I want to switch from my Tech Support job to DevOps. How?
I have 7+ years of experience in Tech support management role and have been working with Windows, Active Directory environment.
I also have 1+ years of self-learning + internship experience in frontend development, HTML, CSS, Javascript, ReactJS.
I've realized that I want to transition to full-time DevOps now and build my career around it. What would be the best path to take. I am in a 9 to 5 job and also married. Quitting my job just for training for the next 3 months or so is not an option. I can do part-time though. Is there any way I can start as a Junior DevOps, even if the salary is low compared to my current role?
I am in Pakistan so the job prospect is really low in DevOps currently. It's a growing sector but will take time. How should I start? I've seen that there are quite a few remote work opportunities as well but most of them are explicit about the countries or timezones they are interested it.
How should I proceed?
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I have 7+ years of experience in Tech support management role and have been working with Windows, Active Directory environment.
I also have 1+ years of self-learning + internship experience in frontend development, HTML, CSS, Javascript, ReactJS.
I've realized that I want to transition to full-time DevOps now and build my career around it. What would be the best path to take. I am in a 9 to 5 job and also married. Quitting my job just for training for the next 3 months or so is not an option. I can do part-time though. Is there any way I can start as a Junior DevOps, even if the salary is low compared to my current role?
I am in Pakistan so the job prospect is really low in DevOps currently. It's a growing sector but will take time. How should I start? I've seen that there are quite a few remote work opportunities as well but most of them are explicit about the countries or timezones they are interested it.
How should I proceed?
https://redd.it/123cq7l
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r/devops on Reddit: I want to switch from my Tech Support job to DevOps. How?
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Permanent thread for open-source tool recommendations
Unlike the self promotion thread, which can be commercial, this one will be people looking for a tool either to use or to collaborate on and other people will join them or tell them this tool already exists.
The reasoning behind that is that people are always seeking if solutions exist before implementing them ourselves or creating a post for them each time. If there was a long thread I could search through to find what I need it would be easier, and would help me contribute to projects I believe in or depend on, or to suggest my solution to someone looking for one.
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Unlike the self promotion thread, which can be commercial, this one will be people looking for a tool either to use or to collaborate on and other people will join them or tell them this tool already exists.
The reasoning behind that is that people are always seeking if solutions exist before implementing them ourselves or creating a post for them each time. If there was a long thread I could search through to find what I need it would be easier, and would help me contribute to projects I believe in or depend on, or to suggest my solution to someone looking for one.
View Poll
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r/devops on Reddit: Permanent thread for open-source tool recommendations
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Devs with security clearances, are you still getting spammed by recruiters?
I know the market is bad right now, but on the defense side of things, it seems as though nothing's changed. I'm still getting spammed to death on LinkedIn and Indeed from recruiters. Those of you with a clearance, Is it the same where you're at?
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I know the market is bad right now, but on the defense side of things, it seems as though nothing's changed. I'm still getting spammed to death on LinkedIn and Indeed from recruiters. Those of you with a clearance, Is it the same where you're at?
https://redd.it/123ltd2
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r/devops on Reddit: Devs with security clearances, are you still getting spammed by recruiters?
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Automated Deployment in Heroku
Have you ever setup any pipeline that automatically promotes to production in heroku? Did you do it via the Heroku API by coding the logic?
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Have you ever setup any pipeline that automatically promotes to production in heroku? Did you do it via the Heroku API by coding the logic?
https://redd.it/123n64v
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r/devops on Reddit: Automated Deployment in Heroku
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How do you protect against dangerous commands you run everyday?
We run commands to install, test or run some setup a lot and most times daily.
Some of these commands have security risks (malware), or sometimes you can accidentally run a command (typo) that is a security risk. Some commands make infrastructure changes that you need to pay attention to, or else it could all go wrong.
We all try to pay attention to things and take measures, but these things still happen, and sometimes, you don't even know the issues that can happen.
