How many of you fellow devopses actually do meaningful work ?

I'm not talking about "some" work, but actually meaningful work like:

- migrating big important workloads

- solving high scaling issues

- setting up stuff from ground up (tenants for clients that pay a lot)

- managing fleets of k8s clusters

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Recently I joined a team that supports some e-commerce platform, but majority of work is doing small fixes here or there, pay is good and I have a lot of free time, but I'm wondering, how many ppl are doing barely anything like me and how many are doing the heavy lifting.

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Advice on CI/CD setup with GitHub Actions

I'll try to keep this short. We use GitHub as code repository and therefore I decided to use GH action for CI/CD pipelines. I don't have much experience with all the devops stuff but I am currently trying to learn it.

We have multiple services, each in its own repository (this is pretty new, we've had a mono repository before and therefore the following problem didn't exist until now). All of these repos have at least 3 branches: dev, staging and production. Now, I need the following: Whenever I push to staging or production, I want it to basically redeploy to AWS using Kubernetes (with kustomize for segregating the environments).

My intuitive approach was to make a new "infra" repository where I can centrally manage my deployment workflow which basically consists of these steps: Setting up AWS credentials, building images and pushing it to the AWS registry (ECR), applying K8s kustomize which detects the new image and accordingly redeploys them.

I initially thought introducing the infra repo to seperate the concern (business logic vs infra code) and make the infra stuff more reusable would be a great idea, but I realized fast that this come with some issues: The image build process has to take place in the "service repo", because it has to access the Dockerfile. However, the infra process has to take place in the infra repo because this is where I have all my k8s files. Ultimately this somehow leads to a contradiction, because I found out that if I call the infra workflow from the service repository, it will also be executed in the context of the service repo and therefore I don't have access to all the k8s files in the infra repo.

My conclusion is that I would somehow have to make the image build and push in the service repo. Consequently the infra repo must listen to this and somehow gets triggered to do the redeployments. Or should I just checkout another repo?

Sorry if something is misleading - as I said, I am pretty new to devops. I'd appreciate any input from you guys, it's important to me to somehow follow best practices so don't be gentle with me.

Edit: typos

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I Did analysis of DevOps job market for 2025

Hi Folks,

beginning of 2024 I did a pet project and scraped around 700 Linkedin DevOps jobs post. Still had the data and wanted to do smt with it so Yesterday I did compared it to March 2025.

Here are findings coding is required much more than it used to.. Golang went up 13%, Python went up 9% as well as JS.
Hate to say but Jenkins went up idk why but my guess less people work with it and there is a shortage.
there are other things too like certificates are less required now or mentioned (by a lot)

anyway here is the article https://prepare.sh/articles/devops-job-market-trends-2025

I advice you to check it out but just in case you want very minimal version:
TL;DR

Go +13%
Python +9%
Jenkins +6.8% (almost 7%)
Terraform +9%
Flux down, Argo up (slightly)

Certs are mentioned way less than they used to by 15-20%. Everyone seems to got one and they get are saturated.

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How’s MAcbook air M4 for a software engineer

I'm thinking about getting the MacBook Air M4 for my everyday engineering tasks. I don’t do anything too intense—just running web apps, scripts, and a few Docker containers on my local machine. It’s mostly standard DevOps stuff. My work leans more toward DevOps and cloud computing, and I usually run the heavier applications on a remote server.

For those with a MacBook Air, do you think it’s a good fit for my typical workload?

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Best devops tutorials that are equivalent or almost equivalent to actual work experience

In my experience, practical tutorials are the best thing to become ready to take on any job, so I am wondering what are the best practical tutorials for devops.

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Understanding rwx for Users, Groups, and Others — Linux Permission

# Understanding rwx for Users, Groups, and Others — Linux Permission

Check out super easy and simple to understand linux permission, also through numeric [chmod\] https://medium.com/@dospokezarathustra/understanding-rwx-for-users-groups-and-others-linux-permission-12032ac279d3


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Do We Still Need Daily Stand-Ups & Cross-Team Syncs?

