What is a tool you would definitely buy/subscribe that doesn't exist on the market?

Basically as the title says, what is a tool you or your org would subscribe or buy that doesn't exist on the market, but would help you massively on productivity or product delivery?

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To start it, we've been on the hunt lately for a simple Service Catalog and Portfolio with approval management software that allows our tenants Self Service on our infrastructure (which is built on top of a multi-tenant strategy). Most of our configuration management is done over Ansible/AWX, hence using a native RedHat solution would make sense.

Initially we explored Backstage and Port.io, but it meant we had to do a lot of integration to make it work, so we started investigating solutions that used Ansible as a

After initial investigation, I came across this Red Hat Ansible Automation feature, called Ansible Services Catalog:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryNEJuyvEl0

This module would pretty much fit all our needs and would justify migration to the commercial Ansible Automation Platform, but unfortunately it got moved out of the product to let ServiceNow handle the Self Service:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmPXiRHjgRY&t=866s

Some \~ good news was that an open-source upstream project was started to maintain this module, called Pinakes, but the bad news is that the last commit dates 2 years ago:

https://github.com/ansible/pinakes

We came across a new open-source project called Squest (backed by HP):

https://github.com/HewlettPackard/squest

After trying it out, the whole product looked a bit cumbersome and it does not support a multi-tenant model, so the proposal to integrate Squest got thrown out of the window.

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So we started looking for ways to build our own service catalog. We designed how the back-end and the concept would work, what we needed was how to build the front-end. As a pure cloud/devops team with extensive system engineering and back-end expertise, front-end is the only skill we're missing.

We looked at some frameworks, Patternfly used by RedHat to name a few (https://www.patternfly.org/), but we just couldn't go down the rabbit hole to start maintaining yet another in-house project which nobody had a clue how to build.

Turns out frameworks like Streamlit or NiceGUI are too good until they are not, so this whole project to introduce the Service Catalog got paused for now.

We would definitely need a way to easily build front-ends without going the extensive *.js route, or a product that fulfills most of our requirements.

What is a similar story you've had on your shop?

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Guidance needed

Hello everyone,
I am having diffulties in finding internship opportunities despite of having skills. What should I do? Or like how do you find... My skills include :


- Cloud Platforms: AWS
- CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions
- Languages: Python, C++, C, Java, Bash, Yaml
- Operating Systems: Ubuntu, Arch, CentOS
- Version Control: Git
- Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
- Infrastructure as Code (IAC): Terraform
- Configuration Management: Ansible

I think the tech stack I know is more than suffice for the going for an internship. I want to gain some enterprise level experience. Any help is appreciated.

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should i become a software engineer or a devops engineer? which has more demand in the job market?

what the tittle says. should i become a software engineer or a devops engineer? which has more demand in the job market?

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Cisco VPN/ any connect alternative for MacOS VPN self hosted in the cloud

What do you use as a self hosted VPN solution?

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Which image format will give the best compression without any change in quality?

I'm working on a website that will allow photographers to share their work with each other. The goal is to convert the user-uploaded images into a format that does not alter the appearance, quality, or color of the image in any way.

In doing some testing, it seems that both the JPEG and WebP formats tend to shift colors.

If an image is uploaded in the sRGB color space, there should be a way to output a compressed image that's in sRGB, without any color shifting, since the gamut should be identical.

It may also be a matter of which library or which flags are used for the image compression.

We also want to avoid smoothing over any textures, or getting blocking or banding on gradients. I understand that these files will need to be larger than the typical social media compressed files, but that's OK.

Which format should I be looking at if the goal is first to avoid any loss in quality, and only then, to reduce the size as much as possible without affecting the output quality?


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Talos Linux: You don't need an operating system, you only need Kubernetes

A recording of my speech from the TIC Conference has been published!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CIMTum9bTA

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SRE/DevOps with a focus on Big Data

For those who are a DevOps/SRE/Cloud Engineer with a focus on Big data what are some tools, technology and concepts you use and what are some things you must know?

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Automating and Detecting Kubernetes attacks (Kubesploit C2 and NeuVector)

I just created a video that shows how c2 agents can get into k8s and perform various attacks. I also demonstrated how runtime security tools can help detect them.

https://youtu.be/A6VBhSzOMZ8?si=9i\_OmAioLrr-sorp

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Multitenant or server clone

I made food ordering app for one restaurant chain in my country.

