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Considering a switch from full time employee to contracting in smaller bites - part time or short full time engagements. Experiences?

At a crossroads considering taking time for some other ventures, but it would be nice to have the devopsy income to supplement. I'm largely unfamiliar with contracting beyond the basics, and that's what worries me. What should I be thinking about and how should I begin setting myself up if I want to pursue this avenue? I'm in the US.

My general list so far:

- building contacts
- finding my niche
- pricing myself
- self employment tax / healthcare expenses
- funding retirement
- LLC?

Experiences? I'd rather not act as a subcontractor to a larger org to get handed contracts I have no say in, for example.

Thanks for any input!

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Learning platform: Advantages of KodeKloud over PluralSight?

Waging between KodeKloud and PluralSight, it seems reddit consensus mostly leans towards KodeKloud for DevOps learning platform. What are the particular advantages KodeKloud has that PluralSight is lacking?

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r/devops on Reddit: Learning platform: Advantages of KodeKloud over PluralSight?

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Synthetic monitoring with distributed traces

Disclaimer: I run DevRel at Tracetest (open-source tool for trace-based testing).

I was wondering if the community has ever had the need to run scheduled trace-based tests either at intervals or based on event triggers?

My colleague wrote a tutorial on how to do this with GitHub Actions and Slack alerts: https://tracetest.io/blog/github-actions-observability-slack-synthetic-api-tests

Wanted to check if this makes sense? Or, if you just use Synthetics for heartbeats, healthchecks, etc...

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tracetest.io

GitHub Actions + Observability + Slack: Synthetic API Tests

Synthetic monitoring is a crucial technique for proactively detecting issues and optimizing system performance. Learn how to simulate user transactions with Tracetest and automate with GitHub Actions!

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Can recommend a dashboard/app to improve productivity when working with many repos in multiple CI/CD tools?

As the title says. I spend a significant amount of time in my day hopping between email notifications, slack notifications and browser tabs in different CI/CD tools, reviewing changes, PRs, etc. Wondering what others have found useful? Thanks.

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r/devops on Reddit: Can recommend a dashboard/app to improve productivity when working with many repos in multiple CI/CD tools?

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Can anyone recommend a dashboard/app to improve productivity when working with many repos in multiple CI/CD tools?

As the title says... I spend a significant amount of time in my day hopping between email notifications, slack notifications and browser tabs in different CI/CD tools, reviewing changes, PRs, etc. Wondering what others have found useful? Thanks.

https://redd.it/13xo0vs
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Monthly 'Shameless Self Promotion' thread - 2023/06

Feel free to post your personal projects here. Just keep it to one project per comment thread.

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r/devops on Reddit: Monthly 'Shameless Self Promotion' thread - 2023/06

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Friends - needs help choosing solution for SBOM vulnerability

I am new to this community. We are getting onto "Shift left" band wagon. I am tasked with proposing a tool or platform for Software Supply Chain analysis for vulnerability. There are so many of them which is baffling.

Please share your experience in choosing a tool and what are the criteria you have used to evaluate them. I will deeply appreciate any feedback. My own criteria are
1. It should be able scan my code as well as container images for vulnerabilities
2. I should be able to see trends of vulnerabilities over time
3. I should be able to make the insights actionable - crate a JIRA ticket
4. We have 50 repos that produces 50 docker images. Price should be $50 per repo per month which is $2500 / month
I would love to have a conversation if you are kind enough to share your views. Thanks a lot in advance.

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r/devops on Reddit: Friends - needs help choosing solution for SBOM vulnerability

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How does prometheus monitoring work?

This is a pretty n00b question even though I'd consider myself a pretty experienced DevOps and site reliability engineer. I've setup New Relic on our EC2 servers and have a lot of serverless metrics going to NR from AWS. I've also built some custom metrics for New Relic.

We recently started using a new tech called Rockset which is pretty cool. It has an endpoint for metrics collection. This endpoint spits out some metrics data in a portable known format - OpenMetrics/prometheus. Cool I get that so far. However I'm looking through the NR documentation and it's talking about setting up Kubernetes clusters? And/or a NR agent? The agent moves the data? Why would I need a huge cluster? For moving a ton of telemetry data? It's my goal to visualize this data in New Relic.

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r/devops on Reddit: How does prometheus monitoring work?

