Bad situation at the workplace

Hi everyone, I need a little tip on the situation I'm living right now. I've been working as a "DevOps engineer" for about 9 months now. I quoted DevOps because I initially started an internship where I was promised to write Terraform modules, didn't end up doing that. I got to work with GitLab CI/CD, Python and Bash scripting, Helm and Kubernetes deployments. They hired me after the internship, but now I'm kind of in doubt on what to do. My team is basically just backend and frontend engineers, no one knows anything about DevOps except two guys in the backend that mentored me, but that's not their main thing. I got hired because the true Cloud Team of our company is extremely inefficient and apparently was never there when needed. Theoretically, I'm a backend engineer. In the meantime, I expanded myself (often upon force too, because I wanted to learn but they never let me expand too much) onto Terraform, monitoring and alerting with Prometheus and Grafana, ArgoCD, and I got to assist other people in deploying new applications outside my team as well.

I'm kind of getting to a point where I'm tired. Workplace is chill, colleagues are too, but I often don't have tasks/I create and assign them to myself. They let me do whatever I want basically, micromanagement doesn't exist because they simply don't understand much of what I do. I also think:
- Working mostly in one team reduces my capability of adapting to different tech stacks and assisting in other processes
- I do not have much freedom as much as I'd like. We have had Kaniko to build docker images in our CI/CD pipelines for two weeks after it's been deprecated, I've often brought up replacing it to multiple colleagues but they said it's not my job to do so.
- I wonder how much time I have left until I get fired? Things are already pretty stable with the changes and optimizations I've made to our cluster + monitoring etc.


Is this common? I know I should have seen the red flags since the beginning, but it was and still is my first job in IT and money is better than nothing. What should I do? Is my experience too limited to work in another company? I get recruiters on LinkedIn texting me but I'm scared it's bad offers/I'm not just able to compete with other people due to how limited my experience is.

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Passing in a Kubernetes secret into a Helm Chart

Hello folks,

I am here in desperation. I can't seem to figure out how I can pass a variable/secret into a helm chart.

The secret, for example is like this (already created in advance):

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
name: some-secret
namespace: somenamespace
type: Opaque
stringData:
TOKEN: "1233xxxxxx"

Then, my the Helm Chart I want to inject them in. Note this is an umbrella Helm Chart which just had the official one as a dependency.

templates/datasource.yaml

apiVersion: grafana.integreatly.org/v1beta1
kind: GrafanaDatasource
metadata:
name: prometheus-datasource
namespace: somenamespace
spec:
instanceSelector: {}
allowCrossNamespaceImport: true
datasource:
access: proxy
database: prometheus
jsonData:
timeInterval: 1m
enableSecureSocksProxy: true
secureSocksProxyUsername : "xxxxxxxx" # I need this to come from a that TOKEN in the secret
name: prometheus-local
type: prometheus
url: someurl:9090

I have spent countless hours and am still nowhere near an answer. It shouldn't be so tough

Help will be much appreciated

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Can you give me suggestions for CD in Gitflow?

Hi all
I'm trying to define the CD of a Gitflow branch strategy.
What I want to define is when do the different Environments (dev, QA, UAT and prod) deployments trigger.
So far I'm thinking
Merge of any kind and from any branch to /develop triggers CD to Development
Branch creation or Push to /release branch triggers to UAT
Merge from /release or /hotfix to /main triggers to Prod with manual approval
Does that make sense?

What about QA? Maybe /develop with tags? Or /release_QA?

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Alternatives to JFrog Artifactory

Hi

I am/was a proponent of jfrog artifactory for small to middle (50 people) companies i contracted for. To install the self-hosted version for the following reasons:

* As a cache for artifacts (docker, maven, rpm, others) to put less stress on the internet uplink/downlink and to enable them to be able to work even when the/their internet is down. Main culprit here naturally CI/CD and developers.
* To store all inhouse artifacts they are legally required to keep for X years. Makes it easy to know what to backup and store.
* To store all inhouse artefacts (docker, rpm, maven, custom) with less stricts storage demands. Just so everyone knows where to go look for stuff.

