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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Dealing with Terraform Drift

i got tired of dealing with drift and i didnt want to pay for terraform cloud or other SAAS solutions so i built a drift detector that gives you a table/html page

tfdrift

wrote a blog about it https://substack.com/@devopsdaily/p-166303218

just wanted to share with the community, feel free to try out!

Note: remember to download the binary (or build if building golang locally) with the right GOOS and GOARCH. There are issues with which aws provider binary depending on what binary the tool is built it

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Is k8s the best way to deploy this?

https://i.postimg.cc/prymfX7p/IMG-20250621-212721.jpg

Is k8s the best way to deploy a microservice based project , as shown in the above image , each pointed folder is a microservice but are these not in a monorepo. Two of these microservice rely on postgres and kafka docker images. I'd really appreciate your help.

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How likely is a career switch from DevOps to Golang Dev?

Im 30 year old, started 5 years ago with linux administattion and then jumped to DevOps.

Golang has always been a passion and i was exited when i landed a job where our stack was half Go half Node.

But ive never gotten around to seriously coding in go and have no professional experience other than making a few bespoke tools that work in our infrastructure.

Our devs are pretty lazy so i usually take up the task of profiling, debugging and ever so often push commits to fix bugs or align the code to our convention.

So, is a career change at this moment even possible? If yes, how should i go about this? Try to contribute to our go code or create my portfolio?

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Working on a drop-in replacement for InfluxDB v1 - looking for feedback from DevOps users (I will not promote)

Hi Everyone,

I'm working on a drop-in replacement for InfluxDB v1, aimed at solving some of the frustrations I have had with it over the years. Particularly around memory usage, write throughput, cardinality etc. It's still early days, and I’m trying to gather feedback before carry on down a specific route.

I’d love to hear from anyone who has used InfluxDB (v1 in particular):
What did you love?
What drove you nuts?
If you moved off of it, why?
What did you switch to?

Key goals I’m pursuing:

Easy migration: reuse the same line protocol and nearly full InfluxQL support
Does not explode on high cardinality queries.
Better long-term storage.
Lower Latency Queries

This isn't a pitch, I will not promote, it's an open call for feedback from the trenches. I’ll eventually open source the project, but right now I want to make sure it’s solving the right problems.

Let me know what you think!

(I used GPT to help write this, words are hard)

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Setup your AWS infra, just by stating the requirements and pushing a button

See how the AI agents tackles the challenge to do a real Upwork job. The agents sets up an ec2 instance, installs and runs n8n on it along with a custom domain and ssl certificates. All under an hour. With zero human intervention.
Short video : https://youtu.be/kCQ2YLDLZ4Y
full video : https://youtu.be/PKTtNl3Puko

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Roast my resume

I need a good and thorough roasting of my resume. 100 applications these last couple of months and only got 3 interviews. I'm not american and don't live in the US if that matters, I'm applying for local jobs, not for international roles.

this is the link, tear it apart: https://i.imgur.com/Z4UQqk2.jpeg

I wonder if I should even include the projects section in there, I was almost never asked about them during the interviews.

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Just got invited to a technical interview at Forvia. They seem heavily Windows-focused.

Mission:

Implement, automate, and continuously improve development, integration, and deployment processes (CI/CD), in close collaboration with development and operations teams.



Skills:



Tools: Azure DevOps, Git, Docker, Kubernetes (a plus)
Languages: C#, .NET, PowerShell or Bash scripting
Methods: Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, TDD
Environments: Windows Server, MSSQL, Azure Cloud



Profile:

Bachelor’s in Computer Science
Good level of English
Collaborative mindset, rigorous, autonomous
DevOps certification is a plus

How mush Windows server, PowerShell stuff do you think I will have to do
I'm more of a Linux user, never used azure. I have some experience with AWS.
I really hate windows.

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🚀 Launching a New Cloud & DevOps Channel On WhatsApp! Looking for passionate admins to help build and grow a vibrant tech community. ☁️👨‍💻🔥

We're looking for experienced, self-motivated admins who live and breathe Cloud, DevOps, and Open Source culture. If you're passionate about automation, containerization, infrastructure as code, and sharing wisdom .. we need you! 🧠💻

Think of it as a selective, high-signal version of the DevOps subreddit — but delivered straight to your WhatsApp, real-time, curated, and community-driven. 🔥


🎯 What this channel brings:

📰 The latest in Cloud & DevOps news

📚 Curated resources from top engineers & open-source projects

💡 Daily tips, tricks & tools from the trenches

🤯 Fun facts & real talk about what it’s really like working in tech

🚫 The dos and don’ts of professional work life no one teaches you

🧘‍♂️ Smart takes on workplace well-being & career longevity


This isn't just another forward-spam group
it's an open-source-style revolution in community learning, where we grow together, stay ahead, and support each other.


