Multiple environments in under the same user.

I used to have the admin power to create multiple users on my mac. I like to switch user to work on separate projects/accounts because I have the environment setup just for them. My terminal indicates what project I am working on, what EKS cluster I am under, etc... How do you guys manage to switch to different env under the same username? Is there a tool out there to accomplish this?

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First A2A Use Case for Devs — Sync GitHub, Calendar, Doc & Slack Automatically

Hey there

We’re building the **first real Agent2Agent (A2A) use case for developers** — not just another personal AI assistant, but actual *multi-agent coordination* that syncs your dev workflow without manual input.

What it does:

* **Sync GitHub activity**: Agents pull your commits, PRs, and issues
* **Auto-schedule focus time**: Calendar agent plans smart blocks around your priorities
* **Remind you where it matters**: Another agent pings you via Slack/email — “You haven’t committed in 3 days” or “Focus block for PR review starts soon"
* **Update your docs**: Agents detect relevant changes and help auto-update project documentation

Why it matters: A2A systems are the next leap after AI copilots — instead of giving you suggestions, they collaborate behind the scenes to get stuff done.

We’d love to get your feedback:

* Would you use something like this to try A2A?
* What use case would *you* automate first?
* What’s missing for this to be useful in your week?

Thanks in advance — open to all feedback!

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Started 30 Days 30 DevOps Project - Day 1

Started this to push myself with working projects. Will update you guys along the way. Primary focus is on Kubernetes and Docker Containerisation with CI/CD.

Day 1: CI/CD DevOps Pipeline Project: Deployment of Java Application on Kubernetes

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Best ways to reducing cloud costs?

Besides having good architecture from the start, and stopping short of redesigning it..

How are companies reducing cloud hosting and monitoring costs these days?

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Ai debugging, troubleshooting

AI, debugging and troubleshooting

Hello,
I’m Junior Devops (2months exp without previous it exp). I use AI to explaining me tasks, debugging and troubleshooting. I use it to keep up with complexity of project (i know only basics about terraform, azure, powrrshell) is it good approach ? I know it would be better to Google or something but to be honest i need to keep up and they don’t give me tasks for juniors (XD when i wrote powrshell with claude, and they saw it they said that they could not make it themself because they thought its easy task but after time they saw thats really hard but i have almost finished it with help of ai and explanation) do You have some resources with short tasks to learn troubleshooting and debugging (what do you Think about sadservers?). Where i can learn how to read logs ? Or something ?

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I made an API that automates the art of avoiding responsibility [OC]

Tired of saying "it works on my machine"? Meet Blame-as-a-Service: the API that turns "my bad" into "cosmic rays hit the server."

Some masterpieces it has generated:

* "Mercury is in retrograde, which affected our database queries"
* "The intern thought 'rm -rf /' was a cleaning command"
* "Our AI pair programmer became sentient and decided it didn't like that feature"

Now I can break the build with confidence.

[https://github.com/sbmagar13/blame-as-a-service](https://github.com/sbmagar13/blame-as-a-service)

**Edit:** *This post was written by my cat walking across the keyboard.*

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Preparing for My First DevOps Interview – What Should I Expect as a Fresher?

I have my first DevOps interview scheduled for next week, and I’m both excited and a bit anxious. As someone who’s just starting out, I’ve been learning the basics—Linux, shell scripting, CI/CD pipelines, version control, and cloud fundamentals—but I’m unsure about the depth and type of questions that are typically asked for a fresher DevOps role.
If you’ve been through the process recently or have experience interviewing freshers, I’d really appreciate your insights:
•What kind of technical questions should I expect?
•Are there common tools or concepts interviewers generally focus on?
•How important are scripting and problem-solving skills at this stage?
•Any non-technical areas I should prepare for?

I’m genuinely passionate about DevOps and eager to learn and grow in this field. Any tips, experiences, or resources you can share would mean a lot.

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Did we get scammed?

We hired someone at my work a couple months back. For a DevOps-y role. Nominally software engineer. Put them through a lot of the interview questions we give to devs. They aced it. Never seen a better interview. We hired them. Now, their work output is abysmal. They seem to have lied to us about working on a set of tasks for a project and basically made no progress in the span of weeks. I don't think it is an onboarding issue, we gave them plenty of time to get situated and familiar with our environment, I don't think it is a communication issue, we were very clear on what we expected.

But they just... didn't do anything. My question is: is this some sort of scam in the industry, where someone just tries to get hired then does no work and gets fired a couple months later? This person has an immigrant visa for reference.

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Restrict org creation

Hello
Can a azure global admin modify the azure devops policy to prevent new organizations creation or do I need the devops admin role?

