GitHub Actions Development

A lot of my work lately has been around developing better workflows for my team. This involves creating new or improving our existing GitHub Actions. The development process can be such a pain. The actions require so much context that testing locally feels like more work than it’s worth so I end up doing a bunch of pr → merge → observe → adjust cycles to get it into a working state. Anyone have any pointers for making this process more efficient?

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Why no building blocks for ci/cd?

Heya

Somehow everywhere I have worked, so far with github, gitlab, jenkins, bitbucket and azure, the main bits in a ci/cd pipeline were:

- (merge requests were luckily mostly painless)
- check out one or more git repositories
- build artifact
- run tests
- push artifact to some registry
- tag git commit for releases
- push artifact to some environment

and every time I see hundreds or thousands of lines of shell, groovy, javascript, python, powershell etc, all home grown, to achieve the same goals again and again.

What am I missing?

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10 Free Toggle Switches Using HTML and CSS (Free Web UI Elements)

Enhance Your Web UI with Stylish, Customizable Toggle Switches Built with HTML and CSS.

The modern collection of 10 Free Toggle Switches provides design elements which enhance website appearance while remaining free to use. Users can manage settings through responsive toggle switches by pressing once. Here I showcase free accessible source codes which senior juniors and beginner coders would find suitable for their coding projects.

Also Read: Top 10 Image Galleries

Toggle switches serve as vital web components which give interactive elements to enhance website functionality. Open-Source UI libraries use them as standard components to boost user satisfaction.

The integration of toggle switches together with website components enables you to achieve professional design elements. The listed Top 10 totally free Toggle Switches from this article are ready to deploy directly without complexity in customization.

# What are Toggle Switches?

Users can activate or deactivate settings through toggle switches by clicking or tapping once. These same switches function similarly to physical controls that are found in devices such as lamps and computers. The implementation of web toggle switches depends on a combination of HTML elements and CSS which enables users to control their options through visual interactive elements.

# Why We Need Toggle Switches?

The user experience improves when users can operate features such as dark mode and notifications or any binary-based settings through simple toggle switches. Homepage interfaces become more understandable through these design elements that users can easily control for setting changes. The compact switch element makes a significant contribution to creating a website environment that improves both accessibility and usability.

# List of Responsive Toggle Switches

Below is the list of the 10 best open-source Toggle Switches:

1. Modern 3D Biometric Toggle Switch (HTML + CSS)
2. Interactive Toggle Switch (HTML + CSS)
3. Animated Bluetooth Toggle Switch (HTML + CSS)
4. Download Button with Progress Animation (HTML + CSS)
5. Smooth Slide On/Off Text-Based Toggle Switch (HTML + CSS)
6. Simple Green Slider Toggle Switch (HTML + CSS)
7. Responsive 3D Toggle Switch (HTML + CSS)
8. Animated Robot Toggle Switch (HTML + CSS)
9. Retro-Style Power Toggle Switch (HTML + CSS)
10. Modern Toggle Switch with Sun & Moon Animation (HTML + CSS)

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Extremely Scared! I have 5 yr of experience as devops engineer.

I am having 5 yr of experience as DevOps engineer, and my current company also promoted mw to Sr devops, i am the only devops in company and i am terrified changing the job to another company , my skills are very less right now, like i only have basic in aws ,ansible etc etc. How can I overcome this situation Please help with your real experience.

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How much time do you spend on tasks?

I just want to know on average, how much time do you spend on tasks? For example, if there's a task to set up a Prometheus stack, how long does it take, including research & exploration?

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Is My Kubernetes Self-Healing & Security Project a Good Fit for a Computer Engineering Graduation Project?

Hey r/devops & r/kubernetes,

I'm a computer engineering student working on my graduation project (PFE), and I’d love to get some feedback on whether my project idea is solid and valuable.

Project Idea:

I’m building a self-healing Kubernetes infrastructure with enhanced security and observability, optimized for a telecom environment (Tunisie Telecom). The goal is to create a fully open-source solution that integrates:

✅ Self-Healing: Using Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), Node Problem Detector, and potentially a custom self-healing script based on logs.
✅ Security Enhancements: Open Policy Agent (OPA) for policy enforcement, Falco for runtime security monitoring, and Kubernetes RBAC & Network Policies.
✅ Advanced Observability: Prometheus + Grafana for monitoring, plus Fluentd or Loki for logging.
✅ Automation & Resilience: Possibly implementing a Kubernetes Operator or a CI/CD pipeline for auto-recovery.

