Staying at a job too long?

The general advice I've heard throughout my life is that you should stick with a company 2 years and then job hop to increase your salary, but I think it's more than this. I think if you stay at a company too long, you run the risk of becoming complacent with the technology, your skills, and exposure in general.

I've worked at multiple companies in my life, and have noticed completely different ways of working. Different ways of setting up technology and architecture for solutions.

I am currently working at a company where there is an engineer who has been doing this type of work for 20 years - Been with our company for 10 of those years. I would have thought that he would have a wealth of knowledge on things, but he doesn't. He knows how to resolve very specific issues which occur with our infrastructure. But whenever we have been asked to setup new services, he's completely lost, and often recommends solutions which aren't great - such as hosting databases on EC2 instances (sole reason being that he knows how that works over RDS).
But this isn't the first I've noticed something like this. There have been a few cases from companies where I've been at where I've noticed people who are very complacent with their specific set of technology.

My post here isn't actually to attack individuals who are like this. But instead an advocacy where I think it is actually advantageous to move companies frequently, and if you're new to DevOps, and you're in the early period of your career, I'd maybe even suggest earlier than every 2 years.
My current company has horrible practices with things. There is chaos and disorder with our workflows. However, it is only through being with prior companies and seeing different approaches to work, that I feel confident about there being better alternatives.
If you are new to DevOps, and this is the environment you are first exposed to, then it's a terrible foundation to learn.





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If you're new to devops, heres a guide on docker and kubernetes

https://youtu.be/9BGnYHQv-dY

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What is platform engineering?

Hey guys,

So I've been in DevOps sine last 3 years and I've been reading this word "Platform Engineering" many times throughout various articles.

Can someone shed some light on the same? And how can someone from DevOps background switch to it?

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Email Spam Project

We are a SAAS company and a lot of our customers use our cloud infrastructure to send emails to their customers (around 3-4 million a day).

A lot of those customers have been misusing our services and sending a lot of spam which is damaging our IP reputation.

We are currently trying to figure out either to build our own custom solution or use a 3rd party tool.

Is there a 3rd party tool in the market that can help us out?

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Data Science related Ops

Im interested in courses that are worth a demn and can prepare you for data processing platforms.

Best if HIPAA applicable data processing course. How to maintain such platform, which tools are most commonly used, links with self-study and/or homeworks.

I would like to pivot from DevOps into MLOps or Data Processing Operations.

There seems to be a ton of content on the web, but most likely majority of it is SEO garbage and not worth my time. Someone experienced probably can distinguish.

Maybe someone in the field could point me to something worth checking that will really teach me something or certs that you did look into and were worth the time ?

(Im just short on time and have to correctly pick what to learn).

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Best course for GPC Professional Cloud Architect Exam?

Hello, i am preparing for the GCP professional exam directly, please suggest me some good paid courses and exam practices .

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Use-Case Hands-On Project: Docker Container Best Practices

A new use-case hands-on project has been added to the FREE Dynamic DevOps Roadmap.

!Docker Container Best Practices

Docker Container Best Practices.

It's part of a bigger end-to-end hands-on project that touchs many aspects of the real-world DevOps task.

Happy DevOpsing ♾️

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Workaround/alternative for gated deployments in GitHub actions?

Is there an alternative/walkaround that simulates a manual step to approve the next step in the workflow? The official way of doing it is by adding required reviewers to the environment protection rule, but that feature is available only under the GitHub Enterprise plan. Is there a workaround that enables you to have a manual gate, but it is available under lower-tier plans?

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Grafana Oncall is deprecated

Grafana announced today that they're deprecating Grafana Oncall. The cloudification trend continues.
Blog post: https://grafana.com/blog/2025/03/11/oncall-management-incident-response-grafana-cloud-irm/

I've been a big advocate for Grafana OSS for years, but it's getting harder to justify. With the deprecation of Grafana Alert, Grafana Agent, and its Operator, old Kubernetes app, not to mention the issues with Loki Helm charts and migrations, sticking with their OSS stack is becoming a challenge.

