Brainstorming Ideas for University Final Year Project

Hello everyone,

I'm about to start my senior year at university and want to pursue a final-year project that blends DevOps and AI, (most likely a dev tool). With 2 years of experience in DevOps, my skill set includes automation, observability, IaC, Kubernetes, containerization, AWS, Azure, with strong emphasis on security.

I'm looking for project ideas that align with these strengths and also resonate with recent Y Combinator's Request for Startups. Would love to hear thoughts from this amazing sub, which has been super helpful throughout my career.

Thank you!

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Starting a Systems Specialist role Monday...any advice?

Hey all!

Hope everyone is well. So I am starting a new job this coming Monday. Title is 'System Specialist'. Currently a Junior SysAdmin at a health organization, dealing with a lot of Azure, O365, AD, Veeam, Wasabi administration, along with other technologies.

My new job is at a pharmaceutical 'start-up' but it appears they're successful enough to be past the 'start-up' stage. This job I've been told deals with Azure/AD for directory usage, and a bunch of Linux/AWS/Docker stuff with other projects. Super excited for the opportunity, as I've been trying to get into more Cloud/DevOps stuff the past year or so. Also a 60% salary increase compared to my current role.

My last day at my current employer is tomorrow, taking Friday off to clear the head and be fresh for Monday.

Pretty bittersweet, aside from the obvious pay upgrade and upgrade in technologies used, as I really enjoyed working with my IT team at my current place.

Anything I should be worried about? Any advice adjusting to the new job? Or just any advice in general? Getting first day anxiety at this point lol, just want to get started already.

Thanks all and have a blessed weekend!

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Integrating Fastlane Match with Azure Storage Container – Has Anyone Done This?

Hello everyone!

I've recently started automating iOS certificate and profile management at my new job using Fastlane Match, and it's been functioning quite well from an Azure DevOps Repo setup. I had done something like this at a previous job I worked at as well.

However, my superior wants to migrate this setup to Azure, possibly utilizing an Azure Storage Container. He specifically doesn't want it to run out of a repository even though it would be encrypted. From what I've researched, Fastlane Match's documentation suggests compatibility with Google Cloud Storage or an Amazon S3 bucket, but Azure is not mentioned.

I'm contemplating whether anyone in this community has experience or has tackled integration with Azure. Building custom scripts might be an option, but before I head down that route, I wanted to reach out and see if anyone else has successfully implemented this or explored the possibility.

Any insights or recommendations would be highly appreciated. Looking forward to your valuable input on this!

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Effective Usage of AI Code Reviewers on GitHub

The article discusses the effective use of AI code reviewers on GitHub, highlighting their role in enhancing the code review process within software development: How to Effectively Use AI Code Reviewers on GitHub

It outlines the traditional manual code review process, emphasizing its importance in maintaining coding standards, identifying vulnerabilities, and ensuring architectural integrity.

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What is the best platform for DevOps freelance?

Hello,

I started this week a new search for DevOps projects/part-time. I created an Upwork account and reactivated my Workana account. I have applied for a lot of jobs and I had zero interactions so far. Do you recommend another platform or any tips for new users?

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Looking to proxy-cache S3 requests in a CI/CD pipeline

Hey all, I'm trying to solve a interesting problem for work. We upload build artifacts to AWS S3, but that eats up 10-20 minutes of build time; I want to proxy-cache that locally so its faster. Seems like the S3 proxy solutions I can find either date back 7+ years ago with stale code, or only support read-caching via Nginx or other software. Anyone have any good tricks for accomplishing this? Thanks.

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recorded training video and want automated certificate to be sent

Ok, I have a 1 hr training video. I want to upload this video, and once someone has watched it (or most of it), the "system" will automatically send them a certificate of completion. Does someone do this?

O yeah, also want to do it for cheap - like <$20 a month total. probable 200 users a year.

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Certificate Ripper v2.4.0 released - tool to extract server certificates

\- Added system certificate extractor
\- Added help function
\- Added version provider
\- Added statistics for duplicate certificates
\- Added statistics for expired certificates
\- Bumped dependencies

\- Added support for Nix OS / nixpkgs (Linux/Mac package manager)
\- Added suppert for Chocolatey 🍫 (Windows package manager)
\- Added support for Scoop 🍨 (Windows package manager)

You can find/view the tool here: GitHub - Certificate Ripper

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Use cases for OIDC in GitHub Actions?

I wrote an article a while back about using OIDC for config management tools, but the GitHub Actions example is broadly applicable to any kind of workflow. If you've used OIDC-based workflows before, I'm curious what other use cases have worked well for you?


https://blog.gitguardian.com/how-to-handle-secrets-configuration-management-tools/

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Has anyone interviewed for a Capital One DevOps position and can give advice ?