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CD tool for many many deploy environment

I'm working in a software company which need to deploy remotely to many customer sides.
The deploy process is composed by a preprocessing process + actual deploy managed by Ansible . Preprocessing process creates/extracts from differ sources the many Ansible variables needed, so it's environment dependant and cannot be integrated in the CI steps.
I'm looking for a good CD tool that could manage many deploy environment ( talking in the order of at least 100-200).
Any thought?

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r/devops on Reddit: CD tool for many many deploy environment

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Macbook air M1 8gb of ram worth it?

Hi everyone! im looking to buy my first macbook, the reason is that im starting to work as a contractor and many offers out there require me to have a macbook (do not know fucking why)

The thing is that is a super expensive machine for me since i can buy way better hardware for that price. Does it worth it for devops role? does the cheaper version of 8gb of ram and 256 gb of drive be enough? should i aim for a macbook pro insted?



Thanks.

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r/devops on Reddit: Macbook air M1 8gb of ram worth it?

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How do your teams run DB migrations?

We're a new team and looking to standardise on an approach. Currently, devs run them manually from their machines (using flyway), migrations scripts are checked in to version control.

We'd like to try run them automatically on every merge to master across all envs.

This would require the application & DB evolution to be decoupled, which I think is a good practice anyway.

Wanted to canvas the community for any opinions, this is quite a common problem so I'm hoping there's a fair bit of experience I can leverage!

Thanks

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r/devops on Reddit: How do your teams run DB migrations?

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Ansible: Connecting to multiple jump hosts

So, I have a few groups of servers that are only accessible locally from nodes which I can reach from my controller. My controller needs to reach out to the nodes, and then to the servers, which I already have figured out.

The thing I'm working on now, is trying to iterate through those nodes, so that I can connect to node1, node2 and then ping all the servers beneath them.

Nodes
192.168.1.2
192.168.1.3

Servers
192.168.2.2
192.168.2.3

Servers.vars
ansiblesshcommonargs='-o ProxyCommands="ssh -W %h:%p -q 192.168.1.2"'

The way the vars is configured currently, it will connect to the node `192.168.1.2` and then ping the servers `192.168.2.2` and `192.168.2.3`, but I would like the then connect to node `192.168.1.3` and do the same.

I tried

[Servers.vars]
ansiblesshcommonargs='-o ProxyCommands="ssh -W %h:%p -q Nodes"'

etc, but with no luck.

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Interviews - How do you choose to display your problem solving during questions you’re unsure of?

I’ve been interviewing for entry engineering roles recently and of course there are technical rounds where I’m given problems to solve. Sometimes, I don’t know the answer and can be at a loss of words.

What do you do to showcase the way you solve problems in those scenarios? For example, you’re given either a few lines of code to finish or an output you have to reach. I’ve hit these scenarios where, in my mind, I think, “oh, I know there’s a method for this I just don’t know what exactly it’s called” or “oh I think it’s this method but I’m unsure of the exact syntax”.

If I were on the job, I would just google it or look at the docs. But it feels odd to do that during an interview so I haven’t attempted other than joking that I would if I were able. It also makes me feel anxious to think about asking if I’m allowed to.

Anyway, what have you all found success in doing for these scenarios where you’re in a technical interview and don’t know the answer, but want to demonstrate your problem solving?

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r/devops on Reddit: Interviews - How do you choose to display your problem solving during questions you’re unsure of?

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Dynamically generate Cloud System Architecture diagram

Hello friends - Our team is responsible for creating "System Architecture Diagram" showing how network topology looks like and how its connected to other resources such as applications, services, storage and databases. Currently we do it using Visio or other drawing tools. It takes very long time and often becomes stale.

Is there any tools that can generate the system architecture automatically? This will save our time as well as keep the architecture always up-to-date.

We do this primarily to

Provide training,
Understand and optimize architecture

Any help will be deeply appreciated. Thanks

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r/devops on Reddit: Dynamically generate Cloud System Architecture diagram

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Terraform Provisioners

Terraform provisioner is useful when you need to...

Intro blog to terraform provisioner.

https://faun.pub/demystify-terraform-provisioners-f75e738a824

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Medium

Demystify Terraform Provisioners

A Technical Deep Dive into local-exec, remote-exec, and file

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