Change degree from BS Network Engineering to CompSci for DevOps?

**cross posting this here in r/devops from r/wgu, but I know you guys probably get a million of these posts about "how to get into DevOps," so Mods, please remove if you feel this post is redundant.**
**I did a lot of research, but since my CDN job is more rare of a position, I wanted to inqure about this as I haven't been able to find the specific information I've been looking for.**

*This post is way longer than I intended it to be. I applaud anyone who reads the whole thing, but TLDR:*
*Should I stay with BSNES and keep gathering work experience at my operations engineer job at the CDN, or do what WGU recommends and go for computer science if you want to get into devops. BSNES seems more talilored to devops accept for the programming aspec, which I have found to be the most fun part of my job, and I think I can just spend a lot of self study time learning python and javascript instead of learning all the languages in CS.*

# Hello DevOps workers! I recently had a discussion with a colleague of mine and have been trying to solidify my path progression.

>School info

I'm going to school for **network engineering and security at WGU**, but I've recently had a change of heart regarding my end goal. Initially, I wanted to get into networking engineering and eventually network architecture, but I've been working at a **CDN** (content delivery network) and I've been buidling automation tools and realized I would rather have a job where I code all day. It's too much of a career change to go straight SWE, and DevOps looks really fun.

[WGU actually has a writeup on DevOps here](https://www.wgu.edu/career-guide/information-technology/devops-engineer-career.html)

In it, it recomends the **computer science degree**. My coworker also said the same thing.
However, I feel like I would do better sticking with BSNES. Is this a stupid idea?

[CS degree](https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees/computer-science.html)

[Network engineering and security degree](https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees/network-engineering-security-bachelors-program.html)


I am pretty early into my degree. So far just tranfered in generals from an International business degree, + done of the basic IT classes like fundimentals, A+, net and security, Linux. **I'm about to start my CCNA class in a week ish, so I think this is my last chance to switch.** (so far pretty much all classes are on both degrees, mius like the A+)

>Programming

The thing is, **I have been loving scripting**, and I feel it would be just as easy to **self study programming**. Hell, all the classes at WGU are essentially that, which is my preferred way of studying (I hated the traditional B&M school I went to because of all the extra wasted time for no reason). I think it will be way easier to study the things outside my degree when that is the thing I am most pationate about (plus ADHD and hyper focusing help as I pretty much study every waking moment I'm not working and get 4 hours of sleep a day lol, though I also "study" Japanese about 2 hours a day outside of the Japanese I use for work).

**I feel BSNES goes over much of the DevOps** stuff you need to know like **networking, security, cloud, automation and cloud development**, etc, that is seems the only advantage of the CS degree is that it goes way more into programming. However, I don't think you really need to know Java or C for DevOps or SRE work (i've taken C++ at my old school though).

At my work, I'm not really sure what the level of work is. It's operations engineering, but I don't really now exactly my proper title would be. My coworkers who came from the NOC said the CDN is a million times more info needed, as we kind of have to do everything.

# Job responsibilities:

* Linux ssh and jump hosts, sshing into PoPs and checking traffic between nodes
* SQL for logs
* CACTI, grafana, EdgeQuery, propriety insight tools, WAF analytic tools
* Website deployment issues, JSON file analytics, CDN UI issues, API debuggin
* Networking tools/commands,

understanding loadbalancing, cnames, dns, nameservers, A records
* SSL deployements and troubleshooting, ciphers, prefixes
* WAF rules, ACL, proxy IPs, security event logs, types of attacks, Lots of DDoS stuff, some SIEM knowledge
* Network outages, PoPs being down, traffic rerouting, network monitoring, Loris control, packet loss, response times and 5xx, 4xx, errors.
* website issues and cache loading issues.
* streaming issues and latency on live/VOD/chunked

Honstly, I think I knew the least when I got hired, as a lot of the reason I was hired was probably my fluency in Japanese, but I've been working as hard as I can to get up to date and even surpase the expected knowledge of my position (it's just a tier 1 role, but I end up getting to **work directly with the tier 2 alot and especially the solutions architects** on the Japanese side because I handle all our Japanese clients. (probably going to out me on my reddit account for my coworkers lol)

I've never been in an admin role (*just did application vulnerability management/remediation at my last job, which was like a slightly more advanced helpdesk job*), so I honestly **don't know what I would concider my level/expertise.**

# Is it realistic to think the best path would be:

* Keep working on BSNES (every class seems to help my job understanding and push me to a higher position (plus going over all the companies engineering docs which for some reason nobody seems to do)
* Learn as much as I possibly can at my work, including learning our architecture and systems to a much deeper level than what my position currently entails (I don't have tools on one side of our company currently, but the other Japanese side seems to be ok with giving me access to pretty much anything I would need)
* Keep writing code and when I eventually take my python course + cisco devnet course, go way pass the information required to pass the class; [only up to lesson 17 of Angela Yu's udemy course](https://wgu.udemy.com/course/100-days-of-code/) is said to be needed to pass the class, but there's 100 lessons in that course alone.
* get AWS DVA, SOA, DOP certs near end of graduation (well, maybe not the last one until after I graduate.

