To all the hiring managers

How do you typically evaluate candidates during a hiring manager screening?

In a short 15–20 minute call, what key qualities or signals do you focus on? Do you have any go-to questions you like to ask? And are there any immediate red flags that help you decide early on if someone isn’t a good fit?

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End to End K8s project

Hello Folks,

Has anyone created build and release pipeline to deploy to AKS?
Which code you used, any tutorial you followed?

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CKS exam in 2025

Anyone plans to take the CKS exam in 2025? I wonder does the mock exam from Mumshad’s Kodekloud CKS course good enough?

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low raise, no bonus, layoffs, time to leave or ask for a raise?

I do DevSecOps for a small health-tech startup (less than 20 people total). Last year we had layoffs and nobody got their 10% bonus. At the end of the month, we have another engineer leaving, which will put us down to 3 total engineers from 6 (1 data scientist, 1 backend engineer, 1 devsecops). I've been here 18 months at an okay salary as the only devops/security/infra person and love working here, but I could get 20-25% more salary easily based the market for Sr/Lead DevSecOps with 8 YoE.

After a 6 month non-interactive performance review process, I got a 3% raise.

I took this role at a lower end offer because I hated my current job and was expecting to be able to negotiate a raise after a year, and I thought that'd happen with the performance reviews, but there was no discussion, just an email congratulating me on a less than nominal raise.

I contribute a lot, all my teammates and leadership seem to agree, and I fill a niche role in a fast moving startup with a mid salary. I do not feel replaceable to be honest, as I've developed all of our tech and security infrastructure/audits while in direct report with our CTO.

I really want to stay here but the FOMO of like 50k a year is a lot. I wouldnt ask for that much here, as theres no room for a Sr at this company, so I'd have to leave to get that. I was thinking up to a 10-15% raise or guaranteed bonus or something.

So, my question is, how do I politely ask for a raise here? Is it possible without threatening my job? Thanks

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Makefile

I just started using makefile again after using them a long time ago. My goal is to try to create a way to easily test batches of commands locally and also use them in CI stages. The makefile syntax is a little annoying though and wonder if I should just use batch files.

Is anyone else doing anything like this?


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discovered a cron job quietly failing for 3 months — no alerts, no logs

We have a cron that pulls CSV reports from a vendor API every night and syncs them to our DB. Nothing fancy. I assumed it was running fine because… well, no one complained.

Then someone asked why q1 data was missing from a dashboard, and that sent me digging. Turned out the script had been silently failing since mid March.

The vendor changed their auth flow, old tokens expired silently, and the script just kept exiting early with a "401 Unauthorized”. No exception, no email alert, nothing. the logs? Written to a local file in a now-deleted temp directory.

Got blackbox to search across our older scripts for similar 'silent fail' patterns, found three more cron jobs with no alerting, no retry, and no logging beyond print().

I added proper logging with timestamps, exit codes, and integrated it with our monitoring. Now we get an alert if the job fails or doesn’t run at all.

just because a job is quiet doesn’t mean it’s fine. Silence should be suspicious.

how many of you have legacy scripts running somewhere that no one’s looked at in months?

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The State of DevOps Jobs in H1 2025

Hi guys, I've been running running a devops jobs site for 2 years now, and it just occurred to me that an analysis of some trends would be beneficial for all the DevOps engineers out there (including me).


I'm not an expert in data analysis and I'm just getting started to get into the analysis of it all but I hope this will benefit you a bit and you'll get a sense of where we are in 2025 so far.



https://devopsprojectshq.com/role/devops-market-h1-2025/

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Homeland for devops learning

I have a server with 64 gb ram. and i plan to build a homelab on it.

Could someone guide me what kind of lab architecture should i build so that i could use the server optimally for devopa learning.

Thanks.

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Best practices in binary package development for OS target platforms?

My question will be very broad, so I ask for your patience. Clarifying questions are welcome.

Can you recommend any "solutions" (as an "umbrella term" for libraries, frameworks, project templates, build pipeline configs, "declaration processing tools" (for any source code declarative documents, like manifests, package.jsons, makefiles, gradle files, etc.), package SDKs, or any combinations of those) for building a project according to a structure like this?:

Resulting files:
+ lib_package_name.package_manager_format
+ package_name_cli.package_manager_format with a dependency for the lib package
+ package_name_gui.package_manager_format with a dependency for the lib package
+ package_name_api_server.package_manager_format with a dependency for the lib package

Or what would it take in general to structure a project build process in this fashion? And which solutions are there to simplify this process, reduce the amount of manual configurations and checks (e.g. auto versioning, auto build naming, auto packaging, declarative file generation from templates, using "single point of definition" for any of the "package metadata", like authorship, package dependencies, versions, keywords, etc.)

I know that it "depends on the chosen SDK / programming language / target platform / etc.", so in your experience which of those have the most "mature publically available development and shipping toolkits" by the criteria above?