Now more and more restaurants are contacting me that they want similar service.

Since functionality is pretty much the same, my first thought was multitenacy (same code different databases using Laravel tenancy package).

But then I started getting different feature request from all the restaurants(especially on frontend).

So then I was thinking that I could just clone the DO droplet, and made somekind of CI automation for backend and separate projects for frontend (if needed - basic changes like logo, color and font would be in settings). Not ideal, but less work I guess (at leastn in short term - might regret later :))

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Mail service only providers ?

Might not be the best sub to post, but also who else could know answer to this ? I'm migrating few (20 to 30) web services to own server cause these are non critical and can go off for a week no issues, so I can save on monthly hosting costs. This is not issue, web services easy... mail services on other hand...

Do you guys have experience with commercial email only hosting's (on budget) ? Where I can point MX (other DNS EMAIL related) records and have my mails hosted there ?

Don't get me wrong, I can create my own email server, but I would like to avoid the headache with management, and what I fear is to end on some spam list (my IP) despite me not sending spam (personal mails only ) ...

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Burnout in DevOps.. How you deal with it? ... I dream to quit and work as a layman next to the beach.

8yr in SWE, 5yr in DevOps. Burnouts are real

Many people envy engineers and say that we have great work, we are paid well, our jobs are secure.. we are lucky ones.

First of all our jobs are far from secure, my colleagues are getting laid off on weekly basis and its not even US, its "stable and secure" EU.

We are paid well, this is common misconception, yeah people in Valley are paid well, even not everyone in US is paid well, in other places like EU or Canada engineers are slightly above average. Another thing if you are in another field "In most cases" you get your degree and then... you work.

We on another hand have to deal with never ending stack that keeps increasing, it was Servers, then virtualization, then docker swarm, then k8s, now k3s is picking up, knative is another thing, you have to know cloud, better know all 3 cuz companies might use all of them, startups on AWS want their code in CDK with Typescript, another one wants that in Python, other ones use CloudFormation, another place uses Ansible, company next door uses Terraform ... i can keep going for hours..

Sometimes I wish just to quit do some basic work.. I used to love this, but now its.. another day, another feature implemented, wow we implemented argo instead of deploying via pipeline, I mean who give a f#uck, I certainly don't. My grandfather was taking over Berlin on a fuckin Tank in '45, another one was a governor making people lives better, what I will say and remember? I once reduced cost and implemented spot instances, or I wrote really neat terraform module?..

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Final Update: Glad I didn't go pet dogs

This should be the final update. I got a lot of support and help realizing that where I worked wasn't the norm from this sub.

I was able to force through a lot of changes that, while they didn't solve the root of the issue, made things less unbearable. At least enough to keep me from rage quitting while I kept looking.

And now, after several months of looking, I found a new role. Fully remote. Working for a university. First engineer onboarded for standing up a new, really cool project. This means I get to actually build something from scratch with no technical debt from legacy systems and bureaucracies. I get more vacation/paid holidays. And I've already met some brilliant people that I would have otherwise never encountered.

I'm still serving my 2 weeks at the old job, but I've basically already handed everything off. Might just take half days until my last day. Been spending the rest of my time writing out the architecture diagrams of how I want to build my dream serverless environment. IAC, automations, and pipelines everywhere.

And now I can just get dogs for the house and pet them while getting paid. It all works out.

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A junior in college, starting network engineering internship tomorrow but want to work in cloud . Asking about certifications for summer

So I start tomorrow morning as a network engineer intern for a small company,

Most of my degree has been your typical CS stuff but I took a bunch of electives and I’m hoping this internship continues to round out my knowledge base of all the fundamentals of CS .

They pay their engineers well imo (80-110k) , suburban Illinois . But I do believe I want to go into cloud in order to use the rest of my CS knowledge as well . Namely programming.

Would aws certification be wise or Cisco devnet considering I’m in a networking internship role .

The job typically wants their engineers to have CS degree plus ccna but unless things go very well I can’t see myself staying very long . I feel like networking engineering, at least the old school way, doesn’t take advantage of all my skills . I believe cloud will. So that’s where I’m coming from .

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Looking for specific Udemy Courses or other good learning sources

Hello everyone,

I am leaving my current position and have the opportunity to get more into DevOps. I already have some experience with it on the Dev side of things and know how software shipment works too.

