Go-to Salesforce DevOps tool?

Hey guys! Part of a small team trying to streamline our Salesforce deployment process. Been juggling multiple sandboxes and regular audit requirements, and honestly so frustrated with change sets.


Looked into some of the usual names like Copado and Gearset but some of the pricing/models feel like more than we need. Been testing out some lighter git-based tools (tried Blue Canvas recently and it's been solid so far) but I haven't seen many people here talk about Salesforce-specific pipelines so thought it was worth a shot to ask.

Just wondering if anyone else here is managing devops on Salesforce and what tools or workflows you're using (especially around version control, rollback, or minimizing production issues).

Would love to hear what has (and hasn't) worked for you.

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If not devops then what to do as fresher?

I posted a reddit post few days ago regarding devops . If devops engineer post requires experienced professionals then what are the other job roles (not the saturated ones) i should study for to get a job as fresher. I have good understanding of networking,OS,linux,git,docker . I am trying to get a job in 6-7 months in europe.


Please drop some advice it would be beneficial.

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spent 3 hours fixing a UI glitch… only to realise my browser zoom was at 110%

was working on a layout that looked totally broken, text misaligned, buttons overflowing
tried tweaking flexbox, margins, paddings, even rewrote chunks of the css
still broken

asked Chatgpt, deepseek, blackbox ai, gemini and what not, got frekin clever suggestions
none of it worked

finally I opened it on my phone, and it looked perfect
checked my laptop's browser settings… zoom was at 110%! 🤦
reset to 100%, layout was totally fine

3 hours gone because of zoom
now ctrl + 0 is the first thing I type before opening my browser when vs code is open

Dev life is wild, anyone else lost time to this kind of dumb stuff?

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I’m the only DevOps engineer at my startup — underpaid and overwhelmed. Need advice.

Hey folks,

I joined a startup about a year ago, fresh out of college, and somehow became the only DevOps engineer on the team. Since then, I’ve been handling everything, including:

End-to-end deployments

Infrastructure setup and maintenance

Production migrations

Monitoring, alerting, and incident handling

Writing and maintaining internal documentation

Managing SOC2 compliance and security reviews

Supporting releases and hotfixes, even during weekends


I report directly to the CTO. There’s no one above or alongside me in DevOps — I’ve been solo from the start. They've tried hiring more experienced engineers, but none have stuck around.

Despite the level of responsibility, I’m getting paid less than what interns/freshers typically earn at big tech companies. I stayed this long for the learning experience, but it’s becoming unsustainable. I’m also preparing for the CKA certification and trying to upskill constantly.

Given this setup and responsibility, what should I realistically expect to be paid?
How do I approach this conversation without sounding entitled, especially as a fresher?

Would love insights from others who’ve worked in early-stage startups or been in similar roles.

Thanks!

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Haproxy ingress is throttling based on IP

Okay so I'm putting this out here for anyone that needs it in the future, because I couldn't find any documentation for it.

One of my apps requires people to upload large chunks of data, they usually do it in a row from the same computer.

It was working fine until we were migrating to haproxy form nginx.

After uploading roughly 1 GB of data, the upload would be throttled to a painstaking slow speed.

I couldn't find a solution, and migrating back to nginx for this app solved the issue immediately.

The throttling is done by default, I didn't change anything.

Just in case someone out there a year from now had trichotillomania because of something similar, and wants to know why

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Contribute! Open Source DevOps Resource Hub – Looking for Contributors (Frontend, Docs, and More)

I maintain an open source project called DevOps – Learn by Doing, which curates hands-on, practical DevOps and SRE resources. I’ve just opened several beginner-friendly issues for anyone interested in contributing, whether you want to help with the static website, documentation, link validation, or resource curation.

No prior OSS experience required—happy to help onboard anyone new!

Issues link: https://github.com/dth99/DevOps-Learn-By-Doing/issues

If you’re interested, check out the issues or drop a comment/DM. All contributions and feedback welcome—let’s make DevOps learning more accessible together!




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AI code is creating so many bugs - fighting fire with fire.

Disclaimer: Im a data scientist and building an open source tool in my spare time to reduce production bugs - i'm linking to the GitHub for those interested.

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I got thrown onto a project where I had to set up infra in Azure and keep things running smoothly. Spoiler: It was my first time and was massively out of my depth.

To make things worse, junior devs were pumping out PRs full of LLM-generated code - massive changes, minimal oversight. Pressure to ship meant PR reviews got rubber-stamped, testing became a checkbox, and guess what? Bugs flooded into prod.

(In retro, better review processes are the solution but that is not always possible).

Suddenly I was the one expected to fix everything. Azure’s native logs were a nightmare to work with, and the project was too small to justify spinning up something heavy like Datadog or Grafana.

So I built my own thingy - a lightweight tool to help me parse logs with LLMs, raise issues, and make sense of what the hell was going wrong. It saved me a heap of time and avoided scrambling round in ugly log tables.

It's far from perfect - but it's a start!

It’s open source and works with Loki/Prometheus/K8. Would love brutal feedback if anyone checks it out or has faced similar firestorms.