What do people do? What are the best practices? How do people solve this? Am I alone?
https://redd.it/122mb6j
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We run commands to install, test or run some setup a lot and most times daily.
Some of these commands have security risks (malware), or sometimes you can accidentally run a command (typo) that is a security risk. Some commands make infrastructure changes that you need to pay attention to, or else it could all go wrong.
We all try to pay attention to things and take measures, but these things still happen, and sometimes, you don't even know the issues that can happen.
What do people do? What are the best practices? How do people solve this? Am I alone?
https://redd.it/122mb6j
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r/devops on Reddit: How do you protect against dangerous commands you run everyday?
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How do you do release management across repositories?
Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but hopefully the people here have some experience with these types of concerns.
Our product has a rather complex multi-repository setup with a mix of open-source and closed-source components. Most of the open-source components are crates that we publish to Crates.io, though some are released as WASM bundles which we can just push as GitHub Releases. We have an open-source CLI as well as a hosted service that depend on these open-source components, but also a closed source API and web frontend that share dependencies, but which are deployed to our own servers.
As you can imagine, there's quite some overhead in release management for versioning these components and making sure that components are properly updated when one of their dependencies is updated. So how does your company deal with such complexities? What CI solutions are you making use of (we currently use GitHub Actions, but having workflow dependencies between repos is no fun...)? What does your release process look like? Thanks!
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Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but hopefully the people here have some experience with these types of concerns.
Our product has a rather complex multi-repository setup with a mix of open-source and closed-source components. Most of the open-source components are crates that we publish to Crates.io, though some are released as WASM bundles which we can just push as GitHub Releases. We have an open-source CLI as well as a hosted service that depend on these open-source components, but also a closed source API and web frontend that share dependencies, but which are deployed to our own servers.
As you can imagine, there's quite some overhead in release management for versioning these components and making sure that components are properly updated when one of their dependencies is updated. So how does your company deal with such complexities? What CI solutions are you making use of (we currently use GitHub Actions, but having workflow dependencies between repos is no fun...)? What does your release process look like? Thanks!
https://redd.it/123r9ah
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r/devops on Reddit: How do you do release management across repositories?
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Hikaru 1.0.0 released
Hikaru provides a variety of tooling to work with Kubernetes configs in Python, YAML, or JSON, allowing you to move smoothly between each of these representations, and can also use the Python representation to directly interact with Kubernetes. Hikaru helps you migrate from YAML, easily create watches, detect changes in configuration, create CRDs and their controllers, and more. You can find out more Hikaru here at the PyPI page:
[https://pypi.org/project/hikaru/](https://pypi.org/project/hikaru/)
...at the Github repo: [https://github.com/haxsaw/hikaru](https://github.com/haxsaw/hikaru)
...or read the full doc at ReadTheDocs:
[https://hikaru.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html](https://hikaru.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html)
Hikaru 1.0.0 adds support for custom resource definitions. Hikaru now supports:
* The ability to define the structure of a CRD with Hikaru classes, either from scratch or to mimic one that is already in your environment,
* Sending the defintition into Kubernetes where it will be established as a CRD managed by K8s,
* Managing instances of the new CRD using CRUD methods,
* Establishing Watchers on the new CRD to in order to monitor activity or create controllers in Python, and
* The use of CRD classes as context managers, just like other Hikaru document classes.
This all works smoothly with the existing Hikaru features. Full documentation for these new features can be found in the "Advanced Topics" section of the Hikaru docs. This release still contains support for the same set of Kubernetes releases, 23.x through 26.x.