**TLDR:**
**Should I stay with BSNES and keep gathering work experience at my operations engineer job at the CDN, or do what WGU recommends and go for computer science if you want to get into devops. BSNES seems more talilored to devops accept for the programming aspec, which I have found to be the most fun part of my job, and I think I can just spend a lot of self study time learning python and javascript instead of learning all the languages in CS.**

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Fine tuning django app

Hello all.

I need help clearing some issues,

I have a django application in production. I want to explore the best way possible.

I am using 1 local gpu machine and 1 cloud gpu.

Local : The application is deployed in LXC in Ubuntu machine serving via nginx and wsgi

Cloud : Deployed as serverless gpu

I am using third server as LB and using fail over routing via nginx.
Grfana , promtail and loki is monitoring lb.


Any insight will help at all to improve.

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Choosing Between Senior DevOps Engineer Offers From 3 Companies

Hi everyone!

I have over 5+ years of experience and have received offers for a Senior DevOps Engineer position from three companies. I would appreciate the community's help in deciding which one to choose. Money isn't an issue for me; I'm looking for a strong tech stack and good learning opportunities.

The companies are:

1. Fractal (Bangalore office)
2. Qualcomm (Bangalore office)
3. Automation Anywhere (Bangalore office)

If you have experience with any of these companies, please share your insights. Thank you in advance!

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Adding Project Repos in Resume

I am a network engineer trying to switch into Devops domain.So I am currently self learning from various resources on Devops concepts,and doing a Project with two repos Infra as code and App code.I don't know can it call as project,it is not a planned one,literally my repos look like a playground as with lot of commits,changes in directory structures,workflow changes,changes in used tools,not well documented.I am testing and implementing different tools and methodologies in this project.Still it is not a good or industry standard thing.My entire learning curve is going through this project.
Is adding link to this project repos in my resume gives negative image to my potential employers?
I know everyone thinks in different way.But I think a lot of industry people here,so what you think when you come around these sort of repos while looking for a new joinee?

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network config Packer qemu Ubuntu 22.04

Hi guys,

I want make ubuntu 22.04 image by packer and I want setup network by user-data in http folder I use this user-data file, but after made image by Packer, Ubuntu VM has not an IP.
where I make mistake
```
#cloud-config

autoinstall:

version: 1

locale: en_US

keyboard:

layout: us

ssh:

install-server: true

allow-pw: true

packages:

- qemu-guest-agent

user-data:

preserve_hostname: false

hostname: packerubuntu

package_upgrade: true

timezone: Europe/Berlin

chpasswd:

expire: true

list:

- user1:packerubuntu

users:

- name: admin

passwd: $6$xyz$74AlwKA3Z5n2L6ujMzm/zQXHCluA4SRc2mBfO2/O5uUc2yM2n2tnbBMi/IVRLJuKwfjrLZjAT7agVfiK7arSy/

groups: [adm, cdrom, dip, plugdev, lxd, sudo\]

lock-passwd: false

sudo: ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

shell: /bin/bash

- name: user1

plain_text_passwd: packerubuntu

lock-passwd: false

shell: /bin/bash



network:

network:

ethernets:

ens3:

critical: true

dhcp-identifier: mac

dhcp4: true

dhcp6: false

```

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Looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer

My team is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer. It's a full time position.

Location: India
Requirements:
CI/CD(GitHub Actions),Terraform, Containerization, Scripting (bash or python).

If you or someone you know is interested, please let me know.

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What website to write, to quit my job, marry my fiance and live a bucketlist family life?

Any ideas?

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A eulogy for DevOps

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Ansible - Declarative or Imperative

I have read serveal posts which say Ansible is imperative(procedural) and several which say it is declarative. Is it a mix of both if so how?

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Running SonarQube in Azure Container Apps with scaling to 0

I want to run SonarQube in the cloud, most likely as an Azure Container App. What is the feasibility of having that scale to 0 most of the day?

I do not know how the SonarQube executables will react to that though, will they just time out etc.

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Next js deployment on Azure CiCd

Hello,

I need assistance with a project where I'm developing an internal ChatGPT. The client folder uses dynamic app routing, and everything works fine locally. However, upon deployment, I encounter the following message: "You do not have permission to view this directory or page."

The project is built with Next.js and Node.js.

Thank you for your help.

