maintenance configurations have no dynamic scopes assigned to them at all

**Questions**

- Is there a way I can dynamically reference my subscriptions within the PowerShell runbook without hardcoding them?
- Is there anything with the iteration logic that needs to be revised given how it currently partially works?
- I refrenced an existing stackoverflow question for inspiration when setting up the original script [How to use New-AzConfigurationAssignment Powershell cmdlet for Dynamic Scope for different subscriptions -Azure update manager](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78159445/how-to-use-new-azconfigurationassignment-powershell-cmdlet-for-dynamic-scope-for)

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Deeply curated database of 400+ well-funded, Remote-friendly startups + jobs

And no, this isn't another spreadsheet or pay-to-play directory. I manually curated this database of well-funded startups working on interesting things because I got tired of sifting through the noise of LinkedIn/Twitter. This is totally open & built on Framer. And yes, I know startups aren't for everyone, but these are hopefully the better ones. Let me know what you think and hopefully it's helpful to find some interesting opportunities this year: https://startups.gallery/categories/work-type/remote

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Anyone from a DevOps or Cloud-related Startup Successfully Raise $1 Million? How Did You Do It?

Hi everyone,

I’m curious if anyone here has successfully raised $1 million or more for a DevOps or cloud-related startup. If so, I’d love to hear about your journey.

- How did you approach investors?
- What were some key strategies or tactics that worked for you?
- Did you face any particular challenges, and how did you overcome them?
- What kind of milestones or proof did you use to demonstrate traction?

Any insights or advice would be greatly appreciated as I’m looking to learn from others who have been through this process!

Thanks in advance!

Good answer I will select based on more upvote and I will buy a virtual coffee.

Only honest answer please.

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How do DevOps technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, etc. actually work in a company?

I've been using these technologies in my own Homelab and have been learning how they function, but I struggle to see how they work in an actual company. I can see how they are useful in certain scenarios, but how do they work in a Devops sense? Are people in companies coding programs that are deployed with kubernetes? Is Terraform provisioning desktops for coders? Specific examples of when these technologies are used would be great!

Thank you!

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Leveling Up as a DevOps / SRE / Infra

Hello fellow Infrastructure masters, it's now 2025 and we keep on grinding as usual... I had a bit of a brake from pure engineering and enjoyed a couple of years of architecting solutions..

The landscape is definitely evolving and so do we have to as well. Long gone are days (at least for me), when 7-8 recruiters a day were spamming me for Infrastructure work, be it full-time or contracting, we all know how the market is atm.

Here's the thing: I see the demands of versatility for a proper DevOps (I'd rather use a unified term of "infrastructure") ever rising. I see a depth of Python and Go are very valued.

I'm now on the cross-road of adding an upgrade to my skills, something deeply niche. Let me give you my background:

7 years in Infra, noc --> techops --> sre --> senior devops --> head of infra --> cloud architecture and consulting --> solutions / presales

There's a few things that I care about and a many that I don't.

How niche, or rather, what is the demand of specialised "Cloud Cost Optimisation" or FinOps? How's the DevSecOps landscape (as a niche), what about DataOps? MLOps - I despise statistics and anything related to math-heavy data science type of work..

Maybe there are other unexplored "SomethingOps" niches as well. I'd love to hear ya'll sentiment on the topic and have a healthy discussion.

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Azure Az-400 Exam Prep.

Where could I find Az-400 exam preparation questions. I have heard the dumps won't work in real exams.

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Devops learning portals

Hi folks,
Do you recommend any web places where you can learn devops, sre, linux, network etc but in a way that there are task and you get like „real” enviroment with terminal etc and tasks to solve. Could be paid. Thx

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How to run selenium grid use Jenkins docket

I want to cicd from container jenkin( that have install docker, docker compose, some plugin) then open localhost 8080 to config! Selenium grid, look like container can not connect to host ( selenium grid urd)
I have tried but not success !
Is there any example ,or recommend?
I want all thing is container

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Understanding Redis 7.4+ and ValKey (fork from 7.3)

So if I understand this right, Redis version 7.3 was before their big license change that requires payment for using redis. If you are using 7.4 or higher you have to pay them a fee. But a fork was done at 7.3 called "valkey":

https://valkey.io/

https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey

with the original license that's 100% free. And it's become so popular the linux foundation and others have started contributing to that fork making it arguably better than the main branch of redis. Even AWS elasticache is offering ValKey for 30% less. If this is all true why is anyone still using normal redis? Am I missing something?

