Next.js deployment with CDKTF

Hi everyone!
I've decided to make "mega" project starter.
And stuck with deployment configuration.

I'm using terraform cdk to create deployment scripts to AWS, GCP and Azure for next.js static site.

Can somebody give some advice / review, am I doing it right or missing something important?

Currently I'm surprised that gcp requires cdn for routing and it's not possible to generate tfstate based on infra.
I can't understand, how to share tfstate without commit in git, what is non-secure.

Here is my [repo\](https://github.com/DrBoria/md-starter), infrastructure stuff lies [here\](https://github.com/DrBoria/md-starter/tree/master/apps/infrastructure)

It should works if you'll just follow the steps from readme.

Thanks a lot!

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Is what I’ve been doing devops?

I have been writing a lot of CDK code and maintaining Cloud Formation templates lately, but my background is as a developer. That said, I don’t know anything about maintaining OLAP or AD, nor could I install a drop or a router, nor can I explain if we should use Apache or Nginx, etc. I can write a simple bash script with a lot of help from Google, but that’s about the extent of my skills. Is this what is meant by devops?

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Why use Travis CI and Circle CI when there's Github Actions?

Many (or most) projects are hosted on Github repositories today. But I still come across many public projects using third party CI like Circle CI or Travis CI.

May I know why? Is it because they were used before GitHub Actions was available, and projects are just sticking to whatever already works?

When should one use a external CI service provider?

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Need Career Advice

Hi,
I just completed my second year of college and I'm looking for some career advice. I’m pursuing a Computer Sci degree with a specialization in Cloud Computing, and I'm curious about what kind of role would be fit for me to prepare for. Since this sub has a lot of experienced professionals, I’d really appreciate any insights or advice.

About me:

I’ve built a couple of decent projects (none cloud-related yet)

Currently interning as an SDET-QA intern at a large and well-known product-based company.(I'll try to get cloud experience if I can).


I hope this post fits the sub, apologies if not. Thanks in advance for your time and help!

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What’s one cloud concept you still find confusing—no matter how many times you’ve learned it?

for me, it’s networking.
VPCs, subnets, route tables, NACLs… I get it on paper, but then I’ll hit some weird issue.

Every time I think I understand it, some subtle edge case reminds me I don’t.

Curious if anyone else has their own “cloud kryptonite.”
Is it IAM? Billing? Containers?
What’s that one concept you keep circling back to over and over?

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Roast/Review/Suggest

I need to switch to DevOps roles .
Currently only AWS part is left..plz review and add
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I’ve worked only in cloud, now got a job managing on-prem. What should I expect?

I’ve been working 100% in the cloud (mostly GCP, a bit of AWS) doing DevOps — Kubernetes, CI/CD, load balancers, secrets, autoscaling, the usual stuff.

But I’ve never touched on-prem seriously. I’m curious what’s it like doing infra on physical servers?

I want to understand the reality, trade-offs, and what skills I might need to adapt. Appreciate your thoughts. Thanks in advance!

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Burnout (rant)

I just want to get something off my chest, so feel free to judge me if you want.

I recently had a conversation with my manager about my performance at work. Now I acknowledge that my performance has dipped recently as I am dealing with a toddler and a young baby at home, and my sleep has just been wrecked. I did explain to my manager what is going on and that I am working on fixing the issue, but they want to change my work arrangement to come to the office 5 days a week. I am not sure how that will help if the rest of the team don't go there regularly. I am genuinely considering just quitting. Don't get me wrong, I love my job - I have been doing this for more than 15 years - but my God, some managers really lack empathy.

Maybe I should try freelancing and contract work at least clients don't think they own you. Yeah, the pay may be less and it comes with other annoyances but at least you own your time and keep your sovereignty as a human being not a piece of hardware expected to operate at full capacity at all times

Sorry for the rant, just a burnt out fellow devops dad who needed to get this off his chest.

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AI-DrivenOps Student Seeking Career Advice: Stick to DevOps or Explore More?

Hello everyone,
I recently enrolled in a Computer Science Engineering program with a specialization in AI-DrivenOps. As someone new to this area, I’m eager to understand if this specialization provides strong opportunities for entry-level jobs after graduation.

