What tools do start ups with mixed cloud or on premise install req use besides k8s?

I am pretty experienced with k8s, having used it in production for the last 8 years or so.

I'm at the point now where I'd use k8s for pretty much anything more complicated than a static site, or a hackathon app. Right now I am working at a start up where we have been using it for our mixed cloud + edge app for the past 3 years and it has been working excellently for us as we often need to scale our clusters up and down, adding & removing accelerated hardware nodes.

Many people say k8s is too complicated for start ups, and for people who haven't paid the educational price of learning it, plus some form of IaC beyond k8s resource definition yaml files in git, I would definitely agree. It's not worth the innovation tokens.

However, because I have mostly only used k8s, I don't have a great knowledge of what options exist out there that provide a similar level of flexibility the way helm and custom resource definitions do. It's the thing that makes me like k8s the most; it would be much harder to set up an on premise postgresql installation with automatic fail over without kubegres, stackgres, crunchybase, etc. And wrapped with a terraform iac module, i can the deploy it in a bunch of different contexts if I would like. For example, I can configure images to come from a local registry in airgapped installations, versus on-premise with internet from our remote registry.

I know most traditional cloud based saas don't require this, but I am wondering what tools offer a comparable experience to k8s plus helm and CRDs for being able to deploy infrastructure in a production ready or near production ready fashion that would be suitable for startups that have on premise or mixed cloud installation requirements without experience with k8s & who want to "just get things done"

Greatly appreciate any insight into this people are willing to share.

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What Stack Do I Need

Not sure if this is the right reddit for this, but I'm hoping someone can give me some insight.

I am in charge of helping to develop a portal where customers can log in and see certain details from a purchase.

I am anticipating needing to use a database system and am thinking I will need some kind of stack that will pull the information from that database.

We use NetSuite as a CRM and could potentially get all the information from it, but I'm worried about integration and the portal being clean and easy to navigate.

I want them to be able to click orders and see all the information available (like serial numbers), and other information that I would need to manually update for now.

Does anyone have experience doing this from NetSuite or would it be better to move it to a database and use some kind of stack to achieve the results wanted?

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Tooling for generating helm charts and Argo app sets?

I have been struggling to wrap my head around our application sets and helm charts for a year now. My boss wrote them from scratch and what we do every time we have a new microservices or app is copy the last one and modify it. So far so good… However we have a very complex and flexible hierarchy of values, templates, and stuff that I don’t even know if they’re normal terms — trigger files and seed files, which a python script takes as inputs to generate the app set.

We have a multi-tenant architecture in regions all over the world in both AWS and Azure, and of course many environments, including the standard dev/qa/prod as well as cloud vs on-prem, so this is part of the reason for the open-ended nature of the way he designed things. It feels like a very loose (undocumented) framework that requires complete knowledge in. It’s pure gitops which I love, but often I find myself staring at a yaml and wondering what something does, how it fits in, and if it’s overridden somewhere else. I spend a lot of time recursive grepping, looking at Argo overrides (I hate the tag bubble format), and in general wasting time.

In a way this reminds me of Puppet hiera, but obviously more complex. The fix for that was Foreman with the UI that had taxonomy and inheritance. Is there anything like that for helm values? Is there any automation tool or popular framework that creates standardized app sets? (And helm charts?) Again the parallel would be something like creating an rpm from scratch vs having a polished script or tool like fpm to standardize the process. I’d love to have a Wizard-like tool guide me through the process. “Does your app need to talk to kube-API? No? Then you don’t need a dedicated service account. Let’s delete that from the chart so it doesn’t blow up when you don’t set values for it.” Etc.

I’m a smart guy but this really feels like the Wild West out here.

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Choose Cross platform framework


Hi guys, I am a 19 Developer and I want to build my app to try to make money.
I want build something than I can connect to a service for taking data, also I need something that could obscure my classe to ensure integrity for my app and my data and something that work good with proprietary file and integration with file like Excel .
I wont a framework free (at least untill i don't make money ) and with a huge support and documentation.
If Someone can give me advice and how to start and search to learn I'll be gratefull

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Current Reality: Describe Your Level of Satisfaction Working in the Team

Fellow Engineers,
How would you describe your experience of working in a team? From 0 to 5. Where 0 - worst, 5 - best. I am asking you to estimate team vibe/climate/atmosphere.
How comfortable is it usually to work with other team members? Does anyone irritate you or cause troubles? We usually go through several rounds of interview; technical, behavioral, team match, tech assignments and some others. It's like CI/CD pipeline when we run test to get an artifact of high quality. The interviews are such tests. But is the quality of the team high in the end of the day?

Giving 4 or 5, please tell us how many rounds you had and what they were.

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Provisioning and managing DB users across multiple environments

Hi,


I'm looking for a solution to provision and manage DB users across multiple DB type, environments, cloud accounts.
Preferably via "code" (configuration committed to git)


For example we could have:
AWS account #1 - prod:

- foo_db (mysql)

- bar_db (postgres)

AWS account #2 - dev:

- foo_db (mysql)

- bar_db (postgres)

etc.


* Where foo_db for example should have the same users regardless of the account / environment it's in.


Tried to do it with Terraform but the available providers are not good enough.

Any suggestions?

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Automating build steps: should I go the scripting or OO route?

This is a debate I've been having recently with teammates.

We'll use Python to automate some build steps. We could write Python either in a more scripting/imperative way, or go full object oriented.

What direction should we go, and why?

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Should I switch?

First job out of university, I work on an sre team. A lot of my work is spent creating small python tools that help manage client capacity and triaging issues.

I wonder how transferable these skills will be to different companies. Should I look for a team where I am creating more of a concrete product?

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Can you give me some tips on how to achieve my goals?

