end.

Where would I even start?

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Best tool to collect/monitor containers logs?

We need a tool to monitor/view/collect container logs, we were evaluating options like Signoz or Sematext, but maybe you can recommend me some other alternative.


Many Thanks!

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What're some example Junior DevOps interview questions?

I've browsed some online, but I just wanted to hear your professional opinions regarding typical interview questions for a junior DevOps position. What are/were you looking for in interviewing individuals for a junior position. How can someone differentiate themselves from other applicants?


Those of you that have interviewed for a junior position what were some examples of the types of questions you received. Did you have an example project, and if so what did it entail?

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CI/CD visibility

I am researching if CI/CD visibility solutions are a thing.

I mostly used Jenkins and Teamcity, and they provide their own reporting on builds, but when it comes to things like GitHub Actions, is it common to have some third-party solution to summarize build status/times across the repositories, or provide build monitor capabilities? I came across such solutions, but never saw them in real use cases.

Is it something that you normally use? Why yes or no?

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Optimization of applications for kubernetes

Our company uses kubernetes. We are allocated virtual machines with a cube, where the application will be deployed. There is a problem that few people understand how much resources need to be allocated to the application, as a result, too few resources are allocated or too many, which leads to waste. There was an idea to write a tool similar to StormForge, capable of analyzing and tuning the application, chart and parameters. A tool capable of calculating the approximate amount of resources needed, and which could tell us that with some requests, say 5,000 thousand, this will not be enough for us. As I understand it, it needs to be combined with load testing. It is clear that it will not be possible to create a cool tool, but at least something minimal for java. What do you think about this? What ideas do you have?

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Any one have experience with Part time devops jobs?

Hello! Does anyone have experience doing devops as a part time job?

Been thinking about helping small companies configure their cloud and optimize costs. Devops might not fit a “part time” job, but I don’t see why setting up an application through a managed or serverless resource can’t be done as something part time.

Seems like a nice side gig, would love to learn more about your experience doing something part time.

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Commandline tool vs UI based Operations?

Would you prefer command line tool or UI ?

I've seen many SaaS products, which i feel could've been just command line.
I personally prefer the power of terminal with better logs than clunky UI.

Curious on your thoughts (If you pick UI what was the need?)

Say in context of deployments / migration / CI/CD / Infrastructure management etc.

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