How much of your work is your identity?

Was having a conversation with a colleague during lunch about how he is going to try different things over the weekend to solve a work problem. As the conversation progressed, from his speak, he noted this wouldn’t be the first time he’s done work on the weekend voluntarily. The person is a top performer on the team, although I am a junior, after this conversation, i realized the guy does not have much hobbies outside of work. Devops is essentially his personality. Taking a step back, with me putting in longer days to debug things, etc, not an issue, but i dont do this on the weekends, as this is strictly me time.

Although there has been one or two times, where i have contemplated working the weekends to meet deadlines etc. It seems like a rather easy to fall into this routine of taking work with you into the weekend. Considering there is a mountain of things to learn, how the hell do you guys prevent from falling into this but still being a good performer?

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Issues deploying Emissary (ambassador)

Hi guys
So I'm using a helm chart to deploy emissary, but not with the chart itself but doing a helm template and have all the manifests apart (Deploy, svc, rbac, etc)

Thing is Argo is not properly lifting the app, facing a similar issue like this one: https://github.com/emissary-ingress/emissary/issues/5603

Cant deploy the chart alone because of the way our manifests are handled. Any clues? Already tried with 3.90 and 3.8.2 and nothing.

What ir seems to be bothering is the apiext deployment.
Thanks!

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What's required to allow local auth for ssh when an ldap server is not reachable?

I configured slapd following https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/install-and-configure-ldap and the ldap clients following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LDAPClientAuthentication

Everything is great when ldap is working. But when ldap is down, I would like to be able to login with a backup account via ssh key. I have my nsswitch.conf configured like so but it doesn't seem to let me login when ldap is down.

passwd: files systemd ldap
group: files systemd ldap
shadow: files

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Even with a Simple Docker setup, I feel like I’m forced to use K8s?

Scenario: B2B SaaS MVP.

App 1: SvelteKit App instance (app.business.com)

App 2: SvelteKit Landing Page instance (business.com)

The Journey:

1. Don’t want to do the easy path of Vercel or Netlify as scales poorly in terms of cost.

2. So Dockerize for a minimal setup.

3. But I need Observability, Grafana Stack. I need PromTail logging agent, Loki log aggregator, Prometheus for Metrics, Faro for Frontend metrics, Grafana Dashboard.

4. So pretty much just getting a barebones setup (I consider observability as a barebones requirement for any SaaS app) seems like a pain to manage.

5. K8s? But K8s are only for complicated setups?

I did look at the Helm chart for Prometheus stack and what not and that’s complicated as hell. Even if I knew how to handle it, I wouldn’t want to. But I really don’t want to self manage all the observatory stuff with individual docker containers.

Then I gotta do the auto scaling myself too. Since Prometheus monitors metrics, would it even make sense to have it on the same server on my app containers?

I’m trying to save money here and really just wanted a single server instance to startup.

There is like no in between. It’s like I’m forced to use K8s. I don’t know how people manage all their observatory stuff on their own.

As you can also see, I do not want to use vendor specific technologies at all. At most I was going to use AWS elastic beanstalk for app instances. But that’s ok cause it takes Docker container. Would that meaning setting up EC2 instance for Prometheus to monitor Elastic beanstalk? Like containers without K8s seems awful.





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AWS Linkage to Management Portal

Hello,

New to Dev Ops - is there any open source user friendly "management portals" that can communicate with my AWS setup to trigger / manage multi tenant deployments for new customers and also provision license per customer account?

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Understanding PLSQL Packages

I've transitioned from a business-focused role to one where I'm supporting an application by identifying code issues in PL/SQL packages when the functionality doesn't meet business requirements, necessitating a deep understanding of the involved packages. While I'm proficient in SQL, I'm struggling with PL/SQL packages. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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Loki vs Elasticsearch

Hi, has anyone here have opinions/ experience regarding Elasticsearch vs Loki for centralized logging.

The amount of log per day that is for example 50 GB - 100GB and usually I look at the last 7 days. So far ES+Kibana has been quite ok for troubleshooting purpose when I need to look for a specific keyword in the log.

