I did the career shift, finally!

Hello everyone,

I've been studying DevOps for a long time now, and I'm excited to share that I've earned my (CKA) certification! My next goal is to obtain the AWS (SAA) certification to enhance my resume.

I used to work as a core telecom engineer, but I realized that the field is quite niche. This led me to make the decision to transition to DevOps, a field I'm truly passionate about. I would wake up every day excited to study and learn more about it, and now, I'm thrilled to say that I'll be starting my new job in DevOps soon. I can't wait!

Do you have any tips for someone just starting out in this field? I have a week-long vacation between the two jobs, and I want to use this time effectively to prepare and get ready for this new chapter.

Thanks in advance for your advice!

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Offer to manage legacy Jenkins systems for 30% Higher Salary: Should I Take It?

Hello everyone, I have just entered my 40s and am an average-skilled software developer.

In the past, I have some experience in developing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab, and now I am currently working as a React/Java developer. Recently, I received an offer to work as a DevOps engineer at a large corporation that heavily uses Jenkins.

The reason they are hiring me, someone with a mixed career of development and CI/CD experience, instead of a DevOps expert, is probably because their Groovy scripts have become very large and complex, necessitating a dedicated software engineer to refactor/manage them. My main responsibilities would be developing and maintaining Jenkins pipelines for on-prem legacy systems, which would account for about 60-70% of my work, with the remainder involving DevOps tool development using Python and shell scripts, and cloud infra automation tasks as some of their services are running on the cloud. I feel that if I stay here for 3-4 years, I might find it difficult to come back to a developer or work on anything other than managing legacy Jenkins tasks, yet the salary is 30% higher than my current one, which makes the decision challenging. TBH, I don't have extensive experience in managing Jenkins, so I'm not sure if the job is going to be terrible or surprisingly manageable..

Would you take a 30% salary increase to manage legacy Jenkins systems? What would you do in my situation?

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Virtualization vs Cloud and the Future of DevOps.

While I am not here to debate which cloud platform is better or on-prem vs cloud in general, I am seeing many organizations debate moving from purely cloud back to more of a hybrid model and using on-premise virtualization technologies.

However across the devOps ecosystem, I’m seeing training platform after training platform focus on the cloud big 3, AWS, Azure, GCP, and I hardly ever see much focus on DevOps for VMware or Hyper-V.

I’ll definitely agree it’s much easier to spin things up in the cloud and it mostly “works”… how well is debateable and largely depends on the skill sets deploying things. For on prem to work well there’s probably an even larger spread of things to account for, but would like to hear from you all about these thoughts in general.

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Database corruption

So long story short we were doing a upgrade of a rreally old server and the mysql database had corrupted files in it. Even the backups are with corrupted files so the upgrade got stucked we had to downgrad again from mysql v8 to 5.7 like it was. We got most of the tables but two key tables still wont open. We tried everything under the sun with mysql commands mysqlcheck start in safe u think it we tried it. Our only and last hope now are the partition.ibd files in /var/lib/mysql/databaename anyone has any idea how to extract the data from them?

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Is DevOps realistic for my experience?

Been working in tech support for about 4 years. Don’t want to go escalations or administrator but but am only a couple classes away from finishing my bachelors in CS this upcoming fall. Haven’t really done web development much. I want to program heavy though on my own this next half year and plan for after graduation. Build a portfolio of fun projects, get certs, etc.

I have the opportunity to maybe liiightly touch some C#, .NET, azure functions, and some other frameworks to help automate stuff at my job but they won’t have a FT position for years potentially cause they are tiny and also wouldn’t pay much. Most posts I’ve seen here say it’s sort of an end game type of dev position, so I wonder if I would be better suited doing web dev boot camps and building up my portfolio, or seeing if I can do part time research work under a professor. They usually parse/store data or do low level programming for different systems.

Want to make this summer and fall count, but won’t put all my eggs in the devops basket if it’s considered more senior level. Thanks for any help. Trying to decide how to best improve my job prospects for a FT dev position and don’t want to get ahead of myself

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Why do you do your work??

What do you think are the factors that motivate a developer? Do you think that creativity is a factor that can influence motivation or productivity?
Share your experiences!


For this purpose I am also conducting a survey on motivation in IT developers.
I have produced a questionnaire aimed exclusively at those who already work in this sector and which takes only two minutes to fill out:

https://forms.gle/pkqfMRMjFrN6TmZN6

You would be a great help in collecting data if you could fill it out.