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Hikaru provides a variety of tooling to work with Kubernetes configs in Python, YAML, or JSON, allowing you to move smoothly between each of these representations, and can also use the Python representation to directly interact with Kubernetes. Hikaru helps you migrate from YAML, easily create watches, detect changes in configuration, create CRDs and their controllers, and more. You can find out more Hikaru here at the PyPI page:
[https://pypi.org/project/hikaru/](https://pypi.org/project/hikaru/)
...at the Github repo: [https://github.com/haxsaw/hikaru](https://github.com/haxsaw/hikaru)
...or read the full doc at ReadTheDocs:
[https://hikaru.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html](https://hikaru.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html)
Hikaru 1.0.0 adds support for custom resource definitions. Hikaru now supports:
* The ability to define the structure of a CRD with Hikaru classes, either from scratch or to mimic one that is already in your environment,
* Sending the defintition into Kubernetes where it will be established as a CRD managed by K8s,
* Managing instances of the new CRD using CRUD methods,
* Establishing Watchers on the new CRD to in order to monitor activity or create controllers in Python, and
* The use of CRD classes as context managers, just like other Hikaru document classes.
This all works smoothly with the existing Hikaru features. Full documentation for these new features can be found in the "Advanced Topics" section of the Hikaru docs. This release still contains support for the same set of Kubernetes releases, 23.x through 26.x.
https://redd.it/123stdi
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PyPI
hikaru
Hikaru allows you to smoothly move between Kubernetes YAML, Python objects, and Python source, in any direction
How To Foster a Self Help Eng Culture
TLDR: I guess my question is, what’s the best way to ask people how they’ve helped themselves so we can help them better without sounding like a total a-hole? Is the role of this team to be CX for eng teams? Seems like we’re overpaid for that.
I’ve been working as a “DevOps” / Cloud Infra Engineer full time for about 10 weeks, and part time (while straddling QA Management) for about a year and a half. I love this world.
That said, I’ve noticed a clear pattern of attitude and behaviors at my org since I’ve been able to focus full time on the role:
1. Engineers generally do not seem to want to take the initiative to understand how their applications work beyond the code they write.
2. As a result of number 1, they escalate every little question straight to our team as if we’re Tier 1 support. Worse, if they don’t get an immediate response, they communicate that we are “blockers” for their projects to senior management.
I imagine that I’ll get a lot of responses like, “Welcome to the world…”, but I have a hard time just accepting this is the status quo.
My team has been getting dumped on politically for being considered blockers while working hard to KLO and ensure that all the eng teams are able to maintain productivity at the sacrifice of our own roadmap, which has just led us to get dumped on more. Our intake and project boards were identical and exactly like the other eng teams and it seemed to me that the way were being measured is inadequate to show where our time and efforts are going.
I setup a Kanban board to track requests, their types (eg, support, questions, deployments, incidents, etc etc etc), and it became clear via the data that we’re being inundated by questions that could easily be answered if the devs just cared to look at the org docs or just investigate a little. In light of that, I created a process doc to encourage people to check if their questions have already been answered in the docs prior to submitting a request and / or where to look for common asks. At the end of the day, though, I don’t know much about this world - I do know a lot about defining process and process boundaries and leaning on that to make change.
https://redd.it/123rmr5
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TLDR: I guess my question is, what’s the best way to ask people how they’ve helped themselves so we can help them better without sounding like a total a-hole? Is the role of this team to be CX for eng teams? Seems like we’re overpaid for that.
I’ve been working as a “DevOps” / Cloud Infra Engineer full time for about 10 weeks, and part time (while straddling QA Management) for about a year and a half. I love this world.
That said, I’ve noticed a clear pattern of attitude and behaviors at my org since I’ve been able to focus full time on the role:
1. Engineers generally do not seem to want to take the initiative to understand how their applications work beyond the code they write.
2. As a result of number 1, they escalate every little question straight to our team as if we’re Tier 1 support. Worse, if they don’t get an immediate response, they communicate that we are “blockers” for their projects to senior management.
I imagine that I’ll get a lot of responses like, “Welcome to the world…”, but I have a hard time just accepting this is the status quo.
My team has been getting dumped on politically for being considered blockers while working hard to KLO and ensure that all the eng teams are able to maintain productivity at the sacrifice of our own roadmap, which has just led us to get dumped on more. Our intake and project boards were identical and exactly like the other eng teams and it seemed to me that the way were being measured is inadequate to show where our time and efforts are going.
