Opsgenie shutting down, looking for replacement. Suggestions?

Opsgenie will be ending its service in 2027. We want to find a good replacement soon so we have enough time to choose carefully and not rush last minute. Does anyone have recommendations for other tools we should consider?

Here's what we mainly use Opsgenie for:

* Checking who is on call and directing calls from our VOIP system to the right person, using a webhook from our VOIP provider. We’d prefer a tool that has built-in on-call scheduling and works well with 3CX. If it doesn’t support 3CX, options like Twilio or other providers are okay.
* Sending alerts to people when they are on call.
* Notifying team members if a service goes down, based on alerts from tools like Pingdom or other monitoring services.
* Creating and managing work schedules.
* Temporarily changing schedules (for example, if someone is taking time off or is sick).

So far, I’ve checked out Incident.io, Pagertree.com, and Firehydrant (which is way too costly). Do you have any other suggestions we should look into? Right now, our team is small—just four people handling on-call duties and standby SLA —but we might grow in the future.

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Just spent 2 hours looking for feature specs that were 'somewhere'... again

Been working on the same web service for 3 years. Today I needed to update a feature and literally spent 2 hours searching for the latest API documentation. Went through Google Drive, Notion, GitHub, Slack threads, old emails...

Finally found it in a spreadsheet linked in a 6-month-old Slack message. The "official" documentation in Notion was created 3 years ago when the feature was first built and hasn't been updated since - none of the recent changes were documented.

Anyone else dealing with this documentation chaos? When teams use different tools and nobody knows who has what information. Documents get created and then abandoned, and no one can tell what's current anymore. How do you find the right information in situations like this:

Dev team uses GitHub and Notion
PMs use spreadsheets and Google Docs
Customer support uses spreadsheets and Google Docs
Design team uses Figma comments

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Is CPU utilisation the only thing it matters when it comes to performance?

I work with a lot of dev teams and we keep getting told to scale up when the CPU (or some other hardware metrics) utilisation is approaching 100%.

I can't help but keep thinking back then when I used to game a lot, having a better hardware meant higher performance in terms of FPS, and that older hardware could have utilisation not reaching 100% but still has low FPS.

I can't understand why they don't focus on the end result metrics rather than hardware metrics.

Or did I get all of this wrong? I don't deal with app teams directly, so I have no idea about their apps, I just deploy it and maintain the infra around it.

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Stop the madness: DevOps trends that are ruining teams in 2025

Okay I need to vent. Been doing DevOps for 10 years and I'm losing my mind watching teams chase every shiny new trend.

Just consulted with a startup that has TWELVE microservices for a todo app. Twelve! They have more services than active users. Their deployment process is longer than my morning commute and fails about as often.

And don't get me started on the team that spent half a year setting up Kubernetes to run 3 PHP apps that get maybe 100 requests per day. The operational overhead costs more than just running the damn things on a single EC2 instance.

But the thing that broke me? Production database running out of space, one-line config fix needed, but had to wait 45 minutes for the GitOps workflow. Database died after 20 minutes.

Sometimes you just need to SSH into the server and change a value. I said it. Fight me.

Hot take: most of the "successful" teams I work with are actually pretty boring. They pick proven tech, keep architectures simple, and spend time building features instead of rebuilding their infrastructure every quarter.

Anyway, wrote a whole rant about this stuff: https://medium.com/@heinancabouly/devops-trends-that-need-to-die-in-2025-please-for-the-love-of-all-that-is-holy-22cbbadf2db3?source=friends\_link&sk=3f2bbe0844a62291eefd787da978ef53

Anyone else tired of this madness or is it just me getting old?

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Anyone here transitioned from QA to Devops? Do you feel rewarded? Is it a wise move?

I’m a QA based in the US and considering a change to Devops .. looking for connecting with people with similar background as me and willing to move to devops

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Transition to developer, potentially fullstack

After about 8 years in DevOps I have realized I always incline more towards development and architecture of the solutions which is a valuable skill to have as a DevOps. But I would rather have the roles swap and become developer with the experience and positive approach to DevOps practices.

The issue is my experience in development is mostly just doing minor code reviews and discussions with devs in context of operation and automation. I am familiar with .NET ecosystem and can easily understand code bases, yet I have not finished a single project in .NET myself. I have made few running websites in Vue or Svelte, doesn't really matter which framework I would use but that's an option for me too.

So the issue is I'm not sure how to improve and advertise myself? Had anyone made transition from DevOps to more Dev work?