We are currently planing to migrate our TFS to Git and use GitHub Actions in the future.
Also we are using Azure as our Cloud Service and current Pipelines.

So what I need would be some good courses about Azure DevOps and Git/GitHub Actions. I am planning in the not so near future to get an Azure certificate too.

I would be the first full DevOps Engineer in the company, just for info and need all the help I can get.

Are there any recommendations that makes the switch for me easier? Any courses you would suggest?

Thanks!

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What must I study to work in the area of data?

So I'm 18 years old and Brazilian. I'm going to start college in a few months, that being said, what must I study? At some point, I want to work outside my country.


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Encryption of terraform state using OpenTofu

OpenTofu is an opensource fork of terraform. It now from v1.7 allows client-side encryption of terraform state in remote backend.

Lets find out how we can encrypt terraform state, also how can we change and remove encryption key using OpenTofu in this article.

https://linuxshots.navratangupta.in/encryption-of-terraform-state-using-opentofu-04fd9dd2f562


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How to sell this?


I made a tech for real time design to production. Its a cool technique and scales to design a designer tool, designs a developer tool, and can design to usable softwares too.

I'm trying to do something new in my learning pattern, I have a rough thought of putting this in a demo page. The first version, with a minimal feature, will be put on sale.

The payment is to let customer's do over postal, I receive it. After confirming the payment, I'll courier instructions to build this tool, with instructions to build other tools as a written copy.

I'm not sure about where to share this product page with. could you tell me where to put and the price for it?

Link to the demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHpf8h0JMuo

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Help Needed: MongoDB Authorization Issue with Docker Containers


Hey Reddit,

I'm facing a problem with MongoDB authorization and would really appreciate your help.

Here's the situation:

- I have MongoDB 4.4 running as a Docker image.
- There's another Docker image that connects to this MongoDB container to run my application.
- When I enable authorization in MongoDB and use the URI:

  mongodb://<username>:<password>@mongoContainer:27017/<database>?authSource=admin
  

I can access MongoDB using the mongo shell without any issues.
- However, when my application tries to access MongoDB using the same URI, it throws an authorization/authentication error.

This is becoming a blocker for my application, and I need to solve it urgently.

Have any of you faced a similar issue? What steps did you take to resolve it? Could there be something I'm missing in the configuration?

To get a clearer picture and help me troubleshoot, here are a few questions:

1. Are there any specific settings or environment variables in Docker that I should be aware of when enabling authorization in MongoDB?
2. Could this issue be related to network configurations or Docker bridge network settings?
3. Is there a difference in how MongoDB handles connections from the mongo shell vs. an application?
4. What are the common pitfalls when setting up MongoDB authentication in a Dockerized environment?
5. Are there logs or error messages I should check that might give more insight into the authorization failure?
6. Could this be a version related issue, but if so how am I able to access it using the mongo shell?

Any tips, suggestions, or guidance would be immensely helpful.

Thanks in advance for your support!

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Integration Testing with GitHub Actions

So you write integration tests, what's next!?

Where do you execute the tests that require database, caching, etc.?

Do you offload that task to a CI somewhere?

You better.

If not, here's a write-up on how to do that with GitHub Actions, using the Fullstack FastAPI Template by the famous author Sebastián Ramírez Montaño (I always admire his work 🙌 ).

In this blog post, you will see a practical example of running integration tests inside the CI using the GitHub Actions services. These services help set up ephemeral containers for your application, which will then be torn down (to pieces).

If you enjoy automation, this blog post is for you.

Share it with your network if you enjoy the content.

<https://developer-friendly.blog/2024/06/03/integration-testing-with-github-actions/>

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How can DevOps be beneficial for software development companies?

Faster Time to Market - By automating processes and removing bottlenecks

Improved Collaboration - Closer collaboration between development, operations, and other stakeholders

Increased Reliability and Stability - Automation and monitoring in DevOps practices help detect and resolve issues more quickly

Cost Savings - By automating repetitive tasks and optimizing resource usage helps reduce operational costs

Enhanced Security - DevSecOps practices integrate security into every phase of the software development lifecycle

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Best Azure Devops live Course online

Hi all,
I am a software engineer working in Accenture in India
I am currently working on azure infra with 2 years of experience and want to shift my career to azure devops and obtain a good package later on so i need some suggestions for some good online live courses for devops with azure which include placement program too(do suggest me which does not include also)
Also do suggest me some YT channels which are free of cost for devops with azure

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