Best practices for updated dev toolchain for rhel8 box w/o using a container

Working on rhel8 box with gcc8 and would like to build with newer compiler & tools (emacs, nodejs, clang, ...). I could use a dev container but we're not ready for container deployments and don't care to have that battle yet. I've been other places where they would build all their own tools and you'd just add that to your path (i.e. would have a /devtools/X.XX/ dir on the box with everything installed underneath it).

Any other suggestions?

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Software lifecycle book reccomendations

What are some good books on the software lifecycle that focus more on the more practical aspect of the topic.

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How to build a chat bot with a custom knowledge base? Guide me.


I am starting out to build web apps using AI.
I want to build a tool to convert pdf to csv and integrate a chatbot to interact with the knowledge ( i.e converted CSVs).
Can you guide me how can I build this ?
Any open-source tools that have similar structure will be a lot helpful.


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What Does Your Day Look Like as an Infrastructure Engineer? Seeking Insights!

Hey there,

Are there any Infrastructure Engineers here? What does a typical day at the office look like for you? What are your main responsibilities, and which skills or tools are essential for your role?

I'm currently working as a trainee Infrastructure Engineer, and I'm gaining exposure to various areas like databases, IIS, cloud, networking, and servers—primarily on Windows. Our team is also expanding into Linux, along with technologies like Kubernetes, Kafka, Nginx, and more. I'd love to hear about your experiences!

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Python vs Bash Scripting.

Many DevOps jobs needs someone to be proficient in these skills efficiently.

Lately I have been concentrating more on upskilling more on bash scripting because I am feeling it's more common with the tasks I do lately.

Everything DevOps guys do is mostly on the commandline.

In Python or Bash Scripting which is more important or pertinent to our jobs as a DevOps Engineer.

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What are you recommendations

I know I have to get a grasp of programming in Python or go and even bash scripting.

I have a little experience and I think I can learn and do things if I embark on projects straight away as a DevOps engineer.

My question is, do I jump on project immediately and find my fit. Like from a beginner-intermediate-advanced style or

Follow the popular roadmaps on the web by first learning Linux which I can't learn it all to other tools before doing projects.

What do you recommend guys?

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Team skills problems

Hi all, wanted to know whether some of you are in a similar position as me.
Got into a Junior position in DevOps, more like a platform engineer role, and learned a lot in the first couple of months. Later on I’ve noticed that my team is seriously lacking knowledge about anything that’s related to Kubernetes and/or networking, so I didn’t have anyone to ask about issues and problems, or just to learn from. Some basic stuff like what is kubelet, or how to debug the api/etcd failures. Our usage is pretty simple but we’re getting into a situation where it’ll be critical because our scale will be getting bigger in next few months. It’s been like this for over a year and during that time I’ve been self learning via the k8s documentation, creating problems and trying to solve them in my own sandbox cluster, etc, just to get the hang of it. But I still don’t feel like I’m getting the required experience as I should have in a more “serious and professional” place. Don’t get me wrong my team is strong in all other areas, but we’re now in a place that every question that’s related to networking, k8s and Linux is now being redirected to me, the junior.
Is that normal?
Thanks in advance everyone!

FYI, we’re running on-premise.

EDIT: changed btw to fyi lol

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Looking for Alternatives to SonarQube

Hey everyone,

We’ve been using SonarQube for our code coverage needs, mainly focusing on SQL and .NET Core projects. Our setup includes Visual Studio for development and Azure DevOps for our pipelines.

Lately, we've been considering other options due to some frustrations with SonarSource's support. We currently hold a dev license, but we're open to exploring new tools.

I've come across ReSharper, Codacy, and Veracode in my research. Has anyone here had experience with these, or can you recommend any other alternatives? Any insights would be greatly appreciated!

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Struggling with Live Coding Challenges , Advice Needed

I'm an SRE with a strong foundation in operations and networking, though my development skills aren’t as deep. I’m confident with automation and scripting tasks, and I’ve been pretty successful with interview processes overall. However, some companies have strict requirements for live problem-solving interviews, which I've consistently struggled with, making it incredibly frustrating. I recently made it to final interviews with three companies. Two of these require live whiteboarding sessions, and these are roles I’m truly excited about.

