Principal DevOps engineers - What’s your day to day like ?

Same as above

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I want to learn DevOps and the reason is...

There are lot more job posts for DevOps than web developer in my region.

I have BSc in Computer Science. I had a hard time to get programming concepts in college, I failed two years,, since I never coded before and I believe I am a slow learner.i have attention problems and I struggle with consistency.

Most advance stuff I did was one project made in MERN stack which by the way I had a huge help with. I couldn't do it alone.

For now I do low income job until I find something better but I don't want to ditch IT stuff,and honestly I really need career change. I still feel there could be room for me to improve and get in that industry.

As I am looking these IT industry jobs I realized people are looking for senior web developers(frontend, backend and full stack). There are almost not at all any internships or junior positions, but I have noticed there are a lot of DevOps positions and my general feeling is that they would rather chose some DevOps without much experience than web developer with decent experience.

In my mind I think there are too many web developers around and lot less DevOps engineers and if I would chose to pursue web developer position I would need to put a lot more work than what I could learn to start as a DevOps.

Could this be truth, could I engage myself in learning DevOps and get a job faster? I would really appreciate opinion of people who are actually doing DevOps for the living.

My plan would be to start Udemy course on DevOps, learn as much as I can and try to apply to these DevOps positions. And of course I would do practical projects and show as part of CV.





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Monorepo

Guys any one worked on mono nepo deployment with docker. Isnt it complicated? Got some help from stack over flow. I am frist time and looks like there is a huge leaning curve for monorepo.

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Do you like Yaml? Why or why not?

I'm acquainted with great code bases that heavily use Yaml, so I'm not really sure why other people dislike it. Spring Boot was my introduction, so it might be because I've only ever had good documentation when working with it, but when I see it used for K8s, I have no complaints. What's the better alternative that people like using? (I'm particularly looking to hear from people who hate dealing with Yaml)

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AWS/Cloud Consumption

What is your Organizations cloud footprint? How much does your org spend in the cloud and what industry is it in?

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New Grad Interview Tips

Hi folks! I am interviewing for a entry-level devops position. I am a CS major (undergrad) graduating this month, and have done 4 SWE internships during school but not devops specifically. The posting says the following:

Reporting to Manager Technology, DevOps, you’re going to be a part of a team that does… 

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll be working with AWS infrastructure, networking and services 
You’ll be working with Infrastructure as Code, Terraform Cloud, Terragrunt, Helm
You’ll be working on automating and removing manual processes
You’ll be looking at Site Reliability to find opportunities for optimization

I'm going through an interview loop with three rounds: "This interview will be a deeper dive into you background and past projects and how they related to the role as well as diving in deeper to why you are interested in a DevOps role at company X."

The recruiter told me that they decided to hire 2 juniors to backfill a senior/staff devops person that just left. As someone in industry, what would you be looking for in this kind of interview? How should I prepare?

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How to Set Up Affordable Email Forwarding for Your AWS Domain

Hey folks! 👋 I wanted to share a practical guide for setting up email addresses for your AWS domain with minimal costs. This approach requires only a single Lambda function, and I've implemented it successfully for my own domains. If you're looking to manage your email setup more efficiently and affordably, this might be the solution you're after.

In my YouTube video, I walk you through the entire setup process using a fully automated Terraform infrastructure that simplifies adding new domains. Plus, I've included all the source code you need in my RadzionKit repository to help you jumpstart your project! 🌟

🔗 Check out the video: AWS Domain Email Setup
📂 Source Code: RadzionKit on GitHub

Let me know what you think, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

Cheers,
Radzion

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How much should a DevOps engineer know about Git and development and coding practices?

Hi all,

I'm a rather new IT architect with a software development background of 10 years.

I work for a university and when I joined, we had one young devops guy who maintained all our stuff, we have a docker swarm and he knew docker well, git well and linux well.

Our 3 in-house devs only wrote code, they knew very little about Docker and this one devops guy managed everything after the devs pushed their code.

We then hired one more, they were both quite decent and covered everything and when I joined, I had a lot to learn and to do so I didn't have time to get into that topic.

But then they both left and we hired 2 new ones. They were also not the most experienced, but had about 5 years of experience and seemed smart and interested and knew linux etc.

And both have been solving their problems quite well, asking a lot of questions and being proactive.