I setup a Kanban board to track requests, their types (eg, support, questions, deployments, incidents, etc etc etc), and it became clear via the data that we’re being inundated by questions that could easily be answered if the devs just cared to look at the org docs or just investigate a little. In light of that, I created a process doc to encourage people to check if their questions have already been answered in the docs prior to submitting a request and / or where to look for common asks. At the end of the day, though, I don’t know much about this world - I do know a lot about defining process and process boundaries and leaning on that to make change.
https://redd.it/123rmr5
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r/devops on Reddit: How To Foster a Self Help Eng Culture
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Best practices for database history collection
Sorry for the weird title, I can't think of a better way of phrasing it.
We have a problem that a set of rows in a table inside a mysql database went missing a couple months ago and we only have weekly backups of data past 35 days so cant really narrow down the period of time it occurred and the state just before the rows were deleted.
We have no generic log aggregation for our database, we only have error logs and slowquery logs setup.
My intended approach is to setup general logs for the database and push these to our centralised logging solution. This enables us to trace all commands that could have affected the missing rows, find the culprit, prevent future occurrances, etc.
Is this the best course of action here, or are there other things we can do to monitor and trace data in specific tables within our database(s)?
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Sorry for the weird title, I can't think of a better way of phrasing it.
We have a problem that a set of rows in a table inside a mysql database went missing a couple months ago and we only have weekly backups of data past 35 days so cant really narrow down the period of time it occurred and the state just before the rows were deleted.
We have no generic log aggregation for our database, we only have error logs and slowquery logs setup.
My intended approach is to setup general logs for the database and push these to our centralised logging solution. This enables us to trace all commands that could have affected the missing rows, find the culprit, prevent future occurrances, etc.
Is this the best course of action here, or are there other things we can do to monitor and trace data in specific tables within our database(s)?
https://redd.it/123qwje
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r/devops on Reddit: Best practices for database history collection
Posted by u/GeorgeRNorfolk - 2 votes and 3 comments
Looking for feedback on a faster, open-source alternative to Backstage
If you are looking to improve developer productivity and identify with any of these, I'd love to talk to you about what we're working on! Please comment on here or DM me!
\- Looking for an faster, open-source alternative to Backstage
\- Struggling with cloud sprawl and organizing resources
\- Building a custom ops console or eng dashboard
\- Looking to automate daily workflows of information retrieval and cloud operations
\- Just hate using the AWS console
https://redd.it/123x9t7
@r_devops
If you are looking to improve developer productivity and identify with any of these, I'd love to talk to you about what we're working on! Please comment on here or DM me!
\- Looking for an faster, open-source alternative to Backstage
\- Struggling with cloud sprawl and organizing resources
\- Building a custom ops console or eng dashboard
\- Looking to automate daily workflows of information retrieval and cloud operations
\- Just hate using the AWS console
https://redd.it/123x9t7
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r/devops on Reddit: Looking for feedback on a faster, open-source alternative to Backstage
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What are my options for cheap multi-step API testing? Datadog is ridiculous.
I just read: https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/c6bxnc/datadog\_synthetics\_pricing/
and this pricing model is crazy. What are my options here for multi step API testing? I don't need to run a browser. I just want to be able to chain requests together. I checked out: https://www.uptrends.com/products/synthetics/api-monitoring, but this is trash.
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I just read: https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/c6bxnc/datadog\_synthetics\_pricing/
and this pricing model is crazy. What are my options here for multi step API testing? I don't need to run a browser. I just want to be able to chain requests together. I checked out: https://www.uptrends.com/products/synthetics/api-monitoring, but this is trash.
https://redd.it/123zjau
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r/devops on Reddit: Datadog Synthetics Pricing
Posted by u/[Deleted Account] - 7 votes and 16 comments
Kubernetes Operator
Help me understand what is a Kubernetes operator and how can i create one from scratch for my app service.
https://redd.it/124375i
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Help me understand what is a Kubernetes operator and how can i create one from scratch for my app service.