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Rookie question - Microsoft's Azure DevOps - Advanced Security

Does the static code analysis (CodeQL?) in Microsoft's Azure DevOps Advanced Security support Visual Basic code in any way?

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How I Hacked the Job Market AMA







After graduating in CS from the University of Genoa, I moved to Dublin, and quickly realized how broken the job hunt had become.

Reposted listings. Ghost jobs. Shady recruiters. And worst of all? Traditional job boards never show most of the jobs companies publish on their own websites.

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So I built something better.

I scrape fresh listings 3x/day from over 100k verified company career pages, no aggregators, no recruiters, just internal company sites.

Then I fine-tuned a LLaMA 7B model on synthetic data generated by LLaMA 70B, to extract clean, structured info from raw HTML job pages.

Remove ghost jobs and duplicates:

Because jobs are pulled directly from company sites, reposted listings from aggregators are automatically excluded.
To catch near-duplicates across companies, I use vector embeddings to compare job content and filter redundant entries.

Not related jobs:

I built a resume to job matching tool that uses a machine learning algorithm to suggest roles that genuinely fit your background, you can try **here** (totally free)

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I built this out of frustration, now it’s helping others skip the noise and find jobs that actually match.

💬 Curious how the system works? Feedback? AMA. Happy to share!

https://redd.it/1lcfrvz
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(OC) From root to real accounts: automating AWS org setup with guardrails and Terraform transition

From r/ArtOfPackaging: documenting the AWS org/account structure we use as a foundation for build-once, deploy-many artifact delivery.

Covers account creation (CLI/CFN), OU design, SCPs, cross-account roles, and Terraform backend/layering. It’s the groundwork before we get into packaging and release pipelines in future posts.

Would love to hear how folks are structuring their orgs and Terraform for CI/CD at scale.

https://devoptimize.org/aws/aws-org-to-accounts/

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Best Cloud Hosting Solution?

I'm looking to deploy my backend server on a cheap and easy to use platform. Tried aws, was way too messy. Tried Digital Ocean, too expensive. I usually use Render but I don't like how it shuts off automatically and has a plan. Just discovered fly.io, is it really that good?

https://redd.it/1lcinwr
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Struggling with etcd and control plane issues, is there a stripped-down, self-managed alternative to Kubernetes (not EKS/GKE) ?

Hi everyone, I'm relatively new to Kubernetes and honestly it's been a bit overwhelming, especially when it comes to debugging issues around the control plane and etcd.

We recently switched to K3s in production to simplify things, but we're still facing instability. Sometimes the server just goes down randomly, and etcd errors pop up without clear reasons. We're unable to keep the cluster reliably running.

I know this is a bit vague without much details/logs, but just wondering, if there is any stripped-down, self-managed alternative to Kubernetes that could help reduce operational overhead for the time being ?

note: not looking for fully managed solutions like EKS, GKE.

Thanks!



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RMON Updates: Smarter Ping, Alert Grouping, and Regional MTR

We often hear from users who want to monitor the quality of their network links—not just checking if a host is reachable, but actually **understanding the stability of their connection** and catching degradations early. One such user recently joined RMON and needed monitoring across multiple regions. Their feedback helped shape some valuable improvements.

https://preview.redd.it/gxl6axw5187f1.png?width=2930&format=png&auto=webp&s=a21dbce5ab4f18fa920635f28537228b322e51fd

Here’s what’s new in [RMON](https://rmon.io), and how it stacks up against the classic tool SmokePing.

# Smarter Ping Checks

Previously, RMON's ping check sent only a single ICMP packet. That was enough for basic uptime checks, but not for meaningful diagnostics. Now, it's much more capable:

* You can now configure **the number of ICMP packets** to send per check.
* The system collects and displays:
* **min** RTT
* **max** RTT
* **avg** RTT (average)
* **mean** RTT (mathematical expectation)

>This is especially useful on unstable links, where a single ping might falsely indicate "all good" even when jitter or packet loss is present.

# Regional Alert Grouping

Users with multiple monitoring agents across regions faced a common issue:

>"When a host goes down, I get five duplicate alerts—from every region checking it."

Now, RMON automatically **groups alerts by host**:

* You receive **a single alert** listing all affected regions.
* This makes incident triage easier and significantly reduces notification noise in systems like Telegram, Slack, or PagerDuty.

# Regional MTR Support

We’ve added the ability to launch **MTR (traceroute with extended metrics)** **from any selected region**:

https://preview.redd.it/mcbxv59d187f1.png?width=2940&format=png&auto=webp&s=5625cb52cb625ab009fc0a2c17091ac3e23bbfcb

* Accessible via web UI or API
* Instantly trace the route from a specific agent to a host

This is particularly useful for debugging cross-regional issues, CDN routing problems, or ISP bottlenecks.