Unfortunately JFrog for some unknown reason decided they want to get rid of the self-hosted installation method and told everyone to just use the cloud-hosted version. They told the companies they will retire self-hosted artifactory in the next 2-3 years. And doubled the price this year for the self-hosted license.

So here is the question: What are the alternatives? The hosted/cloud version is not an option.

I know there is nexus. Are there other options?

*Requirements*

Should be able to support several repository formats. The minimum is:

* docker
* maven
* rpm
* npm

Ideally these are also supported:

* generic (tgz or zip)
* python (pypi)

But naturally the more the better.


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Building a Simple PaaS to provision EC2 instances from AMI's

https://youtu.be/qRy1x3iEHgo

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OpenTelemetry and Client Application Authenticity

Hi everyone, so... we would like to collect telemetry data from our mobile and web applications. We're stuck on how to verify authenticity of the client hitting our public otel collector. With backend applications we could somewhat trust the perimeter security where the services are inside the internal network. Firebase App Check https://firebase.google.com/docs/app-check seems promising as we use it in all our applications, and we should be able to use it in the otel collector endpoint. I just wonder if any one of you have implemented such a pipeline

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Related jobs that travel more

I work remotely, which is nice because I don't have to commute, but I would like a bit more variety. What jobs are tangential to DevOps that travel more?

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5 Years in DevOps and I’m choosing between 2 certifications

Hey Everybody,
I've been in DevOps for five years now, and I'm looking at a new certification. Need something for better pay, more job options, and just general career growth. I'm stuck between Red Hat and Kubernetes certs.
For Red Hat, I'm thinking about the RHCSA or RHCE. I've used Linux a lot, and Red Hat is known for solid enterprise stuff. But with everything going cloud native, I'm not sure how much a Red Hat cert still helps with job prospects or money.
Then there's Kubernetes. Looking at the KCNA for a start, or maybe jumping to the CKAD or CKA. Kubernetes is huge right now, feels like you need to know it. Which one of those Kube certs gives the most benefit for what I'm looking for? CKA for managing, CKAD for building, it's a bit confusing.
Trying to figure out if it's better to go with the deep Linux knowledge from Red Hat or jump fully into Kubernetes, which seems like the future.
Anyone got experience with these? What did you pick? Did it actually help with your salary or getting good jobs? Any thoughts on which path is smarter for the long run in DevOps would be really appreciated.




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Would an AWS infrastructure visualizer and security alerts all visualised via an interactive graph for less than 7 dollars a scan be useful?

As title states, i have built an aws infrastructure interactive graph visualizer and security violations. It works by using a read only iam role and scans all your aws resources using the necessary metadata and infrastruture. Its also runs your run of the mill security misconfigurations rules but also multi hop and complicated threats. For example privilege escalation etc. Which is what you can get with WIZ and others but pay a fraction of the price with mine
.as low as 5 dollars one time scan. wouldnt have runtime detection but can do real time scanning based on the iam role .

Is this something ppl would want?

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Getting into devops

Hey so currently in a backend engineer internship and I'm currently coding, testing with postman, building with Jenkins, using grafana for testing.

I am enjoying it but maybe eventually I want to be dev ops. Can anyone help me with a good path for learning? And maybe certificates? Was hearing about the kubernetes certs. So any help would be appreciated

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How do you handle technical skill gaps in a managed services team supporting multiple Azure clients?

Hi everyone,

I work in a managed services company that supports multiple clients’ Azure environments. Our team handles tickets, incidents, and complex challenges, but we’re noticing a gap in technical depth across the team.

I’ve started using automation (emails, Teams, Power Platform) to improve ticket awareness, but I’d love to hear from others:

🔹 How do you address skill gaps in a busy support team?
🔹 What processes or tools have helped you upskill your engineers while still meeting client SLAs?
🔹 Any tips on balancing automation, documentation, and training?
🔹 How do you build a knowledge base that actually works?

Any real-world advice, examples, or lessons learned would be super helpful. Thanks in advance!

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How to automate daily KPI emails from AWS CloudWatch using Outlook?