Even though I'm putting in the effort, I feel like I might not pass these interviews, which is really discouraging. I’m seriously considering tackling this head-on by dedicating myself to building up my coding and problem-solving skills. Creating logic and solving coding challenges has always been difficult for me, and I've avoided them for too long.

I could really use some advice on where to start—any YouTube videos or resources you recommend would be great. I want to at least reach a point where I can approach coding challenges with some understanding, rather than feeling completely lost. I have two final interviews coming up (they said they’re mostly formalities), one on Tuesday and the other on Thursday, both with live coding. If there’s anything I can do to prepare, even in this short time

I realize this might be considered unethical, but I know I won’t be fully prepared for these interviews in such a short amount of time. I was considering whether I might be able to turn off the video option during the interview. My screen would still be shared, of course, but with the video off, I could potentially use ChatGPT to help generate solutions. I’m just trying to make the most of this opportunity, as I really don’t want to miss it

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Potential benefits of multi-cluster k8s architecture

Hi,

I am a data engineer dealing with data pipelines running on k8s and would like to initiate a technical discussion about the topic mentioned in the title.

Among the coworkers an idea popped up: what if we had a multi-cluster architecture to reduce costs, i.e. we keep several clusters in more regions (Azure) and we schedule our jobs to the cheap ones.
We are uncertain about how we could meassure these benefits and side effects of such an architecture.

Our idea:
Set up two dummy jobs, one dealing with data (to see how the distance from the storage’s region affects latency, costs, etc.) and one without connection to data.

My questions:
- How would you meassure the benefits of a multi-cluster architecture? What would be the KPIs (like costs, latency)? How would you calculate those?

- What other, if any at all, benefits of such architecture can you imagine?


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Golang for scripting

Following the thread below:

https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/s/2tr3AnvIId

How common is it for you guys to use golang for scripting?
I did it a little in my previous place but all of the developers were writing go too so it was trivial.

In my current place it’s all python, so it feels kinda weird.

What do you think?

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What's your opinion on the current job market right now ? Is it cooked, will it get recover ?

What's your opinion on the current tech/DevOps job market? Between AI hype, layoffs, and market shifts, I'm curious about your experiences.

For those still in the field - what's your current focus? Are you pivoting towards specific technologies (Kubernetes, Platform Engineering, AI/MLOps), or doubling down on core DevOps skills?

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I wrote a test for checking how browsers and Cloudflare behave on Round Robin DNS

I wrote a test for checking how browsers and Cloudflare behave on Round Robin DNS, I've put my findings here:

https://blog.hyperknot.com/p/understanding-round-robin-dns

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Cert Guidance

About to take CKA cert exam! Should I just knock out CKAD then CKS while the info is fresh or pursue something else? For context, I already have AWS SAA-Associate and Developer certs.

I’ve really enjoyed learning all things k8s. Currently work as a sales engineer in SaaS with the goal of eventually transitioning to a DevOps role.

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How to manage development between team members and deployment?

I am working in a very small startup and our entire project is basically a huge web application (related to education). The project has only started right now but the way we have planned it, it will make use of a lot of databases and ML models (eg. to personalize the student's experience). The development team consists of 3 people. 2 of them work on frontend programming and I handle all the backend programming, all the cloud management and deployment.

Our project runs on Django and uses things like Redis, MariaDB. The way it currently works is that the frontend guys write their code and put it on a git repo, I do the backend programming on it and integrate it with django. Then i push these changes to git and a bash script i wrote on our cloud server pulls it, performs some operations on the files, creates config for the web server and nginx reverse proxy and directly runs it on the server.

The problem we encounter here is, once I integrate the backend with the frontend, it becomes impossible for the frontend guys to make any changes to the frontend code because the project with the backend requires a bunch of dependencies and DB with some tables pre-written on it to fetch constant data. Setting this environment up on their systems will make it difficult to update it if the structure ever changes. This is also bad if the team expands (which it will soon). Another thing I'm concerned about is if its ideal to simply run everything directly on the single VM, if its secure enough or not. Also this bash script method is still very manual.

