When to consider myself a SSR DevOps

Hi everyone! I hope y'all alright!

I was having this question about when should I consider myself to be a SSR Devops in terms of knowledge, because when I get to an interview I get a lot of theorical questions that I do not know the answer, but when I'm given a task I'll do it even without the necessary knowledge (yeah I'm talking about you AWS)

Thank you!

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Multi-Tier Web Application Stack Setup Locally

🚀 Master Multi-Tier Web Apps with VM Virtual Box! 🖥️🔧

Unlock the power of multi-tier web applications with our step-by-step guide! 🏆 Learn how to set up and configure your environment using VM Virtual Box. From initial setup to deployment, we cover all the essentials to get your web app up and running seamlessly. Perfect for developers aiming to enhance their skills and create robust web applications. 🌐💡

Dive into the details and start building today! 🔥

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#WebDevelopment 🌐 #Virtualization 🖥️ #VMVirtualBox 📦 #TechTutorials 📚 #MultiTierApplications 🚀 #CodingLife 💻 #DevOps ⚙️ #CloudComputing ☁️ #ITSkills 🛠️ #Hashnode 📝

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Mysql LoadBalancer or Statefulnes?Help?


Anyone can help me with just the general idea or instruct me with this. im a beginner in K8s i know the general idea. But there is somone that wants a website with kubernets and wants it like this. The website on one server(i know how to do this) and the database mysql in another server(they gave ne two servers i can use for the databse. They want it so when a lot of requests are being made to the database it doesnt fail or it delayes them. I created one in my home lab with a ubuntu server joined it to the cluster and deployed a mysql instance with two pods replicas the problem is they share different databases

root@worker1:/mnt/data/mysql# ls

auto.cnf binlog.000002 binlog.index ca.pem client-key.pem '#ib_16384_1.dblwr' ibdata1 '#innodb_redo' mysql mysql.sock private_key.pem server-cert.pem sys undo_001

binlog.000001 binlog.000003 ca-key.pem client-cert.pem '#ib_16384_0.dblwr' ib_buffer_pool ibtmp1 '#innodb_temp' mysql.ibd performance_schema public_key.pem server-key.pem test undo_002

root@worker1:/mnt/data/mysql# cd ..

root@worker1:/mnt/data# cd mysql-1/

root@worker1:/mnt/data/mysql-1# ls

auto.cnf binlog.000003 ca.pem gaia_test ib_buffer_pool '#innodb_redo' mobiread_test2 mysql.sock public_key.pem sys undo_002

binlog.000001 binlog.index client-cert.pem '#ib_16384_0.dblwr' ibdata1 '#innodb_temp' mysql performance_schema server-cert.pem sysdb_mobiread_test2

binlog.000002 ca-key.pem client-key.pem '#ib_16384_1.dblwr' ibtmp1 mobiread_shared_test2 mysql.ibd private_key.pem server-key.pem undo_001

root@worker1:/mnt/data/mysql-1#



so when i login to mysql from one place it shows other databases when i login from another place it shows the other. Can someone please instruct me with the general idea how to do this

THANKS

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Optimizing Azure DevOps: Agents Runtime Comparison

Did a small research on the Azure DevOps agents.

https://www.go-euc.com/optimizing-azure-devops-agents-runtime-comparison/

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Looking for feedback - We built a Python SDK to automate GCP / AWS infrastructure

Hey everyone, we just released a new version of LaunchFlow, our Infrastructure as Code Python SDK that builds on top of OpenTofu to provide features like ~multi-environment support~, ~autoconfigured infrastructure clients~, and ~API release management~. With this new release, everything now runs on your local machine with no account required - this is the first big step towards us moving to an OSS model. 

Our goal is to provide a simple toolkit (Python SDK + CLI) for automating Python apps on GCP / AWS. At the moment it only works with our preconfigured OpenTofu modules, but we’re working on exposing the underlying workflow engine so you can bring your own modules.

Would love to hear your thoughts on using a tool like this! Is this something you think would be helpful for you or any Python teams you work with?

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Thoughts on the job market in 2024

Hi guys,

I've lived abroad for a number of years and will be moving home to the US at some point in the near future. I am a devops/SRE engineer with around four years of experience. I do not consider myself a senior but feel decently confident at the mid level, although of course I will always have a lot to learn. In Europe, I have had zero issues finding work, in fact I consistently turn down offers and have significantly raised my salary in the past 5 years.

With that said, I've heard horror stories on here and elsewhere of people struggling to find Devops/SRE/cloud engineering positions in the US at the moment. Is the market really that bad? I talked to a recruiter friend of mine and he said not to feel discouraged if I apply to 100 different places and don't get a single reply... That's kind of the definition of discouraging to me. Ideally, I'd land a job before I moved, but I don't have an address nor American phone number so my applications are immediately discarded, I assume.

What do you guys think, am I overthinking it? Will I have to end up jobless under a bridge somewhere? Is the market really in such dire shape as people are saying?

Thanks guys! Have a pleasant day without any fires!

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Cloud Architecture diagrams

Working on creating some architecture diagrams, i dont have a lot of experience doing so. I am working on creating one from scratch, and I am curious - besides making the AWS account diagram, the region, the VPC, and availability zones/subnets, and then the tools which go in the respective zones. How granular do you get with these charts? Are you linking up the EC2s with the databases and including the ports, as well as the size of the DB, the size of the EC2, etc. Are you including the ENIs which are attached to the EC2, etc.

This document will live only internally, which devs and us 3 folk on the Devops team will reference. What level of granularity is usually expected or acceptable. I know this can get really into the weeds, but i dont want to do that. Want to maintain it at a high level but at the same time, provide some deeper things on the architecture diagram.

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Questions for Jr. DevOps interview.