Will Loki+Grafana be able to cope with that amount of logs and provide fast enough search result in the troubleshooting use caee?

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App for helping with Dev environment issues... Should I build it?

Currently the company I working at has a fairly complex architecture in docker and one of the most annoying things that happen is a broken dev environment. Especially if you are using a mac rather then linux like most of engineers (I like macbooks but now I regret being in minority of devs using it).


So the process when I get stuck for any kind of reason is try to first search for an error in slack (or even shared "dev painpoints" doc in google drive) and see if somebody found a solution. If not, then I send a message in ops channel and try to resolve it with the help of a DevOps engineer.
Usually, we need to first go back and forth where I have to execute a bunch of commands and post the output, plus answer the usual questions like which platform, which version of x do I have installed etc.


So I was thinking, wouldn't it be easier if there was an app for reporting an error, which as part of a report also provides a lot of different info defined by a devops engineer (bunch of commands that needs to be executed which output goes with the report). Then to have a sentry-like dashboard of solved/unsolved issue, maybe even see how frequent is the error that occurred (if the app can listen for logs).


I know a lot of this could be solved by something like github codespaces but that is not an option in my company (security reasons and also the fact that a lot of engineers already have good machines).

So my question is, would this idea be worth pursuing? Would you see yourself using it?


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Need ATS Friendly Resume Template

Hi folks, I've been applying for new opportunity actively nowadays but everytime I applied through via job platform I got rejected in initial screening despite skill matching and experience requirements. So I'm planning to change my resume to make it ATS friendly. Can anyone share some ats friendly resume with me so that I can make one for me.


Please don't share online resume builder link. If possible please share your resume sample or you have general template then that would help me as well.

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Got a job offer after one interview

Just posting here because the experience is so outside of what I’m used to and I feel weirdly suspicious of it even though everything is totally above board and legit. For context, I’ve been out of work since November and the job market has been hellish.

I got a job offer for a contract role (DevOps Engineer III, 12 months, possible 6 month extension) after a single video interview. No coding exam, no team panel interview, no intense grilling, no rubber stamp from upper management checking for “culture fit”. It was just a good long friendly discussion with a 20+ year industry veteran where he checked that I knew what I was talking about and then we talked about the more philosophical parts of the job, like building rapport with your team, the evolution of the industry, and etc.

I got a call from the recruiter who told me the good news and I was in disbelief, but they told me that the company was hiring a lot of people quickly and that everything looked good. I guess I’m both pleasantly surprised with the interview process but also suspicious / concerned about walking into a total shitshow. The job is with a bank so I’m not totally sure what to expect; I’ve been with SaaS companies for the most part in my career. Has anybody else experience something similar? Is this just good luck?

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App Developer Needed

I have a new idea for an app all of us could use in our lives, possibly even a subscription model could be part of it. I’m not sure how to proceed but someone with experience might be of help here!

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Coursera Plus giveaway!

Anyone who is in need of a coursera Plus I'd give them invite to use it on their email at a good price. If anyone genuinely needs it, they can DM me.
Limited only for a few people, thanks!

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ETL and DevOps certification

Hi, newbie here, would someone help me with the best certifications for ETL and later DevOps? I am looking for certifications not certificates. TIA


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Devops newbie: How Can I Get Started in DevOps Without Professional Experience?

Hi,
I'm new to DevOps and a bit stuck on how to demonstrate my skills. I don't currently work in a role that involves managing large infrastructures or deploying major applications. Most DevOps job ads I see require experience in these areas.
I'm familiar with GitHub Actions, Docker, Docker-compose and CI/CD tools like Jenkins, and I'm currently learning Kubernetes. I've a background in back-end development. I aim to contribute to developing DevOps tools in the future. How would one showcase their work when they're starting out? How can someone like me break into the field?
in golang
Thanks for any advice you can give!

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Hello experts I need your help in solving this situation while I am learning.