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What to expect from setting up Backstage

At my company we have a team that is working with 6 FTE on setting up Backstage. They hired some capable developers to work this out.

We have a varied landscape but it’s not super complicated to integrate with. There are some pipeline building blocks for hard to access services and self service forms in service now. Apart from that we have Azure, Azure DevOps and AWS, and quite some software running on Kubernetes.

This team is currently working for over 18 months and so far have not gone really live with it. There is basic integration with Entra ID over a plug-in, the same with Azure DevOps also over a plug-in, there are a couple of paved roads that basically scaffold you a repository with a bunch of code to own in a preselected framework, e.g. nextJS, and there is no integration with Kubernetes or CrossPlane. There is a nice GUI that is basically empty. There is no further content and it’s unfortunately barely used at the moment.

All of this really made me wonder about Backstage as a framework. When reading the docs this seems simple enough to set up. Is embracing Backstage really so time consuming? Are there serious flaws in the framework or philosophy? How was Backstage used in your company or department, if it was embraced at all, and what value did it bring you? This information might help me understand why it’s worth the effort in continuing this implementation and what as a developer I could get out of a Backstage implementation myself.

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My first app on Glide. Good idea?

Hi! I just came up with an idea for a Q&A app, and although I have zero experience in app development, I do know a bit about programming in other languages since I’m a Data Analyst. My question is: is starting with Glide a good idea for the beta phase of the project, or do you have any recommendations?

Anything else I should consider? I’m currently in the planning and design phase of my app.

Thanks in advance and best regards.

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Getting to the final round of interviews only to be passed over for the other candidate feels bad.

I didn't receive any particular feedback that said why, but if I had to guess it's because I'm in a larger city, where the cost of living necessitates a higher salary so I was asking for the higher end of what they were offering. But that's pure speculation. Could be the other candidate was just more qualified too.

Either way, it sucks. I've been out of work for months trying to find something. I really, REALLY don't want to work for defense contractors, but they're some of the only people in my state that are hiring and paying, and it's also mostly in-office (or all in-office).

I'll just keep looking until I find something, but yeah feelsbadman

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How do you approach opentelemetry traces, metrics and logs for Local/CI envs in your day-to-day work? Looking to exchange experiences.

Hello Folks,

I'm working in a project and I'm helping the team to instrument the services in way that it can help the devs to get more insight about what their code is doing and also OPS teams to get understanding on what is happening on the CI side from time to time.

Of course I could just push the money printer button and just use Datadog or something similar, but I'm thinking about the dev experience using local (opensource) tools.

In the past, I've used the following tools:

* OpenSearch: dataprepper + opensearch, requires one configuration file but you get hit by \~1.5GB memory usage;
* Grafana Labs: Grafana +Alloy + Tempo + Loki + Prometheus works but requires more configuration.

The thing is: when something fails, devs have problems to identify what component or microservice that is part the observability stack failed, some doesnt even knows that something is not working.

So I'm trying to improve the situation above and of course, maybe someone can call it hair splitting ... but currently I maybe found the most lightweight setup that I could've ask:

* davetron5000/otel-desktop-viewer + prometheus + dozzle: prometheus has now an otlp receiver and the otel-desktop-viewer is simple: no need to setup otelcol or something else. Dozzle for logs.

The solution above doesn't have any kind of correlation but its really light weight: if you can't see the traces interface, recreate the container; same goes for prometheus metrics.

With the above in mind, I'd like to ask:

What is the toolset that you employ to the scenario above? What do you like more about it?

Thanks in advance.

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Common pattern of success.

Good evening, fellow engineers.

Tonight I’ve been reflecting on everything that’s been happening to me and of course I know I’m not alone. Every one of us has a story. Joy, pain, burnout, moments of pride, periods of depression, wins and losses. Life hits us all.
So here’s my honest question to the truly SUCCESSFUL, GROUNDED, and BRILLIANT engineers in this space:
What’s your recipe? What keeps you moving forward even when mentally, emotionally, or spiritually you’re completely drained with all kind of life circumstances- family, society etc.

I’m not some kid with wide-eyed wonder asking a feel-good, cliche question. I’m an adult who’s been in and still is in a never-ending grind. But at some point, I just have to ask: how? What’s the actual difference between someone who breaks through and someone who stays stuck, looping in the same spiral for years?

Let’s put aside the motivational quotes and hustle porn etc. There must be something real, something practical and shared that unites those who consistently get through the fog and stay on the path.

So what are your biggest struggles when it comes to your career? How do you overcome them day in, day out? What patterns or mindsets you guys have that actually move you forward?

P.S to folks with high sense of humor: I’m all for humor and good energy, but this one matters so pls let’s keep it real. This could genuinely help a lot of people who are stuck in silence right now.