With so many tools for async collaboration, do we still need frequent one-on-one syncs between teams, or can automated updates and feedback loops replace them?

Are daily stand-ups and constant check-ins still necessary, or has your team found a better way to collaborate? Would love to hear how different teams handle this!

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Large critical data stores in the cloud

How do you feel about having large critical data stores in the cloud? On site databases allow you to take physical backups and take them off site so you can always recover if necessary however impractical that might be. Although cloud gives you better resilience does that give you full confidence in your ability to recover from any disaster eg bad actor. Is cross account backup sufficient? Do you back up to a different vendor? Or do you still sink the data to on premise storage just in case?

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DevOps Engineers – Please Help With My Graduation Project on Security Scanning Tools!

Hey everyone!

I’m working on my thesis and need your help! I'm conducting a short survey as part of my research to improve security scanning tools for DevOps teams, and I would really appreciate your input.

The survey is focused on understanding your experiences with security scanning tools like Microsoft Defender (for Cloud), Trivy, Snyk, and others within your DevOps pipelines. It includes questions about:

How often you scan container images for vulnerabilities
The tools you currently use for security scanning
The challenges and limitations you face
Your feedback on what improvements would make these tools better

This short survey is part of my graduation assignment, where I’m developing a new security scanner for Azure DevOps, aimed at improving security in DevOps environments. Your input will directly help shape the development of this tool.

Deadline: Please complete the survey by March 25, 2025.

🔗 Take the Survey Here!

Thank you so much for your help! 🙏

Your insights are invaluable for my project and will contribute to making DevOps security tools better for everyone!

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EU SysEleven: has anyone worked with it?

hey devops people,

I may start working in a company which will transition from AWS & Azure to SysEleven, which is some German-based open-source provider which offers managed Kubernetes solutions. This decision is taken already, it's just a matter of implementing it now.

has anybody worked with SysEleven? what's the vibe here? what were some pain points during transitions? any opinion and feedback with your work with it is welcomed.

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What's the best starting point for devops?

Hi there, I started self learning IT a couple months ago, I am fascinated about devops world but I know it is not an entry level position. I already looked at the roadmap so I know that many skills like linux, scripting etc are requested in order to get to that point, and it will surely take some years, but in the meantime is it better to start working as a developer or as a helpdesk/sysadmin? Which one would be more helpful for future devops ?

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DevOps job prospects, EU

For someone who would be fluent in the host nations language and has 5+ years of experience AWS, AZURE etc, how is the job market looking in Germany/Netherlands/Belgium etc. for cybersecurity roles at present? Is there much demand?

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List of YouTube channels about DevOps and Cloud

I am working on a repository on GitHub where I will place references to YouTube channels that teaches about DevOps and everything related to Cloud. In this way, we generate an information bank of video content that is valuable to the community.

In principle, the idea is to provide channels in English and also in Spanish. So, I ask you to please post interesting channels, either in English or Spanish.

In the repository you can do a PR, but I will also be doing my part by posting channels that I think share value. Let's make this post a hub for your favorite DevOps and Cloud channels. You can also contribute new ideas.

The repository is as follows: https://github.com/jersonmartinez/DevOps-YouTube-Channels

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What dev prod metrics are folks actually using?

I've been thinking a lot about how we measure developer productivity and experience (DevEx) at work. There’s the classic DORA and SPACE frameworks, but in reality, it often feels like leadership latches onto things like PR count or velocity, which don't always tell the full story. I was traditionally a big DORA fan myself but I know they all have drawbacks and metrics alone never paint the full picture (though feel free to prove me wrong).

In my experience, the most useful metrics are the ones that help identify blockers and improve flow efficiency—things like time-to-first-feedback or time spent waiting on dependencies. But I’d love to hear from others:

* What dev productivity or DevEx metrics does your team actually track?
* Are they useful, or do they feel like vanity metrics?
* Have they led to any tangible changes in how your team works?

