How Much Coding in the Life of a DevOps?

I love hardware and spent my first few years in the industry in server admin (Linux/BSD) and networking (IOS certified). I like coding and have been in development ~8 yrs. My career goal now is to move to devops and also to work only remote + freelance. I just finished The Phoenix Project and The Unicorn Project and it was like a light bulb for me in terms of understanding what the discipline is about (and understanding better what people are talking about in this subreddit).

I like and fairly well understand the tech used in a modern devops stack (K8S, cloud platforms). But I would absolutely hate moving back to editing config files for a living. I want to code! I'm handy in a lot of languages, including Go.

Right now my experience is way too unfocused and all over the place to think I know what I'm doing in terms of applying for a devops job. I have another year or two in development to get some goals I had finished.

Are there spots for people in devops focused on development of tooling using Go (which seems like the dominant language in that realm), plus remote plus freelance? Any advice or other roles I should think about and consider working towards? TIA.

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Help with the architecture of ECS Clusters with Fargate in two availability zones (with AWS)

I'm always having trouble with creating the architecture for my projects. In the following I have listed what I need for my project, but I don't know how to make the architecture, so can anyone show me how it is done? I need a VPC with 2 Subnets and each Subnet is in another Availability Zone. It needs to have an Application Load Balancer. In each Subnet is an ECS Cluster and all that with using Fargate. I also need something to deploy 2 CI/ CD Pipelines in each Subnet which are connected to the ECS Cluster. Can I just use an EC2 instance, or is there something better? If it is possible, can you show me a diagram as an example?

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Job description help - SQL developer, architect, engineer?

I need some help. I’ve been asked to design and develop a fairly important transactional database for my company, and I don’t have the requisite experience to do it. What are people who design and code SQL databases called? SQL developers? And if you personally were going to hire someone to develop a database that is subject to audit by federal agencies, what is the minimum amount of experience you would accept? I’m trying to advocate for getting qualified people to do this build rather than me as I have no formal training in database development and have only used SQL for reporting purposes (I.e. creating tables, views, and procedures for reports and not to track the official status and activities on an item).

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Which offer to Pick?

My opinion.. both of them sucks but salaries are low in EU compared to US.

1. 90k EUR (\~96k USD)
4.050 EUR net
City: Berlin (or remote from Germany)
Role: Senior Cloud Architect
AWS 80% and Azure 20%
My expertise is in AWS and Azure (SA Pro in AWS, SA Expert in Azure) so I will not be learning much
2. 80k (\~84k USD)
3.600 EUR net
City: Munich (or remote from Germany)
Role: Senior DevOps Engineer
GCP 100%
I will be learning GCP here since I have no experience in it.

I pay 46% taxes in Germany so basically I'm getting F###ed regardless where I go.
Don't suggest OE r/overemployed as Germany monitors you via government social security and we can't do OE here. After paying rent, car, food, tv/cellphone, some clothes, and going out 1 week with my family I will barely afford much else..

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Anyone ever go through git history to answer the question "Who is the idiot that wrote this?"

Only to find out its you...

I swear this happens to me daily.

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Large bin storage in a container registry?

Inspired by

this [post\](https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1113dwo/100\_gb\_docker\_container/)

I was actually curious if anyone has ever tried to use a container registry to store large binary assets as an alternative to something like Artifactory or a home grown artifact management systems? In this case it would just be snapshots of build outputs that are rather large themselves but won't be used externally much if at all.

Seems like it might actually work pretty well in theory, but curious if anyone has ever tried something like this?

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Thoughts on Self Hosting Artifactory vs. SaaS solution? How complicated is it to self host it?

We're currently in the early process of the buy vs. build decision for Artifactoty, and I'm curious about people's experiences with it?

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Blog - Architecture Decision Records

Recently, I’ve been examining some of the roadblocks when it comes to enabling the right level of speed, control, and, empowerment of engineers in fast-paced environments. One of the most common issues is the speed of architecture processes staying on pace.

https://lachlanwhite.com/posts/architecture/architecture-decision-records/

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1-on-1 meeting with manager

I have a weekly 1-on-1 meeting with my manager to pretty much talk about anything (career progression, professional development, etc).

I’m lost to what to discuss. Any recommendations? I’m an associate DevOps engineer for a small startup. We’ve discussed growth, learning paths, etc.

Just looking for anything that would be a good idea to bring up to ask or discuss.

Thanks!

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Job option, doubts

Hi, to sum up, I am a Dev (with bare minimum Ops), meaning, that I use jenkins and code pipelines in it using groovy. Also, I manage other projects coding in python and java, but I am not involved in the infrastructure side of devOps, so nothing to say about AWS/Azure and ansible/terraform. Right now I have a job offer which seems like IAC (aws, terraform, ansible, logging through ELK, and good linux background) but no coding/scripting. So my question is, do you think this new opportunity could "stale" me in the devops path? Of course just want to know opinions, not decisions.

