How to get to Python in an MS shop

Hey all- I’m a looking to get some experience in Python, and I’d like to do so on the job. We do almost everything in MS: .NET, Windows, Azure, Azure DevOps, etc. All our scripting is currently done in PowerShell. We haven’t done anything too sophisticated yet, but I have a hard time coming up with a scenario where Python would be better over PS, especially in Azure. Any clear ways forward here? I’m thinking about just writing some and letting people complain after the fact, but I’d love to have a good reason why besides resumé builder.

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Senior in Bay Area Onsite?

I'm coming to an end of my contract job. I can move from small town to family guesthouse in Bay Area / Silicon Valley. Remote jobs are very competitive right now. How is the on-site market for a Senior Devops / SRE in Bay area?

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Why does DevOps leadership suck so much?

Granted, there are a few edge cases where management / directorship over a DevOps group knows what they’re doing, or they know enough to know what they don’t know and allow the engineers to influence project planning and priority. If you work for either of these two, count yourself lucky because the rest of us are being directed by idiots who haven’t the slightest clue what CI/CD means or the fact that I can’t produce B without first producing A.

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How do you make a Github repo just to test things out on Jenkins?

I don't want to make an API project or a library just to test out Jenkins. What do people do? I tend to create github projects to make small projects to use as a prototype, but I am not sure what I should do to do some "prototyping" with Jenkins if that makes sense.

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Deploying to unknown infrastructure

I have a “web application” that consists of multiple angular projects, multiple .NET APIs, at least one auth server, and at least one database. My experience is mostly on the dev side, although I have done some ops and networking, I'm open to learn anything.

I need to deliver it to multiple customers, in that essentially they will host it on whatever infrastructure they have, ranging from an IIS or Linux machine in the back office all the way to their own private cloud. We can set some baseline requirement if need be..

Currently, the code is building container images, and the auth server has a container image.

What’s the best way to go about building something that will be as universal and still simple for customers to get up and running?

Can I package up all my containers in one “package” that they can easily spin up all with the correct configurations?

How do I handle certificates, and url routes?


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What do you love about your job and DevOps?

Recently I’ve seen a lot of negative posts regarding redditors and their DevOps job. Let’s flip it around:

r/DevOps, what do you love about your job?

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Navigating DevOps in a Startup Jungle

I'm reaching out to you for some detailed advice and guidance regarding a project I've been spearheading at my current startup. As someone relatively new to DevOps, and without direct senior guidance, I've been navigating this journey largely on my own, striving to learn and implement best practices along the way.
When I first joined the company, there was a noticeable gap in knowledge regarding cloud infrastructure, containerization, and deployment practices among the development team. Recognizing the need for improvement, I took it upon myself to understand our objectives and address immediate needs effectively.
We opted for AWS as our cloud provider due to its flexibility and robust features. Initially, I set up separate EC2 instances for the backend and frontend. Over time, I implemented several changes to improve our infrastructure:
CI/CD Pipeline with Jenkins: I introduced Jenkins pipelines for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD), enabling us to automate the build and deployment processes. While the pipeline is functional, I recognize there's room for improvement to enhance its efficiency and reliability.
Process Management with PM2: To better manage our Node.js applications, I integrated PM2 for process management, ensuring our applications remain stable and responsive even during high loads.
DNS Setup with Route 53 and Elastic IPs: I optimized our DNS setup by leveraging Route 53 for domain management and assigning Elastic IPs to our EC2 instances for static IP addresses. This has helped streamline our access and improve reliability.
Recently, we made the decision to transition to a microservices architecture to improve scalability and maintainability. As part of this transition, I deployed four separate servers for different functionalities, including the frontend, dashboard backend, user app backend, and chat backend.
However, as we continue to grow, I'm faced with the challenge of effectively scaling our infrastructure. Currently, we're using EC2 instances with Elastic IPs routed to simple records for access. I'm uncertain about the best approach to scale this setup using load balancers, or whether transitioning to Docker or Kubernetes would be more appropriate.
While I've been learning Kubernetes on the side, I'm still unclear on how to replicate our current setup in a Kubernetes environment, particularly considering the associated costs and complexities.
In addition to scaling concerns, I've made efforts to automate and streamline our processes, but I'm eager to learn from more experienced individuals like yourself. If you have any insights, advice, or recommendations on how I can improve our infrastructure, scale effectively, and navigate the transition to containerization and Kubernetes, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you for considering my request, and I look forward to hearing from you.
TLDR: I am a really curious learner interested in Tech and Cloud, need advice to figure architecture at my company before it goes down :D

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Pixie in production

I have been tinkering around with Pixie and the new relic integration in my clusters.

