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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3 Ways to Time Kubernetes Job Duration for Better DevOps

Hey folks,

I wrote up my experience tracking Kubernetes job execution times after spending many hours debugging increasingly slow CronJobs.

I ended up implementing three different approaches depending on access level:

1. Source code modification with Prometheus Pushgateway (when you control the code)

2. Runtime wrapper using a small custom binary (when you can't touch the code)

3. Pure PromQL queries using Kube State Metrics (when all you have is metrics access)

The PromQL recording rules alone saved me hours of troubleshooting.

No more guessing when performance started degrading!

https://developer-friendly.blog/blog/2025/03/03/3-ways-to-time-kubernetes-job-duration-for-better-devops/

Have you all found better ways to track K8s job performance?

Would love to hear what's working in your environments.

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What are the most difficult things you've implemented as a DevOps engineer?

What are the most difficult things you've implemented as a DevOps engineer?

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How Do You Handle Contention in Shared Environments?

When multiple teams share the same env for testing, it's a mess—one team runs tests, another deploys something that breaks everything, and suddenly everyone is stuck debugging someone else’s issue. And don’t even get me started on flaky tests due to unstable environments.

I’ve seen teams try different approaches—better coordination, stricter deployment windows, feature flags, even spinning up ephemeral environments. I recently spoke to a Tech lead in a startup that was using a slack bot to coordinate access to staging.

Curious—how do you deal with this in your org? Would love to hear what’s worked (or failed) for you!

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Is nuttanix used much in the industry?

Hello, looking for some insight into nuttanix https://www.nutanix.com/en\_au \- I'm required to get a cert for this stuff for work. Im sitting at around 4-5YOE in cloud/devops roles but haven't really touched much hybrid cloud or on prem stuff, been pretty much all in AWS.


Is this stuff used much in the industry? I'm deciding how much of my time I want to invest in learning this and if I should go for the advanced certs.


Ran a job search for nuttanix and there was like 2 job postings near me, seems extremely niche.

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How to start a career in devops

Hey everyone. I want to in devops not sure where to start but I started a course on udemy https://www.udemy.com/share/104Xxm3@QDirugWa8rDcVdao4GZ_BWCtwlY6tuN-cHkZqgb8gyM-EwaBIfSscQm2otUm3eaHAQ==/
Currently I am Full stack developer working mostly in frontend. I want to know what should I do so I can land a job in devops


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Requesting Feedback for a blog

Hey everyone! I have started a DevOps blog sharing about the new and interesting things I work on.
Would be very happy to hear feedback from you

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SDET (QA) transition to DevOps

Hello, everyone! I was wondering if it's too hard to jump from SDET position to DevOps.

I have 12+ years of experience working on IT (from FST to Support Eng Sr) and i have 3 years in SDET position, mostly automation. I really love working with pipelines and coding and I'm planning to change position but i'm not entirely sure if that's even possible. In your experience, hace you seen this kind of transitions? Do you recommend it?
Thanks in advance!

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GenAI?

Just curious how many people use GenAI in their jobs? Do you think its a useful tool or frown upon using it? Personally i’ve found it good in terms of speeding up looking at docs, debugging,ask it theory based questions etc

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How does it all go together ?

Hello all

I'm a software developer with a few years of experience getting into devops after my recent firing, yaddayadda. I've been in training since december, seeing K8s, docker, ansible, terraform, jenkins, gitlab, etc etc; some things I already knew and some that are new.

And I'm trying to understand how all that works together.


Example one : there's a web application. N-Tier basic shit, front/back/db; nothing fancy. But for some reason, we have that on azure. So we can generate the VM and other resources with Terraform. And install the required packages/tools with ansible. And automate that with Jenkins or another CI/CD suite.

But how does that go ? Your hook triggers, sees a change, then downloads an entirely different repo with the terraform scripts, then another with the ansible ones; somehow pass the values required from one pipeline to the other (like, say, the IP of the created machines to be ansible inventory); then finally you deploy the application that triggered this pipeline ?


What about containers/dockers ? Do I need ansible for anything else than installing docker runtime on a VM; considering my jenkins pipeline can just as well make an image of my app ?


What about K8s ? I know some of the functionalities, I kinda sorta understand that it can manage a cluster by allocating more or less resources where needed; but how's that actually working with them VM created by our terraform scripts ?



It is a bit confusing to me because our teacher is working on the idea that first he will show us a bad way to do stuff, in order for us to understand why it's actually done differently; but it means I spend my days trying stuff that isn't good practice only to then learn "haha, well yeah, that's why we DON'T do it that way".


I'm sorry if these questions sound dumb or are basic level; my main experience so far was to maintain a bunch of azure devops pipelines so I understand the interest of automating stuff, but it seems to me that there are SO MANY TOOLS it's hard to know which is to be used in a given situation.

Thanks in advance for all your help (or your insults, that's fair game).

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