But recently one of them had issues when trying to merge code that was mirrored to our Gitlab from a partner developer. And basically I found out he doesn't know how to use git very well. He doesn't know the process of resolving conflicts. He tried to learn about it, but used Gitlab's UI for that and that always is not possible.

Of course I get it that a devops can't or shouldn't know about conflicts on the business logic side, but everything related to the CI files or package.json/composer.json files or stuff like that, I feel like they should know.

And of course during the interview he said he doesn't have much experience with development, so i took that into account, but I want him to learn now. I feel like understanding package managers and GIT is the basics, minimal requirement that a devops should have. Also docker, which he can manage with now, but didn't know much from the start.

I have been quite accommodating and understanding, but then again I feel like it's not my job to do those things instead of him or teach him how to use Git. I have bigger things to worry about.

So I am wondering how should I approach this. I want him to deal with this and learn git. I want at least one devops to be FLUENT in it and know it better than me. The previous guy was like that.

But I also don't want to create a conflict because we're a team and get along well.

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Open source SIEM

Is there really any good open source SIEM??

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Creating a SUSE lab. Any ideas?

Hey there!
I am tasked with the creation of a SUSE lab so pre-sales eng can try it out on their own and I can use it during our training presentations.

What do you think are the hot topics and real scenarios I should be covering?
I would like to be focused on SUSE rancher...

Thank you!

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SEEKING REFERRALS DevOps Engineer for 100% Remote Web3 Roles

Hey Fellas,

I'm a DevOps engg with 4+ years of experience, specializing in Web3 space for the past 3 years. Seeking 100% remote roles. If you know of any openings or can refer me, I'd be grateful.
Check out my LinkedIn and let's connect!

Peace Out

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[HELM] is this the correct way to pass values ?

values.yaml

mongodb:
  replicaCount: 1
  image:
    repository: mongo
    tag: 4.4.6
  command:
    - "numactl"
    - "--interleave=all"
    - "mongod"
    - "--wiredTigerCacheSizeGB"
    - "0.1"
    - "--bind_ip"
    - "0.0.0.0"



command: 
{{- range $command := .Values.mongodb.command }}
  - {{ $command}}
  {{- end }}


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Monday morning funny

Good morning! Here's a joke for you fellow Monday warriors:

Why did the developer stare intently at the application monitoring dashboard all weekend? ...Because if they looked away, it might actually go green! 😂 ☕

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Getting weird TLS errors from Kubelet, EKS

Hi everyone, I need some help, hoping to find it here.

My kubelet is sending a lot of errors, including:
1. Can't find container
2. Can't get status
3. TLS error

We use Fluentbit to traffic the logs from Kubernetes to Coralogix.

I'm using EKS version 1.29 with these addons:
1. VPC CNI
2. kube-proxy
3. coredns
4. amazon ebs csi driver

All are at the latest version.

Did anyone encounter this kind of issue?
What could cause it?
Any idea how to debug?

Any idea would be great.

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The guide to kubectl I never had.

It took me a while to figure out how to fully get the most out of kubectl (mainly combining it with useful plugins and complimentary k8s tooling) Since none of this was intuitive when I started learning to interface with k8s clusters through kubectl I wrote up a summary of what I have learned so far. Hopefully it might be useful to others.


https://medium.com/@jake.page91/the-guide-to-kubectl-i-never-had-3874cc6074ff

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Did anyone go to APIDays New York? Worth it or no?

Hey devs, did any of y'all go to API Days New York last week?

We did and we had a couple good takeaways: https://www.getambassador.io/blog/navigating-security-ai-apidays-new-york, but it felt pretty vendor-heavy for our dev team who attended. What did y'all think? Any conferences that would be better to send our devs too from a educational stand point so they get the most out of it next time?

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Need suggestions to resume

Increasing my experience on my resume to 3 or 3+ years, when I have 2.1 years of actual experience as a DevOps engineer, to meet the requirement for a job that asks for 3+ years of experience could pose an issue?.

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Better way to set and talk about goals

So every year my company creates "objectives" for us usually along the very vague lines of:

* Support the dev and data team
* Meet Outage SLAs
* Make revenues go up

etc. etc.

They also rate how well we achieved that objective on a five point scale 1 being under-performing and 5 being going above and beyond! Most people end up getting a 3 or 4 for their objectives.

