Got my first assessment at internship but no Guidance.

I recently got DevOps internship at a startup, i got first assessment of making a alert rules based on metrics logs and traces using signoz (observability tool ) i dont know where can i see matrics and how can i create alerts properly please guide me step by step

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From Struggling to Thriving: Building a DevOps Accountability Community

I wanted to share my journey and why I decided to start an accountability group. Like many, I've struggled with staying consistent and focused, especially working from home as a DevOps Engineer. I found myself juggling too many tasks, overcommitting, and falling behind. Despite being passionate about productivity, I wasn't always following my own advice, and that gap between knowledge and action was frustrating.

At one point, I was placed on a performance improvement plan, struggling with procrastination and feeling overwhelmed by imposter syndrome or simply not having a clue what I was doing. It was a tough place to be, but things have turned around now.

I first started out by joining a generic accountability Discord server, and it worked to some extent. However, I wanted something more focused on DevOps, blending professional development with personal growth. That's when the idea of creating a specialized accountability group came to life. I wanted a space where people could share goals, track progress, and support one another through challenges. It wasn't just about ticking tasks off a list it was about fostering consistency, building momentum, and celebrating progress, no matter how small.

After recognizing these challenges, I took proactive steps to turn things around. I reached out for counseling to tackle self-doubt and develop a more positive mindset. I also began implementing small daily habits like meditation and walking to ground myself and regain focus. These changes started making a difference, but I realized I needed more structure and support.

Since starting the group last year, we've had some great successes. Many members are actively pursuing certifications like the CKA, CKS, and CKAD, and one member recently passed their CKAD! Some have even moved on in their careers, taking on new roles and advancing professionally. Personally, being part of this group has helped me hit other goals, such as starting to meditate every day and passing my Taekwondo grading. Being part of this close-knit community keeps me engaged in the subject and allows me to make new discoveries through shared experiences and insights. It's a powerful reminder that our actions influence others, and together we can inspire positive change.

This experience has reinforced the power of community and accountability in personal and professional growth. If you're struggling to stay on track with your goals, consider finding or creating a space where you can grow alongside others. The support and shared commitment can make all the difference.

Would love to hear from others who've found accountability helpful or are thinking about starting their own groups! Also, if you're interested in joining our accountability group, feel free to DM me! We're always open to sharing insights and feeding back into the wider Reddit DevOps community to help others grow and succeed.

Stay productive, Alan

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Please roast my resume, not getting any callbacks

Hi Everyone,

A little background about me: I'm from India and I have 8 years of experience in full stack and 3 years of experience in DevOps. I transitioned from development to DevOps at my previous job as I was more interested. I quit my full-time job 6 months ago to try something on my own, but it didn't go as well as I expected, so I had to shut down my product and am now looking for a full-time job again.

To my surprise, I've been applying for the past month but haven't received even a single call from recruiters. Do they see my 6 months as a career gap or is it a red flag?

I don't have Kubernetes experience as my company always insisted on using cloud container orchestration (Cloud Run, Google App Engine). I'm planning to prepare for CKA, but the pressure of being jobless is driving me nuts and I can't really focus on certification at the moment.

I've been applying via LinkedIn but not getting any responses back. Any tips or suggestions?

Here is my resume: https://imgur.com/a/VyAxTfD

Thanks!

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Need Help: "domain doesn't support a secure connection" issue

Hey everyone,

I'm dealing with a frustrating issue on one of our sites and could really use some help. I've tried Google, ChatGPT, and even the Cloudflare community, but no luck so far.

Some users are randomly seeing a warning that says, "example.com doesn't support a secure connection." I’ve double-checked the SSL and Apache configurations, and everything seems fine on my end.

The strange part is that it doesn’t happen to all users—just a random subset. Our domain is set up with Cloudflare, which then proxies to an EC2 instance hosting a WordPress site.

I’d prefer not to share the domain publicly, but I can DM it if that helps troubleshoot the issue.

Thanks in advance for any insights!

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Work from anywhere companies

Hi all, hoping you can help me out here. I have ambitions to work abroad in Canada, and am close to gaining a temporary open work permit there, however I have heard that the tech job market isnt great at the moment.