Why This Project?

Self-healing Kubernetes is crucial for minimizing downtime.

Security is a major concern, especially in telecom environments.

Many DevOps teams struggle with observability, so integrating metrics/logs is valuable.

It’s a hands-on project with real-world applications.


My Questions:

1. Do you think this is a strong project for a computer engineering graduation project?


2. What improvements or additions would make it stand out even more?


3. Is there any recent open-source tool that I should consider integrating?



Would love to hear your thoughts—any feedback is greatly appreciated!


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Any NZ devops here? 20+ years sysadmin/devops guy thinking of relocating from NL to NZ

Hey everyone,

As the title says. I'm a 20+ years of experience devops/sysadmin guy thinking of relocating my family from NL to NZ, we're both working in programming and we have a 2 year old daughter.

I've been working as a freelancer the past 4 years, but I'm not sure what the market would be there for freelancer devs.

Does anyone have any tips for people looking to relocate? I imagine the dev market is also down there as everywhere right now..

He Mihi Maioha!

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Which courses to take for CKA?

It seems certification questions are banned in the k8s subreddit. Sorry to the people who are annoyed by these questions.

For those who takes Mumshad Mannambeth courses for CKA recently, first of all would you recommend Kodecloud or Udemy?



For me the prices are kinda steep on Kodecloud, and I am afraid that I cant review the course in the future for reference after I pass the exam.

The different price tiers is pretty confusing as well, since i cant really tell if i get the necessary courses from the basic subscription.



From what i read the practical labs/ playground are also available on Udemy as well.



Lastly, does anyone know do i need to go through the "Kubernetes for the Absolute Beginners - Hands-on" before the CKA course? I already know docker.



Could you please share your experience and hopefully point me in the right direction?

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DevOps as a fresher

I am currently in 6th semester of my computer science degree. I am interested to learn DevOps but some of the folks I know are saying it's not a fresher thing. Companies don't hire fresher's. I just wanted to know is this true because I have seen some people saying you can get in to DevOps roles as a fresher. If yes please let me know how.

What are the skills I need to learn and feel free to share any resources if you know.

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Looking for beta testers for CTFreak, an IT task scheduler

Hi there!

I am the author of CTFreak, an IT task scheduler with mobile friendly UI dedicated to the concurrent and remote execution of Bash / Powershell / SQL scripts through SSH, (among other things)

I'm finalizing ansible integration for the next release, and I'm looking for a few beta testers that are willing to give some feedback (primarily on ansible integration, of course 😉).

Ansible integration will consist in providing a new type of task dedicated to the execution of an ansible playbook, with the idea of delegating to CTFreak the management of the inventory and the concurrent execution of the playbook on different nodes (which allows to generate a log file per node).

There are a few restrictions to bear in mind regarding the scope of integration:

- Windows nodes are not taken into account

- CTFreak must be installed manually on a Linux server

In exchange for detailed information on your use cases and feedback during the beta phase (which should last 2 to 3 weeks), I'm offering a one-year license on STARTUP Edition.

If any of you are interested, let me know by DM!



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Vent: Am I just stupid or does your work look like this?

I don't know if I'm just way to inexperienced or it is really that complicated.
I need like 5 business days to create AWS infrastructure, Pipelines and change my code (env variables and appsettings) to run on one stages. And there is zero IaC.

I am a Lead Dev for a client project. I have 3 developers in my team.
We are creating a small app with postgreSQL, AWS S3 Bucket, AWS DynamoDB, Backend, Frontend.

But is is so damn much manual labor!



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Requesting Resume review

Hello,
Hope you all are doing great! I’m looking for feedback on my resume before I start applying for roles. I’m unsure which role would be the best fit—while my work falls under the SRE umbrella in my organization, I feel it’s not core SRE.

I primarily work with Grafana, Prometheus, and other ad hoc tasks. I feel I lack technical depth and want to improve. Having been in the same company for six years, I’m now looking to grow and explore new opportunities.

I’d love any suggestions on improving my resume formatting, as well as advice on navigating career growth and life in general. Also, I’d really appreciate insights on what types of roles I should target.

Apologies for any mistakes in this post, and thanks a lot for your time!

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Looking for internships

"Hello everyone! I hope you're all doing well. I am currently learning AWS DevOps and looking for internship opportunities to gain practical experience. If anyone has information about available internships or can guide me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it.”

