What does it take to start your own DevOps or Cloud Consultancy ?

As a DevOps engineer, you've spent years honing your skills and gaining experience in cloud computing, automation, and agile methodologies. Now, you're considering taking the leap and starting your own consultancy firm to help other businesses adopt these practices and technologies. But where and how do you start? Who has done it here ? What's the process

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where do you store your projects reports ?

I use gitea to store my git
Droneci for the cicd
Docker swarm for production
Loki for logs
Influxdb and grafana for metrics
Etc.

My cicd also runs some tools that generate reports :
- Code Coverage
- Security (trivy)
- image size
- build & deployment time
- dependencies size (package phobia)
- sonarqube

I see that every tool has a nice dashboard or sometimes nothing and I'm left with json.

A quick view of all this mess would be nice.
Should I develop mine quickly. Is there a tool for that ?
Is it what is called a "software catalog" ?

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How do you deploy your docker containers (without orchestrators) ?

There's constant discussion around the usage of Kubernetes, Nomad and Docker Swarm. I recently stumbled upon the MRSK.dev post and am curious to know the tools and strategies used by teams and individuals that deploy Docker on VMs without using orchestrators.

If you're not on the cloud, could you also mention what hosting you use? I'd like to know

1. How do you deploy your containers?
2. What domain is the business that you work in?
3. What does the toolset look like?
4. How many servers do you deploy to?
5. Do you run it via a CI/CD server?
6. How do you handle monitoring and alerting?

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Where to learn more as I scale up?

I've created and deployed a Django web app and there may be opportunities for me to monetize this app next year. I want to be ready for growth if this happens. I'm currently using a single CPU VPS with Linode and have no problems with CPU or memory use. My app is deployed via a PaaS.

I'm just doing this by myself. I tested out deploying my app without the PaaS by installing nginx as a proxy server, but that was at a very basic level with minimal configuration. I know that with Linode I can increase the CPU and memory at any time and I don't think I'd need to expand past that - I don't think I'd have more than a few thousand concurrent users. So when I say growth I don't think I'm talking clusters. Maybe load balancing for redundancy?


What would be the next step in learning about scaling, balancing, etc? The PaaS I'm using has settings for "web" and "workers" (which would also show up in a Procfile) and I have a fuzzy idea on what they're talking about but clearly their docs are meant for someone that knows more about this than I do. My apologies if this isn't quite a devops topic, I'm at the stage where I don't know enough to ask a great question.

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What do you do in your downtime?

I've been working as a DevOps Engineer / SRE for five years and noticed that in my downtime I'm doing the same things that I usually do at work. And I like it more than at work (I don't understand why). So, are there many like me who have the same DevOps hobby?

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What are your thoughts on using a GitHub copilot as a helping tool during doing DevOps Engineering work?

I think it's counterproductive and futile. Instead of learning and understanding your instruments, you decided to add an intermediate tool that would suggest the “best” solution. And when it becomes unavailable you couldn't do your work, also it can't help you with the debugging and if it generates a complicated bug, but you wouldn't be able to fix it. In the long term, you become less smart than you were before and become depended on the tool that sometime could become or too expensive or unavailable.

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only devops on my team, how to move to a devops team?

Been doing ci/cd for environment provisioning and test automation for a team over the last few months. The work is near complete and I'm interested in continuing devops work where this ci/cd will be migrated over to.

I'm meeting with my manager who wants me to focus on application development. How do I respectfully let them know that the work I've been doing will continue to need improvements and there isn't enough resources where the ci/cd will be moved to. Also moving teams would help me improve the reliability of the environments as I'd have more direct contact with others that understand the tasks I work on instead of people blankly staring and ignoring(closing tickets that track) the tasks I need to do to complete the ci/cd for multiple environments. (basically I want to be in a devops team doing devops, not going back to application development)

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Survey Relation between scrum and devops. Thesis about implementing devops in scrum company Repost with updates

Hello. I am looking for people familiar with Scrum or Devops. I'm doing my thesis and I need feedback on the challenges of implementing DevOps in organizations with scrum. It is a short survey and you will help me a lot! thank you!

Inside the survey there is a short brief about what both concepts mean inside the paper I'm doing.

English: https://forms.gle/etE3nJ2CnRL9M8gRA
Español: https://forms.gle/LMdVHEzpigpxmrBAA

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Duplocloud, anybody using this yet?

Just curious if anyone has any experience with duplocloud. My company wants to implement this solution and I am not convinced that the their low/no code approach to the cloud is going to be a silver bullet for our organization. Also I know that duplocloud has a reddit account and I really don't want to hear your sales pitch, I want to hear if anyone in the devops sub reddit has heard of it.

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where do you store your projects reports ?

I use gitea to store my git
Droneci for the cicd
Docker swarm for production
Loki for logs
Influxdb and grafana for metrics
Etc.

My cicd also runs some tools that generate reports :
- Code Coverage
- Security (trivy)
- image size
- build & deployment time
- dependencies size (package phobia)
- sonarqube

I see that every tool has a nice dashboard or sometimes nothing and I'm left with json.

A quick view of all this mess would be nice.
Should I develop mine quickly. Is there a tool for that ?
Is it what is called a "software catalog" ?

https://redd.it/11upmbo
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How many of us are on anxiety medication?

Are you on anxiety medication?

View Poll

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Automate Terraform with GitHub and GCP Workload Identity Federation

This is how I automate IaC following the least privilege principle with GitHub and Google Workload Identity Federation. Hope you find it useful...

