Is secure string variable a different format from the usual string?

I am running a pipeline where I’m trying to pass a secure string variable as input parameter to my PowerShell script. But it keeps failing. And for context, I’m sending a connection string that is critical to access azure blob data.

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Getting better at observability, looking for suggestions for my python-based discord bot.

TL;DR: I'm looking for a good, ideally OpenTelemetry base stack for python that would work well for the scenarios below (distributed traces, logging, metrics), knowing that I have to manually instrument, and plays well in local dev env.


Hey all. I have some experience with Azure Monitoring and App Insights, but the tooling there for python is... lacking.

So I'm taking this opportunity to expand my scope of knowledge and try something different.

My needs are as follows:

\- I have websockets that I receive messages on that I'd like to handle as a new span/operation id- I want to be able to associate python logging as trace events so I can view a timeline of what happened for a given handler call.- I want to be able to treat my calls to external dependencies like HTTP or database over tcp as child traces.- I want to be able to capture overall traces status (success/fail and if possible why)

\- I have discord command handlers that should have similar requirements to the websockets.

\- I want to be able to emit metrics both linked to my traces (duration and context dimensions) as well as independent (ex: breakdown of commands ran by discord server id)

I feel as though with some massaging I could probably keep using application insights + python OTel + Azure Monitor Exporters OTel Preview, but it seems to me that given this isn't a work project, this is a fine learning opportunity.

So as a result, I'm adding a few "nice to have" options.

1. I have monthly credit on Azure, so anything I can host "production in azure" would be great.
2. I would love whatever I use to have a relatively solid self-host development solution
3. The more I can do configuration and provisioning as code, the better.
4. Free is best, cheap is good.

I've been looking a bit at grafana, prometheus, and loki. I'm not clear where traces are stored in this sort of a setup. In fact, I'm still trying to wrap my head around the OTel model, so there are things about it I clearly don't fully understand, but I'm in a bit of a "I don't know what I don't know, ya know?" state right now.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help point me in a helpful direction.

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Those of you with internal CLIs/tooling written in general purpose languages what do they do and what language?

Recently wrote a tiny GoLang CLI that wraps kubectl and AWS CLI to make running commands for different environments/regions/services easier and looking for inspiration to add to it!

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Roast my resume, please. Not a senior, 4 yoe, can't find a job.

Resume link: https://imgur.com/q2fZfQs


Left my last enterprise job because they failed to pay me my salary multiple times in a 5 months. Tried to apply dozens of time. Out of 50+ applications, I got only 4 interviews with a team. On one of them I failed programming block: stressed out because that was my first public coding. No regrets though, it was a great experience. 2 others went great, but folks have preferred candidates with k8s and system architecture experience, which i have none. The one I passed, was a contract gig. Accepted an offer, cause needed money to live. Finished it successfully a month ago. And again have had no luck with finding anything since. In 100% of cases I am rejected by email without even a recruiter talk.


My location is between Europe and Middle East. I am applying mostly to Balkan, Cyprus and Eastern European remote positions and local jobs in my current country of residence. Positions I apply to: Junior DevOps, Intern DevOps, System Administrator, Technical Support, System engineer, Service Desk engineer. Rarely to regular Devops positions, because they mostly asking for k8s knowledge.


Can you guys, please, help me to understand what's wrong with me or my resume?
Is it an area of search? Skills? Is there exist some hidden international pool of "not recommended" employees, where I have been thrown by my previous employer? My passport? Fira Sans font?


Thank you in advance. Appreciate any feedback.

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Resume review

For context, I am an international masters student and I have been applying to summer internships since the past 2-3 months in SRE/DevOps roles but I never heard back from most places. Maybe the reason was my resume, maybe I started applying too late, or maybe it's the market. I don't know... but it did not go according to my expectations.

I found an internship at a small company but I want to prepare myself better for a full-time job search later when I am graduating at the end of the year. Starting with fixing my resume. I would love to hear some feedback on it and any other advice for my job search.

Here is the link to my resume: https://imgur.com/a/FY3Q3P5

Thank you for your time!