It seems to work ok, but only tried the community cloud for visuals. Is anyone running Pixie in production clusters? Are you doing this with the community cloud, or some self-hosted solution?

We're also struggling with the insanely expensive Full Platform licenses in NewRelic and my current thoughts is:

* Push K8 data and basic app metrics to NewRelic so alerting and Operations guys have what it takes
* Leave regular devs out of New Relic (only some free dashboards), they can troubleshoot (with traces) in a Pixie UI

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Anyone here work for capgemini in the UK?

I have 2 offers, one is from capgemini and I would have taken it but the recruiter for my other offer out doubts in my mind because he “used to work with them”. I’m very interested in working with them, but now I’m not sure.

If anyone here works for this company can you tell me how they are with remote working? I don’t mind going to client sites every not and then, or for a week or 2 in a row. But if a client said they wanted somebody on site every day for 3 months or something that would be a hard no for me. Please choose one of your other thousands of engineers to go.

My other offer is fully remote but for slightly less salary (less than my current) and the benefits package is also pretty bad compared to cap (and I do use benefits).

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Mastering Kubernetes: A Practical Guide with Hands-On Examples

https://teckbootcamps.com/mastering-kubernetes-a-practical-guide-with-hands-on-examples/

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Help to select an offer

Hi Reddit,
I need your help :)

I'm non-EU citizen (Ukraine) currently based in Poland. 10+ DevOps exp in the specific domain. Have a long term partner, no kids/pets. I need help to evaluate my options:

1. Company 1 - in Poland, no need to move, Senior DevOps b2b, no vacations or sick leaves covered, Fully remote, no probation, around 3.9к eur take home after tax, so it's about 2k eur after rent and groceries to wiggle with. I hate no covered sick leaves, but there could be some options because I know PM personally. Project is good, some place to grow.

2. Company 2 - UK based, ready to pay for skilled worker visa. Principal engineer, hybrid (some office days and very specific area to live on), 4.2k pounds take home, seems to be 1k pounds left after rent and groceries. Only 2k relocation allowance, 6 month probation period, permanent contract (so full benefits). I would very much like to move, but less spare money and very low relocation allowance makes it not worth the risks as it seems.

3. Current company had me change the project with all current rates - 4.2k eur take home, permanent contract with full benefits, but project and company are very mediocre and they already can barely afford my current salary, so I declined and what to take another offer.

I know options are not that great but as market and especially my specific domain.


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Thinking of career switch to DevOps

Hello, I have about 4 years of experience in game programming, specifically in Unity and Unreal engines. Seeing how the job market in the game dev industry has been going, I have been looking for a career to switch to that I would enjoy doing for a long time. I am still not sure if DevOps is the one for me (still doing my research), but when it comes to job opportunities, for someone that doesnt have experience in DevOps specifically, how common is it to find an entry level job that doesnt require previous experience ? and how does one build a portfolio in DevOps to compensate for the lack of experience ?

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Yet another carrier advice, please

That's probably was asked already in different forms, but I would like to lay out my case.

I've been working as a SW for about 15 years or so, and I'm kind of getting tired. Not that I don't love programming per se, very much the opposite. I worked in about 8 companies in Europe and USA, among them a (successful) startup, corporations, product companies. I'm also pretty good at scripting (perl/bash and whatnot), and TDD, and I don't have too much ego, which makes me very much a desirable team member everywhere.

Now, the thing is, the typical software development looks increasingly like a monkey circus to me. There's a lot of (self-entitled) juniors and junior-like seniors. They like to build stuff and CVs or play with toys, not to deliver features. They don't test enough, and they spent time first on holy wars/overengineering and then in rush to delivery something half-tested. And I should behave alike to fit, because when I don't it looks like pooping to the team's party, and being a slow and picky contributor - because I have to review others' technical debts and mistakes, even if at the end of day I'm right and save someone's ass and the management reluctantly admits it.

I am pretty much happy about my job, though. I don't conflict too much. I have a huge leverage against more spontaneous/younger/less experienced devs, I don't overestimate or underestimate my contributions, and general planning chaos gives me room to play with something fun, which for me at that stage can be a text manipulation/command line messing/pieces of automation everywhere.