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r/devops on Reddit: Kubernetes Operator
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started devops and software engineer courses
HI, i started learning devops and software on coursera, does anyone have tips for beginners and i also wanted to ask can i get a job with the certificate?
Thank you
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HI, i started learning devops and software on coursera, does anyone have tips for beginners and i also wanted to ask can i get a job with the certificate?
Thank you
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r/devops on Reddit: started devops and software engineer courses
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is it possible to automate stop email forwarding & email forwarding in Jira?
We get a lot of jira tickets to manually stop and start email forwarding in azure, wondering if theres a way to automate this process?
Thanks
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We get a lot of jira tickets to manually stop and start email forwarding in azure, wondering if theres a way to automate this process?
Thanks
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r/devops on Reddit: is it possible to automate stop email forwarding & email forwarding in Jira?
Posted by u/Shadymash - 1 vote and 1 comment
Jr DevOps with Leidos
So I went on a application frenzy and one of my apps I put in was a Jr DevOps role with the company Leidos.
Well they emailed me and would like to do an interview and i am NERVOUS.
Mainly because from what I understand DevOps is a lot of coding? I know nothing about coding I have 3 years in help desk and am ready to move on and learn more but also don't want to make a total ass of myself in this interview.
Am I over thinking it? Anyone know what someone should expect out of this type of job?
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So I went on a application frenzy and one of my apps I put in was a Jr DevOps role with the company Leidos.
Well they emailed me and would like to do an interview and i am NERVOUS.
Mainly because from what I understand DevOps is a lot of coding? I know nothing about coding I have 3 years in help desk and am ready to move on and learn more but also don't want to make a total ass of myself in this interview.
Am I over thinking it? Anyone know what someone should expect out of this type of job?
https://redd.it/1247uk8
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r/devops on Reddit: Jr DevOps with Leidos
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I want to change my career to DevOps from Web Developer
Right now I'm working as a backend developer.I have one year of experience in web development.I want to change my career to DevOps more specifically I want to change my career to SRE or Cloud Security Engineer.Question is how to start this journey I don't even have a bachelor I was a self taught developer.Is it possible without a degree? Can you guys please enlighten me with your experience I am so lost right now.And another one is how many percentage do I need to know of networking for DevOps?
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Right now I'm working as a backend developer.I have one year of experience in web development.I want to change my career to DevOps more specifically I want to change my career to SRE or Cloud Security Engineer.Question is how to start this journey I don't even have a bachelor I was a self taught developer.Is it possible without a degree? Can you guys please enlighten me with your experience I am so lost right now.And another one is how many percentage do I need to know of networking for DevOps?
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r/devops on Reddit: I want to change my career to DevOps from Web Developer
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Manage one chart - deploy many apps
My initial iteration of a general purpose helm chart.
https://www.adnan-m.me/manage-one-helm-chart-deploy-many-applications/
Suggestions, questions, ideas, reviews are welcome.
https://redd.it/124aaz5
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My initial iteration of a general purpose helm chart.
https://www.adnan-m.me/manage-one-helm-chart-deploy-many-applications/
Suggestions, questions, ideas, reviews are welcome.
https://redd.it/124aaz5
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Adnan M.
Manage One Helm Chart - Deploy Many Applications
If you deployed applications on Kubernetes in the past, you might have made one or two helm charts. Helm is a widely used way of deploying applications to Kubernetes with all the relevant resources packaged in one package instead of dealing with a chaos of…
Introduce KPT KCL SDK - Kubernetes manifests editing with one line of KCL code.
Hello! Let me introduce you to the integration of KCL and KPT tools. KCL is a constraint-based record & functional domain language. Full documents of KCL can be found here.
kpt is a package-centric toolchain that enables a configuration authoring, automation, and delivery experience, which simplifies managing Kubernetes platforms and KRM-driven infrastructure.
The KCL programming language can be used in the KPT tool to:
+ Add annotations on the basis of a condition.
+ Inject a sidecar container in all KRM resources that contain a PodTemplate.
