How to find freelance work?

Hello everyone,

I am an DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer at a startup. I have automated most of our systems to the point where my daily workload has become lighter. This newfound free time has sparked my interest in expanding my horizons into contract, consulting, or freelance work to accompany my full time job.

I have tried networking and applying through job boards, but am finding it challenging to make headway in this area. I'm reaching out for advice or tips that could help me land something.

My motivation for exploring these opportunities is twofold: I aim to diversify my income and to continue learning and growing within this field that I deeply enjoy. I am eager to take on more work and further contribute to the world of DevOps.

I appreciate any insights or guidance you can provide. Thank you in advance for your help!

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Public cloud to on-prem: Container solution equivalent to ECS?

I've just started on a new assignment. Nearly all of my experience has been with AWS but this new project is on-prem private cloud. Public cloud isn't an option for compliance reasons.

The team I've just joined is wrangling about the container solution for the new platform. The user traffic they get is not that big. It is certain to increase as they scale up, although I couldn't say how much exactly. It doesn't feel like the stack is complex enough to go to K8s just yet. If it was AWS I would probably be pushing for ECS, because it's a good choice for small-to-medium scale workloads, it can go quite a long way before needing to migrate to K8S, and it's pretty straightforward to get going with.

But this is the on-prem world which is all new to me. I'm not sure what ECS equivalents there are, or whether there even are any and maybe it's normal to just go to K8s. Plus I'm aware that thinking of 'equivalents' is perhaps not the right way to approach things, but it is just new territory that I'm trying navigate. They currently use Docker Swarm. I don't know much about it but some people I've spoken to have been quite derisive of it.

Any input? Also curious to hear of experiences from anyone who switched from AWS/public cloud to on-prem, what challenges you found and what kind of things you had to get used to.

Edit: When I say K8s I'm also including managed K8s services like Rancher and Openshift. If we do go with K8s I highly doubt we'll be doing it from scratch, that would be hellish.

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Let go due to Organization Restructuring

Hey all, unfortunately my position at work has been impacted by organizational restructuring and I was just let go.

This may be a shot in the dark, but whilst this is disappointing and surprising, I am currently actively looking for roles relating to DevOps / Site Reliability / Cloud / Infrastructure.


In my previous role I was a DevOps Engineer and had a robust tech stack including Azure, Kubernetes, Python, SQL Databases, Debian, etc.


If anyone has any open opportunities they know of, or any advice really, that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.


Resume is here: https://imgur.com/a/4CGAzUz

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Feeling lost (career journey)

Looking for insight, people's own personal journeys, etc.

I work for an infrastructure provider and stumbled into "DevOps". Day to day, I'm working on deploying physical/virtual infrastructure through automations and pipelines. In that sense, our Dev relationship is bridging the gap between our product team and our Operations teams.

We've been a VMware shop for a long time, and so I don't have that adjacency to public cloud that I see in every job posting. AAP is the majority of my day, gitlab, building out automations in service now, using terraform in places, most of my automations center around provisioning networking(layer 2-3, BGP, etc), firewalls, hypervisors, storage, VMs.

It's been fun, but with the Broadcom acquisition, the money has been drying up, I've seen so many of my work family fired. I've been losing the war to inflation as my pay hasn't kept up with my increasing costs. I'm starting to think I need to find a new workplace. I'm afraid to even go through application cycles because I don't have AWS/Azure on my resume and you just don't see job postings that are akin to who we would hire.

Do I hammer out a cloud cert? What should my approach be to navigating this issue of finding a new employer? It's been a fun 6 years, but I need a new start at a company with healthy financials that are hiring and not constantly downsizing.

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AWS RDS SSL/TLS certificate rotation

As RDS SSL/TLS certificate is expiring in August, we wanted to rotate the CA of our Aurora databases. As a first step, I wanted to confirm that there are no clients using SSL/TLS to connect to the databases. I'm relatively new to join my company and confirmed with the developers that we don't use SSL/TLS to connect to the database, and also confirmed by checking the code. However, when I run a query on the database to check the SSL connections on the database, I see the private IPs of the EC2 instances using SSL to connect to the database. Have anyone run into this issue?
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/ssl-certificate-rotation-aurora-postgresql.html#ssl-certificate-rotation-aurora-postgresql.determining-server

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Our repos are turning into a whole bunch of spaghetti ChatGPT code ever since our org approved of it....!

I swear all our devs are copy/pasting direct from GPT

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Leetcode for DevOps

Have you ever been asked a Leetcode type question during an interview? I only had one DevOps interview and it was mostly about Linux, CICD, Containers, and IaaC stuff, but that was a small company. I'm curious do bigger companies ask this Leetcode kind of questions?

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Question about switching to Oracle Cloud

We're a small company (about 10 people) in Australia and recently our general manager was approached by Oracle to switch to using their cloud away from AWS.

So far they've promised that it would be cheaper, more secure and that we will get brand contact with other companies using Oracle.

I've had a bit of a hard time finding good information to verify these claims. I can see from their website that it might indeed be cheaper, but hard to know if there's any other hidden fees. As for more secure I also couldn't find much info that wasn't from Oracle themselves. Plus we're not using a DB, we mostly use EC2, S3, a VPC and load balancer from AWS.

As for company connections, do companies really connect over the backend servers they use?

I'm trying not to be too negative, but I'm struggling not to think that my manager was just given the sales pitch for something that will at best be the same but with a different company.

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Awesome DevOps Telegram list

I created this list of DevOps/SRE-related resources (both channels and groups) for English-speaking engineers using Telegram. It’s not that massive at the moment but aims to be good enough as a starting point for those interested. Any feedback and contributions are much appreciated: https://github.com/palark/awesome-devops-telegram 

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Need a guide for DevOps jobs in India for freshers.