Hi everyone, I just got an interview for a DevOps Developer position, but I don't have much DevOps experience. As a result, the hiring manager said they will test me on Java questions. I have searched online, but I also wanted to know what type of Java question would this subreddit ask for a Jr DevOps interview?

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Question: is an experience in a cloud provider primordial for a devops engineer?

I work for a company as devops engineer, more on the dev side and within the dev team. We own our servers and use gitlab CI/CD and I manage both of those. I never used a cloud provider and it shows on my cv. Most of the jobs I find and apply for ask for a min of 2+ years of experience in AWS (or at least one of the big 3)

am I at a disadvantage bc of the company's choices? and do you really have to work with AWS to actually land a job in this domain? Will getting a certificate help solve this or do I have to have professional experience?

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Is there a way to run a different ESLint config on a project without modifying the existing one?

I want to improve my own code through a much more complex ESLint config without modifying the existing one. Is there a way to do this?

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SRE/ DevOps related podcasts in Apple Music


Hey Folks, it is a weird request but do you guys have known podcasts to listen 🎧 about DevOps related tools.

I know they have bunch of stuff in Spotify but trying find some good ones 🍎 music.

Please share the links 🔗

Thank you!!

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Chef server got replaced by ASG. Clients are unable to connect to new instance. Help.

Hello chef newbie here handling legacy chef setup done by previous team. Our chef server EC2 got replaced by ASG last week and the way its configured it doesnt pull from any code repo but from itself which doesnt work. So it was empty EC2 instance.

So we ran the tarball on the EC2 instance and brought up chef server and this contained both public and validator.pem.

However the clients are unable to connect to this server. When we run chef-client on the client-nodes, we get SSL exception.

Could someone point me to how to handle this scenario please. TIA.

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A Comparative Overview of Jsonnet and KCL

https://medium.com/@xpf6677/a-comparative-overview-of-jsonnet-and-kcl-387c0b0a9d7d

Hello everyone, in order to help understand KCL and its positioning, we are updating a series of introductory articles from a comparative perspective. Welcome to read and provide feedback. ❤️


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Mastering infrastructure for seamless product deployment

DevOps Fran Portillo writes here about how a robust and well-managed infrastructure, primarily relying on AWS, is the backbone of a successful digital product.

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What are the different ways to save env variables on ec2 instance?

Hello,

I have one project in which client has given access to aws. I checked the dockerfile and found below variables. I am not able to figure out from where the values are coming for this variables. I checked the Parameter Store and found nothing there. I need to access the db for that i need these values. Can any one help me to give some idea how i can find it? Or what are the different ways the values can be stored?


ENV DB_USR=$DB_USR

ENV DB_PWD=$DB_PWD

ENV DB_NAME=$DB_NAME

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Step Functions vs SSM runbooks

What’s the difference between them?!
Both are workflows ?!

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Most important part of the SDLC?

Ok so this piece: https://devops.com/4-reasons-why-tech-leaders-should-prioritize-the-testing-mocking-phase-for-better-development/, makes the case that testing/mocking is the most important part of the SDLC. I've also heard people making the case for the design phase being the most critical part.

I'd love to get y'all thoughts. Is it testing? Is it design? Something else entirely? I don't think there's '1 right answer' but I'd love to see what others are thinking.

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Software Engineer looking to transition into DevOps/SRE, but I don't want to quit coding.

I'm a fullstack developer who got an offer for a DevOps/SRE role, employer is fine with training me despite my lack of experience with these roles, but I love coding, and I'm curious whether or not I'll still code in this job beyond Bash/Python scripts?

How much coding do DevOps/SRE really do? From my research about this on the web.. all I found are mostly people who WANT to work in DevOps/SRE/Cloud Engineers to run away from coding.. so this doesn't make me super enthusiastic about this, even though the idea of going deep in cloud provider services (AWS), networking, virtual machines, containers, k8s, databases, automating and writing scripts, etc. super intrigues me.


But I still want to code on the job, beyond coding at home or in the weekends, I don't want to be a button clicker at work after investing so much of my time in my life learning software engineering principles and concepts.


I keep reading that there's a lot of "Infrastructure as Code" (IaC) Python/Golang coding in some DevOps/SRE roles, what are these projects and what do they usually look like and how are they structured exactly? Are there any open source projects on Github that might give me an idea of what heavy-coding DevOps/SRE projects might look like?


Or should I just stick to software development?

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Require status checks to pass before merging

I already have lint check in my workflow yml file, I did not turn on Require status checks to pass before merging, but the lint check are already running under branch protection rules

I want to experiment with turn on theRequire status checks to pass before merging, but it said require at least one Status checks, how do I add one?

I guess the easiest to add a marketplace one, like some linting checks, what if I want to add my own, can I add some files in the current repo as some kind of Status checks?

Thank you!

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Anyone took the CourseCareers Devops Engineering specialization? Thoughts on it?

I'm looking to put some experience and projects on my resume and it looks like CourseCareers is offering a DevOps Engineering specialization in their software development course. I was wondering if anyone has taken it, and if so, would you recommend it for someone looking to break into the field of DevOps?

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Terraform, google cloud function, and application default credentials

Hey all, I'm trying to parse the google and terraform docs on how to use ADC and not lean on use of json keys for ensuring my cloud function's python code can authenticate and use the google bigquery API.

What does the terraform really need to look like to set this up? I already set up the federated identity thing with github, so my actions are able to deploy resources to my project, but I'm trying to move our team away from json keys and use ADC.

It almost looks like you just define the provider and it "just works". Although, I see other code snippets that makes it seem you need to point to the default (or a generated) service account's email in the terraform block somewhere, so it knows which one to use.

Sorry I know this is really basic stuff, but I'm pretty much working on my own on this and could use some advice from folks with more expertise than myself.

Thanks!

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