The workflow will run terraform plan and apply base on the event triggering the workflow, and based on that will use a dedicated service account to allow us to strictly follow the least privilege principle. If the workflow is triggered by a pull_request event the workflow will execute the step terraform plan with the tf-plan service account. If instead it is triggered by a push against main it will execute the apply step using a service account authorised to manage the resources in GCP.

https://youtu.be/DMwl9WcSAL8

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Surf CLI - Multiple AWS Accounts support! (Text search DynamoDB, S3 and more)

**Overview**

SURF is built for Infrastructure Engineers as a CLI tool that enables searching any pattern across different platforms.

**What's New:**

You can now provide unlimited \`--aws-session\` flags with \`profile\` and \`region\` values to search across multiple AWS accounts at once!

usage: \`surf s3 -q "my data" --aws-session dev,us-east-1 --aws-session prod,us-west-2\`

**Supported Platforms**

* usage: \`surf <platform> -q <some text>\`
* AWS Route53, DynamoDB, ACM, S3, Opensearch
* Elasticsearch
* [Logz.io](https://logz.io/)
* Hashicorp Vault, Consul

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Looking for Advice on Intro into DevOps

Hello all! I am currently looking to shift careers from public education to DevOps. I have come coding experience but I believe the management style of DevOps fits my skills better. What route would you take to learn? I am currently enrolled in the IBM DevOps course on Coursera, is it a good route for learning this field? For this who have taken it, would the work done there help build a strong portfolio for what companies are looking for? Any other advice on where to learn is welcomed!

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Committing a file via build pipeline?

I’ve got a pre merge pipeline that triggers on PR as a build validation.

I’ve also got a script that can be ran to generate a readme markdown file just in scripts folder. I’m currently running that manually when I’m making code changes pre PR.

Is it frowned on/bad practice to have a step in a pre merge pipeline that essentially create changes (as in adding a new md file) that were not part of the original PR?

The script would only run on files that have had changes to ensure the readme is always updated.

Basically don’t think anyone will stick to running it long term so thought I’d try and automate it as part of the validation stage.

Any insight (or suggestions on a better way?) would be helpful as I am new to my devops journey.

Thanks!

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Left Behind

Long post, but needing some advice please on 're'-training.


The team I work in is a multi disciplined team comprising of DBAs and app/web/other expertise in a SQL shop.
The initial purpose of the team was to push the Devops agenda, and the culture shift in the company, implementing routes to live via Octopus deploy.
Our team of SMEs is split into Agile sprint teams alongside devs/testers etc to use as any other sprint resource to remove silos between dev and ops (clever stuff huh), and reduce ticketing waits and all that legacy type of problem.


Up until pretty recently, once the Devops methodology/culture was widely accepted and implemented, this worked fine, with each of our SMEs also being tooling admins for Octopus deploy, TFS, Jenkins agile developer sprint teams are as empowered as possible, and devop/ops are in much better relation.
I will be the first to acknowledge that our team is a silo between dev and ops, but it's worked more like a layer above both rather than being the man in the middle.


The problem I have, is that now the devops culture is standard and accepted, and that good stuff our team has been split into a cloud migration side and a BAU side, with yours truly being stuck sweeping up BAU and essentially just now being a monkey with admin/DBA in the loosest use of the term.


I've been with the company a decent amount of time, the majority of which has been spent in this 'devops engineer' position, but as i find myself looking for similar roles, I'm woefully underskilled with no cloud experience/exposure. I have the AZ900 cert, but it looks like the market (in the UK) prefers AWS skills, so im currently training for those certs in my spare time, but I see jobs requiring Kubernetes/Docker alot as well.


My question/TLDR is this:
What would you do if you were me in order to skill up and be relevant in the job market as a devops engineer, specifically in the UK/remote?
AWS feels like a given, but is Kubernetes worth the self training/certs?
What else have i overlooked?

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I’m joining a devops team in 3 months

Been a developer for 6 years, spent last 3 years as an IT consultant

What should I learn before this new job?

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Salary Sharing Thread March 2023

This thread is for sharing recent offers you've gotten or current salaries.

Please only post an offer if you're including hard numbers, but feel free to use a throwaway account if you're concerned about anonymity.

* Education:

* Company/Industry:

* Title:

* Years of technical experience:

* Location:

* Base Pay

* Relocation/Signing Bonus:

* Stock and/or recurring bonuses:

* Total comp:

* Tech Stack:

* Interview Process: What topics were covered in the interview? If there was a coding exercise, was it based on scripting or Data Structures and Algorithm?

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Fake until you make it

Can you make experience. Lots of info out ther and so many ways to do things. There is Jenkins GitHub gitlab. There tools to check code. Can you fake it until you make it.

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Getting error when running kustomize build - "not a valid directory"

I'm trying to run kustomize build on the master node of a k3s cluster.

I'm in the `/etc/rancher/k3s` directory but get the following error.

kubectl kustomize build
error: must build at directory: not a valid directory: evalsymlink failure on 'build' : lstat /etc/rancher/k3s/build: no such file or directory

How do I solve this?

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mTLS everywhere!

Security in one’s information system has always been among the most critical Non-Functional Requirements. Transport Secure Layer, aka TLS, formerly SSL, is among its many pillars. In this post, I’ll show how to configure TLS for the Apache APISIX API Gateway.

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