Devops and Platform Engineering

DevOps? Platform engineering? Has this been buzzing you for quite some time now? look no further and just watch the latest video that I just dropped on DevOps vs Platform engineering!
Remember Internal developers platforms are not built in air 😂 You need devops, sre, programmers to build that to be used by other teams. Everyone can have their own version of platforms like they have for DevOps Imo this is a self service tool for teams but IDP itself needs to be managed Watch the complete video And share your thoughts/opinions as well.

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What is the most tedious task?

We made so much progress in the last years, improvement all around that empower teams to execute their work with not much hazard.

But what is that thing that makes you miserable? That chore that pains you every day and, for some reason, no one has taken it away?

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Career Advice - focus on Leetcode or try to get my CKA

I'm at a crossroads in my career and I'm not sure what to focus on next. I kinda let my career take me where it wanted to take me for the last 5-6 years and I've somehow done a lot of DevOps for Security things, mostly in the Cloud Security and Infrastructure Security spaces.

However, I've completely missed the boat on K8s. Most of the last 6 years has focused on IAC for AWS Security related things (AWS IAM, AWS Firewalls, AWS security related to various primitives) or IAC for vendor appliances. None of this stuff has given me much exposure to K8s.


Looking for a new job recently, all the job posting I run into need me to be great at K8s and be great at Leetcode. I can coding basics, but I can't sail thru Leetcode easys - they take me a while and sometimes all I got is O(n2) loops. I haven't touched K8s much at all.


Since I seem to be stuck right now at my current job/level, which skill should I try to pick up first? Grind more at LC or try to get my CKA? What's more valuable in scaling up in my IC career in DevOps/Security?

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Im going crazy managing multiple services without docker. Could use some wisdom from others.

I’m a bit above average programmer with minimal devops experience and a big homelab who needs help keeping my sanity in check. Basically I think I’m making things harder then they need to be.

The problem:
I’m looking for solutions on the best way to manage (start/stop + view logs) for multiple services that can’t be run in docker. When I want to start my code on my main machine it requires staring two node.js apps (including the UI) and seven golang services; in addition to 5 docker containers. Without going into detail, just trust me when I say the go services can’t be dockerized without taking a sizeable performance hit. When I want to spin up the code on my second machine so it can run concurrently and pass data to the main machine I have to start the same services minus docker. Basically it’s 9 terminals running in the background each with a special command to get started which is driving me a bit crazy and makes me not want to write code because of having to restart them all.

The solution I know of:
The only thing that comes to mind for managing these is a bash script.

I’m hoping others with more experience can provide me with better options.



Other miscellaneous details which may/may not be relevant:
Epyc 32core with 256gb memory, 20tb ssd’s and 12gb GPU. Ryzen 12 core 128gb memory and 12gb GPU. Both run Ubuntu desktop on bare metal. Also unraid with 400tb of storage. When I run my code it will saturate my 1gb connection and all machines run at 75% load.

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SonarQube is complete dog sh*t.

I have nowhere else to express my complete hatred of it. I honestly believe they roll out bugs on purpose to push people into the paid version.

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Any tool out there with dynamic parameters except Jenkins?

My team heavily uses the "Active Choice" Jenkins feature to allow developers to select from a dropdown generated from a script. This can be to choose from git branches, files in s3, keys in a database table, and so on..

This seemingly simple feature is apparently nowhere to be found on any open source automation server or CICD platform except for Jenkins. All of the others only allow for hard-coded parameters as simple text or choice inputs.

The lack of this ability is the main, if not the only blocker for my team to move on to another tool, basically the "self-service" capability it gives for developers to use the Jenkins UI.

So, as the title suggests, any other tool, free or not, that provides this capability or wraps another tool with it?

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Release scheduling/calendar???

What do ya'll use for release scheduling/calendar? Currently, we're tracking development, smoke testing, QA validation, and deployments via Excel... I HATE it!

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What are other katakoda like free devops learning platform available online? From what I understand after O'Reilly bought them is not free

All in the title

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People with Linux work laptops: How does it work at your company?

To elaborate on the title, I'm curious to learn more about how other companies provide access to developers to run Linux as their main work OS. This is both from the perspective of how can I pitch this to my current employer, as well as how can I filter jobs in the future to find a place that won't force a Mac (or worse, Windows) on me, and avoid horribly locked down Linux (say, packages and DE enforced by IT)

Some example questions, please expand on it or share relevant things in any form that suits you!