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Devops projects

Can you guys please help me with some of the best projects that I can add in my resume as I am from testing background.
I want to do 30 days 30 projects .

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What would be your next step?

Some background: I've got about 11 years of experience running or leading software projects in different areas, from small business automation to 2 start-ups and now also close to 3 years experience as a python/django developer. When I left my most recent start-up, I was hired as a developer, and after 3 months, got a new head of department, and my role changed to be more DevOps. The next 3 months I worked on migrating 3 projects from Linode server to K8s, and then also upgraded several parts of the existing k8s infrastructure from k8s secrets to GCP Secrets Manager.

All this work went well and I learnt loads. My work is in production, so I must have done something right.

However, last week, I got fired. No prior indication in 1:1 meetings that anything was wrong. The reason I was given is that the role I was in is very technical, and the ratio of my experience is the wrong way round. (They want it to be more 11 years as developer IC and 3 years managing projects)


I really enjoy working as an IC, and especially enjoy the K8s/DevOps side of things. I've been looking at applying for technical project management roles, but that seems like it would take me completely out of the IC or DevOps side of things. On the other hand I am not sure what type of role to go for next, where my experience won't end up counting against me again.

UK based.

Appreciate your thoughts.

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Optimising OpenTelemetry pipelines to cut observability vendor costs with filtering, sampling etc

If you’re using a managed observability vendor and not self-hosting, rising ingestion and storage costs can quickly become a major issue, specially as your telemetry volume grows.

Here are a few approaches I’ve implemented to reduce telemetry noise and control costs in OpenTelemetry pipelines:

Filtering health check traffic: Drop spans and logs from periodic `/health` or `/ready` endpoints using the OTel Collector `filterprocessor`.
Trace sampling: Apply tail-based or probabilistic sampling to reduce high-volume, low-signal traces (e.g., homepage GET requests) while retaining statistically meaningful coverage.
Log severity filtering: Drop low-severity (`DEBUG`) logs in production pipelines, keeping only `INFO` and above.
Vendor ingest controls: Use backend features like SigNoz Ingest Guard, Datadog Logging Without Limits, or Splunk Ingest Actions to cap ingestion rates and manage surges at the source.

I’ve written a detailed blog that covers how to identify observability noise, implement these strategies, including solid OTel Collector config examples.

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Is it just me, or the demand for DevSecOps / Cloud Security sucks right now ? Based in Netherlands

Hey guys,

I've recently been working DevSecOps / Cloud Security for a couple of years, based out of Netherlands. Mostly have experience in AWS, but starting to work in GCP

Recently I was searching for opportunities on LinkedIn, and it seems that they're super hard to come by. I can see a lot of opportunities for DevOps people, but its like no one wants a DevOps person dedicated to security

I've seen some which either requires a 6 - 7 years of experience, with someone who has experience on every cloud based technology under the sun or they want no one

Also, I'm not sure if its just the market in NL, but it seems like a lot of companies have their infra in Azure, so every other DevOps / DevSecOps opportunities mentions their tooling. Companies with their infra in AWS seem really far & in between

So I wanted to come on here & ask other engineers, that is it just my experience or is my experience similar to yours ?

Also, any other pointers about the DevOps market in NL would be helpful

Thank you !

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Junior DevOps role

Hello guys i am in the IT field for 4 years working as Network Security Administrator , and for some time now i want to migrate to DevOps team . I have started self studying the necessary technologies for this role, and my question to you what are my chances to start in such a role with NO previous experience in Development or Operations . At this point i am good with Linux and Python/Bash scripts and have some basic knowledge and hands-on with Docker , K8S , and Terraform . Just wondering if i have some realistic chances to het hired , thanks in advance !

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Any tips & tricks to reduce Datadog logging costs in volatile environments?

If log volumes and usage patterns are volatile, what are the best ways to tame Datadog bills for log management? Agressive filtering and minimal retention of indexed logs isn't the solution apparently. The problem here is to find and maintain adequate balance between signal and noise.

Folks, has anybody run into smth like this and how have you solved it?

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Kubernetes 1.33 brings in-place Pod resource resizing (finally!)

Kubernetes 1.33 just dropped with a feature many of us have been waiting for - in-place Pod vertical scaling in beta, enabled by default!

What is it? You can now change CPU and memory resources for running Pods without restarting them. Previously, any resource change required Pod recreation.

Why it matters:

No more Pod restart roulette for resource adjustments
Stateful applications stay up during scaling
Live resizing without service interruption
Much smoother path for vertical scaling workflows

I've written a detailed post with a hands-on demo showing how to resize Pod resources without restarts. The demo is super simple - just copy, paste, and watch the magic happen.

Medium Post

Check it out if you're interested in the technical details, limitations, and future integration with VPA!

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