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Deciding between two offers

I’m currently deciding between two job offers and I’d like to hear some advice.

Company A: mostly writing CI/CD pipelines with on-prem deployments. They are trying to modernize their stack.

Company B: 30k USD less than company A’s offer. Cloud based, modern stack with applications deployed globally with proper monitoring. Growth and learning opportunities, especially where I’d like to be: Orchestration, Cloud, SRE… more senior team members who will help me learn and up skill.

Both seem like very healthy environments and cool people to work with.





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Wrote this guide on explaining CI costs to CFOs

Work at a CI company, wrote this guide after customers kept asking. Figured others might find it useful.

Guide here

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Should I be worried that you seem to speak chinese for me ?

So I (23) am an engineering student in data science and I will graduate after 6 or 7 months. All I know is some cute data engineering ( cleaning , transforming , etc..) , predicting things with models , do some API services based on RAG , Work with some object detection models and build some Spring boot projects. But you guys seem on a different level that makes me anxious about my capabilities. Please tell me that most of you here are seniors or that I still have time ahead of me to understand what I might need for work .

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Devops Interview for PROX Team at Amazon

Hello people, I have an interview lined up for the next week for the role mentioned in the title. What should be my strategy to prepare for it?
I have like intermediate level knowledge of Linux, docker and AWS.
If anyone has given such interviews what kind of questions do they ask?
I am not the best leetcoder but I can solve easy to medium in upto arrays list and linkedlist. Haven't gotten upto trees and and all that.
What things should I prepare for apart from just Bash, Docker, Cloud, CI CD?
First time appearing for such company.
Please any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

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What's your biggest productivity killer in Salesforce DevOps?

deep in the trenches of salesforce DevOps for a while now and find myself constantly dealing with repetitive inefficiencies. seems pretty universal: setting up pipelines, repetitive terraform or YAML configs, and those endlessly cryptic deployment errors.



for me, salesforce metadata conflicts and managing source control can eat up hours. always curious how others manage their productivity pitfalls, especially when handling large orgs or complex deployments. are there best practices you've adopted or tooling you swear by to streamline these common frustrations?

tried a few different methods (source-tracking commits, CI/CD tweaks, metadata deployments) but curious to know what really works for you all.

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Has anyone shared stories of how they have implemented multi cloud support on their platforms ?

The question is as simple as the title of the post.

I just want to read stories on how and why people have implemented multi cloud support on their platforms. the platforms could be hosting platforms or anything where the customer has demanded support for not just AWS, but GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean or anything similar service.


Thank You

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Honest view on devops course from "tech world with Nana"

Hey devops friends, i am currently seeking for transition from SW to DevOps or at least start as sysadmin and grow to devops, and found this course from "Tech world with Nana", they are stating that they providing lots of practical experience instead of just learning. So my question, is there some one who is starting his devops journey or decided to try this course on the middel of the journey? What is your impression from this course? Because while DevOps certificate from "Tech world with Nana" sounds like a joke - 1,7k$ for course is definitely not a joke

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Implementing CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins and AWS EC2 assignment. How to do it?

I have an assignment that i need to complete,which YouTube tutorial or website would be helpful for me to complete the task. Below are the instructions and requirements.

Objective:

The objective of this assignment is to provide undergraduate students with hands-on experience in building a Jenkins CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) pipeline and deploying an application on an AWS EC2 instance.

Requirements:

Set up a Git Repository: Students should create a Git repository for their project. They can use an existing project or create a simple application to demonstrate the CI/CD pipeline. Create an AWS EC2 Instance: See the attached video tutorial for step-by-step guide to create an AWS EC2 instance to serve as the deployment target. You have to configure the necessary security groups, key pairs, and networking settings.

Configure AWS Credentials in Jenkins: Students should configure AWS credentials in Jenkins to enable interactions with the AWS services. This can be done by following the instructions in the attached video as well.

Create a Jenkins Job: Create a Jenkins job that defines the CI/CD pipeline. The job should include the following steps:

Pull the latest code from the Git repository.
Build the project.
Run any required tests.
Package the application, if applicable.
Deploy the application to the AWS EC2 instance.

Trigger Jenkins Job: Configure the Jenkins job to be triggered automatically whenever a new commit is pushed to the Git repository.

Documentation: Students should document the process of setting up the Jenkins CI/CD pipeline and deploying the application on an AWS EC2 instance. The documentation should include step-by-step instructions, screenshots, and any issues encountered during the setup.