- How big is your company?
- Does IT provide an install, or do you get to pick your distro / do the setup yourself?
- Do you get the declared holy config of the year? Pick your own flavor from a small set of machines? Pick your own device freely with a budget?
- What corporate spyware does your company use for Linux?
- Is this managed by central IT, or an exception special for your team?
- How did you dig for this, and more importantly the details of it, during the interview?
- What's your corp VPN, video chat, text chat, work calendar, office docs, project management + git repo stack like?

Thank you!

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How does this optimize the package managers?


RUN echo "https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main" > /etc/apk/repositories && \
echo "https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community" >> /etc/apk/repositories && \
echo "https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing" >> /etc/apk/repositories


We're just writing some url into a file. How is it going to optimize the package manager?

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How do you guys enjoy this?

Some context for y’all, i graduated in spring of 2022 with a degree in CS and immediately accepted an offer at a big bay area tech company as a devops engineer on the devops team. They promised me i’d learn soooo much and that’d it’d only require a little hard work at the start. Fast forward to a year later and all i’ve learned is how to navigate through the aws console, run jenkins jobs, install/update software on nodes, and change orgs passwords lol. They don’t let me or any of the other new grads touch the python automation scripts or do any developer related tasks. On top of that, there are usually 3 days of the week where i’m working 7:30 am to 7/8 pm and i don’t even have an organized routine at this work which seriously irritates me. I hate having to stare at my laptop all day waiting for a new issue to remediate. Id prefer to have a scheduled plan going into my workday. I feel burnt out as hell and with the shitty job market, i’m probably trapped at this company for another year. Don’t get me wrong tho, i really do want to enjoy my job and learn as much as possible but i feel so limited on this team and tbh deploying/monitoring services and fixing the bugs that appear in that process is just flat out boring to me. Is this how it is for everyone or am i just not at the right company?

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What is an easy-to-use service for aggregating and analyzing app-specific logs from multiple microservices?

Hi all,

I'm working with several microservices, each generating their own application-specific logs. I'm looking for a service that can aggregate these logs into one place, allowing me to easily search and analyze them. Additionally, I'd like to be able to create graphs and visualizations based on this data.

I'm hoping to find a service that is easy to use and doesn't require a lot of setup or configuration. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

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(Little rant) People wanting to get into DevOps or just starting: Fix your mindsets

Guys, when deciding to get into DevOps this must be a decision you make for your future and it must be purposefully done and not just motivated by money (is a plus but shouldn't be your only thing).
When starting look at all the resources you have and start by YOUR point 0, if you got any experience with software or administration or have done some similar tasks start by there, extend your knowledge and go step by step. It is going to take years, stop seeking for a shortcut, you are losing valuable learning time.
Just live with the fact that is a journey and is going to take time, stop trying to rush.

For a little context: I mentor juniors in my company and sometimes in LinkedIn I help people that seek support, but today a guy just got me.. first year of Uni, a couple of Android hello world apps, nothing else, no Linux experience, nothing more, and I have decided to give him above tips and was about to give him specific tips on which things to start with (basically explaining roadmap.sh/devops), and the guy interrupted me that he HAS to get a Cloud cert, and that he ALREADY knows CI-CD, like... Seriously WTF... What does he know, a presentation with the infinity sign and the legends plan blah blah deploy...

This is known as The Dunning-Kruger effect, having little to no knowledge is equal to max amount of confidence in this situations/people, is really frustrating, because you just came seeking advice but counter your peers statements as you are better...

At the end I mentioned the Dunning-Kruger effect and warned him to stay humble and relaxed and trust in the steps of learning and the guy apparently ghosted me, I don't care but I just have seen similar people in my work and I think this kind of attitude and mindset just drives you to the following scenario:.
- You got plenty of confidence, copy paste skills in your CV, bypass HR filtering process, lie like crazy to your interviewer, he lowballs a junior position for a needed team and you take the offer, in a matter of 1 month your team sees you as a dead weight and hate helping you because you need them to babysit you and tell you where/what to do at all times, at the end your learning just becomes slow because you are not in control of what you learn..


Thank you for coming to my TedTalk

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Screwed up at work. (Deleted demo env)

Just wanted to share as no one I know can understand what I feel.

I work in a startup post-seed round, we are B2B and currently with no clients so only demo-ing, the startup after R&D rehaul, I joined first day of Jan2023

I work for 2 months, it's been good, I have built infrastructure from scratch on Google cloud, from assigning name servers dns in the registrar to 3 gke clusters, one for dev and test envs, one for demo and sales, one for monitoring and self hosted git for some stuff.