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Chef Nodes Question

Is there anyway to get any info on what nodes are using a certain cookbook? I am having difficulty locating which server is using one of my cookbooks.

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redhat Openshift internship

hello guys , im having a 4 months internship as a devops trainee , i have no background of devops , im specialized in mobile developement , and this is my 1st devops internship , the project is to containerize a jre application and make a ci/cd pipeline for it and deploy it on openshift , so i started learning the basics , linux , docker , jenkins , deployement to aws , digitalocean .. so far so good , so my question is do i need to learn how openshift works and throw all the stuff im learning right now ? or will i need them in openshift , or does openshift does all the work without the need of all those tools that i learned , and 1 more question am i on the right path ? my only resource is a course called devops bootcamp with nana that's my only resource i feel im a bit lost especially when she started talking about nexus , because i have no background with devops whatsoever , thank you guys .

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What's the better solution for Prometheus?

Hi, I have an eks cluster and all nodes are fully private. Currently, I installed Kube-Prometheus-Stack on it. But I need a centralized solution. If the whole cluster is down or something then I need to find why easily with my centralized data. Also in the future, I will have more than one cluster. So I need to view all metrics and data in one place.

What's the best way I can archive that? Any suggestions?

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One vs multiple CABs?

Does your company have separate CABs for infrastructure vs app dev changes? I’m interested in the pros and cons of each scenario.

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Are there tools you can use to improve your docker containers like Docker Slim?

What are some useful tools out there?

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Devops bootcamp or something similar

I am looking at making a possible career change and was discussing different options with a friend of mine. He suggested DevOps because he believes that based on my skills/interests, that I would enjoy it and ultimately do well. That being said, I am in a completely unrelated field currently and would be starting effectively from scratch. I know I have a long road ahead of me, but I was wondering if there are any recommendations for bootcamp or something of that nature that can help kickstart everything for me. I was looking at the one by The Linux Foundation but saw some not so great reviews from some of you which gave me pause.

I saw the "how to get into DevOps" post but didn't see much in the way of bootcamps for someone with no experience. Unless that's just not a great route to take for this field.

That all being said, I would appreciate any advice/direction that you may have for an inexperienced beginner such as myself. Thank you in advance!

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Would you be interested in a podcast on career transformation?

A few days ago I asked this in the community, I had been in this situation where I was struggling to get guidance and mentor support for my career transformation, So I decided to do something about it.

Alongside side my friend, I have started a podcast where I am interviewing guests who have transformed their careers in Information Technology, discussing their journeys, challenges and solutions.

Also, one of the key aspects is that I am requesting these guests to provide mentor support to the community.

The target domain is IT, cyber-security, telecom, cloud, DevOps and ITES.

I hope by doing so, I can share back something with the community.

Do let me know if you are interested and I can share the details.

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winrm issues with packer

I am working on creating Windows 10 images (Windows is not my strong suit but I digress) with Packer. I am using https://github.com/rgl/packer-plugin-windows-update provisioner as the last step to update Windows and this is where my build fails most of the time - I get an i/o error

Failed to send shutdown command: unknown error Post "https://x.x.x.x:5985/wsman": dial tcp x.x.x.x:5985: i/o timeout

For some reason the firewall profile was changed to public (from private), which blocks winrm. Why is Windows update changing firewall profile to public? There was no reboot, which could possibly explain the behavior.

I said earlier that build fails most of the time because it does not fail all the time - probably fails 9 out of 10 times. I think I'd be much happier if it was consistently failing the same way. Has anybody encountered this and found a fix/workaround?

The workaround I have thought of (over the weekend) is to create a scheduled task before windows updates. The task would switch firewall profile to private every 10 seconds or so. I can then remove the task after windows updates. This seems pretty hacky though.

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Looking for tool recommendation

Hi,
I am looking for a tool to do the following:
Given a list of Azure VM images, create a vm from each of them, run a script on all of them, and output the result.

Essentially, I want a way to test what version of a specific command is running on each VM image I am using.

Thanks

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How DevSecOps Safeguards Your AWS Cloud Better?

DevSecOps is not just a buzzword, it's a mindset that can make a significant difference in securing your AWS cloud. With the increasing number of cyber threats, it's crucial to prioritize security at every step of the development and deployment process. Our blog post explains how DevSecOps can safeguard your AWS cloud better. Check it out now!

https://www.umbrellainfocare.com/blogs/how-devsecops-safeguards-your-aws-cloud-better

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AWS EKS cluster setup

Hello People

I created a EKS Cluster based on the documentation , and i used the VPC Yaml provided by AWS for VPC with public and private subnets.

Followed step by step , deployed a sample app and it seems OK

Just wanted to make sure if i should worry about creating a cluster provided by the docs .

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/creating-a-vpc.html

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