Thank you all so much in advance 🫶🏼

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Switch from HW to HW infrastructure

Does anyone have any advice to offer to me? I'm a HW design engineer, I work for a very very big company. Hint: AI. I'm mostly involved in designing chips.

I've started to take an interest in the "flow" side of things, i.e. infrastructure. Dashboards, pipelines, regressions and tools etc.

But I find that the moment I dive deeper into it, i am lost. I realise I want to go this direction, but I don't know shit. At the end of it all, I'm a HW engineer. I don't know REST APIs, dealing with JSON files, creating data pipelines, setting up frontend and backend servers.

It's like I can define the problem statement well and identify pain points in the day to day lives of fellow engineers, I can envision the solution but can't implement it.

How do I proceed further?

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Malicious VSCode Extensions Uncovered, Beware my fellow DevOps Engineers

Malicious VSCode Extensions Uncovered: Millions of Installs at Risk! Beware my fellow DevOps Engineers.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-vscode-extensions-with-millions-of-installs-discovered/

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Projects for a fresher in Devops

Hi everyone,

I am a fresher and want to make a career in devops but my resume is not getting shortlisted anywhere even though I have necessary knowledge of the tools and their implementation (maybe not at pat with the industry standard but decent enough when you take my fresher tag into consideration).

I feel that maybe I need some decent projects for my resume but dont know what are the projects that need to be made. Eg. Creating a CI pipeline using jenkins is a easy job and maybe is not a resume worthy project. Also how do you keep your devops project running since the EC2 instances on active will start incurring charges specially a t2.medium for kubernetes. What do you guys say and what are those projects that got you into devops. Please share the project ideas so that my resume will shine the brightest in the room. :-)

Sorry if any of my query soundss stupid and Thanks in advance

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Shifting develop workload to on-prem from AWS

As mentioned in the title we are thinking of moving our develop and testing environment to on-prem(cloud or physical), we will move the VPC and resources, will still keep using on-demand services like SQS, DynamoDB and SNS. I am looking for some resources to implement this, I want to know if anyone has tried this before? If yes, can someone guide me on this? or if there are blogs to do this, it would be really helpful.

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KodeKloud subscriptions question

Hi everyone, what is the specific difference between the standard plan and the pro plan?

In the pro plan box, it says that "3 Cloud Playgrounds" are included, and this seems to me to be the only feature that differentiates it from the Standard plan. But exactly, what are the "3 cloud playgrounds"? I tried looking for information about it but to no avail

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Managed (paid) control plane for an Envoy based service mesh

Hello, we have a service mesh built using envoy sidecars and an xDS service we built. We would like to migrated to something managed so we don't have to do as much management. What are some options? It would be nice to keep using Envoy but not necessary. One constraint is that we don't use k8s, rather mainly EC2 VMs and containers on ECS. Thanks!

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xxToolbelt - Manage your scripts and snippets, share them and run programming languages as scripts

Take a look at this tool https://github.com/thereisnotime/xxToolbelt it might make your life easier by helping you manage scripts and also allowing you to execute compiled languages "as scripts" so you can code your tools in your favorite language but still have the easy usability of bash scripts.

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Devops certifications

Does company really ask you about certifications when you are applying jobs?

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DevOps jobs are for npc cucks anyway

Long lives the sys admins!

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SRE techlead looking to move towards k8s administration

Hey all - I have been in IT for \~12 years, and the last 7 or 8 of which have been with a cloud provider. I worked in a data center for a bit, ultimately making my way up the ladder to a techlead position in a team that manages the internal tooling for the company. The only certifications I currently hold are CCENT/CCNA.

I have a strong programming and debugging skillset (mostly Go + bash these days, with debugging a myriad of stuff like the forementioned languages and Python, Javascript, and Drupal, with C/C++ experience from college courses) and deal with deploying and maintaining services running on k8s through our CI/CD and "container services" UI. I do sprints, work with Jira, have familiarity with oncall, most stuff you'd expect from someone in this type of position...

The issue is, I am starting to get burned out in this role after years of doing it, and am looking to do something different.

I decided this past week that I am going to get my CKA in the next several months, and have purchased a few books along with a Udemy course and the voucher to help with studying. I don't actually have much (if any) experience with k8s administration, outside of the UI we created in house that makes it much simpler to interact with - but do have a good high level understanding of how it all works.