There is plenty of leftover stuff that got to me after R&D rehaul, from AWS, Azure...

So it was Thursday (2 days ago), the CEO told me he got 30k$ bill from Azure, that's because all credits were expired at the end of 2022, I started deleting some stuff that I was thinking are old R&D leftovers, most of it were, but apparently I deleted the environment of what is an old demo environment, with the product versions of August, fully configured, in order to demo for potential clients... As a B2B product that's like a production environment.

Now we do have a working new demo environment, but it's not configured at all ( and it's a lot of work ), and the versions are new and probably not stable.

This is embarrassing, I don't know how to show up tomorrow, I just want to quit right now ( I won't), it eats me inside that I am somewhat experienced and made that mistake. My self esteem got crashed and I just don't know what to do (other than going full brain mode and fix it), but I am going to fix it alone without any help.

Sorry for the cringe, just wanted to lay it out.

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Consolidating cloud providers monitoring with general monitoring

Hey hey.

AWS based here, currently monitoring all our services via Prometheus+Grafana, whereas AWS resources are still via Cloudwatch. How are you guys consolidating your monitoring so that everything is exposed via one platform?

Is the Cloudwatch Grafana source worth it or do you guys use any other SaaS (Datadog etc...), or do you actually just keep whatever's in Cloudwatch in Cloudwatch.

Would appreciate getting some feedback for inspiration.

Thanks!

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Linux foundation cloud engineer boot camp

Has anyone gone through this boot camp? https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/cloud-engineer-bootcamp/

I'm an azure solutions architect trying to get more knowledge about containerization and the DevOps space to expand my role. This seems like the perfect fit boot camp to take my career to the next step. Has anyone gone through it? Any bad experiences or great experiences? Trying to gauge if this is worth $1200

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Any Dynatrace users? What are the pros/cons?

Interested in hearing anyone’s experience with the tool.

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Advice / Guidance



Hello dear redditors.

I've (27male) been working on a managerial position for an international company for 3 years. For last few month, I've been able to arrange my schedule in most confortable way, so I have plenty of free time on my hand. Mostly, I work for 2 days, 8hr shifts, and then I have 4 day offs, so I'm thinking to start a new journey, instead of gaming for whole day.

Since the childhood, I've been interested in computer science, however due to me living in underdeveloped country, it was practically impossible to study or to work on above mentioned sphere.

Fortunately, last few years and due to recent pandemic, there was an explosion of computer science, coding and development in my region. Two of my friends started high paying jobs in matter of months (backend and devops).

So, I've beend thinking if it's worth to start a journey and if so, what will be the most suitable field for 27yo, who has 0 knowledge regarding anything related to coding or programming.

Please share your experience, or give me some hint to start with.

Thank you.

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Should I use containers ( Docker / Podman ) for my app ?

I am running a node application and will host it online. Want to know if Docker ( or podman ) will be helpful for me for local and hosted environments.

If I don't use containers now how hard will it be to move to containers later on ?

Is there cost savings by running code in containers ?

Should the database run from a container or on the host itself ?

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CICD pipelines written in Typescript

Hi guys!

I've been using some tools client and server side to automate software deployment. To an extend where i needed more flexibility with pipeline definition!

I've been building a tool to execute pipelines written in Typescript (rust + deno under the hood)

I am working on the doc as we speak.

It's very different from what you may have been working with, but it solved my problems and still sticks to common pipeline paradigme!

Just wanted to share it with the outter world as I think It has become pretty mature over the past months.

What do u think of it? (work in progress)
Could it solve some of your issues!?

https://doc.pipelight.areskul.com/

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What is the impact of not having Docker in your local development environment?

Former developer, turned architect here. I just joined a large transportation company which is just beginning their migration towards the cloud. We're onboarding a vendor to write some containerized applications for us to replace some legacy ones which we'll then host in GCP. We need to provide the vendor with development machines, however these machines will not have Docker, Podman, WSL2 etc due to large company reasons. My company's stance is that the developers can push their code through our CI/CD pipelines (ie; see if their Dockerfile is correct, if maven can create the containers, and push to a registry, integration tests work, etc etc).

My question is, does this sound like an anti-pattern to you? Personally, I feel that having to use the pipelines in this way would slow me down a few hours a week. I've already reached out to the vendor to see their opinion on it, but curious what you folks think about this scenario.

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