I’m working on a task where I need to fetch daily metrics from AWS CloudWatch for a few deployed models and send an automated status email via Outlook.

The metrics include:

4xx / 5xx Errors

API Latency (max & avg)

CPU and Memory Utilization

Total number of hits


I’ve got a fixed email template for this, and I currently send it manually every day. I want to automate the entire process — from pulling the data from CloudWatch to sending it via Outlook using a specific format.

I'm planning to use Python for this, probably with boto3 for AWS and win32com.client for Outlook email. Has anyone done something similar? Any best practices, sample scripts, or gotchas I should know about?

Would really appreciate your insights or any suggestions of youtube channel?

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I’m starting a DevOps Dojo show based on “learning by fixing broken things” what would you love to see?

Hey folks, I’m a DevOps engineer who’s finally starting a YouTube series, but with a twist: instead of polished tutorials, I want to show what really happens, stuff breaks, I troubleshoot, I learn.

Think “debugging in public” meets casual DevOps Dojo. Real-world infra, real errors, honest process.

I’ll cover things like:

- Broken CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins → GitHub Actions)
- Keycloak in CrashLoopBackOff hell
- Terraform misbehaving in AWS
- Secret management gone wrong
- All the dumb mistakes we pretend don’t happen

I want to make this accessible for beginners but still useful for mid/senior folks. Less buzzwords, more bash errors and real lessons.

What would you like to see in a show like this?
Any common pain points or “I wish someone walked me through this” moments?

@AlanDevOps


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Built a free AWS cost audit tool (AltCloud.dev) — looking for honest DevOps feedback

Hey folks 👋

I’ve been working with startups and infra-heavy products for \~9 years, and one thing that keeps coming up, especially with smaller teams is cloud cost visibility (or the lack of it).

So I’ve started building **AltCloud.dev** — a free tool that:

Pulls your AWS cost and usage data
Shows real-time EC2 metrics (usage, idle detection)
Gives recommendations like overprovisioned instances, unused volumes, etc.

It’s very much an MVP right now, but functional and free — and I’d genuinely appreciate feedback from folks who’ve been in the DevOps trenches.

Would love to hear:

Is this useful to your workflow?
What’s missing to make it part of your toolkit?
Would you trust tools like this to suggest migrations or changes?

DMs or comments welcome — also happy to walk through what I’ve built so far if that helps.

Thanks!

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May I develop a business app in Godot?

I did start developing a shiftplaning software for Windows, but soon I realized I need a code-signing certificate in order to use it in my company. I shifted everything to js so I could run it locally in the browser but there are some limitations in saving files.
Now I got the idea making this program in Godot to avoid the code-signing certificate.
But I don't know, if it is allowed to do it, because I'm not making a game.

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Looking for advice with personal virtual-try-on application project!!

Hey, I’m trying to create a prototype for a VTON (virtual-try-on) application where I want the users to be able to see themselves wearing a garment without full 3D scans or heavy cloth sims. Here’s the rough idea:

1. Predefine 5 poses (front, ¾ right, side, ¾ left, back) using a neutral mannequin or model wearing each item.
2. User enters their height and weight, potentially entering some kind of body scan as well, creating a mannequin model.
3. User uploads a clean selfie, maybe an extra ¾-angle if they’re game, or even more selfies depending on what is required.
4. Extract & warp just their face onto the mannequin’s head in each pose.
5. Blend & color-match so it looks like “them” wearing the piece.
6. Return a small gallery of 5 images in the browser.

I haven’t started coding yet and would love advice on:

Best tools for fast, reliable face-landmark detection + seamless blending
Lightweight libs or tricks for natural edge transitions or matching skin tones/lighting.
Multi-selfie workflows, if I ask for two angles, how to fuse them simply without full 3D reconstruction?
Alternative hacks, anything even simpler (GAN-based face swap, CSS filters, etc.) that still looks believable.

Really appreciate any pointers, example repos, or wild ideas to help me pick the right path before I start with the heavy coding. Thanks!