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Why is DevOps still such a fragmented, exhausting (and ofc costly) mess in 2025?

I have been thinking about this for quite sometime and thought of getting your thoughts. I feel like DevOps was supposed to make life easier for developers, but honestly, it still feels like an endless headache. Every year, there’s a new tool, a new “best practice,” and a new wave of people claiming they have finally cracked the DevOps code… yet here we are, still dealing with the same mess, just with fancier buzzwords.

A few things I keep running into over the years that I have worked with different projects:

1. The never-ending toolchain puzzle – Every company I have worked with has a bloated DevOps stack. Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Helm, Spinnaker—you name it. It’s like every tool fixes one thing but breaks another, and somehow, the entire setup is still fragile as hell. Instead of simplifying DevOps, we’re just stacking more complexity on top of complexity.
2. Burnout is real – I don’t know a single DevOps engineer who isn’t constantly tired. Between keeping up with cloud providers, maintaining brittle pipelines, dealing with security updates, and being on-call for random failures at 2 AM, it’s no surprise people are leaving the field. We were supposed to be automating things, not babysitting them 24/7.
3. Automation is a lie – Every new trend is supposed to “automate everything,” but in reality, we just end up automating a different kind of chaos and it becomes totally fragmented. IaC is great until Terraform state breaks and you’re in hell. GitOps is cool until you realize drift is inevitable. Pipelines are supposed to “just work,” yet half the time, debugging a failed deploy feels like solving a murder mystery with no clues.

And here’s the kicker: this mess is costing companies millions. There’s actual research backing this up:

The [2024 State of DevOps Report by Puppet](https://www.puppet.com/blog/state-devops-report-2024) talks about how DevOps is still in a weird transition phase, with more companies shifting towards platform engineering but still struggling with inefficiencies.
The **DORA 2024 Accelerate State of DevOps Report** highlights that while elite teams are getting better, the majority are still facing the same bottlenecks we’ve seen for years.

So, I gotta ask—what’s the real solution here? Has anyone actually figured out how to do DevOps without it turning into a soul-sucking nightmare? Or are we all just stuck in an infinite loop of new tools, more YAML, and never-ending on-call rotations?

Would love to hear how others are dealing with this. Maybe I’m just jaded, but damn, it feels like we should be further along by now.

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AI and the future of DevOps engineers

We've heard the news of massive layoffs in large FAANG companies for software developers, engineers etc. And with Mark Zuckerberg mentioning in a recent interview that more than 20% of junior devs are going to be replaced by AI; I'm curious to know what your outlook is for the future of DevOps engineers.

I appreciate that DevOps was originally supposed to be a philosophy instead of a job title, but how are you pivoting your careers, or not, with the advent of AI? Some of my friends are pivoting into cyber security, solutions architecture etc.

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Recommendations for DAM (Digital Asset Management) Tools/Products?

Hi Everyone,

Like many others - my company users a CDN service (CloudFlare in our case) to serve static files to our customers.

The CDN Origin in our case, is a simple IIS website, hosted on one of our on-prem servers - that serves up a folder filled with many static files organized (actually not really organized) in many folders and subfolders.

We've reached a critical point where a lot of people from a lot of different departments are accessing the folder and updating resources in it all the time (Developers, Designers, Marketing, Content).

We'd like to have some kind of control over the folder:

- Access control to specific paths in the folder (Who can access and modify what)
- Change review and approval before applying changes.
- History, with the ability to restore a file from older revisions.
- Easy to use by non-technical people (Designers, Marketing, Content)
- Supports Google (SAML2) SSO
- Not too expansive
- Easy to integrate

Unfortunately management has decided, disregarding the many arguments I presented against it - to use our GitHub enterprise for this, and had me create a repository with gigabytes of media files in it.

I am utilizing git-lfs in my solution, and have a GitHub action that runs "git pull" in the CDN directory from our GitHub Enterprise "CDN-QA" repository after each successful pull request merge to the master branch.

This is currently undergoing a pilot in our QA environment and is expected to go Prod soon.

I know there are MUCH BETTER solutions for this... Shelf products that are designed to be the solutions for our requirements.

I'm looking for recommendations based on your own personal experience:

Can you kindly recommend, some sort of Digital Asset Management system that you think we can utilize?
It should answer all of the above requirements and hopefully be easy enough to integrate and not that expensive?