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Automated Release Versioning and Bumping on Gitlab

Context:

I am building a CICD pipeline for Java(Springboot) & node based microservices which will be deployed to EKS cluster using Helm. Preference to keeping a minimum tool footprint i.e. using all possible features of Gitlab to achieve this. My question is primarily around the versioning part of the pipeline. How do you guys handle the automated artifact versioning and version bumping? I have a few options in my mind:

Options:

1. Use Git Tags to store the version using semantic release plugin for Gitlab.
I have used this before and the Squash commits feature in merge request breaks it since tags are tied to commit sha.
2. Use a File inside Gitlab Repo along with git LFS locking. (Locking required since multiple pipelines may write to this file at the same time)
This looks okay, but I have seen people having issues with file not getting correctly displayed.
3. Use a Database to store the versions (DynamoDB)
Only downside I see is additional component (connectivity, credentials, costs, etc)
4. Fetch Helm Chart versions, bump the version and push the Chart back.
Not even sure this is the right way to do it.

Please provide your suggestions on how you would go about doing it.

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Hey, Guys just need your small help!

I have been researching Linux for DevOps for quite some time and by researching I have stacked piles of sample bash scripts. So, I want you all to go through my GitHub repo and if you found my repo for the sample script good, please Fork it and give my repo some stars. Thanks in advance.

My Github Repo: - https://github.com/yashwant7chaudhari/Sample-Bash-Scripts

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Better than Backstage?

Disclaimer, I’m the ceo-founder of Port.

Adding here a technical cover of Port by Viktor Farcic
https://youtu.be/ro-h7tsp0qI

Would love to get your thoughts and feedback on our product decisions

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Need a Feature Flagging Solution for Your Project? Let's Discuss and Share Ideas!

Hey everyone!

I've been exploring the world of feature flagging and remote configuration lately, and I'm interested in helping others who might be looking for a solution to manage the rollout of new features, A/B testing, and remote configuration in their projects.

If you're in search of a feature flagging tool, or if you're just curious about the concept, let's start a discussion:

1. What are your requirements and expectations for a feature flagging solution?
2. Are there any specific challenges or use cases you're looking to address with feature flags?
3. Have you come across any platforms or tools that have caught your attention?

Whether you're new to feature flagging or have some experience, I'd love to connect with you and share ideas. This is a great opportunity to learn from each other and discover potential solutions that could benefit your projects.

Feel free to ask questions, share your thoughts, or even tell us about your current project's feature flagging needs. I look forward to hearing from you all!

Cheers!

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javax.ejb.CreateException: Initialization failed for Singleton ResourceLoader

This is the error:

Error occurred during deployment: Exception while loading the app : javax.ejb.CreateException: Initialization failed for Singleton ResourceLoader. Please see server.log for more details.

I am trying to deploy an .ear application to Glasssfish application server. And I am getting the above mentioned error. The JDBC Connection Pools database ping is successful. Here're all the settings:

https://imgur.com/a/t7LTru3

https://imgur.com/a/Mwu9Ulz

Here're the files that I added for deployment in

/home/banksmart/glassfish4/glassfish/domains/domain1/config

https://imgur.com/a/aLILZya

Here's what I get when I ll into config directory.

https://imgur.com/a/221wrwp

I've got no idea how do I get the full server.log of the most recent log (tail -f server.log doesn't provides the most recent log), so pardon me for not being able to present it.

How do I fix this issue? PS, I'm on centos 7 on vmware workstation pro.

As per the shittyly written instruction manual, this is my adminconfiguration.properties file:

https://pastebin.com/36zWr5he

I've changed hibernate.update = update

initialize.initial.script=Y and,

hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL8Dialect

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GitHub integration to azure devops for an organization

Recently the team asked me to create a cicd pipeline for Uipath deployment and i have no prior experience in cicd. I learnt through online, How do i integrate GitHub into azure devops? The company has created an organisation on GitHub. Azure pipeline asks for authentication, but hardly anyone approves. I believe there is way to create a personal access token and add service connection but not sure if it's the correct way. I want to avoid Oauth.

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Securing Release Pipelines in Github Actions? How?

I have a release workflow that does a promotion to heroku from Staging to Prod, but only certain people can run that in the Main branch, but the thing is that if somebody does a checkout on the main branch and they create their branch they will be able to modify the release.yaml workflow and run that workflow from their branch at the Action section in Github, and technically do a release, because the branch has access to Secret Vars? - Did any of you resolve this problem, other than creating specific repos just for this activity.