Do you think that I would be able to pivot to a different role, either internally or in a different company, doing k8s administration - with just a CKA, and good charisma / interview chops? If not, what else do you think I need to do so?

What kind of salary would I be realistically looking at in this role for a US based employee in a high cost of living area working remotely, knowing that I would likely be mid-level (or "senior" within my current company)?

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Need suggestions on how to transition from Network Engineer to Devops Engineer

I have around 6 years of work experience in Cisco networking/ TAC in Enterprise Routing/ Lan Switching and have good working knowledge on Cloud Services like Azure and AWS.

I want to move to Devops field. I have familiarity with Automation in Ansible , Puppet and have good understanding of Configuration management.

Please guide me whether I should prepare for any certifications.

I would like to know if anyone from networking background has switched to DevOps.




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Designing dev platform from scratch

Hi everyone, recently I joined a company as a software engineer and was told that i’ll be developing some in-house applications.

Turns out, the company has literally zero tech. Meaning no code repo, no pipelines. The only tech they have was previously done by a vendor to create their current application which is currently running on Azure AKS.

Long story short, I felt that before I can even do any development, a proper dev environment is required, meaning owning code repo, CI/CD pipelines till deployment (staging/prod)

I have roughly pieced out the picture and would appreciate everyone’s input on whether this is feasible.

Git repo - Gitlab. Even though i’ve never used gitlab before, it seems to be the best/easiest to conduct CI/CD.

In the gitlab-ci yml, Im thinking of having diff stages like testing, before building and pushing the image to a container registry.

The container registry I’m thinking of using Azure Container Registry since the company already uses Azure.

From there, I believe AKS can pull the image and deploy as a Kubernetes cluster.

As for the infra, Im thinking of using Terraform for proper versioning. Ive also read about K9 which helps manage the K8s.

So in short, if my understanding is correct, i can have tests, build image, push image to Container Registry, deploy and run the image as Kubernetes in AKS, all within the Gitlab-ci yml? If that is so, gitlab is really impressive.

Did I miss any crucial parts in this pipeline? Im not trained in this but I still want to give it a try, since it’s something useful too.

Would appreciate any inputs 🙏🏻

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GCP VM: Ops Agent vs. Zabbix

Hey guys I am a Junior DevOps and I am the only DevOps in a company 🥲.

I have a GCP VM with the website on Drupal (PHP) inside. A client wants to monitor CPU, memory, and disk usage metrics on a VM and send notifications to the Slack channel if something abnormal occurs.

I am not familiar with GCP at all. I found that there is an Ops Agent tool in GCP and tools for Slack notifications but if I understand right Ops Agent collects a lot of metrics that we do not need to use and also it has not very clear pricing policy for it, so I don't know how much all the solution costs.

On the other hand, I know Zabbix a bit and how to configure notifications there. Also, it is a free solution if I just deploy another docker stack on the VM with it.

My question is: Is the solution with Zabbix inside GCP VM ok? Could such a solution cause problems in the future? Other possible problems?

Thanks for your help!

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Unlocking the Power of VictoriaMetrics: A Prometheus Alternative

So you run your application in production, what's next?
Do you monitor it?
Do you track the performance, the metrics, and the overall behavior of your platform?
You are most likely somewhere down the line with Prometheus.
But what if I told you there's a more performant alternative out there?
You heard of VictoriaMetrics? It comes with a bunch of features that make it a superior and deserving alternative to Prometheus. Might as well call it a competitor.
The truth is that VictoriaMetrics shines with its performance boost, long-term storage, scalability, etc.
This blog post covers most of the operational and productional aspects of the product.
Please share it with your network if you find it deserving.🙏

https://developer-friendly.blog/2024/06/17/unlocking-the-power-of-victoriametrics-a-prometheus-alternative/


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mirrord for Teams official launch

Hey everyone,



Today we’re launching mirrord for Teams, a Remocal cloud development platform. At its core is the mirrord OSS, which cuts down your iteration time by letting you run a local process in the context of a cloud Kubernetes cluster - thus skipping CI and deployment and running in cloud conditions right from your IDE or CLI.

mirrord for Teams adds collaboration, security, and governance capabilities which make it easy for organizations of all sizes to broadly adopt mirrord.

We’ve written more about the launch here: https://metalbear.co/blog/mirrord-for-teams-a-step-into-the-remocal-future/



And if you’d like to take mirrord for Teams for a spin, go here: https://app.metalbear.co 

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