# Comparison: RMON vs SmokePing

|Feature|SmokePing|RMON|
|:-|:-|:-|
|RTT & packet loss graphing|✅ Yes|✅ Yes|
|Alert grouping|❌ No|✅ Yes|
|Customizable ICMP packet count|✅ Limited|✅ Full control|
|Modern web UI|❌ (CGI-based)|✅ Modern and responsive|
|Regional MTR support|❌ No|✅ Yes|
|Multi-region agents|❌ (single host)|✅ Distributed agent system|
|Built-in alert integrations|Manual scripts|✅ Telegram, Slack, etc.|
|API access|❌ Very limited|✅ Full REST API|

**SmokePing** is a powerful legacy tool for tracking long-term network latency, but it suffers from architectural limitations, lacks multi-agent support, and requires manual setup for alerts.

**RMON**, on the other hand, is built from the ground up for:

* easy deployment;
* regional agents;
* live stats & alerting;
* and modern operational needs.

# What’s Next

We’re continuing to develop RMON as a **distributed network monitoring solution** with:

* regional telemetry;
* rich health checks;
* and integrations for DevOps workflows.

If you want to know **exactly where and when your network is degrading**, try RMON: [https://rmon.io](https://rmon.io)

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Looks like again am getting rejected because of some random python quiz

I prepared to write some program.. But they asked me some random python quiz...

Other than that i had answered 95% of the answers correctly.... 😔😔😔😔😔

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How do you monitor mixed-hosted web apps? (Azure PaaS + Azure VMs + DigitalOcean VMs)

I’m managing a setup with multiple types of deployments and looking for advice or validation on the best way to monitor all of it.

Here’s what we’re running:
• Some apps are fully hosted in Azure Web Apps (PaaS) – frontend + backend
• Others are hosted entirely on VMs (SaaS-style) – some in Azure, some in DigitalOcean
• Some are hybrid setups – frontend in Azure Web App, backend on VMs (Azure or DO)

I want to set up a centralized monitoring system that can cover:
• App performance (frontend/backend)
• VM resource usage (CPU, memory, disk)
• Uptime and basic service checks
• Log centralization
• Alerts (Slack/Email)


https://redd.it/1lcp3zt
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Reducing Infrastructure Friction; Web Hosting with Free Migration for Teams That Can’t Afford Downtime

Hey DevOps folks,

We know how critical stability, portability, and repeatability are when managing infrastructure especially in production environments. That’s why at UltaHost, we’ve doubled down on something simple but often neglected: offering Web Hosting with Free, Fully-Managed Migration, without compromising uptime or system integrity.

Too many engineering teams delay migration due to perceived complexity, potential downtime, or lack of internal bandwidth. We've worked with DevOps engineers across multiple verticals who were stuck on bloated legacy providers or hosting setups they’d long outgrown, not because they wanted to stay, but because migrating without incident felt like a luxury.

Here’s what we offer:

White-glove migration of complete stacks, databases, configs, cron jobs, SSLs, and custom setups (Docker, reverse proxies, etc.)
Pre-deployment testing to avoid post-move regression issues
Optimized environments for PHP, Node.js, Python, and static JAMstack workloads
No migration fees, ever because vendor lock-in through friction isn't our style

We’re not trying to replace your CI/CD pipeline or rewrite your infrastructure-as-code, but if you're hosting client-facing apps, dashboards, staging sites, or smaller services that still matter, we’re here to help you move them without pain.

If you’ve held back migrating because you’ve been burned before or just don’t want the operational hassle, let’s talk. We’ve built this service around actual use cases from engineers like you.

Would love to hear: What’s your biggest blocker when it comes to hosting transitions?

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Open Source Warp alternative for.. Everyone

Hi Good people of this subreddit.

We have recently created NTerm: Open Source Alternative to Warp.

Here's the gh: https://github.com/Neural-Nirvana/iota

Looking forward to your feedback and pulls. XOXO

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Free CI/CD services

Hey there, I'm in the process of starting a dev agency, and I'm facing the age old problem that you can't get any clients without testimonials, and you can't get testimonials without clients :D


So, to fix this, I'm offering some free CI/CD services. Need a pipeline built to automatically deploy your webapp when you push on master? Do you have a pipeline that bearly works and breaks every few days? I'm open to taking a look at it and fixing it for free as long as you're open to giving me an honest testimonial at the end of it.

,
About myself. I have 10+ years of experience as a dotnet developer. My frontend framework of choice is Angular but I've dabbled in React. I've built multiple stable pipelines in Gitlab and Github.



My startup has the following pipelines:

\- Automatic deployment of Prod/Test (automatically deploys a dotnet api to ubuntu server when code is pushed)

\- Automatic deployment of mobile app into Android store

\- Automatic deployment of mobile app into iOS store (yes this was a huge pain to setup)



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Docker volume

I am studying up on Dockers and can't fully grab the difference between docker volumes and copy/workdir entries in the Dockerfile. Doesn't it do the same thing? The only difference that I can think of is that dockerfiles are created before containers, whereas volumes you insert in the existing containers. Is that right and there there other differences?

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