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This month we're talking about lessons learned from setting up and organizing internal dev platforms.

https://dx.community

This Friday, two members of the Amplitude eng team will join us to discuss the do's and don'ts of internal dev platforms. It's free and not recorded.

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Fast-Terraform: Terraform Tutorial, How-To: Hands-on LABs, and AWS Hands-on Sample Usage Scenarios (Infrastructure As Code)

I want to share the Terraform tutorial **(Infrastructure As Code for Cloud)**, cheat sheet, and usage scenarios that I created as a notebook for myself. This repo covers Terraform with **(How-To) HANDS-On LABs and AWS SAMPLEs** (comprehensive, but simple):

* Resources, Data Sources, Variables, Meta Arguments, Provisioners, Dynamic Blocks, Modules, Workspaces, Templates, Remote State.
* Provisioning AWS Components (EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, API Gateway, ELB, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, etc.), use cases, and details. Possible usage scenarios are aimed to update over time.

**Tutorial Link:** [**https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform**](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform)

**Extra Kubernetes-Tutorial Link:** [**https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Kubernetes**](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Kubernetes)

**Quick Look (How-To): Terraform Hands-on LABs**

These LABs focus on Terraform features, and help to learn Terraform:

* [LAB-00: Installing Terraform, AWS Configuration with Terraform](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform/blob/main/LAB00-Terraform-Install-AWS-Configuration.md)
* [LAB-01: Terraform Docker => Pull Docker Image, Create Docker Container on Local Machine](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform/blob/main/LAB01-Terraform-Docker-Without-Cloud.md)
* [LAB-02: Resources => Provision Basic EC2 (Ubuntu 22.04)](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform/blob/main/LAB02-Resources-Basic-EC2.md)
* [LAB-03: Variables, Locals, Output => Provision EC2s](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform/blob/main/LAB03-Variables-Locals-Output-EC2.md)
* [LAB-04: Meta Arguments (Count, For\_Each, Map) => Provision IAM Users, Groups, Policies, Attachment Policy-User](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform/blob/main/LAB04-Meta-Arguments-IAM-User-Group-Policy.md)
* [LAB-05: Dynamic Blocks => Provision Security Groups, EC2, VPC](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform/blob/main/LAB05-Dynamic-Blocks-Security-Groups-EC2.md)
* [LAB-06: Data Sources with Depends\_on => Provision EC2](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform/blob/main/LAB06-Data-Sources-EC2.md)
* [LAB-07: Provisioners (file, remote-exec), Null Resources (local-exec) => Provision Key-Pair, SSH Connection](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform/blob/main/LAB07-Provisioners-Null-Resources.md)
* [LAB-08: Modules => Provision EC2](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform/blob/main/LAB08-Modules-EC2.md)
* [LAB-09: Workspaces => Provision EC2 with Different tfvars Files](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform/blob/main/LAB09-Workspaces-EC2.md)
* [LAB-10: Templates => Provision IAM User, User Access Key, Policy](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform/blob/main/LAB10-Templates-User-Policy.md)
* [LAB-11: Backend - Remote States => Provision EC2 and Save State File on S3](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform/blob/main/LAB11-Backend-Remote-State.md)
* [Terraform Cheatsheet](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform/blob/main/Terraform-Cheatsheet.md)

**Quick Look (How-To): AWS Terraform Hands-on Samples**

These samples focus on how to create and use AWS components (EC2, EBS, EFS, IAM Roles, IAM Policies, Key-Pairs, VPC with Network Components, Lambda, ECR, ECS with Fargate, EKS with Managed Nodes, ASG, ELB, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, CodeCommit, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy) with Terraform:

* [SAMPLE-01: Provisioning EC2s (Windows 2019 Server, Ubuntu 20.04) on VPC (Subnet), Creating Key-Pair, Connecting Ubuntu using SSH, and Connecting Windows Using RDP](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform/blob/main/SAMPLE01-EC2-VPC-Ubuntu-Win-SSH-RDP.md)
* [SAMPLE-02: Provisioning Lambda Function, API Gateway and Reaching HTML Page in Python Code From Browser](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform/blob/main/SAMPLE02-Lambda-API-Gateway-Python.md)
* [SAMPLE-03: EBS (Elastic Block Storage: HDD, SDD) and EFS (Elastic File System: NFS) Configuration with EC2s (Ubuntu and Windows