Deliverables:

Jenkins CI/CD pipeline configured for application deployment on AWS EC2.
Documentation describing the setup process.

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Backstage Dynamic Plugins with Red Hat Developer Hub

Do you know how easy it is to install almost any Backstage plugin in Red Hat Developer Hub? In my latest article, I show you, step by step, how to make it happen.

https://piotrminkowski.com/2025/06/13/backstage-dynamic-plugins-with-red-hat-developer-hub/

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Where is my build? How to Trace SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) Events from your DevOps Tools!

At Dynatrace we are working with the open source community to define new standard events to track the lifecycle of an artifact from first git commit until production until retirement. Our SDLC events share the semantic conventions that are also being worked on by the OTel CI/CD SIG. We still have ways to go on both sides - but - I recorded a short video that shows whats possible if we ingest all those events from your GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Argo, Flux, ...


**Feedback requested**

As the lead DevRel on this topic and as a CNCF Ambassador I would like to ask for some feedback from the global DevOps community on this approach. Does this solve a problem you have? Anything we miss? Anything we need to watch out for?

**5 Minute Explainer Video**

Here is my video on YouTube ==> [https://dt-url.net/devrel-yt-sdlc-howto-ingest-june2025](https://dt-url.net/devrel-yt-sdlc-howto-ingest-june2025)




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Which cloud provider (Azure, AWS or GCP) offers the best DevOps training guides

Before you all jump to conclusions, this is not a post asking which cloud provider is the best overall. It is not asking which cloud provider has the most opportunities. I am merely asking which cloud provider offers the best studying material for DevOps. And yes, that does generally mean certifications but the certification is just the icing on the cake. I’m looking to understand theory and build my skills before getting a certification. Hence, the analogy. If the certification is the icing, the skills and theory is the cake. You need to have the cake baked and ready before you add the icing.


I learn best from having a structured plan. Certification study guides and certification training videos tend to have the best structure for me. I read, or listen and follow along. I try to understand the theory and bigger picture. Once I gain enough confidence in my ability and knowledge, I try something similar on my own without using guidance. All this being said, which cloud provider seems to have the best training and cloud native technology for DevOps learning? And yes, I have the DevOps roadmap. I know what I need to learn. That’s not what is being asked here.


I’m leaning towards AWS since they tend to be a cloud first provider. Azure tends to be a provider that focuses primarily on hybrid infrastructures. I may be wrong in this, but based off my experiences it seems places that have hybrid infrastructures do not really practice DevOps methodologies or have DevOps roles. It seems though that companies that are cloud first, do follow DevOps methodologies and have DevOps roles. I do not know much about GCP. Not sure if companies that opt for GCP have hybrid or cloud first infrastructures.


Also, what is a good project I can build to show off my knowledge and skills? I don’t want to use the Cloud Resume Challenge as that project seems to be what everyone is doing. I want to be a bit original but also show that I’m not just following a project that has several written guides. Like I stated earlier, I like to step away from guidance once I have built my confidence and the Cloud Resume Challenge doesn’t seem to allow for that.




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Book Recommendation on integrating Github Jira and Jenkins

I am building an app for work and need to learn how I can perform automated builds and eventually automated deployments. The code sits in a private github repo. Issues will be tracked with Jira. Jenkins will be used to automate building and running tests.

I do prefer a written material over videos. Please let me know of any good books you feel fit this criteria.

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Why we don't do leetcode style interviews

Hey all, we've gotten a lot of positive feedback on our technical round and so decided to post a small write up, without giving away too many details :), on what the actual process is like and more importantly why we feel like leetcode style interviews are missing the mark.

Let us know what you think!

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How can I start working as a devops contractor?

I'm currently working full-time for a business in Argentina. I'm really keen to start taking on smaller, part-time DevOps projects on the side (building CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure with IaC, or setting up cloud resources, etc).

I have two main questions:

1. How can I get started as a DevOps freelancer?
2. And which platforms or communities are best for finding part-time or freelance DevOps opportunities?

Any advice or personal experiences would be super appreciated!

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Aws production project resource

Hi folks,
Please can anyone help me with production/corporate level project which I can implement on my own , I want to get hands on for advance level services but cost shoudl be bearable any youtube video/course/any idea which is really helpful in real world will do .services can be auto scaling ,load balancer , eks , also can add terraform in the mix

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