I am trying to learn and do hands on from freecodecamp. I stumbled into the merge conflict where I tried to resolve using rebase remotely where main and feature branch points to same head. Even after doing it when I try to check the pipeline being run in GitLab I see it has merge blocked and unable to rebase in the UI. What could be the issue there?

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Unit testing prometheus alerts

Unit testing alerts is lesser known practice. Here's a quick guide to get you started:

https://www.aviator.co/blog/a-guide-to-unit-testing-prometheus-alerts/

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nicolaka/netshoot: a Docker + Kubernetes network trouble-shooting swiss-army container

Docker and Kubernetes network troubleshooting can be complex, but the 'netshoot' container provides a set of powerful networking troubleshooting tools that can help resolve these issues. It can be used to troubleshoot container, host, and network namespaces. The container can also be easily deployed using Docker Compose or used as a sidecar container in Kubernetes.

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Does anyone work part-time?

Was recently offered an option to work 3 or 4 days a week (and get paid pro rata). I've been pretty career-focused always wanting to over-deliver and climb the ladder so I'd never really considered it. My previous plan was to save and retire early but having the time now when I'm in my prime and have a young family seems like a much better option. We'd still be ok for money.


My only concern is that i'd struggle to find another job after this one. Has anyone else done this? Were there any downsides I'm missing?

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Impulsive CTO

I spent 6 months discussing and the last 3 months planning/preparing a major refactor of one of our services - it’s the engine of our entire setup. It’s so badly made a refactor is absolutely paramount.

My objective along with my team was to rebuild it using the same guiding principles and intentions it was supposed to be built on. I asked, along with the head of engineering, the CTO all throughout if he was onboard. He said he was, but did voice he’d eventually like to have a whole different way of processing transactions - which I explained is not possible until we take back control over what we currently have.

At some point we felt like he started to use different terminology. Instead of calling the refactor V1.5, he started using V2. We felt he just kept pushing a whole, radically different setup. We then asked him outright to be exactly clear on our expectations. When we did that he got annoyed and told us to just ‘use your brains and spending hours moaning and we won’t be okay’. He also said we should incrementally get to V2 but let’s just call it that. At that point we felt unsettled but we all did eventually want to arrive at V2, once we took control and had code safety in the v1.5 iteration.

On a Friday, he calls a meeting. This is just before we were supposed to kickoff on Tuesday, and invites the CPO and HOA. He says he doesn’t want us to make the intermediary step and to go straight for V2.

I was furious. I told him and those in the meeting that this was totally unfair and that they had many opportunities to address this. He then said his way or the highway pretty much and even called me ‘too expensive to not draw up plans for his idea’ as I refused to do that as I didn’t believe in it.

What really triggers me is that his new way, completely overlooks all of our microservices, misses out that other teams have built huge product pieces that use the original build processes. The new style would be so different that the entire ‘solar system’ would have to be carefully considered. I couldn’t believe that other members in the meeting entertained it and even began discussing a new way of doing things. I stopped them mid sentence and told them that this is not how we determine solutions just before kickoff and with no regard for SDLC, impact analysis, etc. HOFE was on my side throughout

We clashed pretty hard and I hit pretty hard too. He’s extremely impulsive and unpredictable. He also doesn’t care so much about safety and deprioritises major issues and tells me I overreact on things like losing money, breaches etc.

Has anyone had this kind of issue?

Also for context I made the horrible mistake of caring too much and have worked out of hours regularly - about 20hrs more per week. I’ll never make that mistake again.

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How to access private infrastructure from GitHub Actions?

I need to deploy Terraform code which can only be deployed from a specific virtual machine, since only this virtual machine has access to all the required infrastructure. The virtual machine is a private EC2 instance, which can be connected to via EC2-Instance-Connect. Otherwise access is not possible.


What is the recommended way to deploy my resources through GitHub Actions? I don't think private runners would work in that case?


One option would be to use the awscli inside GitHub Actions and use SSH via EC2-Instance-Connect. But I think there might be better solutions, since this seems like an issue which others probably also encountered?

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