I thought of using Docker, then I found out that its not good with handling persistent data. Anything else that uses a concept similar to containers is too complex for the project in its current state. I'm not much of a DevOps guy and we're mostly just learning with this stuff. Since the project is only just starting, we can refactor the entire system in whatever way its ideal to handle an environment like this. I am in need of a direction on what is the correct way to handle the development and deployment of such a project. Maybe my tech stack could be insufficient. I would greatly appreciate any assistance!


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Software Engineer Jobs Report 10/23: Every week I spend hours scraping the internet for recently posted software engineer jobs. I hand pick the best ones, put them in a list, and share them to help your job search. Here is this weeks spreadsheet. Roles in USA and aboard. Devops roles included.

Hey friends, every week I search the internet for software engineer jobs that have been recently posted on a company's career page. I collect the jobs, put them in a spreadsheet, and share them with anyone whose looking for their next role. All for free.

I hand pick the ones I know are good roles, with market salaries, and no glaring flags (extremely low salaries, unreasonable expectations). Though its not easy to tell if the roles require leetcode or not. I want to figure out how to get the information in the future.

The data is sourced by my own web scraping bots, paid sources, free sources, VC sites, and the typical job board sites. I spend an ungodly amount on the web so you don't have too!

About me, I am a senior software engineer with a decade of work history, and ample job searching experience to know that its a long game and its a numbers game.

If there are other roles you'd like to see, let me know in the comments.

To get the nicely formatted spreadsheet, click here.

If you want to read my write up, click here.

if you want to get these in an email, click here.

If you want to see all previous job reports, click here.

Cheers!

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DevOps to Cloud Consulting

Hi all,

I’m currently a Senior DevOps Engineer and am considering making a shift to consulting. I have my CKA/CKAD Kubernetes certs and recently architected and completed the migration of our on-prem Jenkins/Docker infrastructure to Azure DevOps/AKS and feel pretty confident in my ability to complete complex projects without needing my hand held. If you’ve made a shift to consulting or something similar, what advice can you offer? Are you happy that you made the change? Thanks in advance

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AI chat agent to manage your public cloud


Cloud AI Agent for GCP Management
AI agent using Google’s Gemini API to interpret user requests and automate GCP infrastructure management through GitHub Actions workflows.
**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ocUjlUrU\_w**
https://medium.com/@rasvihostings/ai-chat-agent-to-manage-your-public-cloud-51c66c013138

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How to do SQLite migrations in an embedded application?

First of all I thought of incorporating the migration files together with the already compiled application, but this takes up space and the end user can read it if he knows what he is doing.

So I thought of this sequence:

1. The app is compiled with the latest version of the schemas.
2. On app start check if the user_version is lower than the one it was compiled with, if it is, make a request asking for the last missing versions of migrations in a list and apply them.

How would you do it?

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Multi-Cloud Secure Federation: One-Click Terraform Templates for Cross-Cloud Connectivity

Tired of managing Non-Human Identities (NHIs) like access keys, client IDs/secrets, and service account keys for cross-cloud connectivity? This project eliminates the need for them, making your multi-cloud environment more secure and easier to manage.

With these end-to-end Terraform templates, you can set up secure, cross-cloud connections seamlessly between:

* **AWS ↔ Azure**
* **AWS ↔ GCP**
* **Azure ↔ GCP**

The project also includes demo videos showing how the setup is done end-to-end with just one click.

Check it out on GitHub: [https://github.com/clutchsecurity/federator](https://github.com/clutchsecurity/federator)

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Should python be dependency for a MELT solution?

Im integrating a MELT solution for my client using the Grafana+Prometheus stack. I'm using locust to generate the load testing, so I have to use a venv like poetry.

Problem is now i'm thinking how much of a pain it would be for team members who don't have poetry to run all the scripts i've written for testing and running docker compose. This made me re-think the entire project. If all of my services are containerized, should python be even a dependency?

I'm trying to think of a way where teammates can run shell scripts in a more agnostic manner and I need some tips. Right now I have a docker compose that I run with a shell script written in a `scripts.py` that gets called via poetry run <script_name:scripts.py:script_function>.

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