Glad I didn’t dive into Grafana Phlare, lol. Unless you're using their SaaS offerings, it feels like the OSS effort just isn’t worth it anymore.

Hope others didn’t get burned by this shift.

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My Final Work: AmICompatible - A Cross-Platform Compatibility Testing Tool

Hello everyone,

I recently finished my final work and wanted to share it with you all.
It's a tool that automatically tests software compatibility across different platforms: Whether you're checking if a simple script runs on all Linux distributions or validating enterprise-level applications.

I highly recommend working on projects like this, especially for anyone looking to become a DevOps engineer or get into automation. It’s fun to build and teaches you a lot, especially about topics schools don’t usually cover, like Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Check out the project on GitHub: https://github.com/IGLADI/AmICompatible

Hope it can be useful to anyone out there and let me know if you have any feedback.

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I am fresher and is Devops / sre are safe career for me

I am fresher doing Devops internship at the startup, i mostly working with Kubernetes and monitoring infra with signoz, there is not much workload in my organisation, despite of resolving alerts, I am confused that whether this job is good for me in the term of growth like, I have this internship till July and after that most probably I need to search another job so the point is is Devops good career for fresher

For reference of my capabilities this is my resume

bit.ly/yashbhangaleresume1

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Anyone actually using Woodpecker CI?

Jerkins definitely has the advantage of being well known and having a path that is well traversed. However, I feels a bit heavy and old. I came across Woodpecker CI the other day and it seems much more modern and light. It started as a fork of Drone and has a small but growing community.

For those who have tried it, how did it go? Is it something that is worth using or is there something better? Are there any major downsides I need to be aware off?

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How to describe my ansible skills in resume?

My main job was to configure small form factor servers from scratch. I used a bootable Debian preseed ISO to install the OS and then used the DHCP IP address after OS was installed to configure the server. The server was then shipped to different sites across country.

SSH configuration
Installation of necessary debian packages
Configure unattended upgrades
Configure network with a particular IP scheme
Configure NTP
Install docker and build the containers.
Change passwords,
Create cron jobs etc.

This was an unusual case of using ansible due to business needs. It varied from what I learnt in RHCE where VMs are configured and a desired state is maintained.

I am looking for a new job and want to highlight my ansible skills.

To do the above project I used the following skills or gained knowledge in the areas.

Ansible Automation:

\- Used Debian pre-seeding and Ansible to automate server builds.

Understand configuration file precedence and the available directives such as privilege escalation, connection etc.
Understand difference between ad-hoc commands, task, play, playbook, roles.
Know different modules from documentation to accomplish a task.
Understand the difference between host_vars, group_vars, magic variables and variable precedence.
Understand ansible fact structure and retrieve required values.
Implement task control using loops, conditional tasks.
Create idempotent tasks to the extent possible and prevent unnecessary task executions.
Manage task errors using failure conditions.

Do you think this is too much detail just on Ansible? How can I streamline it?

For some background, I am looking for junior devops position and Ansible is the my main skill. I have 3 years of experience with Linux administration, networking, M365, Windows Admin and more. Certs wise, I have RHCSA and about to take RHCE. I have some AWS experience and in the process of getting SAA cert. Also trying to improve my bash, python and docker skills.

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Is It Normal If Your Manager Is Asking ETA for Research Tasks As Well!?

I mean how can you quote a time if you're learning and implementing that technology for the first time, let me know if you also seen same in your organization!?

Thanks!

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Is this a practical career path for Cloud & DevOps Engineering?

Hey everyone,

I’m currently pursuing a BSc in Information Systems and planning my career path toward DevOps Engineering. My goal is to start as a Cloud Support Associate, transition into a Cloud Engineer, and then move into DevOps Engineering. Eventually, I’d like to progress into higher-level roles like DevOps Architect and beyond.

I want to know whether this is a practical path globally and if there are better approaches to breaking into DevOps.