🎖️ Become a founding admin. Help us lead this space with purpose, passion, and a bit of bash scripting.




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Devops folks, are you using ai for infra tasks yet, or is it still too risky?

I’ve seen a few tools now claiming they can help with infrastructure-as-code, dockerfile optimisation, CI/CD pipeline generation, and even kubernetes YAML generation using ai prompts.

But I’m still hesitant to trust ai with things that touch production or deployment logic.

anyone here actually using ai to help with devops tasks in a real workflow?

any tools you trust (or don’t)?

Is it good for boilerplate only, or have you let it touch live infra?
any close calls or success stories?

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From 0 to 240⭐ in 2 weeks—and then this happened! 🚀

Hey r/devops I launched my side project DevOps: Learn by Doing at the start of the month to curate free, hands-on labs and end-to-end projects. Two weeks later it’s racked up 240+ stars on GitHub—thanks to all of you! 🙌

But the real plot twist? I just got an email from Yevgeniy Brikman (Gruntwork himself) saying he loved the idea so much he’s sending me a print copy of - Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery! 😱📚

I definitely didn’t expect this kind of ROI from a humble repo—guess my next KPI is “books received”! 😂

Huge thanks to everyone who starred, shared, or contributed.

linkedin post for more details : https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7342405110272008193/

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The CoinMarketCap attack

My team did a write up on the CoinMarketCap attack of yesterday. Would love your perspective. Client-side attacks are scary and on the rise. It’s obvious that bad actors have figured out that no one really monitors how their application behaves in the browser of a user.

https://cside.dev/blog/coinmarketcap-client-side-attack-a-comprehensive-analysis

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What are Buildkite and ArgoCD for?

I saw a job posting of a big tech company for a site reliability engineer role which contains the following bulletpoint:

> Expert knowledge of continuous deployment systems such as Buildkite and ArgoCD

I have set up a lot continuous delivery mechanisms and have worked with a lot CI/CD over the past 7-8 years but I don't know Buildkite and ArgoCD. We have always just used a gitlab-ci.yml, a GitHub workflow, Azure pipelines or the like and it works great.

Can someone tell me what the benefits of Buildkite, ArgoCD et al. are? I've googled it of course but I don't see anything that wouldn't work with GitHub actions for example.

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Creating virtual environment from scratch

For the sake of practice, I am creating a home/dev lab environment with proxmox. Later on, I will probably try to go hybrid to have onprem dev and "prod" on AWS. Do you guys have any tips for what I could include, or some techniques for managing resources, or advices in general that would be nice to learn while i build everything from scratch? So far I have made some ansible roles for LXC and VM creation/config, gitlab deployment and configuration, and (on the lower layer) I have set up high availability with ZFS shared pools. I plan on getting into the terraform, packer, and cloudinit stack as my next move. For CI/CD pipeline I will probably go with gitlab runners for now. Also for monit I am thinking zabbix+grafana with automated deployment through ansible.

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Which AWS services are must-know for real-world DevOps tasks

Hello guys, can you please list the must know AWS services for real world DevOps tasks ?

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A Decade of Cloud Native: The CNCF’s 10-Year Journey

I just published a detailed, historical breakdown of CNCF’s 10-year journey:
From Kubernetes and Prometheus to 30+ graduated projects and 200K+ contributors — this post covers it all: major milestones, ecosystem growth, governance model, and community evolution.

Would love feedback:
https://blog.abhimanyu-saharan.com/posts/a-decade-of-cloud-native-the-cncf-s-10-year-journey

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What tech role should I aim if I'm not keen on web dev?

So I'm a computer student trying to aim at a role and techstack. I don't see myself building a visually appealing website so frontend is probably not for me. Based on my strengths and weaknesses, I need recommendations on what role i would fit into :

I used to root phones and install custom roms as a hobby. For the time being I'm playing around with basic Linux commands on a virtual machine. I am terrible at DSA and don't know any JS frameworks. I see everyone around me jumping into the MERN bandwagon, but it never really caught my eyes. I have basic Python knowledge and would probably stick to it. C, Java and SQL have been taught on a college level only.

I have researched a bit and tried to look into SysOps and DevOps roles. Naturally the next question which arises is whether there are enough job oppurtunities for freshers? If yes then how do I begin my journey?

Thank you

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