Instances)](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform/blob/main/SAMPLE03-EC2-EBS-EFS.md)
* [SAMPLE-04: Provisioning ECR (Elastic Container Repository), Pushing Image to ECR, Provisioning ECS (Elastic Container Service), VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), ELB (Elastic Load Balancer), ECS Tasks and Service on Fargate Cluster](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform/blob/main/SAMPLE04-ECR-ECS-ELB-VPC-ECS-Service.md)
* [SAMPLE-05: Provisioning ECR, Lambda Function and API Gateway to run Flask App Container on Lambda](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform/blob/main/SAMPLE05-Lambda-Container-ApiGateway-FlaskApp.md)
* [SAMPLE-06: Provisioning EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) with Managed Nodes using Blueprint and Modules](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform/blob/main/SAMPLE06-EKS-ManagedNodes-Blueprint.md)
* [SAMPLE-07: CI/CD on AWS => Provisioning CodeCommit and CodePipeline, Triggering CodeBuild and CodeDeploy, Running on Lambda Container](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform/blob/main/SAMPLE07-CodeCommit-Pipeline-Build-Deploy-Lambda.md)
* [SAMPLE-08: Provisioning S3 and CloudFront to serve Static Web Site](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform/blob/main/SAMPLE08-S3-CloudFront-Static-WebSite.md)

**Table of Contents**

* [Motivation](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#motivation)
* [What is Terraform?](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#what_is_terraform)
* [How Terraform Works?](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#how_terrafom_works)
* [Terraform File Components](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#terrafom_file_components)
* [Providers](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#providers)
* [Resources](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#resources)
* [Variables (tfvar)](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#variables)
* [Values (Locals, Outputs)](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#values)
* [Meta Arguments](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#meta_arguments)
* [Dynamic Blocks](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#dynamic_blocks)
* [Data Sources](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#datasources)
* [Provisioners (file, remote\_exec, local\_exec), Null Resource](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#provisioners)
* [Modules](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#modules)
* [Workspaces](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#workspaces)
* [Templates](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#templates)
* [Backends and Remote States](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#backends_remote_states)
* [Terraform Best Practices](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#best_practice)
* [AWS Terraform Hands-on Samples](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#samples)
* [SAMPLE-01: EC2s (Windows 2019 Server, Ubuntu 20.04), VPC, Key-Pairs for SSH, RDP connections](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#ec2_vpc_key_pair_ssh_rdp)
* [SAMPLE-02: Provisioning Lambda Function, API Gateway and Reaching HTML Page in Python Code From Browsers](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#lambda_apigateway_python)
* [SAMPLE-03: EBS (Elastic Block Storage: HDD, SDD) and EFS (Elastic File System: NFS) Configuration with EC2s (Ubuntu and Windows Instances)](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#ebs_efs_ec2)
* [SAMPLE-04: Provisioning ECR (Elastic Container Repository), Pushing Image to ECR, Provisioning ECS (Elastic Container Service), VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), ELB (Elastic Load Balancer), ECS Tasks and Service on Fargate Cluster](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#ecr_ecs_elb_vpc_ecs_service_fargate)
* [SAMPLE-05: Provisioning ECR, Lambda Function and API Gateway to run Flask App Container on Lambda](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#ecr_lambda_apigateway_container)
* [SAMPLE-06: Provisioning EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) with Managed Nodes using Blueprint and Modules](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#eks_managednodes_blueprint)
* [SAMPLE-07: CI/CD on AWS => Provisioning CodeCommit

and CodePipeline, Triggering CodeBuild and CodeDeploy, Running on Lambda Container](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#ci_cd)
* [SAMPLE-08: Provisioning S3 and CloudFront to serve Static Web Site](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#s3_cloudfront)
* [Details](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#details)
* [Terraform Cheatsheet](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#cheatsheet)
* [Other Useful Resources Related Terraform](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#resource)
* [References](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Terraform#references)

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Transitioning to DevOps

Hey Guys,
I am currently looking for a role as a Data Analyst, I’ve 2 years experience in the same, I’ve been applying since last 4 months, applied to at least 400 jobs. Hardly had 5 interviews, I’m doing my Master’s in Information Systems, where everyone is looking for Analytics job by faking their resumes with 3-4 years work experience, so it’s become a mess to get a Data Analyst role. Now, I have come to a point where I feel there’s no point of applying, and I’m thinking I won’t be able get into Analytics jobs anytime soon with this trend going on. With no interest in becoming a Full Stack Developer, I want to get into DevOps mostly using Azure cloud. I wanted to know how the hiring trend is for a DevOps role, and what are some skills I need to concentrate on, and will there be a saturation point like how Data jobs have become ?