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github actions cost and perf breakdown

I'm trying to get a sense of how one typically understands the performance and cost of their github actions

a few questions I had were

how do you know if a job is taking a lot longer than it used to?
what do you do to get a breakdown of how much you spend per repo/workflow/job?
if you're responsible for a workflow/job, how do you ensure it's healthy? do you have some kind of alert to ping you when you see a lot of consecutive jobs failing?

here is what I've seen some people do

use datadogs CI visibility tool. I know there are a few other similar paid tools out there, like Swarmia and Trunk
wrote a python script to query githubs API to get data and compute stats around billing
i saw a TPM at an old job download csv data from github and do ninja csv wrangling to visualize billing data by repo, workflow and job

what do you do?

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🚀 Seeking Feedback on My AI-Powered Landing Page Builder - Download HTML, CSS, and JS Files!

* Hey Devops community!

I'm working on developing an AI-powered landing page builder and would love to get some targeted feedback from you all. Here’s what I’m envisioning:

* **Downloadable Code**: After creating your landing page, you can download the full HTML, CSS, and JS files. This gives you complete control and flexibility to host it anywhere you like.
* **Real-Time Editing**: As you build, you can make edits on the fly, seeing changes in real-time.

**Context**: I'm a developer with a background in creating web tools, and I've noticed a gap in the market for easy-to-use, flexible landing page builders that cater to both non-coders and seasoned developers.

**Specific Questions**:

1. **Usefulness**: Would a tool like this be beneficial for your projects? Why or why not?
2. **Features**: What additional features would you find essential or highly desirable in such a tool?
3. **Pricing**: Based on the features mentioned, what price point would you consider reasonable for a subscription or one-time purchase?

Your insights will be incredibly valuable as I refine the tool. Thanks in advance for your time and feedback!

Looking forward to your thoughts!

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Advice on managing with terraform a subdomain of an existing domain in cloudflare

Hi all! I've been in IT for a while but I'm kind of new to IaC. I'm following the cloud resume challenge (put your resume online using cloud infraestructure and automation).

I've tried deploying with terraform an s3/cloudfront website within a subdomain of an already existing and configured domain, something like resume.mydomain.com . As I read, in order to be able to modify a zone (adding a cname in this case) I needed to import my existing zone, which I did.

I got it working, was happy, but unfortunately I naively decided to terraform-destroy it - which included my existing zone of course - and to the surprise of nobody I deleted my mydomain.com zone including all it's unmanaged registers. Fortunately applying the config again re-deployed the zone and the unmanaged registers where there again (thanks cloudflare!) but I'm trying to find how I should manage this case when my terraform includes a subdomain of an already existing zone, in order to prevent a disaster by naively destroying the zone? something in the line of "hey! uhm, I wanna be able to use this zone but I don't wanna full manage it"

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Is DSA required for a DevOps 1 Role?

I've been learning the essential tools for DevOps through the last months. I had not been leetcoding in while until I got an interview with a company and got scheduled a coding interview. So I had 1 week to prepare. I did it not bad in the data structures interview but in the Algorithms one I could solve just one problem and did very poorly. Nevertheless the problems were not easy. I am concerned right now about the result.

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Nginx Prometheus exporter default looking URI not changing

nginx-prometheus-exporter:
image: nginx/nginx-prometheus-exporter:1.0
container_name: prometheus-nginx-exporter
restart: always
command:
- -nginx.scrape-uri=https://nginx/stub_status
depends on:
- prometheus

Still this container while running looking at 127.0.0.1:8080/stub_status,why?

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In-app review api

Hi, I’m obviously not a dev so there may be more information needed to answer this question, but I was wondering the hours it would take to put in-app review into the code in my app for both Google Play and iTunes? It uses Flutter and it’s currently live. I think I was over quoted and I wanted to check. Thanks.


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10 DevOps Platforms Compared

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1. Jenkins
2. GitLab
3. Azure DevOps
4. Open DevOps by Atlassian
5. Copado
6. Octopus Deploy
7. Codefresh
8. AWS DevOps
9. Nagios
10. Kubernetes

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Has anyone used this service before? Thoughts?

Hey all,

I recently came across a company called Digger: https://digger.dev/

Their product seems to meet my use case, but I don't know anyone else who has used them.

Has anyone here used them? What are your thoughts?

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Any RabbitMQ Experts here that are willing to guide me without paying you 300$/h ?

I'm currently looking at how message forwarding works in rabbitmq and could not find any reliable source to explain it to me.

I'm interested in the situation where cluster consists of multiple nodes, the queue in question is a mirrored queue and I'm connected with my producer to a node that is not the leader of that queue.

With my basic understanding from the stuff I read is that the request to publish the message in the queue will be forwarded to the leader by the node i was connected to but I'm curious how that will work in details on a very low level.

Will it be a simple forward like in http -> answering to the client that

"hey the leader is under IP this and that - send it there"

or

"node will accept the request on the behalf of the leader and then send it from there to the leader"

I'm investigating this because I want to better understand possible traffic costs in the cloud when nodes are deployed in a different availablity zones.

Guides appreciated.

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