+ Validate all KRM resources using KCL schema.
More documents are here
+ Quick Start: https://github.com/KusionStack/kpt-kcl-sdk
+ Blog: https://medium.com/dev-genius/kcl-kpt-integration-2cfccce7e870
Expect participation or discussion.
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Hello! Let me introduce you to the integration of KCL and KPT tools. KCL is a constraint-based record & functional domain language. Full documents of KCL can be found here.
kpt is a package-centric toolchain that enables a configuration authoring, automation, and delivery experience, which simplifies managing Kubernetes platforms and KRM-driven infrastructure.
The KCL programming language can be used in the KPT tool to:
+ Add annotations on the basis of a condition.
+ Inject a sidecar container in all KRM resources that contain a PodTemplate.
+ Validate all KRM resources using KCL schema.
More documents are here
+ Quick Start: https://github.com/KusionStack/kpt-kcl-sdk
+ Blog: https://medium.com/dev-genius/kcl-kpt-integration-2cfccce7e870
Expect participation or discussion.
https://redd.it/124bnvz
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GitHub
GitHub - kcl-lang/kcl: KCL Programming Language (CNCF Sandbox Project). https://kcl-lang.io
KCL Programming Language (CNCF Sandbox Project). https://kcl-lang.io - kcl-lang/kcl
Need real time Projects in Devops
I'm a fresher and like you know everybody asks for what protects you've done in interviews. Where can I learn such real time projects or watch such projects and learn them. Any GitHub repo or YouTube channels recommendations are gladly welcome.
https://redd.it/124a6pw
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I'm a fresher and like you know everybody asks for what protects you've done in interviews. Where can I learn such real time projects or watch such projects and learn them. Any GitHub repo or YouTube channels recommendations are gladly welcome.
https://redd.it/124a6pw
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r/devops on Reddit: Need real time Projects in Devops
Posted by u/sanjayrg91 - No votes and 3 comments
Could the mods please introduce a minimum effort rule
I understand this is meta, so please delete if it's not allowed.
I enjoy this sub as there are often pretty cool posts about various tech stacks and DevOps/SRE culture in general. There are some absolute nuggets of wisdom that pop up in my feed from here - it's almost like a r/sysadmin but with more modern tech and less complaining (don't get me wrong, I love both subs!).
That said, lately I've noticed an influx of incredibly low effort posts filling up my feed.
Here are a few examples of low effort posts. I won't link them, but I have taken the entire post text. Each post is essentially a single sentence question with no thought, research or effort put into it, so labelling them one by one was pretty easy:
1. Help me understand what is a Kubernetes operator and how can i create one from scratch for my app service.
2. HI, i started learning devops and software on coursera, does anyone have tips for beginners and i also wanted to ask can i get a job with the certificate?
3. We get a lot of jira tickets to manually stop and start email forwarding in azure, wondering if theres a way to automate this process?
4. I'm a fresher and like you know everybody asks for what protects you've done in interviews. Where can I learn such real time projects or watch such projects and learn them. Any GitHub repo or YouTube channels recommendations are gladly welcome.
These are just a few of the one-liners.
Each of these, typed into Google, come up with first page results. I'm not saying we can't have posts that are one-liners - an educated statement or question can be loaded with information and spark interesting conversation, but these are not that.
It's getting to the point where every \~second time I see this subreddit pop up it's something incredibly simple that could be found on Google.
Sure, people need to ask basic questions. But again, show me what you've looked at. What are your thoughts on the issue? Don't just ask me "how to get into devops" with no context ignoring the pinned post and without using Google or searching the subreddit where you'd see the 1000 other posts with nearly identical titles and contents.
And again, that's not a knock on career advice threads, it's a dig at low effort "plan my career path for me with no context" threads.
Is there anything the mods can do about this in the form of a "minimum effort" rule and removing posts that fail to pass this bare minimum? I'm not talking about doing hours of research and hostile responses a la Stack Overflow, but just.. Come on, man. Something.