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Master Graceful Degradation in Microservices: Exclusive Webinar Tomorrow!

Hello everyone,

​

If anyone is interested in mastering graceful degradation in microservices then please join tomorrow’s webinar. We'll cover topics like enhancing reliability and performance through intelligent load management in cloud-native applications.

https://www.linkedin.com/events/reliabilityinmicroservicesenvir7048663975290368000/

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Migrating a WordPress website to a better hosting service

TLDR: Am a webdev that is asked to handle operations; Medium company wants to upgrade hosting of their wordpress (not my website) but no idea how to go about doing that (because I am a webdev, not an ops. Suggestions on how to go about picking the best suited hosting service is welcome, and also how to migrate the wordpress website and its big bag of plugins also welcome. Where to go for objective information/benchmark on hosting services that isn't all affiliated XYZ/ads (like, the MDN of hosting)?

​

Hi r/devops, I'm a bit over my head. Boss requested we move our medium size company's wordpress website from WordPress's cheapest hosting service to something more robust because many of our visitors are experiencing poor website performances on their visits:

Some async images occasionally not loading
scripts not downloading properly
deprecated code warnings
slow webpage load times
formatting html scripts not executing consistently because sometimes the js files are getting 403 errors and not loading
missing fonts warnings

Possible causes for poor website performance could be (I'm just guessing):

all assets (imgs particularly) were never compressed or properly cropped so even some little avatar are over 1MB each
perhaps because current server is located far from majority visitors (US servers, Asia visitors)
deprecated code not functioning as expected
low ram, cpu, etc hardware restrictions due to current cheap hosting plan

Initially, the website ran smoothly while it was light on assets and # of pages in the beginning, but now that the website is more than 3GB, it is not performing well at all.

I am a professional 3+ years fullstack Java/Spring/JSP/SQL/Vuejs/JS/CSS webdev asked to do heavy lifting that is mostly on the operations side, and have a million questions. I am new to this company and was not the original developer of this website. It is badly written/optimized and have copious amounts of wordpress plugins weighing it down. Could use all the help I can get.

My questions include:

Currently have 3000 visitors per month but will expect it to reach 10000 per month soon, with bigger peaks at 3000 visitors per day on busy days, all from greater Asia region and some from the US, a few from the EU. I don't think we need cache and queues like ticketing systems do for load balancing but I do think we need more of something infrastructure-wise? RAM? Bandwidth? Better server locations closer to vast majority of our visitors in Asia? What are good resources/websites to visit that 'benchmark' available hosting service options, what specs should we be focusing on maximizing?
The new hosting service has to support Wordpress ofc, but it also probably has to support current plugins too ideally. How realistic is it that we require the new hosting service to support currently used plugins?
Where can I go to find an objective list of hosting services that provide for the Asian region, perhaps ranked by value or some other metric?
I've found a handful of VPS that say they support wordpress migrations. I don't find any dedicated servers/dedicated cloud that say this. Price is not a major concern. Interested to know why the expensive options seem to have less support.
The boss is looking for top of the line hosting (in her words "looking to buy a mansion for our website") even though we currently may not have the staff to maintain 'the mansion'. I suspect we can adequately be served just going up a tier to VPS or shared hosting by some company that has servers in China and Taiwan specifically as well, that also supports WordPress. Anyone know if such a service exists? How to go about searching for one like that without being buried under ads? Do you agree we can get by without going straight to something like AWS? Or is that still a good option for us?
What other sub reddits should this be posted, if this isn't the best place to ask these questions?

EDIT: Formatting

Thank you for your

help/time

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I can't change my job and it's so frustrating

I'm struggling to understand why I'm not being successful in applying for Cloud Engineer/DevOps positions. English is not my first language, and I wonder if that's part of the issue. The requirements for these positions seem to be getting more demanding, and perhaps my resume is not up to par. I live and work in South America, but I'm interested in pursuing opportunities in the US or Europe. Unfortunately, I've been rejected by every company I've applied to, and I haven't even been granted an interview. Is my resume that bad? https://imgur.com/Dn1hZDS

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