Nevertheless, I'm toying with an idea of becoming a DevOps, because it looks like a more natural fit for my skills and experience. There's a clearer hierarchy of expertise, more standard tasks, more transferable skills, less wheel reinvention and generic bs.

What makes me slightly scared though is a closer exposure to production and related stress and overtime, plus the amount of meetings and overall intensification of work. And I'd like to keep my private life private and quiet.

So my question: if you had a similar sentiment before and made this move from SW to DevOps, how do you feel now?





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Azure and its problem with expensive bandwidth - How reduce cost?

I need to use Azure VM for scraping and downloading several sources (around 100TB). Based on Azure pricing, bandwidth is very expensive. Previously, I used OVH Cloud, which doesn't have any cost for bandwidth (it is unlimited). Is there any option/package/plan in Azure VM with unlimited bandwidth, or should I search for an alternative or go back to OVH?

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Future DevOps

Hi,

I just started a new job in one of the biggest companies in my country. I am working as 2line support specialist. I will use mostly SQL, but in the future I know that I can start using Linux, Azure, Bash, Python, Jenkins etc. I see that many colleagues became DevOps with 2-2,5 years of experience on that position. Do you think that is a good option to grow?

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Underpaid and stable or riskier contract-to-hire

Hi all,

I’m a recently promoted Lead DevOps Engineer with around 5 YOE. (Lead at this company basically just means I also do scrum work, project planning, communicating with stakeholders etc..)

I’ve been at this current company for 3 years and it checks most of my boxes in terms of culture, WLB, working on interesting tech, etc… however I know I am being paid under market value ($75k/yr in MCOL after promotion to Lead).

I started interviewing elsewhere and got an offer for $120k/yr for a mid-level DevSecOps role, but it’s a 6 month contract-to-hire W2 role. It does genuinely sound like they want to hire as an FTE at the end of the contract but I’m conflicted.

I seriously cannot afford to do anything other than scrape by at my current role, but the thought of potentially being out of a job in 6 months in this market just feels too risky.

I think this could be a really great opportunity to dive deeper into security and continue growing in my career. But I’ve survived two rounds of layoffs and have a great reputation at my current company, so I feel quite stable.

Any advice? I’m leaning towards taking the risk and just working my ass off in the new role to increase the odds of me converting, but in this economy you just never know when a whole department could get cut.

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How can I move to a DevOps management role at a new company if my current company isn't providing opportunities to enter leadership?

It seems like the only way to get into management is to be promoted from IC at your current employer. Everyone else wants some years of experience with people management.

I'm wondering, has anyone without prior management experience had much success just applying to DevOps leadership/management roles as a senior engineer? If so can you share your experience/tips?

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Automated Unit Testing - Benefits for DevOps

The guide explores several situations where automated testing is the better choice as compared to manual, it also explores some of the key scenarios where generative AI automated testing should be considered, as well as provides an example for Python code: The Benefits of Automated Unit Testing in DevOps

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Conda environment to Docker bets way?

Hi, I have a server that has multiple conda environments each for different projects with different dependencies. I want to stop using conda to start using docker container, one container for each of the environments. What is the best way and easiest way to create a docker environment based on a codna environment? I used the command "conda env export" to get a yaml with all the dependencies. What would be the next step?

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Looking to get some different perspectives on a potential architecture design

Hello everyone, looking to see people's perspectives on this architecture problem I've been stewing on. Would appreciate any feedback or different perspectives. Also, is my assumption correct that a single domain is not possible with option B?
Unfortunately the new gateway api doesn't support multi-cluster yet or this wouldn't be an issue: https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/geps/gep-1748/
Thanks everyone!


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Junior devops tech interview prep

Hello fellas

got a question :)

I might have the opportunity for a very very rare job offer as a junior devops engineer scope is cyber security. Actually its an learning on the job kinda thing (thats rare, right?). Requirement was to have an apprenticeship as a software dev and being familiar with a scripting language.

So i will have a tech interview, which i really want to finish off successfully, but i really cant think of what exactly of i get tested.

do you already made similar experience then i would like to hear some input from you or share your thoughts how to actually prepare on that? what things i should definitely look into?

i really want to play it safe so seeking for help, this would change my life/career drastically.

stay safe guys ✌🏻

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