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Book resources

Hi, I’m an IT system engineer and not a developer. Trying to learn K8s in this new roll. I’m tasked with loose instructions cleaning up repos and making small changes.
One of my tickets deploy isito in the ABC repo.

Oh and we use kustomize and rancher desktop.

My learning resources which I’ve paid for is KodeKloud, Udemy and Whizlabs.

I’ve been going through the KodeKloud “CKA”materials but finding that’s not helpful for my daily tasks.

I feel so lost in learning.

I’m looking for two books to read on vacation w/o terminal access.

One book for learning One book for the CKA exam

My research has lead me to the following three books.

kubernetes in action

The kubernetes book - Nigel


Certified Kubernetes Administrator (SeeKA) Study Guide - From Orielly publishing by Muschko

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Is it really true that roles like Cloud Engineer or SysAdmin can lead to a DevOps job later?

Hey everyone, Hope yall doing well :D

I’ve been learning about DevOps and really like the idea of working in that field — automating things, working with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, etc. But I keep hearing that it’s hard to land a DevOps job right away, especially as a beginner.

So I started looking into roles that might *lead* to DevOps after gaining some experience, like:

* Cloud Support Associate / Cloud Engineer
* Linux System Administrator
* QA Automation
* IT Support
* Junior Backend Developer

From what I understand, these jobs give you exposure to things like scripting, Linux, cloud platforms, monitoring, and automation, which are all part of DevOps.

But here’s my question:
**Is it** ***actually*** **true that you can move from one of these roles into DevOps eventually?** Or is it just one of those things people say but don’t really happen often?

I’m especially curious about the **Cloud Engineer** role. Is it really one of the best stepping stones into DevOps?

Would love to hear from anyone who made that transition or is on that path right now.

Thanks in advance!

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How would I create my own version of supabase/crunchy data

This is for educational pruposes only.

Basically I want to learn how can I self host postgres and automate backups, testing, observability and even the moving the postgres server into a bigger/smaller machine.





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Monitoring data from 2nd/3rd parties, once you have set up monitoring on all your servers

I've just read that there was an attack on coinmarketcap through a third party code integration. This is what I've read:

'How It Started: The attack began with a small, seemingly harmless element on CMC’s homepage: a “doodle” image (a decorative graphic, like a holiday-themed logo).'

Was this attack even avoidable, any devops engineers here at larger firms, do you currently do monthly checks on whether all 3rd party scripts are maintained by reputable firms etc? How does this scale?

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Everyone’s Scaling AI. No One’s Fixing the Infra First.

Last month, I posted: “Give me your toughest cloud/SRE issue , I’ll fix it in 48 hours, free.”

The response? 500K+ views. 100+ DMs. 12 real work offers.

I spent the next 2 weeks knee-deep in infrastructure chaos.

Here’s what I ended up fixing:

\- ML inference spikes breaking autoscaling logic

\- CI runners choking on ephemeral disks (zero alerts)

\- Terraform modules quietly overriding prod configs

\- S3 buckets serving stale model files after blue/green deploys

\- $4.8K GPU bills from idle nodes no one shut down

👀 The pattern? Everyone’s sprinting to scale AI, but treating infra like a TODO comment.

That’s fine… until it breaks prod.

So here’s what I’m doing next:

⚙️ I’m quietly building a system to help AI teams, solo founders, and DevOps folks detect and fix these infra blindspots *before* they explode.

Because let’s be real:

\- If you’re a **solo dev or indie hacker**, your YAML is probably held together with hope and duct tape.

\- If you're a **SaaS builder shipping AI features**, every minute lost to infra is a minute not building your product.

\- If you're a **DevOps/SRE**, you’re probably firefighting more than shipping.

Until that system’s ready, I’m still in the trenches helping folks 1:1 fast, no fluff, just execution.

🧯Got a fire? Stuck on:

\- Inference-time API spikes?

\- Terraform ghost bugs?

\- Broken rollback logic in prod but not staging?

Drop your *toughest* infra pain here. Or DM me.

Let’s fix it.

**What’s the infra fire *you’re putting out this week*?**



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