Maybe we could even create a macro that has a link to this page, or actually something more like this page (It has an easy to understand cartoon depicting the concept), when deleting threads that break this rule so that at least people understand why they've had their post removed and can improve.
I don't know. Maybe I'm yelling into the void. Maybe this is the law of the tech forum jungle - We've surpassed a certain number of members and now we're destined to spiral into a Google replacement for people wanting to break into the industry and junior practitioners.
Let me know what your thoughts are. I'm happy to be wrong here.
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I understand this is meta, so please delete if it's not allowed.
I enjoy this sub as there are often pretty cool posts about various tech stacks and DevOps/SRE culture in general. There are some absolute nuggets of wisdom that pop up in my feed from here - it's almost like a r/sysadmin but with more modern tech and less complaining (don't get me wrong, I love both subs!).
That said, lately I've noticed an influx of incredibly low effort posts filling up my feed.
Here are a few examples of low effort posts. I won't link them, but I have taken the entire post text. Each post is essentially a single sentence question with no thought, research or effort put into it, so labelling them one by one was pretty easy:
1. Help me understand what is a Kubernetes operator and how can i create one from scratch for my app service.
2. HI, i started learning devops and software on coursera, does anyone have tips for beginners and i also wanted to ask can i get a job with the certificate?
3. We get a lot of jira tickets to manually stop and start email forwarding in azure, wondering if theres a way to automate this process?
4. I'm a fresher and like you know everybody asks for what protects you've done in interviews. Where can I learn such real time projects or watch such projects and learn them. Any GitHub repo or YouTube channels recommendations are gladly welcome.
These are just a few of the one-liners.
Each of these, typed into Google, come up with first page results. I'm not saying we can't have posts that are one-liners - an educated statement or question can be loaded with information and spark interesting conversation, but these are not that.
It's getting to the point where every \~second time I see this subreddit pop up it's something incredibly simple that could be found on Google.
Sure, people need to ask basic questions. But again, show me what you've looked at. What are your thoughts on the issue? Don't just ask me "how to get into devops" with no context ignoring the pinned post and without using Google or searching the subreddit where you'd see the 1000 other posts with nearly identical titles and contents.
And again, that's not a knock on career advice threads, it's a dig at low effort "plan my career path for me with no context" threads.
Is there anything the mods can do about this in the form of a "minimum effort" rule and removing posts that fail to pass this bare minimum? I'm not talking about doing hours of research and hostile responses a la Stack Overflow, but just.. Come on, man. Something.
Maybe we could even create a macro that has a link to this page, or actually something more like this page (It has an easy to understand cartoon depicting the concept), when deleting threads that break this rule so that at least people understand why they've had their post removed and can improve.
I don't know. Maybe I'm yelling into the void. Maybe this is the law of the tech forum jungle - We've surpassed a certain number of members and now we're destined to spiral into a Google replacement for people wanting to break into the industry and junior practitioners.
Let me know what your thoughts are. I'm happy to be wrong here.
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[Mature Content] From the devops community on Reddit: 'Getting into DevOps'
Posted by mthode - 1,046 votes and 156 comments
Omnios vs Smartos vs proxmox vs Debian with kvm
I want to run firstly a wireguard server with high performance. I was thinking of wireguard within freebsd or Debian. Not sure if running it from a container would reduce performance.
I also want to check out some other operating systems like freebsd, openindiana, omnios and plan9 within virtual machines in one of the above operating systems.
Which of these options would be the able to support all of this above requirements ?
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I want to run firstly a wireguard server with high performance. I was thinking of wireguard within freebsd or Debian. Not sure if running it from a container would reduce performance.
I also want to check out some other operating systems like freebsd, openindiana, omnios and plan9 within virtual machines in one of the above operating systems.
Which of these options would be the able to support all of this above requirements ?
https://redd.it/124b7ut
@r_devops
Reddit
r/devops on Reddit: Omnios vs Smartos vs proxmox vs Debian with kvm
Posted by u/areyouhourly- - No votes and no comments