GitHub: https://github.com/dingus-technology/CHAT-WITH-LOGS

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DevOps toolchains keep getting messier, do you feel the same?

I’m working on a project focused on simplifying cloud infrastructure management, and one thing I keep noticing is how fragmented the toolchains have become.

While trying to explain the problem to colleagues and stakeholders, I sketched out two common scenarios:

The first one: every stage of the DevOps cycle (CI, CD, IaC, monitoring, policy, etc.) has its own tool. Jenkins here, Terraform there, Prometheus, New Relic, a hundred custom pipelines and scripts. Each team ends up gluing things together their own way.

The second one: Ops is centralized. Infrastructure is managed as reusable, standardized building blocks. Dev teams can focus on code without rebuilding environments or worrying about compliance every time.

Not saying one is right and the other is wrong, just curious how much this kind of fragmentation actually impacts your teams.

What’s your take on automating the Ops side to simplify all these integrations and give developers a ready-to-use environment?

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DevOps Job Market Germany

Hi,

I'm reading here all the time that the devops job market is dead, but I assume, most people here are located in the US. Does anyone have any insights or experience about the situation in Germany right now? I'm finding quite a lot of job listings for devops engineers, also for junior level, so I'm wondering.

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Getting good past the entry point?

I just survived the classic "throw a junior into devops and see what happens". Finished my first year n this position and \~3 years working total. I think I handled it well. With an understaffed team and no mentoring, Ive finished rewriting CI/CD pipelines, documenting, doing cluster upgrades solo, handling production environments and security etc.. Team lead and devs are all impressed and happy of my work.

I hope ive gotten past the basics and want to get more specialized/better/improve. What do I look into next? The infra I work on is purely on-prem, so I have 0 cloud exposure, but I have a deep love for security and thinking about getting certified and specialized.

My end goal is to move from this place, (obviously getting underpayed) and going to a different country is veryyy important to me, but,,, job market etc. you know how it is.

So jumping "early", getting security certs, and doing some cloud options. Whats the best path to becoming that grey haired in demand IT expert. I want to put in the work and effort, I just know that this job and country isn't one that would get me there.

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Multiple Malicious Packages Discovered on PyPI, npm, and RubyGems

A new wave of malicious packages has been uncovered across major package repositories: PyPI, npm, and RubyGems. These packages, many seeded years ago, target developers through typosquatting and brandjacking tactics, which are mimicking legitimate libraries to steal crypto funds, delete source code, and harvest sensitive data (including Telegram messages).

Most affected packages were found in PyPI, especially those impersonating Solana-related tools. Some even hid malware behind nested dependencies and used monkey-patching to stay hidden. Npm packages targeted Ethereum and BSC, and a few RubyGems intercepted Telegram API traffic.

The attacks are still unfolding. If you're pulling from public registries, now’s a good time to double-check your dependencies.

Full write-up and package list here:
https://cloudsmith.com/blog/multiple-malicious-packages-discovered-on-pypi-npm-and-rubygems

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What’s a “cloud best practice” you completely ignore.....and why?

We all know the rules:

* Don’t hardcode secrets
* Tag everything
* Separate prod and dev
* Write clean Terraform with modules and locals
* Use least privilege IAM roles...

And yet... real-world pressure hits, and suddenly you’re pasting a static secret just to get a demo working 😅

For me, i still don’t always set up full logging and monitoring for non-prod environments. I know i should… but deadlines always win.

What’s your cloud sin?

What “best practice” do you skip in the real world......and what’s your excuse?



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Need some advice on project based learning

It's been 2-3 weeks since I have started learning devops. I have covered the basics of linux, shell scripting, networking and docker. I suffered a one week gap due to other commitments but I want to get back now. I need someone who has any experience and knows more than me to tell me what projects to do for each of these and also for learning a cloud service (AWS). I believe project based learning is better compared to the likes of tutorials. Would anyone please take some of their time out and help with this, it would be much appreciated!

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Bash Secrets I Learned From 10 Years of Production Hell

Hey all,

I wrote an article about my learnings from 10 years of working as a DevOps in critical production systems. I would love if any of you can read it and give me your impressions - and more importantly, I would love to hear from you - What's the worst production incident you've had with a bash script?

The link to the article is: https://medium.com/@heinancabouly/bash-secrets-i-learned-from-10-years-of-production-hell-93fe1dbff12a?source=friends\_link&sk=5e84b93dfede7fec6ec1675aea6f9bd8

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Help /Advice for learning k8s the hard way !

hey everyone, i’m planning to try kubernetes the hard way (https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way) and was wondering if anyone here has gone through it. if you have, i’d really appreciate it if you could share your experience, especially how you set it up (locally or on the cloud). i was hoping to do it locally, but it seems like my asus s15 oled might not meet the hardware requirements. so if you’ve successfully done it either way, your insights would be a big help. also, do you think it's still worth doing in 2025 to deeply understand kubernetes, or are there better learning resources now?

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Need an overview

Well I just graduated with a degree in computer science with a strong base in C, C++, and a little bit of JavaScript. I have no prior working experience but I have made group projects solo with tight deadlines quite a lot of time in University.