What I'd really appreciate if you could suggest any companies I could apply to for roles as a DevOps/Cloud/Platform engineer that I could start in the UK but move to Canada for a couple years keeping the same role. So any companies that are truly 'work from anywhere' you could suggest would be massively appreciated.

They don't need to currently have roles open for my desired position, just getting an idea for the companies would be most helpful!

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Consolidation into DataDog -- questions and experiences

Hi,

We're considering consolidating CloudWatch, SumoLogic and Sentry into DataDog. We're currently using DataDog for APM, Tracing and so on, just not logs or error management.


I was curious whether folks here have done it before and what your experience was like, any lessons learned and any questions you'd recommend we ask in the process.

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Docker vs CapRover vs Bare Metal

Hi,

I'm a software engineer launching a web application.

I'm running the app on a basic 4GB RAM and ~45 GB hard drive.

I've been running everything bare metal, which means
- I've had to set up pgBackRest for backups
- systemd scripts for my app
- systemd script for nginx
- nginx configuration, nginx for reverse proxy to provide an additional layer of security and sometimes at some point I had a demo app running besides the main one
- letsencrypt ssl with a cron job to renew it

I'm now dealing with DB migrations, so I started making a script to copy the postgres backups to my local machine, make a restore to load them in the DB, run the app with auto migrations off so that it can generate the migrations needed. The plan after this is done is to review the changes manually, and if accepted, have another script which will connect to the server to do the migrations, and then run the script which deploys the latest version of the app to the server.

It's my first deployment on my own not as part of a big company, so even though I did have to do a bit of devops in the past, some of these are a first to me.

I'm wondering now whether I should've just use a PaaS open source tool to take care of a lot of these things so that I can just focus on developing the software.

Does anyone have experience running a PaaS tool in a low powered server? What's the real overhead? What's a minimum ram so that the overhead is not too much? Will a PaaS tool really help, or will I just be bogged down configuring the PaaS instead of writing simple bash scripts and it's not actually worth it unless running multiple servers?

Do you have recommendations between (or anything else):
- https://github.com/dokku/dokku
- https://github.com/CapRover/CapRover
- https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy
- https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify

I'm not running your standard django or ruby application, this is in a more obsucre language, so I probably need to anyways have some script for deployment. Right now my script git clones my repo, installs dependencies, and then restarts the systemd process. Just wanted to point that out in case these tools are too tightly coupled with the popular frameworks.

Thanks in advance!

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Eks auto mode for existing clusters with blue-green node groups.

Are EKS version upgrades with auto mode possible with a blue/green node groups ? if so, how?



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Is there a current "state of the art" consensus? What's still going to be good 5 years from now?

I'm with a group whose infra and applications are all nearing end of life and have been tasked with designing (then presumably implementing) the infrastructure and processes around rebuilding the apps over the next 5 years.

What I think of as our best options are from when I learned it and am wondering what the current consensus is around the best infra (we're an Azure shop and I don't see that changing), security, testing, monitoring/alerting, CI/CD, etc.

So is there any consensus around the medium term future is for those areas or even a good resource for updating my understanding to what current and coming?

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What does your devops support ticket lifecycle look like?

We'd love to learn how your team handles devops support queries. Where do the requests live? (Jira??), what are the different stages of solving them? how many tickets per day does your team get? What are the most repeated queries?

We'd love to learn! We're working on an AI devops agent to automate the repetetive bits that teams handle on a day to day basis, it's super early, here's a demo.

We'd love any and all insight.

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Courses recommendations for someone already working in the field?

Hello, I recently got a job where I worked on a project where I did things that I would consider Devops:

Kubernetes deployment and management
Ansible automation
CD/CD pipeline automation
Deployment of apps and services and their integration (LDAP, SSO, etc)

While I already had varying levels of familiarity with most of the concepts, I practically never had hands-on experience with them, I've been able to learn on the go and deliver on my tasks, but I feel like I have huge knowledge gaps that make my job harder than it should.

I was wondering if you know if any recommended courses that takes you thru a project to learn hands-on?