To me these objectives are the equivalent of me saying: I want to lose weight this year. If I set that goal for myself more than likely I won't lose a single pound because I wasn't specific enough. How much weight do I want to lose? How do I measure whether I am making progress or not? Should the measurements be monthly or should there be another metric I base it off of?

I try and clarify these goals with my manager similar to my example with the weight but I always get hesitation from my manager about setting quantifiable goals. I know this is for a variety of reasons whether they be political, unwilling, or just covering their own ass. These conversations always go back to "I know when you've achieved it and how well when I see it."

I understand this sentiment but it never sat well with me because my manager only has insight to what I am doing when we meet during our one on ones and maybe through communications with other team members. Whether they have enough knowledge on whether I deserve a 4 or a 5 I feel is just based upon feeling and what other managers do.

I guess what I am ultimately asking is if anyone here mastered the art of making objectives that are meaningful and actionable at their work whether you are a manager or an associate?

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Internal Documentation

How much is too much? Is writing down the deployment process for each project we manage to much when all the deployment processes are the same? We have 2 Devops guys, myself being one and the other one who know the deployment process and its rather simple. Is there a need to document every single thing?
Trying to find the balance of just enough documentation without over documenting things when i know it may not be really referenced.

What is your take on internal documentation for your team - at least when it comes to reference things. Do you also have documentation which is used to help developers whenever they get stuck an issue?

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Does anyone have examples on how to set up a postgres_exporter.yml file for monitoring with Prometheus?

I'm using Docker Compose to run Prometheus, Grafana, and Postgres Exporter in containers. I have a `postgres_exporter.yml` file but having issues configuring it due to not having any idea how to fill it out.

I'm trying to piece different sources I've found online to piece it together but nothing is making sense.

Here is the GitHub for the Postgres Exporter: [https://github.com/prometheus-community/postgres\_exporter](https://github.com/prometheus-community/postgres_exporter) but it doesn't, at least to me, really explain how to set up a `postgres_exporter.yml` file.

I found this [article](https://www.ongres.com/blog/create-prometheus-integrated-postgres-custom-metrics/) that explains how to set it up but just putting in their example errors out the container.

Maybe I am not understanding the `README` file in the GitHub repo but I don't know how to set up the `yml` file.

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Official Salary Sharing thread for devops :: may 2024

It's been awhile since I posted one of the salary threads. Let's do this again!

Crediting this thread from /r/cscareerquestions that gets posted quarterly [December Salary Sharing Thread for Experienced Devs](https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/kfh0fd/officialsalarysharingthreadforexperienced/)

I like to keep up to date with the current state of salaries/compensation across the world. Feel free to share your information below.

This thread is aimed at anyone from entry > Sr level DevOps/SRE/Infra engineers.

Please only post an offer if you're including hard numbers, but feel free to use a throwaway account if you're concerned about anonymity. You can also generalize some of your answers (e.g. "Biotech company" or "Hideously Overvalued Unicorn"), or add fields if you feel something is particularly relevant.
Salary should be in USD (pre-tax), unless otherwise stated (i.e. CAD, GBP for your home country)

Tech Stack:
Education:
Prior Experience:
$Internship
$RealJob
Company/Industry:
Title:
Tenure length:
Location:
Salary:
Relocation/Signing Bonus:
Stock and/or recurring bonuses:
Total comp:


Note that you only really need to include the relocation/signing bonus into the total comp if it was a recent thing. Also, while the primary purpose of these threads is obviously to share compensation info, discussion is also encouraged.

The format here is slightly unusual, so please make sure to post under the appropriate top-level thread, which are: US High/Medium/Low CoL, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Aus/NZ, Canada, Asia, or Other.

If you don't work in the US, you can ignore the rest of this post. To determine cost of living buckets, I used this site: https://www.bestplaces.net/

If the principal city of your metro is not in the reference list below, go to bestplaces, type in the name of the principal city (or city where you work in if there's no such thing), and then click "Cost of Living" in the left sidebar. The buckets are based on the Overall number: Low: < 100, Medium: >= 100, < 150, High: >= 150. (last updated Dec. 2019)

High CoL: NYC, LA, DC, SF Bay Area, Seattle, Boston, San Diego

Medium CoL: Orlando, Tampa, Philadelphia, Dallas, Phoenix, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, Riverside, Minneapolis, Denver, Portland, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Austin, Raleigh

Low CoL: Houston, Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore, Charlotte, San Antonio, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Kansas City

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