DevOps always fascinated me a lot, so immediately after my last exam, I got the IBM coursera Beginners course (3 DAYS BEFORE THIS POST).


I have decided to get a fundamental level of knowledge in DevOps, become hands-on on tools like Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc, get an AWS certification separately, and someone from industry told me to also get CCNA as well.

But after going through the comment section here on some posts, I am reevaluating my decision to start as a DevOps Engineer.

I was once also interested in CRM/ERP based career paths(Dynamics 365, SAP, Salesforce, etc),
I think I do have a really strong understanding of Information Security as well. But the it has very weak career options with little to no jobs being provided where I am from.

I wanted to get my DevOps, AWS, CCNA certification and then start doing leetcode + SQL revision to get placed somewhere.
After getting that certification, either I plan to learn Java Springboot or .NET core, along with JavaScript as it is a MUST these days,
so I have a backend backed with DevOps career.


Should I go for it? Should I do something else/ change my plan? Can someone shed some light on this. I am open to every sort of comment/ instructions.

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How do we know that code generators (AI) aren't leaking my code?

One of my big concerns is my code being used to 'train' some AI, for example there is nothing stopping Microsoft from sending my code in Visual Studio behind the scenes to some repo in the cloud. Right now I host my own SVN servers and try hard to not bleed anything out.

BUT as I consider where the world is going with code generation and AI, how can I sleep at night knowing that someone/something else isn't looking at my code?

Not that I'm going to use code generators but it's embedded in VS and I'll have to update at some point.

I only use 1 external library so I've limited my exposure to 3rd party libraries and everything else is hand rolled (which isn't that hard).



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My company just did mandatory RTO and I found out that it might be based on radius. I've never had an official Cloud job but here's my latest work experience. Can I make the jump?

My problem is I've done all of this on-prem, I don't have much infrastructure as code experience although I understand it. I have also only worked in AWS and azure for more simple projects


This is my most recent resume entry
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Architected and maintained DevOps automation frameworks supporting Unity-based XR application deployment, enabling scalable delivery across multiple internal platforms.

Maintained a production-grade re-signing environment and introduced a signing infrastructure for Unity-based applications, ensuring compatibility with internal distribution and MDM tooling.

Built extensible automation scripts and system tools in Python, Bash, and PowerShell to reduce manual operations across infrastructure, build, and release processes.

Developed internal web-based tooling to streamline deployment validation, asset tracking, and environment introspection for cross-functional development teams.

Introduced AI-assisted automation into engineering workflows—accelerating tasks such as documentation generation, technical analysis, and pipeline logic optimization.

Integrated observability and alerting systems for both infrastructure health and deployment quality, ensuring early detection of anomalies and reducing downtime.

Provided end-to-end support for CI/CD systems, including Jenkins orchestration and MDM platform integrations, while aligning with regulatory constraints (e.g., HIPAA, FDA, ISO 13485).

Collaborated across engineering, security, and business teams to turn functional requirements into production-ready tooling and infrastructure.

Mentored team members and led initiatives that elevated engineering standards, operational resilience, and developer experience.


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DevOps Project(pipeline).. need inputs

I recently built and deployed a Tetris game using automation tools to simulate how real-world companies manage software delivery. I’m a recent graduate with no professional experience yet, so I wanted to create a hands-on project that mimics a production-like environment. Github

First, I created servers on AWS and installed tools like Jenkins, Docker, and Terraform.
Then, I used Jenkins to automatically create a Kubernetes cluster (EKS) and deploy the game.
Then created another pipeline which checks the code for bugs (SonarQube) and security issues (Trivy), builds a Docker image, and uploads it to DockerHub.
I used ArgoCD to automatically deploy the latest version of the app whenever the code or image was updated. When I wanted to upgrade the app (version 2.0), Jenkins detected the new code, built a new image, updated the deployment file, and ArgoCD pushed the change live all without manual steps.

I did not implement the monitoring in this project yet.

I’d really love your feedback on this pipeline. what limitations or flaws you can spot? What would you do differently if this were a real production setup? Feel free to roast it, I genuinely want to improve and learn from my mistakes before tackling my next one.

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Already in IT as support consultant but want to go the DevOps route

Hey all, currently working as a support consultant for a ERP system. I want to slowly transition to cloud devops althoug I do not have formal training in IT. The advantage is that I am already in the IT department of my company. I am planning to do a bunch of study of my own and transition if possible within the company I work in, it'd be the easiest way. Alternativale, I could do a masters in in CS. Do you think a masters would be helpful? Or just studying/practicing on my own and waiting for the right opportunity would be enough?

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Help!

Hello Guys!

I recently landed a DevOps intern role, and there’ll be a few weeks of training before I actually start working.
Since I’m from a mechanical engineering background, they’re going to help me get used to the new environment. I also started an online DevOps course recently, and so far I’ve learned the basics of Linux, Vagrant, and Docker.

I was just wondering — what should I start focusing on next or start learning to be better prepared for the role and for training in advance? Would love to hear some advice! Also any resources or any specific places to learn them ! Thanks in Advance !

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