I would be grateful for your insights on whether this path is sufficient to build a career in DevOps or if gaining prior experience is typically expected. Additionally, I would appreciate any recommendations on what skills, tools, or technologies I should focus on learning right now to enhance my job prospects. If possible, could you kindly suggest reliable resources or websites for building practical DevOps knowledge?

Also, I wonder if it would be wise to simultaneously explore other fields such as full-stack/web development or data science to ensure better job security and wider career options. I sincerely welcome advice from those currently working in the industry or who have recently entered the field. Thank you very much for your time and guidance

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My new job just has me reading documentation and taking certification courses

For context, I'm fresh out of college with a ba in computer science and I got this devops position. My knowledge of Linux, kubernetes, RHEL, and Jenkins is pretty low so my mentor / boss is just telling me to do some self-research. For the past 2 weeks I haven't really done anything besides read documentation and take online self learning courses. I don't have much guidance and I've actually just been doing this on my own as they just told me to learn as much as I can.

There is also a production issue going on that's taking up everyone's time so I know everyone's busy but it's all stuff that's way above my head so they're not even bothering to have me on it.

Is this normal for a junior devops engineer or even just software engineer position?

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Salary transition from Junior to Mid level

Just looking for a bit of advice to what i should realistically aim for, my current salary is around £35000 and for the value i provide want to get £50K. So my question is, is this an unrealistic expectation? If i went somewhere else i don't think i'd have a problem getting it but id ideally like to stay at my current company.

Let me know your thoughts on if this is an outrageous ask im a bit inexperienced in these sorts of salary negotiations so im not sure what to expect so any insight would be appreciated.

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Which DevOps area should I focus on for growth?

Hello! I have been in DevOps field for over 4,5 years. And I have got senior title after 2 years of work, not flexing about that but I am proud of it, I am aware that I am not a pure senior engineer.

I worked with 3 different companies in that period of time, and I am stuck to proceed on which are I should grow. Here is the profiles of the companies that I worked with:
First company: DevOps consultancy company. My team was taking care of almost 10 companies. I had taste of everything (played with maybe 20 different tools) here, and gained 3-4 years of compressed experience in 1,5 years. I worked on almost all DevOps topic, such as on-prem server and k8s cluster management, general AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, LB, EKS...), alerting, logging, monitoring (even nagios lol), CI/CD (Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild), I was dealing with on-calls also, day and night.

Second company: Pure cloud engineering role, managed multiple AWS accounts and did great job on cost optimisation (saved company from annually 150k Euro waste).

Third company: Big insurance company. Managing Jenkins pipelines, software packages, applications on AWS EKS clusters. AWS management over Terraform.

I am aiming to have T shaped knowledge for my career, I can say I have the knowledge for the wide area, but I could not find the area to gain deep knowledge for a future-proof career. Feeling close to AWS+Terraform combo.

What are your advices about my situation? Appreciate all the comments!

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Salary Transition From Junior to Mid

Hi all,

24m here. I’d consider myself comfortably at a mid-level position having joined two years ago at a junior position. I currently earn 37k (my work is unable to increase from this so I am looking to move jobs), and have recently received a job offer for 55k having applied over the past month or two to various jobs.

During this time, I’ve picked up various skills (primarily in Kubernetes), and I’m comfortable with building Helm charts, diagnosing cluster faults, etc. Fairly comfortable with RHEL Linux, Terraform, Ansible, Active Directory, networking, etc. as well.

Conditions are okay, but aren’t quite as good as my current position (pension/more on-site working/no £1k bonus each year/etc.).

I will be the first platform engineer joining this company so I will be setting up all the infrastructure for the software team who currently run their code on some GitLab runners and that’s it.

Is this job worth taking, or should I hold off and continue my search elsewhere?

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Do you need to know the codebase of a company like a software engineer to work as an SRE, or is an SRE more like system administrator?

Can you tell me this? I was wondering. Thank you.

Edit: I'm considering a career as an SRE but I'm a little scared of reading API docs like a software engineer.