Has anyone interviewed for a Capital One DevOps position and can give advice? Would really appreciate it.

I have a huge power day interview coming up with Capital One and am eager to prep as much as I can for this. I really want this role so could use as much help as I can.

It is explained to me that the interview will be 2 technical sessions of 1 hr each and 1 behavior and 1 case interview.

If anyone has insights on what kind of question to expect during the 2 technical sessions, please share. Specificity would be extremely appreciated.

Further more the case interview is something super new to me. I research on Capital Ones website and YouTube for sample DevOps case interviews and I can’t find anything relevant. Many case Interviews are more focused on business concepts and increasing profitability rather than on tech related or DevOps stuff. If any one has any recent info that would once again be so helpful.

Thanks in advance!

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How to call Oracle DB from Cloudfoundry?

I have a python script that uses ODBC DSN and SMTP address to query a database and send an email with data.

I want to run the script as a service on my Cloudfoundry, but there isn't an oracle driver in the container.

How can I set up my Cloudfoundry to handle DSN configurations so I can run the script in a Cloud?

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Hey Engineers, I have just enrolled in the Kodekloud Pro Course and am following the DevOps path. I have a question: I see that Python in the DevOps course is listed for 1 hour and 43 minutes, with a few exercises. Is this amount of Python basics sufficient for DevOps, or should I learn more Python?

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Aws test for a devops consultant role for mission.dev

Hello, i m a submarine user here, sometimes because the stack mentioned is not what i use, most of the time because i come only accross lack of jobs post, and seeing to much negativity is not got for me.
But i really enjoy the sub, and know it can be really helpful (for roasting resume) in many professional situations.

I have a test to complete for mission.dev and wanted to know if any of you have an idea of what it is about because there is no preview, i just know it is on aws ci/cd pipeline among other things.

Thanks in advance.

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Which three skills are most important to focus on for a DevOps job interview: Git, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Linux, Ansible, Terraform, or Azure?

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Could you share all tech-stacks you're using for devops?

Hi everybody,

I'm new in K8s and want to aks which tech-stacks you're using so I can create my learning path.
Surfing internet and was overwhelming about a lot of tech stacks need to learn

Thanks

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Is it true that the best way to learn devops is by applying it?

I had someone asking me how do I know all of this and to be honest I dont know how to answer that.

Different from programming is that I never formally read a book or courses in the large amount when comparing to when I first started learning to program. Most of the stuff like docker, k8s, microservice etc is learned by reading technical article and have no clue and start using it with like 30% of knowledge and learning while doing approach. I wonder if the same experience applies to you guys here as well?

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Is moving into a Cloud Tech Solutions Engineer a stepdown? (Currently SysDE)

Hey everyone,

So currently I am working as a SysDE and a recreuiter reached out to me regarding a Cloud Tech Solutions Engineer role. Both companies are FAANG and while I like my current job, I prefer the other company more. The pay is a little better, they have better RTO but less flexability on hours (due to the role). I guess I am more worried about the role being a TSE instead of a DevOps or SRE, is TSE considered as a step down from DevOps?

I would appreciate any advice approaching this.

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Deepseek LLM deployments in Cloud

With all the hype around DS LLMs, has anyone managed to set up Deepseek in cloud infrastructure? Is the de facto deployment to use Ollama?

If not, what approach did you take for rolling it out?


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Can anybody refer me an internship

I'm in my 3rd year, I have learnt and have some experience in Linux, bash scripting, Docker, Postgresql, Jenkins, gitlab, github actions, terraform and some basics in AWS like ec2, lambda. I want to gain the actual real-world tasks or projects by doing an internship
I just got one more semester to complete my btech , I need to learn and start working,

Can you help me ? btw I'm from india

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What's your preferred OAuth server?

I've not really got any experience with OAuth and was looking to play around with some stuff in my homelab to get some more experience.
Ideally, I'd be looking for something which also provides OIDC so I can setup a SSO solution.
This isn't a requirement of my role, but would be useful for me to get hands on with something which is regarded as an industry standard.

Based on my searching, it seems like two good options are Keycloak or Zitadel?
Any suggestions on where I should be put my efforts? Or is it just the same thing didn't tech?

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Job opportunities for OpenShift?

I have 3.4 years of experience below the tech stack. Can you give me any idea about a career in openshift? or should I change to AWS/Azure cloud-related job roles?

Tech stack - Bitbucket, git, Jenkins, maven, Sonarqube, docker, openshift, ServiceNow, and RLM

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