I wish to become somewhat of a devops engineer (if it even is a thing). I have a degree in software engineering (I humbly know some Js and worked with Docker) but i'm currently working in IT as a "Specialist". I wished to enter the operations side first and learn as much as I can. I am planning to write the CCNA and maybe follow it by a CCNP ENARSI (or the cloud computing one).

This is my first year working. I am aware that my future aspirations my change along the way but in 10 years or less, I wish to be able to adopt the devops role.

What trajectory do you think I should be taking?

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Why is Building Pipelines Different from Software Development

CI/CD pipelines are essential for automating the process of software integration and deployment, ensuring that code changes are automatically tested, integrated, and deployed to production with minimal manual intervention or ideally in a fully automated way.

So why is developing pipelines different from software development? https://piotrzan.medium.com/why-is-building-pipelines-different-from-software-development-13ebd479edc4

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Nix and wordpress. My development environment

https://shippingbytes.com/2024/06/13/start-from-nix-shell/

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Another ops horror story

I am working in a team that is very old school, one project == one server, provisioned by hand over ssh, backups are optional, etc, etc...

So on my project I decided to go full k8s, no single point of failure on the software side, loads a alerting rules, full gitops, you know, to show the example.

Today during lunch time someone fat fingered so much that they nuke the all cluster... That was the single point of failure

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Team doesn't know the role of Devops

Hi everyone! So I started working as a DevOps engineer at the start of this year. I wanted to ask some insights on how to deal with people who don't really know the real role of a DevOps engineer.

So our Dev lead in our team thinks that the role of DevOps is to just take care of the deployment of our services, scan vulnerabilities and that's it. I created some processes to improve the config management of our app services but they are not really following it for some reason. I also added some status checks on our repos to improve the code quality that devs are adding on to our app but I keep on getting complains as to why they need to wait for those checks to finish everytime they have a PR. Our Dev lead keeps on insisting that we should keep our responsibilities only for deployment and not care about the code(in terms of quality and vulnerabilities) they are adding on to the repo. It's slowly getting toxic already. I keep on thinking about ways to improve the CICD process of the team but they keep on ignoring the process. I even do KT sessions to the team and ask whether they have some opinions on the process but thats just it, they attend the session and then go back to their old ways right after

It's so frustrating already. Can I ask some tips on how to deal with these kind of people who dont really know what DevOps are supposed to do?


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crossplane How I can create a firewall rule and attach it to the load balancer?

I have a cloud storage bucket. I configured a classic Application Load Balancer and the bucket as a the backend, URL and SSL certificate all configured properly to serve as a cdn. now it's open to the public internet. I want to restrict one bucket access from the internet and allow from a specific ip only to access it.

I use upbound crossplane provider https://marketplace.upbound.io/providers/upbound/provider-gcp/v1.2.0/docs/configuration

I tried adding the SecurityPolicy to the BackendBucket but I get an error saying that the security policy is not an edge security policy

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Got different role than I interviewed for

So I was laid off last month and have been doing tons of interviews. I applied to a senior DevOps role at one company, and did 3 interviews, very easy interviews I should add. Today I received an offer from that company, and noticed that they changed the role in the offer to lead DevOps engineer. I asked about this, since I thought it was a mistake, and was told that their senior role is for people with around 5 years experience, and since I have 7 years, it would need to be upgraded.

This seems a bit weird to me, even though I was assured it's not a management position and still very much technical and hands on. I'm kind of unsure about this, as it feels like it could be something I don't want and could be a trap. The company is 11,000+ employees, and I'm more used to working in startups and mid-sized companies.

I should note also that I haven't ever had the official title of senior DevOps engineer. In fact it was a point of contention in my old company, as my previous boss would often tell me why I'm not a senior and would try to ridicule me in meetings. This kind of broke my confidence, and was probably why he chose me to be laid off first.

I'm unsure what to do here, as it's not something I've experienced before. Can any lead DevOps engineers share their experience, and what's involved in the job?

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SOCKS5 and HTTPS proxy over one port

I've been looking for a specific thing as the title states. I tried googling for proxy service that allow both SOCKS5 and HTTPS over 1 port. I'm a programmer, I don't know much about DevOps so I was wondering if I could get some knowledge here. How do I know if a provider actually allows SOCKS5 and HTTPS over 1 port?
I usually check the documentation of a provider or, I ask their customer support, but I never really get a clear yes/no answer so I don't know what to do. I have to buy a large quantity of proxy's so I want to make sure I'm purchasing the right thing.

Help is very much appreciated.

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How do I break into the field?

Hi all. I’m a senior SWE at my current company and really enjoy building nice ci/cd pipelines for my own projects. Between that and finding good pathways of infrastructure as code I wanted to explore maybe pursuing a career in devops. Obviously I’d have alot to learn still but I’m wondering, what’s the best way to start inching in that direction?

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Consulting

For those of you who have started your own consulting gigs, how much experience do you recommend (working in corporate/office) before branching to independent/freelancing.

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Why would anyone migrate from Github to ADO (Not Cost Related)

Do you all agree that moving from Github to ADO with Actions and Dependabot is a mistake as you lose lots of functionality? Can anyone share drawbacks of moving from Github to ADO?

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Monitoring external (SaaS) service outages

How do you monitor external service outages? And how much value does it add in your day to day work?>!&#x200B;!<

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Looking for Ways to Find Clients Apart from Networking

Hello everyone,

I have 6 years of experience as a DevOps engineer, primarily working as a consultant with multiple clients. I’m currently based in Canada and I’m looking for advice on how to find clients for DevOps or software projects.

In the UK, there's something called "outside IR35" that helps freelancers find clients without needing to rely heavily on networking. Is there a similar system or platform in Canada or the US that helps freelancers find clients?

If not, what are some effective ways to get software or DevOps projects apart from traditional networking?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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