# A few questions for professionals in the field:

Is starting as a Cloud Support Associate a good entry point for Cloud/DevOps?
Are there faster or better ways to transition into DevOps?
Which certifications or skills should I focus on early in my career?
Any advice for landing a good internship or first job in Cloud/DevOps?

I’d love to hear from those who have followed a similar path or work in the industry. Any insights or recommendations would be much appreciated! 🙌

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Simple Open Source AI Content Generator Tool with AWS Bedrock Llama 3.1 405B

I created simple open source AI Content Generator tool. Tool using AWS Bedrock Service - Llama 3.1 405B

to give AI generated score,
to analyze and explain how much input text is AI generated.

There are many posts that are completely generated by AI. I have seen many AI content detector software on the internet, but frankly I don't like any of them because they don't properly describe the AI detected patterns. They produce low quality results. To show how simple it is and how effective Prompt Template is, I developed an Open Source AI Content Detector App. There are demo GIFs that shows how to work in the link.

GitHub Link: **https://github.com/omerbsezer/AI-Content-Detector**

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Devops consultant in Deloitte USI

Can anyone working there tell me if it’s worth it ? Their offer and perks really attract me but I’ve been hearing overwhelmingly negative reviews about them. If I look past that the thing some people mention is that it’s hard to find a project to get yourself assigned into basically putting yourself through another job hunt after you’ve secured the actual job.

Could anyone confirm the same please ? The thing is consultants mostly require 3 years minimum while I was hired with just having 2.5 plus I’ve never bothered to take any certs as all of my previous orgs never required certs for me to prove my skills.

So considering all this would it hard for me to actually get assigned to projects ?

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Terraform vs Pulumi vs SST - A tradeoffs analysis

I've been looking a lot at the different options we have for IaC tools lately. After experiencing and researching for a while, I've decided to summarize my experience in a blog article, which you can find here: https://www.gautierblandin.com/articles/terraform-pulumi-sst-tradeoff-analysis.

I hope you find it interesting !

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Did any of you switch from DevOps to data engineering?

Hello friends!

Short summary: Started my career in tech 7 years ago with hopes of slowly carving a career path in DevOps, but considering my passion for data, I now have the knowledge (cloud, productionising deployment, IAC, etc. ) and opportunities to do a slow lateral move into data engineering.

Question: Not an expert in the field, but got my hands dirty with a few data pipelines in AWS and want to switch from DevOps before I find my self under the rubble. I have no grievances with the field per se, just an idiot manager who believes DevOps is a label to get the employee to do more with less. Have any of you done something similar? If so what resources and pace (asking if it’s an overly ambitious move?) do you recommend?

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How the hell do you do Semver with TBD? When do you tag?

I'm really struggling with this

When do you actually tag? Whether it's your container image, commit or any artifact.

Here is what I think should happen :

|Stage|Tests|Deploy reference|
|:-|:-|:-|
||
|local dev (developer's laptop, live env, hot reload, no pipeline)|unit tests|no pipeline deploy|
|integration|unit tests / integration tests|deploy using pipeline with commit hash ex: fec80bd (or latest?)|
|testing|end to end tests|deploy using pipeline with commit hash ex: fec80bd (or latest?)|
|staging||1.0.1|
|production||1.0.1|

I'm trying out Kargo with ArgoCD and what bugs me out is that in their quickstart example they start by deploying to a dev environment a Docker image with a tag that already have a semver tag.

But you would not do semver on EVERY COMMIT right? Only those considered valid, thus releasable?

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Software developer intern who will be doing some DevOps work

Hello everyone, I'm a bit scared tomorrow I will be going at the office to finalise the paperworks with the CTO. From the interview I did I know I will be doing Vue.js - PHP - Laravel - Docker - CI/CD with CircleCI
I have no experience with Vue.js, Laravel and CI/CD.
I know some Docker basics like pulling image, running command inside container ect...
Anything I can ask them to make my learning a bit easier as I will have like 1 month before I officially start. I'm already researching and learning from docs ect... but I'm not confident at all.
I need some advice I'm quite lost here.

Thank you everyone!

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