Anything from ResourceSpace to Bynder or anything else that you think matches the described scenario?

Thank you kindly in advance!

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How do you handle the XY-123456 ticket is deployed to ZX-Stage question?

Hello!
Our projectmanagers and developers always ask XY-1234 ticket or feature is deployed in ZY stage? We are try to use gitops, but noone want to open the git to check it. Argocd web ui is also top much for them. We have Jira, gitlab, argocd, Google Chat.

There are any way I can display this information in Jira?

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For all self-taught developers - what would you say is most difficult about building apps?

If you're building an app on your own, what do you think is a difficult thing about making an app on your own from scratch? I would assume that, being self-taught and solo, it would be difficult to properly understand, plan, and stick-to, one thing. An app must be planned out thoroughly, its timeline and scope and what not, and one must stick to developing it for multiple weeks or, more likely, months on end. And that, coupled with the fact that full stack is hard to build since you have to always understand how everything interacts between the backend and frontend. I'm doing some research to understand self-taught solo developers' experiences, any words would be appreciated. Thanks.

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DevOps Certification

Hello guys,

What are the top certifications for each category:
1. Automation and CI/CD
2. Containerization and Orchestration
3. Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
4. Cloud Platforms
5. Security (DevSecOps)

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Adding Macs to on-prem build agent pools

We have a few build jobs that build on arm64. So far I used buildx with the qemu bin tools and while it works it is slow, and even worse, some of our build jobs now fail. I am not quite sure what happens, but cargo stops to make any progress.

As we have our build servers on-premise, I was wondering how I could add native arm64 machines. I thought that maybe using Macs would be ideal, as it allows us to support building for Mac and Linux-arm64, but I am not so sure about OpSec for Mac Server.

Does anyone have experience with Macs as build agent for azure devops?

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How do people have a good devops portfolio?

What kind of projects can you have that will show your skills in devops? I'm curious how you show your skills around deployment, monitoring and other stuff, especially when talking about a project with a cloud provider...

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Portfolio needed for FAANG devops role?

Hi everyone, I’m currently in my 3 YOE as a platform engineer at my company and prior to that have 3 YOE in network security. I want to start looking into getting a devops/devsecops role with a FAANG and I’m curious if I’d need some sort of portfolio with projects to even be considered at these companies. I’ve done a decent amount of work surrounding AWS services, proficient in Terraform, have written a large majority of our Sentinel policies (security policies for terraform runs), worked with automation, know the ins and outs of standard CI/CD pipeline implementation w/ Concourse and GH Actions, but it doesnt seem like it would be remotely enough to be considered.

Does anyone have any insight on if Im being unrealistic with my goal of joining a FAANG in the next 1-2 years? Should I be focusing more on other aspects? Would the portfolio/project route be a waste of time? Any information would be helpful!

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Hashicorp Vault - Transit Secret Engine - Decrypt Mechanism

While using decrypt action in the Transit Secret Engine, we do not have the option to choose which version of a particular key we can use to decrypt a Ciphertext.

Is it because the Decrypt action is done using only the corresponding version which was used to encrypt initially? We don't have a flag to mention which version to use for decrypt action for a key.

For example: when we do the below action, does it automatically use the version 2 of the "test" key to decrypt the ciphertext?

vault write -f transit/decrypt/test ciphertext="vault:v2:fRds/te23Ra2KnsL+Jomk6ZYA4PS8uv/bbyjM0LDiNKfWOdk61vi4rvFMcClANUPvOc="

Can we decrypt a ciphertext produced by version 2 of a key, using version 3 of the same key?(without rewrapping)

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Pipelines with ArgoCD

I have to use Argo now and was used to push based gitops before. Before e.g. I used Gitlab Pipelines to install on Dev, then execute Tests and if Tests are successful, I have a button to manually promote to the next environment. Release to prod was then a manual pipeline.


So how do you handle processes like this with ArgoCD? I see there are tools like Kargo or Keptn or commercial tools Codefresh. So its seems I'm not the only person missing that on ArgoCD :-)

Can you guys tell how you handle such things and hint what to look out for?

Greetings

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How good is this for a person with some Devops experience

I have some prior Devops experience and want to further enhance my skills. I wanted to know how good of a resource is https://devopsroadmap.io if I want to get better at Devops?

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