Advice for becoming a better DevOps engineer

Hi everyone,

I have been recently thinking about growing by DevOps skills set. I know most of the time the answer most companies push their employees with is doing certifications to advance your skills and career, but I don't think I agree with this fully.

I need some advice on which skills to focus on than can improve my DevOps career no matter the tech stack I am working with.

I find it pointless to just pump out cert after cert and in the end I might not even use the skills that the cert taught me. If there are recommended certificates to target, I would like them to be more broad so that I can use the skills from that cert across any project I work on. I am looking for skills and certs that can stand stand the test of time.

If anyone has some recommendations, it would be much appreciated.

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What's your take if DevOps colleague always got new initiative / idea?

Hello all, I want to ask and might need a new insight. What is your take if one of your colleague (same devops team) always got initiative / idea although your team is not strong or vast enough to do that due to lack of skill (might be a blocker instead of improvement)

Thank you for reply this thread.

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Resume Review for DevOps/Cloud jobs

Hello,

Looking at getting feedback on my resume. Been in IT for 4 years and been a Cloud Engineer for past 2 years. Will be applying soon to DevOps/Cloud roles and wanted to confirm with the community if there are any glaring flaws in format or anything I might be overlooking.
https://www.reddit.com/r/resumes/comments/12ptaeg/need\_resume\_review\_cloud\_engineer\_4\_yoe/

Thank you!

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Kubecon EU 2023

Does it happen that you will be at Kubecon Europe 2023? We will be at booth P15, ready to talk about AI/ML, MLOps, open-source ML, Kubeflow, and more. There are a bunch of demos Ubuntu prepared and a fun keynote on secure MLOps. Read more and meet us there!

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DevOps career guidance

Hello! I'm new to this community and this methodology as well.
I have been trying to learn DevOps since a month now and I'm interning at a company. I was interested in AIML at first, but they gave me DevOps and Development to study. I'm not good at coding tbh, but I'm trying my best to make logic skills strong. (Techstack - Java)

Now, about DevOps, could all the DevOps experts please recommend a road map as to how to learn DevOps and it's tools? What are the resources from where all of you learnt DevOps?
I have come across a lot of road maps and resources, but I want to know from all of you.
Kindly tell the resources as well, if available.

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A Kubernetes Operator in Rust

https://thetechtrailblazer.blog/2023/04/18/a-kubernetes-operator-in-rust/

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Docker desktop ?

I used to recall docker having instructions on their website to install docker locally with zero issue and now everything on their website eventually points to docker desktop??

Is this the only way to get it without having to install using via option Colima / other customized ways ?

I’ve never used docker desktop so please someone enlighten me why this now

Edit: on MacOS

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How much networking is required for devops?

I want to work in devops. How much networking is enough for this role?

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Rooftop Event – KubeCon Amsterdam

Hello all,

To enhance the finale of your KubeCon experience, FluxNinja has arranged a special rooftop gathering!

Where & When: W Lounge, Amsterdam at 9 pm on Thursday. Join us to unwind and connect with peers while enjoying sensational views of the city!

Reserve your spot on the waitlist here: **https://partiful.com/e/svc8K9IDtsEAli0hCKdc**

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What are your views on Harness / Argo / Gitlab?

What are your views on Harness / Argo / Gitlab ? Need reviews about all these 3 products. I tried harness but got stuck while installing "delegate". What is your view on this? and how did you manage to set up your delegate?

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I also hate it whenever I have to wait for a pipeline to finish wanting to know if my change is good and the pipeline passes or if there are problems I need to fix first.

https://www.infrastructureposts.com/p/e5-building-better-cicd-pipelines

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TLS cert provisioning and secrets management for secure enclaves

Using secure enclaves should be simple, so we developed a system to provide TLS certificate provisioning and secrets management out of the box. To ensure that the abstraction would be completely language agnostic, we also added an on-enclave API to manage encryption, decryption and attestation document retrieval. Here's how we did it.

