Dynamic DevOps Roadmap repo reached 1K starts

In less than a year, the FREE Dynamic DevOps Roadmap reached 1K starts 🤩

I'm personally happy about it because I've done mentorship for a long time, but after some time, things get repetitive, and I wanted to put that in a public repo.

I believe this roadmap differs from other roadmaps because it's Non-Linear and follows an Agile MVP style. Which focuses on understanding the problem instead of just learning a bunch of tools and then using an iterative style, where each iteration will cover most DevOps areas used in the real world.

I highly recommend taking a look at the FAQ page and appreciate any feedback from your side 🙌

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Any protips for getting an interview? Recruiters?

Background: CS degree, 7yoe, another 7 in automated QA. Mostly Azure, have az-400 cert. Resume gets past ATS for jobs ive applied for and i'm at least 80% qualified for. I do all the automated thing from IaC to CaC to pipelines to cost control, policy/governance and custom programming. American, EST and yes applying for remote roles that are fresh (1-2 weeks max, usually <3 days).

Is stuff just SUPER saturated w applicants these days? I'm applying directly on companies websites mostly.

Any recruiters want a good candidate? Any other protips?

TIA!



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Kodekloud standard or pro?

I'm thinking to subscribe to kodekloud for a year but I'm unsure if going for pro is worth it over the standard. The pro version gives you the pro courses, which there's not many of tbh, 60+ devops playgrounds and 3 cloud playground. Standard doesn't.

Anyone who's used KK. Was it worth going for pro or was standard sufficient?

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📋📣 Ansible Issues and Challenges

Hey everyone!

We are a joint team from Carnegie Mellon University and Instituto Superior Técnico and we are doing a study to explore the challenges and issues DevOps engineers face while using Ansible. In the future, we want to create tools that help developers with these challenges.

If you work with Ansible and you are interested in ranting about the pains this wonderful technology has caused you, click here to participate in our study:

https://cmu.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5argDxTDTGq8jfo

If you agree to an interview, you'll be entered into a $100 gift card raffle! 💸

Thanks!

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Got my CKA and CKS this year! What’s next – Ansible or Istio/Cilium?

Hey folks,

I recently wrapped up the CKA and CKS, and preparing for both was incredibly rewarding—not just for the certs but also for the confidence boost. I feel like I’ve got a solid handle on Kubernetes now.

I’m looking to keep the momentum going but torn between two paths:

Red Hat certs (e.g., Ansible): To dive deeper into automation and platform engineering. It seems like this could unlock some cool DevOps/infra opportunities.

Istio or Cilium: To specialize in service meshes, networking, and advanced microservices management within K8s—feels like a natural next step for more specialized roles.


For those who’ve been down this path, what made the biggest impact for you? Did these certs help you land better roles or more exciting projects?

Appreciate any insights!

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Transitioning from Software Developer to DevOps, looking for advice on finding my first role

I'm a software developer with 3.5 years of experience with creating React/.NET/Java/Kotlin applications for enterprise companies. I started to realize I wanted to try something different, so I started looking for another role. Was looking around for dev roles with a different tech stack and had no luck.

I talked with a few people from tech networking events and over time I gained an interest in working with AWS/DevOps. I went for the developer associate certification and passed after a couple months of studying. I did a lot of hands on labs from Adrian Cantrill's courses and have a solid grasp of it. I also learned some networking essentials while doing that, but I know I still need to review/refresh my memory on some concepts.

I started applying again but am not finding many DevOps/related roles at the moment. I'm seeing most of them are contractor roles, and the full time roles have pretty steep requirements (i.e. senior with 8+ years experience).

Outside of applying, I've been making time to learn Jenkins, Terraform, Docker, etc. to help boost my resume a little bit. I understand the job market right now is a bit rough right now, so that's likely a big factor. I do have a solid Linux foundation from my previous roles, so I know the CLI and how things work fairly well. I do list my side projects on my resume mentioning how I use the technologies.

Unfortunately my current role doesn't have any devops roles internally or any opportunity to do so, and I'm looking to leave due to office politics.

A couple questions I have:

* Is contractor the way to go if I'm trying to get into a Devops role? I do see a couple of "Junior contractor" devops roles, but I'd rather go for a full-time vs a contractor. I'm a bit hesitant being a contractor since I don't know how friendly/what the expectations would be for someone with no Devops work experience.
* Is there any other "titles" companies give a devops role? I've searched for Platform Engineer, Cloud Engineer, SRE, Software engineer (infrastructure), etc.
* Any general advice? Is there something I might be missing/neglecting? I know I'm missing some of the skills needed, but I'm trying my best to learn them and create projects out of them. Happy to answer any questions if needed.