I recently came across [this article](https://thenewstack.io/let-productivity-metrics-and-devex-drive-each-other/) that argues productivity metrics should be used to improve DevEx, not just measure output. But i also kind of think devex is an overly buzzy term/doesnt mean much anymore. IDK.

Curious what DevProd metrics your team tracks/makes you follow. :)

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Ports "seems" to be not exposed

Hi Folks, I'm setting up a devcontainer to work with Salesforce developement.

One of the required cli tools (sf cli) needs access to port 1717 during the authorization of connection with the orgs.

When I try to authorize, the process in terminal stays hanging, as waiting for the callback from the server.

I used EXPOSE in my devcontainer docker file, portsFoward in the devcontainer.json but it still doesn't work.

I noticed in Docker Desktop that port 1717 doesn't show up as exposed, even having all the settings aforementioned in place.

Does anyone have any suggestions?




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Active Directory

What's a good quick and dirty way to learn about AD and LDAP. I support a product that works with AD but my knowledge is piss poor and need to ramp up.

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How to Debug a Node.js Microservice in Kubernetes

Sharing a guide on debugging a Node.js Microservice running in a Kubernetes environment. In a nutshell, it show how to run your service locally while still accessing live cluster resources and context, so you can test and debug without deploying.

https://metalbear.co/guides/how-to-debug-a-nodejs-microservice/

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How is artifactory search so uselsess?

I literally copy the repository path verbatim and paste it into the search bar and it cant find it?? what the actual fuck is it searching? How is it possible to make a search this bad?

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DevOps security architecture

Here is an example of how a secure DevOps architecture diagram can look like when integrating the right tools and following the principles that optimize DevOps implementation into your infrastructures

https://www.clickittech.com/devops/devops-architecture/#h-devops-architecture-diagram-example



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Mobile app for phone-sized screen for viewing traces?

Is there a mobile app for "small screens" (phone sized) for viewing traces?

I have been using OTel tracing in all of my recent projects and don't even need logging anymore - because traces have richer semantics and are easier to "navigate".

I would love to be able to check things "on the go". I already send OTel traces to GCP's Cloud Tracing, and to AWS X-ray. So, if there is a mobile-first frontend for Cloud Tracing or X-ray that would work. A mobile-friendly frontend for any other tracing backend are welcome too!

Something like https://github.com/ymtdzzz/otel-tui but for mobile would work as well - I can self-host the backend part.



Thanks!

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[CFP] Call for Papers – IEEE JCC 2025

Dear Researchers,

We are pleased to announce the **16th** **IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services (JCC 2025)**, which will be held from **July 21-24, 2025**, in **Tucson, Arizona, United States**.

IEEE JCC 2025 is a leading conference focused on the latest developments in cloud computing and services. This conference offers an excellent platform for researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to exchange ideas and share innovative research on cloud technologies, cloud-based applications, and services. We invite high-quality paper submissions on the following topics (but not limited to):

* AI/ML in joint-cloud environments
* AI/ML for Distributed Systems
* Cloud Service Models and Architectures
* Cloud Security and Privacy
* Cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT)
* Data Analytics and Machine Learning in the Cloud
* Cloud Infrastructure and Virtualization
* Cloud Management and Automation
* Cloud Computing for Edge Computing and 5G
* Industry Applications and Case Studies in Cloud Computing

**Paper Submission:**
Please submit your papers via the following link: [https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcc2025](https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcc2025)

**Important Dates:**

* **Paper Submission Deadline:** March 21, 2025
* **Author Notification:** May 8, 2025
* **Final Paper Submission (Camera-ready):** May 18, 2025

For additional details, visit the conference website: [https://conf.researchr.org/track/cisose-2025/jcc-2025](https://conf.researchr.org/track/cisose-2025/jcc-2025)

We look forward to your submissions and valuable contributions to the field of cloud computing and services.

Best regards,
Steering Committee, CISOSE 2025



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