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What’s your experience with an incident that you will never forget?


I would like to know your experiences how was the cross-team collaboration handled during the incident war room and what came out of the retrospective

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Differences in DB

Short version... I'm learning k8s right now. My lecture is using the example of using "redis as a DB in memory" > (worker app) > "postgreSQL DB as a persistent"... why can't one DB be used for both sides?


I hope this is just my lack of niche knowledge. My core concept understanding has been going so well

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Unethical question: should I lie about my experience?

Hello,
For the past year or so I’ve been working towards becoming a full time devops engineer (was a system integrator). Made countless projects, took courses, and had some freelance jobs. I even helped the devops team in my old workplace. Unfortunately these do not count, and I always get crossed out before I can prove myself, either by automated systems or HR, for not having the 2-3 years of required experience (this is the standard for junior positions where I live, no one hires without experience, unless you have a degree and even then…). After applying to every position available within 80km (around 100 jobs), I have yet to receive even a phone call.

Is it really that valuable? And if it is, how am I supposed get 2-3 years of experience, when no one hires me? I’m genuinely considering lying about my experience, at this point not even to get a job, just to see if my skills are enough for these positions.
I really don’t want to, and I think honesty and clarity are more important than anything, but I’m getting desperate.

Some people recommended me to take a related position (like sysadmin or sre), and move to devops later, but it takes a long time and it’s still somewhat of a gamble. Plus none of the things that got me interested in devops to begin with are a part of these roles.

What should I do?

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I feel like a tool boy

I've been a devops engineer/SRE for years but lately got stuck. I've got chances to work with many toolchains: bootstraping kubernetes, build CI/CD: gitlabCI, github actions, argo, implement IaC with terraform, secret manage ment, use cloud (AWS), etc. I've learnt so many tooling practices. But lately i realized I don't really inderstand what's under the hood, what is the exact capacity of the infra, the parameters of db, redis... that we have to tune. Also I don't understand the biz that's running on my infra. I can hardly excel in operation. Anyone feel the same? Please give me some advice to grow.

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needs help in integrating two services using key pair auth via git actions

anyone here ever integrated two services especially graphana and snowflake with key pair auth via git actions?

please let me know any information or doc you can share if you know or worked on this shit

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HIRING SRE Intern @ Fintech Company (Bangalore - India) 2025

Hey folks!
We're hiring an SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) Intern at a leading Fintech Company for 2025. If you're passionate about automation, reliability, and large-scale systems – this might be a great fit!

📍 Location: Bangalore - India (In-office)
🕒 Duration: 4-6 months (flexible start date, ideally June/July)
🎓 Who can apply: Final year B.Tech / M.Tech / MCA students or recent grads with a strong background in systems, infrastructure, or devops
💼 What You'll Work On:
Building automation to reduce toil in operations
Writing scripts and tools for service monitoring and alerting
Helping improve uptime and performance for distributed systems
Working with experienced SREs to improve system resilience and productivity

🛠️ What We're Looking For:
Strong Linux fundamentals & scripting (Python, Bash, Go preferred)
Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools and CI/CD pipelines
Eagerness to learn and contribute to real-world production systems
Previous project/internship experience in backend, devops, or infrastructure is a plus

📧 How to Apply:
DM me your resume. We'll review and get in touch with you quickly.

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"use AI, improve your productivity by 20%!" - meanwhile, a layoff org chart that cuts 50% of engineering including all non-seniors was found.

awful leadership, the worst decisions and lack of actual impact on the company that I've ever seen.

of course, they're still on the org chart post-layoffs :)

and as someone who uses those tools, I know they can't do the job, I know a couple seniors can't do the job of everyone magically with those tools, and I know the problem is not productivity but the terrible management without any clue about what we do.

I've been interviewing for a couple months now, companies all look for the exact tools they're using in the exact configuration they've set them up - no matter if you have 15+ years of experience with everything under the sun and a track record of becoming the go-to for any new thing after a month of working with it.

anyway, senior infrastructure engineer looking for an EU remote position, based in France. hit me up if you need someone who does good work on anything, but especially kubernetes.

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