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Order matters - making a compound index 50x faster

https://jaywhy13.hashnode.dev/order-matters-making-a-compound-index-50x-faster

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Good devops oriented networking training for my team?

Hi guys,

I’m the lead of a team, and as it usually goes, it seems like most juniors and even more senior people, who are very qualified at cloud and whatnot, lack basic networking fundamentals.

They don’t truly understand what NAT is, what the difference between routing and bridging is, what peering is, route propagation, etc.

I’m looking for a certain course / training that I can give all of them so that at least everyone in the team has some basic foundational knowledge about networking. Eg if I ask them to set up a redundant wireguard tunnel for site-to-site peering between two different clouds, they know at least understand what they’re being asked to do.

There’s so much available online, but the Cisco etc types of trainings are way too much.

Does anyone in this community has any recommendations on a good ~ 3 day course that goes over the fundamentals?

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Is there an app or phone feature that would automatically notify clients of service delays after a certain time period has elapsed?

Hopefully, this is the correct reddit community to address this question. If not, please kindly direct me to a more appropriate one. I work for a home health care organization. The field staff often fail to notify clients via the company cellphone if and when they are running behind schedule. I'm under the impression this is due to the nature of their job. The job requires them to conduct hygiene and grooming services to vulnerable clients like the elderly or those with disabilities. There seems to be two main obstacles for the field staff. One, unexpected delays occur while staff are servicing clients, and due the clients risk for falls/ injury the staff members can not leave the client unattended and inform the office or other clients of the delay within a timely manner. Two, notifying a list of 10-15 or more clients each time a delay occurs due to unexpected circumstances isn't feasible due to the amount of time it takes to reach and communicate with the client as many of them have difficulty with mobility, hearing and the like.

Is there an app or phone feature that could send an automated message that notifies the next client and/or list of clients of a delay using a countdown? For example, x client has one hour time slot, and if the worker is still in the home past that time it sends an automated message to the next client of a possible delay.

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Pivoting towards being Network Focused DevOps Engineer

For context, I have a bachelor's degree in Computer Networks and have had a network engineer role for about 18 months before being let go, and I am currently searching for roles.

Would it be wise to pivot towards Network-Focused DevOps roles given the lack of computer networking jobs?

I know that lulls in opportunities can be temporary, I'm just considering my options.

I understand there's been a shift in the fact that there's a lot of network automation as well as a heavier focus on cybersecurity.

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Self-hosted GitHub Actions runners on Kubernetes with MicroK8s

Got a powerful bare-metal server somewhere? Could be a good idea to setup self-hosted runners there with a simple Kubernetes distribution like MicroK8s.

In this article I setup ARC with the officially supporter runner-scale-set version. It's actually not that hard, although there are some limitations.

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How do you handle complex data wrangling in Google Cloud or Azure Data Factory?

Hey all,

I’m working with Google Cloud Dataflow and Azure Data Factory for complex data wrangling. Any tips for optimizing pipelines, especially with large datasets or intricate transformations? What strategies or tools have helped you improve performance or streamline processes?

Thanks!

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API logging recommendations

Hi, I'm working on a project for a foodservice company mainly focused on catering. We have a platform that allows customers to order catering from our in-house brands, but we need a logging mechanism for the site. The traffic will be relatively low especially given the nature of catering (only takes 1 user to order for many people), but as the company grows there's expected to be more traffic. I'm looking for a cost-effective solution for this. I've heard datadog is really good but I also hear it's expensive. Our software isn't extremely sophisticated and doesn't rely on "mission critical" data so I wasn't sure if that'd be overkill. New relic was suggested to me, but it's hard to get a feel on pricing giving the unknowns about data ingestion.

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Folder structure, Deployment best practices with bicep across multiple subscriptions with azure devops. Help

Hi Guys,

I'm kinda new with Bicep and I'm working on the folder structure, for Infra deployment with Azure DevOPS. This is my current folder structure. It seems I'm missing something that I cant point out . I tried googling it but I need some feedback. Anyone with experience? Thank you.