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Guidance on Using iximiuz Labs for Learning

Hi,

I recently came across iximiuz Labs and am interested in using it to learn technologies like Terraform, Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Grafana etc. However, I’m unsure how to best leverage the platform for hands-on learning.

Could you provide some guidance on its capabilities? Specifically, I’d like to know whether users can build their own labs or if there are predefined environments for practice. Any insights or resources you can share would be greatly appreciated.

Looking forward to your response.

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Ibm nomad

I know that the IBM Hashicorp acquisition has been touched here before but does anyone here have any feelers into the future of Nomad? I've wanted to swap to using it instead of k8s. I tried K8s as a sole dev and I can't handle the maintainence requirements.

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Deploying a MERN Stack Chat App – Open for Collaboration to enhance our soft skills as a team and add projects for our resume

Hey, I'm currently deploying a MERN stack chat app on GCP

Tech Stack:

Infrastructure: Nginx, Docker, Kubernetes: GKE (frontend & backend)

Storage: Google Cloud Storage (for storing sent images)

CI/CD: GitLab CI/CD

IaC: Terraform


Future Enhancements:

Redis (GCP Memory Cache)

SonarQube

Trivy


This is a simple real-time chat app deployment project for practice. If anyone is interested in collaborating, it would be great fun to build together!



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What are you learning this year?

I know I am two months late for this question, but for context, I work as a DevOps lead in a mid-sized company. I have seven years of overall experience. I have worked on Kubernetes and its ecosystem mostly on AWS and on-premises.

I have been thinking of upskilling and am curious to know what is hot in the market.

Should I pursue more certifications on Azure or GCP? Or learn MLOps? Or learn to code like a developer (learn algorithms, etc.)? Or is there something else you feel is a must for a DevOps engineer with seven or more years of experience?

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metrics for self service infrastructure adoption?

What metrics would you use to measure success of a self service infrastructure effort?

Here is what I have: ( sort of adopted from Dora)

Lead Time for Infra Changes
Drift Frequency ( how often are console tweaks happening )
Change Failure Rate
Self-Service Rate

Self service rate being what percentage of infra changes are implemented by the requesting team, and just reviewed and deployed by the infra team. Really that's the big one in my mind.

( I work at Pulumi and am working on some self service best practice documents and looking for feedback. )

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Words of my CEO - „Why hire juniors when single senior with AI can do work of 10-20 of juniors”

Its silly how tides have turned in IT.

Beside offshoring to cheaper countries, AI seems to be the new way to push ppl to do more and more with less staff on the board.

CEO said he literally sees zero reasons to hire junior ppl now. GPT seems to be on a level good enough to replace all of them. AI agents replaced all of our less senior testers, support call centre was replaced by AI call center, junior devs fired and replaced with 1/10 of seniors with AI at hand.

Funny thing is company did not slow down, rather got faster releases, # of issues decreased and overall customer satisfaction went up.

Sad days to be someone starting IT journey or students. You will have to grind mcdonald till you pass mid/senior position check before landing a job soon :/

On the other hand - amazing news for Senior ppl in less expensive countries.

This looks like the times when switchboard phone operators were replaced by a handful of ppl who maintained automatic switchboards. What Elon did to Twitter makes more and more sense whether ppl like it or not.

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What are the best practical tutorials out there?

What are the best practical tutorials out there? Already learned Kubernetes and Docker Swarm, but I am looking to do advanced things with them and other technologies.

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Need to learn infrastructure and deployment tools for job market reasons

I have worked as a web dev since the "pre-DevOps" days, before it was a popular term. Been out of the loop with deploying websites and web applications on a more professional level for a while. I took pause when I learned that Kubernetes is considered basic knowledge now for web dev, and man... I know a bit about using Docker but seems that's not enough anymore. Kubernetes looks like nothing I can compare it to before.

When I started coding professionally, most deployment at work was using (S)FTP. That is a relic in my career now. The moment I stopped using FTP, early 2010's, was also the moment I stopped doing anything with deployment. Everything I've coded in my post-FTP career no longer was my responsibility to deploy to production. I just know how to push to and sync with a private Git staging server and the rest of the pipeline might as well be a black box because "let our team lead handle that".

And I never faced major hiccups so it becomes harder for me to understand how tools such as Ansible or Kubernetes make me go "aha, this is why these tools are used" in a situation outside of work (I am unemployed).

I can use JS/PHP/Ruby for the backend, and a few flavors of SQL. I still think I can be competent at writing business logic for small-scale monolith apps, but deployment with modern tools is a different ball game to me.

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