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How do you manage large file transfer

Just like the subject I'm curious to know how y'all manage to transfer files from let's say SFTP server like Citrix or files.com to gcs bucket or S3. Do yall use any scripts or any services/tools?

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Any "must read" suggestions? 12factor app, etc..

I have a decade (...fuck, time flew) worth of professional tech/devops experience, and I only just now read and understood the value of "the 12 factor app." Does the community have any other suggested readings (or good-faith rebuttal reads) for dev, devops, ops, network, linux, cloud, or -whatever- engineers? I feel like there are paradigms I should know by now that I'm simply unaware of.

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what are the must open source devops tools in CI/CD to learn?

What are the must open source devops tools in CI/CD to learn? I've been looking through tools that are required or needed to build proper CI/CD pipeline and there are just so many I can't learn everything. What are the must tools that one should understand throughly in the process? Another word, what are the most used tools in CI/CD pipeline from end to end? Sorry if this is not the right question to ask here. if that is the case, can someone point me to the right place?



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Drift Detection Tools

Anyone in here using and happy with IaC drift detection tools? Here are a few I've found searching:

* [https://controlmonkey.io/](https://controlmonkey.io/)
* [https://spacelift.io/](https://spacelift.io/)
* [https://www.firefly.ai/](https://www.firefly.ai/)

I'd love to hear if anyone has experience with these or others they could recommend. Thanks!

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Open Source Projects where I can contribute

Hi there!

For quite some time, I’ve been feeling a bit stuck at work. It feels like I’m not growing or developing my skills anymore. Unfortunately, the current job market in the EU isn’t looking great, so I’d rather keep my current job for now.

That said, I’d love to contribute to some open source or voluntary projects in my free time, especially ones that could use DevOps expertise. I have experience with automating processes, and while my current job doesn’t involve cloud technologies, I’d be excited to work with them as well (though it’s not a must).

Could you recommend any platforms, communities, or specific projects where I could find opportunities like this? I’d really appreciate any advice

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Multiple projects in one repository

This is my first time using Git ,so I have a backend dotnet api project and frontend Flutter project and want to store them in a single repository in Azure devops by creating a parent folder in the repository and inside it the backend and frontend folder respectively. Is this possible? And will it be a feasible approach

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I knew the market was getting worse but I didn't know we work for free noew

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Anyone using NEL reporting in production?

Hey :)

Is anyone here using Chrome's Network Event Logging in production? What is your experience with this, has it helped you / your org?

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Just Created a Beginner-Friendly Docker Tutorial and Hands-on samples

Hi, everyone!

I'm a cloud, container, devops enthusiast and recently wrote a Docker tutorial on DEV. I wanted to make Docker easier to understand for beginners and share some practical examples.

If you’re new to Docker or want to refresh your skills, I’d love for you to check it out!

Link in the comment.

Feedback, questions, or suggestions are more than welcome. Let me know if there are topics you'd like me to cover in future posts. 😊

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People pleasing behavior

Maybe not totally DevOps related, but since I'm working in DevOps and crisis happens a lot in this area, then I think some of you may be able to help. I have a tendency to be afraid to be honest if something requires more time due to some issue, or if I have made a mistake, especially to my higher ups/customers. I'm afraid somehow of them being disappointed or angry/throw disappointment messages at me.

For a concrete example, due to lack of experience, I did not configure clustering to a MongoDB instance I deployed in k8s, causing it to be only 1 replica and thus if it goes down for some reason, then any other services can't access data in it. It did went down one day, and I tried my best to debug and hot-fix it on the fly without telling anyone, since I'm afraid they will be mad at me why I couldn't implement it the first time correctly. There are many other examples like this.

Sometimes I could solve things but have to sacrifice my sleep, weekends etc. so that it is fixed before anyone notices and I have to give excuses/apologize. And if I couldn't and they express their disappointment/anger, it demotivates me and stresses me out, causing me to hate my job even more.

Does anyone else suffer from this? How can I change this soft-skill? This people pleasing and afraid of other people's disappointment/opinion behavior causes me a lot of stress at work. Perhaps I had a childhood trauma or/and afraid of getting my contract/employment terminated. Perhaps there are resources/books I can use to get better?

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