-infra
--->project1
-------main.bicep
-------params.json
--->project2
-------main.bicep
-------params.json
--->project3 (same subscription with project2)
-------main.bicep
-------params.json

-modules
-pipelines
-scripts

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Fraud detection data pipeline (ETL) on GCP

# How to create a scalable fraud detection steaming data pipeline

[https://medium.com/@rasvihostings/fraud-detection-data-pipeline-etl-on-gcp-2b15b8f3d65b](https://medium.com/@rasvihostings/fraud-detection-data-pipeline-etl-on-gcp-2b15b8f3d65b)

When we think about large volume streaming data pipeline three things come to our mind

* **Scalability and resilience**
* **Cost**
* **Infrastructure maintenance**

I designed a solution which can scale easily, use much as possible GCP managed services and finally reducing the cloud cost 😉

[read my blog post here](https://medium.com/@rasvihostings/fraud-detection-data-pipeline-etl-on-gcp-2b15b8f3d65b)

let me know what type of articles you guys are more interested on

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Should I get into devops?

I am a frontend software engineer and I hate my life, I am sick and tired of putting buttons, input boxes, etc. on a web app... And I feel like frontend web development is a dead end job, or at-least it is not suitable for me, because all the frameworks do the same thing... I hate most of my coworkers (including developers, design, product managers, etc.) because they fight over trivial issues like, why use a forEach instead of reduce? Why is this button small, etc.

Should I switch to devops? I feel like there is much more variety of tasks available in this space, but I am afraid of AI, platforms like vercel, that abstracts all the complexity of managing infra, etc. Also currently my salary is quite high, so changing role will be extremely difficult...

Is Devops worth it? Or are all the IT jobs the same?

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Manage spot nodepool in GKE

Hi Everyone,

We run about 60-65% of our workloads on spot VMs, but during peak hours we usually hit stock out and new pods are usually in pending state for long hours waiting for a spot VM. So we have implemented 2 ways to improve this state.

1. deploy the same deployment on payg nodepool with a higher hpa threshold, so it scales when spot pods doesnt scale.

2. create a nodepool with different series of machines with same configurations, taints and labels, but at times one nodepool doesnt scale even if it isnt hitting stock out, whereas the other nodepool would have stocked out.

Are there any better ways you guys tackle the stock out situation ? Kindly advice.

Thanks !

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How do you handle urgent communication when a team leader from another team doesn't respond?

Hey all,

I’m curious about how you handle situations where you need an urgent response from a team leader in another department or team, but they take hours to reply. For example, if you're waiting for critical input and it's been over two hours with no answer—how do you proceed?

Do you escalate the issue, follow up with other team members, or try to find alternative solutions? How do you balance urgency without coming across as too pushy?

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Move from Sprints to KanBan?

For a long time I have hated sprints and pretend agile for DevOps in our organisation. We plan, refine, retro, demo - blah blah blah - the whole thing in our org is pointless because we plan/refine but when the sprint starts we abandon the sprint for another team’s work because they didn’t think to involve us early enough or they say no when we asked if they had any requirements, and now we’ve blockers.

Instead, we’re going to use KanBan. Anything in to-do can be picked up by anyone at anytime. Items only move from backlog to to-do after it has been refined, backlog items don’t show on the board, and board is DevOps only work. We no longer include other teams work on our KanBan board.

I’m not saying we won’t do work for other team. Instead we rotate through other teams. Embedding in their process and our tasks in their epics belong on their board because they belong to that team.

My fear is - how will be prioritise our own board if we’re embedding in other teams. What happens to unfinished work after a rotation.

What are peoples thoughts? Is there a better approach?

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What happens if I have multiple IP addresses in a single weighted routing record in route 53?

Basically the title.

I am in the process of migrating from simple routing to weighted routing and wanted to test using a few servers.

Currently, we have a single A record which is simple routing, it consists of all the server IPs.

I am trying to take out some servers and add some weighted routing entries for the same.

If I have 3 records,
Record A - weighted, 2 IPs, weight 50
Record B - weighted, 1 IP, weight 50

Will each of the IPs in record A get equal traffic, I.e 25%?

I was not able to replicate the above.

Please help.

Thanks in advance.

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First time creating a simple CI/CD pipeline help

Hey guys,

I'm a self learning developer trying to broaden my skills and learn more about cloud services and CI/CD pipelines and all that. To start simple I want to host my personal website on an EC2 instance and set up github actions to containerize and deploy to my instance such that when I push changes to my repository, that all happens automatically. My first basic question is how do you handle private environment variables? Do you use AWS parameter store? I'm using Go and the 'godotenv' package, but if I change my code around to use the AWS Parameter store, how would I test it locally? Since I wouldn't have access to the parameter store, right?

Thanks!

(you'll probably see me a lot around here in the near future 🙌)

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