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Why wouldn't you just use all rules for a tool like Sonarcloud?

Our company uses Sonarcloud to do code analysis on our Github repos, to find hidden bugs or pitfalls, to ensure that it's maintainable, etc.

What I'm wondering is; if implementing these rules helps with code and reducing tech debt, why wouldn't a person just implement all rules? It would point out each and every issue with your repos - wouldn't that make you the 'ultimate' programmer, and maximize quality for your repos? Kind of like having a senior programmer standing over you & pointing out all of the ways you can improve your code?

If not, how do you best determine what rules are 'legit' & useful, and what aren't?

Side question: Could I use a tool like this on Visual Studio Code in order to have it critique my code as I write? (Theres an extension called Sonarlint, but I'm not sure if it's a good idea to use it or not, or it will slow down my learning of code)

My personal speciality is more cloud-oriented, and I don't know too much about the programming side of things.

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Need help please :)

Hello guys, during my apprenticeship as a DevOps im having trouble with the last task on my last project. The task is "In the repo there is also e file called Release.txt. Create a bash script that everytime a branch is merged on main or master
to increment the release number with one and also change the latest commit with the new commit hash
and commit it back to the repo. The script needs to exit when there isnt any new commit on these branches." If anyone could help me with this I woulr appreciate it a lot.

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Is Docker and Lens owned by a very bad company now? They are harassing users to pay their licenses.

Don't make it free to download man if it is not free.

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SAN certificate issue while connecting to API Gateway

Greetings Team,

I have an application on AWS EKS and it makes API call to API Gateway [custom domain\] on another AWS Account.

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while doing so we are getting following SSL Error. any help is appreciated to fix this.

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SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target host name 'xyz.somedomain.com'

* Closing connection 0

* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS alert, close notify (256):

curl: (60) SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target host name xyz.somedomain.com

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trails i made to fix:

tested with empty host and remote host using curl. still same issue. [curl -v -H "Host: " xyz.somedomain.com \]

imported chain/cert to cacerts and updated certificates in pods still same issue.

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Running business while working full time DevOps

Do you guys run business on the side while working full time DevOps?

I wonder how many of you do side stuff. I have an ecommerce business making 6-figure revenue a year. Also I just started working as a DevOps, I like it. My previous experience was Digital marketer I hated it. I am tired generate cash for other people, they are never going to tell you thank you.

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GCP Folder Structure experiences

This year's goal is to start our GCP footprint to shed some on prem equipment approaching EOL/EOS.

Reading the reference documentation and considering our org layout, I'm probably going to create folders for environments, Prod/Staging/etc.

Should Terraform have its own folder for bootstrapping?

Any feedback on what not to do?

Thanks
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How do you manage secret manager token on your cluster

If you use secret manager you will probably have encountered the problem that all the secrets can be kept on the secret manager of your choice (1Password Connect, HashiCorp Vault, ...) but one... The token to connect to that service!

How you solve that problem when you like to keep all on a VCS (Flux, ArgoCD, custom whatever deploy script, ...)?

The only solution for the moment I have found is Secret encrypt them through SOPS or Sealed Secret.

Any other idea?

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Feedback, please: Slack tool to summarize long Slack threads and turn them into documentation pages

Nobody likes creating documentation - and so it often is only written once it's first needed: in a lengthy Slack thread.

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I've built a little tool that you can tag in a thread and it'll rewrite the thread's content into a nice page in your documentation software of choice (currently only confluence).

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Have you ever seen something similar? How often do you explain something within Slack that's worth putting into documentation?

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https://go.kubiya.ai/documentation

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Testdeck, an open-to-everyone tool that connects with your CI system to provide test case-level insights

Hey, All. Aviator just launched TestDeck in beta and we'd love for you to use it (for free) and tell us what you think.

There's a short video that explains how it works here: https://www.aviator.co/testdeck

We're mostly focused on users here so there's no registering or sales follow-up etc. If you have some time, please give it a look. Thanks!

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