Hey I am from Mumbai,India with a Masters Degree in Computer Science currently a fresher in devops role completed a 3 months internship in a small company as DevOps Intern thats my overview ,
So lets come to the point why am i writing this .... I am actively looking for a job in the role but i feel its very hard to find a job as most of the companies i find on linkedin or Naukri needs Experienced professional
How can i find Fresher jobs in the role am i doing something wrong ? or something need a guide
i would appreciate if someone could guide me to get me a job in devops

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Which CI tool?

Company is planning on getting CI but us developers lack prior experience with CI tools. We deal with higly confidential data and have a complex server architecture where some test environments can be accessed only through ssh from certain servers.

Recuirements:
On premises.
Podman compability.
Can send commands to a server through another server.

Bonus:
Mercurial support (we are considering migration to git)
Easy to learn, use and maintain.
RobotFramework and/or PyTest support.
Not too expensive.

We have been considering Jenkins or TeamCity and confirmed that both pass the requirements. While Jenkins is old & clunky and atm its mercurial plugin isn't actively maintained, it is free, unlike TeamCity which would ramp up in cost quickly since we'd need agents for all of our test servers.

A quick look through this sub gave me the impression that you love GitLab CI. Would it be able to ssh podman containers that run RFW tests and then show the results in UI?

Which CI tool would be the best option for our company?

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Alternatives to Datadog ci visibility?

Hi all,
Just scoping for what people are using for their pipeline monitoring other than Datadog. We gave it a fair shot, it has some unique interesting features but it doesn’t quite match to what we’re looking for.

Can anyone point me to another direction?
Ideally foss for a PoC but enterprise is okay as well.

Tia

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Brought on to help manage a WordPress website and now in charge of all tech... How do I explain to them that I need help or I will quit?

Like the title says, I was brought on as a freelancer to help manage a WordPress website. Since I took on that job, the CEO found out that I can do a lot more than work with WordPress, so he slowly fired everyone who was working on tech in the company and put me in charge of literally everything.

Somehow I became the CTO/CIO/Web Designer/Developer/Sys Admin/Customer Support/Tech Support and more.

This is a $30,000,000 company and my pay has increased significantly, but I no longer have time for any of my other clients.

No one in this company really understands tech and they think I can just magically make things happen an hour after they send a request. They don't realize how much can go wrong with just a simple software update, or that I am supporting 12+ people in the company.

How do I explain to them that I need help without blowing up on them? I don't want to lose this client, but I also don't want to lose my sanity or my other clients.

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$120K Cloudflare Subscription: The True Cost of Skipping Risk Management

This article is getting great traction because I discuss Infrastructure Management through the lens of Risk. I am certain you will like it too.

https://medium.com/@gbasilveira/lessons-from-a-125k-cloudflare-subscription-the-true-cost-of-skipping-risk-management-d5f5423e1e41

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A template rendering agent to periodically refresh config files.

I created this tool to refresh config files periodically. We had several configs on a VM which needed periodic refreshes. Please check it out

https://github.com/shubhang93/tplagent

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Ever received credits from: AWS, GCP or OpenAI? If so, how much?


Oh and also - when 😸

Also, would love to know what you've done to get them? Or any tips for getting them?

Context: we're acquiring a company and they're based in EU. We'll be creating new accounts for all AWS, GCP and OpenAI in the US

We've also incorporated this year, so we're a fresh company.

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Is it worthwhile to run Nginx inside Docker versus on bare metal?

What's your experience taking into account these 4 factors:

Immutable configuration of Nginx

Configuration hot-reload, zero downtime

Dependency isolation of Nginx itself

Spinning up new Nginx instances


Happy to read your comments!

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Cannot authorizate AWS CodeArtifact from Vercel environment using private NPM package

Hey guys, I need some help here with a problem which I haven't been able to figure out neither through docs, gpt 4 or anything else.

I'm trying to set up the use of our private NPM package on vercel, but I always get an unauthorized message from Codeartifact on Vercel build logs.

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Here is the error message:


 ERR_PNPM_FETCH_401  GET https://domain-codeartifactaccountid.d.codeartifact.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/npm/repositoryname/@package/subpackage/-/subpackage-versionNumber.tgz: Unauthorized - 401

No authorization header was set for the request.

These authorization settings were found:

u/package:registry=https://domain-codeartifactaccountid.d.codeartifact.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/npm/ninja-sdk///domain-codeartifactaccountid.d.codeartifact.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/npm/us-east-2/:_authToken=eyJ2[hidden\]

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As you might see in authToken=eyJ2, the auth token is being sent. And I'm making sure it is updated on vercel through a local shell script every time I need to update the package or rebuild the app.

When I do the same thing locally on my machine, I'm successful at downloading the package, probably because I'm logged in to AWS Cli.

But sending the auth token to vercel and using it when building the app should probably be enough to download the package.

What am I doing wrong here? I tried using AWS cli on vercel but haven't been able to either.

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MSc cybersecurity as devops

Hello everyone,

I’m currently working as a devops engineer.

I’m thinking to start a master in cybersecurity to advance my skill and knowledge since I like it. Also I want to implement it to my current role and be more devsecops.

What is your opinion on that and how this will affect my career?

Thank you!



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You don’t need less data but better retention

https://shippingbytes.com/2024/06/12/you-dont-need-less-data-but-better-retention/

Back at when I worked at InfluxDB retention policy turned to be a gatekeeper because it is acutally not easy to decide how to move data in between "retentions".


Is it still the same for you? If not how you do it?

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A little help.

I'm approaching this world now. I wanted to do the following, who can help me in detail? I'm a beginner.

Using an Operator SDK, deploy a gitlab operator a kubernetes cluster, andverify operations. You will leverage these methods to provision a Gitlab projectand repository.

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