Shared a technical walkthrough on creating and deploying .dxt MCP extensions for Claude Desktop—minimal config, local runtime, cross-platform.

https://glama.ai/blog/2025-07-11-getting-started-with-mcp-desktop-extensions-dxt-in-claude-desktop

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getting into devops with this resume?

Hello!

I’m currently looking to land a DevOps engineering role and would really appreciate it if anyone could take a look at my resume.

I wrote this cv over the last few days and only started applying to devops positions since yesterday, so I still have no clue as to how it'll perform.

I'd appreciate any feedback! I obviously know it's extremely challenging to break in to the field but I'm extremely motivated and willing to continue working dilligently to achieve that goal.

Thanks in advance

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Where do you draw the line of how much developers can manage their own infrastructure?

For context, I'm a developer who's been tasked with helping our very tiny devops team rectify our code to infrastructure pipeline to make soc2 compliance happen. We don't currently have anyone accountable for defining or implementing policy so we're just trying to figure it out as we go. It's not going well and we keep going round-and-round on what "principal of least privilege" means and how IAM binding actually works.

We're in GCP, if that matters.

Today, as configured before I started at this company, a single GCP service account has god priviledges to deploy every project to every environment. Local terraform development happens via impersonation of this god service account. Gitlab impersonates the same SA to deploy to all environments. As you can imagine, we've had several production outages caused by developers doing something unintentionally with local terraform development against what they thought was a dev environment resource and ended up having global ramifications. We of course have CICD and code reviews - we just don't have a great way to create infrastructure. And the nature of what we're building ends up being infrastructure heavy as we're rolling our own PKI infrastructure for an IoT fleet.

The devops lead and I have sat at the negotiation table litigating the solution to this to death. I can't look to a policy maker to arbitrate so I'm looking for outside advice.

Do you air-gap environments so that no single service account can cross environment boundaries?

Do you allow developers to deploy to dev/sandbox/test environments? Do you have break-glass capability for prod in the event that terraform state gets wonked up from an intermittent API fault?

Can developers administer service accounts / iam permissions on dev environments? How about global resources like buckets?

How do you provision access for their project pipelines to do what they need to without risking the pipeline escalating its own privileges to break other infrastructure?

If Service A needs Resource Alpha running as Service Account Alphonso, how do you let the their pipeline create A, Alpha, and Alphonso without permitting read/mutation/deletion of service B, resource Beta, and account Brit? Is that even a real issue? What about Shared Resource Gamma? Or do you take away rights to deploy any infrastructure and only allow pipelines to revision deployed code?

Are these just squishy details and ideas that don't really matter so long as there's a point person who's accountable for policy?

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Best free courses for learning devops.

Which are the best free courses to learn devops as a student?

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My solution to collecting bug reports (no more duplicates, lackluster reports or user-error)

I've been drowning in bug reports lately. Players submit super vague reports through Discord and it turns into this endless back-and-forth just to get basic info. "The game is broken" → "What's broken?" → "It doesn't work" → you get the idea. It was becoming really time-consuming.

I looked into Sentry and Highlight io but they're great for crashes and API errors, not so much for the weird UI bugs or behavioral stuff that only humans notice.

So I had this idea - what if I made a bug report form that uses AI to actually be useful? It checks my GitHub issues for duplicates, asks follow-up questions when details are missing, and filters out the "this is user error" reports.

I also made it customizable so you can add your own prompts to "teach" it about your specific app and what kinds of reports to reject.

If anyone else is dealing with this kind of chaos, I put it up at bugspot.dev. It's free for small projects and the code's on GitHub if you want to self-host. Only thing you need to do is to look at the env example and get API keys for OpenRouter, GitHub and configure some Svelte variables :-)

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Programming languages in devops

I am a cybersecurity student who has been learning cloud and DevOps for the past 3–4 months.

As a cybersecurity major I haven’t focused heavily on coding, I have an intermediate-level understanding of Python and am comfortable with advanced scripting(bash and powershell). I also know that I need to learn Infrastructure as Code (IaC), YAML, and JSON.

So will this be enough for devops and cloud in programming aspect or I need to learn any other programming language.

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Still maintaining GAE apps using Legacy Bundled Services?"

Anyone here still running or supporting apps built on the old Google App Engine bundled services stack (Java version)? Or know teams/companies that still do?

I’m referring to the original GAE model where everything was baked in—Datastore, Blobstore, Task Queues, Cron, the whole platform-as-a-service bundle. You basically just deployed your app and GAE handled the rest. No need to wire separate services or manage infra manually.

Just wondering if there are still people out there maintaining or modernizing systems built on this stack.

I still think the GAE API model is underrated—especially for fast app prototyping or even internal tools. There are a couple of open source efforts that tried to replicate the platform:

AppScale

https://github.com/AppScale/gts

A full reimplementation of GAE (in Python, but with Java support too). I used this a few times years ago. It gave a very GAE-like experience: CLI tooling, dashboards, even scaling knobs. Sadly, abandoned now. I tried standing up their Docker setup recently but something broke, I didn’t get the chance to dig into it. Back then, support was excellent even for free users. Props to the engineers who built it.

CapeDwarf

https://github.com/capedwarf

From the JBoss folks. Basically WildFly 8 with GAE API compatibility sprinkled in. It still runs today if you keep things on Java 8. What’s wild is how they pulled this off using Infinispan as the Datastore backend. It worked surprisingly well. The lead dev (Ales) mentioned he started by reimplementing Datastore, and the rest followed. I think modernizing it would be tricky now since Infinispan doesn’t support embedded mode anymore (correct me if I’m wrong). But it’s still impressive—GAE-style apps from 10+ years ago can still be hosted today, just self-managed.

Anyone else maintaining legacy GAE stuff, or trying to rebuild a similar internal PaaS? Curious what others are doing in this space.

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Anyone familiar with utho.com?

I’m stuck doing devops for a startup in India as an MLE and exploring cheaper options - cheaper than AWS. This one came into my radar recently and wondering why/how they are able to offer it for so cheap. What’s the catch. I don’t think I understand how these cloud providers pricing strategies work - but I’m willing to learn it in depth.

Helpful comments are welcome. Thank you.

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Job Market

Hey everyone! I'm a freelance web developer, and I'm starting to get into DevOps because it seems pretty cool. Before I go too deep, I'm curious about the job market. Is it solid? or is it kinda like web dev where it feels super saturated sometimes?
Any insights would be awesome!

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Can you run keycloak with postgres on aws free tier?

I tried running them through a docker compose file, but every time my ec2 instance hangs up and stops responding. I have to stop it and start it again.

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need structured learning resources (send me links)

I am already 3 years in web development but I’m now interested in making DevOps my specialized skill as a software engineer. Someone who can manage infra and the whole development to deployment process, as our company also needs one. Not being forced to do so but I just have the urge to do it (and it looks cool to be a master in this space). I’ve already watched few videos in YouTube but I need it to know it from this community. I need y’all to recommend me links/courses where I can learn it all. Linux fundamentals, dockers, CI/CD, cloud providers, etc. you name it. It doesn’t matter if it’s paid or free just throw it here.

Thanks!

also can you vouch for this course: https://www.skool.com/kubecraft/about

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Tips for working with offshore devs

TLDR; I'm writing from the US perspective - when working with offshore developers what are some your challenges and how to mitigate them?

Context: In previous full-time role at a large company we had distributed teams across the US, Eastern EU, and India, with a good mix of junior to senior engineers, and things went fairly well. I think largely due to decent compensation package, strong talent sourcing and local managers who could provide guidance/resolve conflicts when needed.

Now as a freelancer, I’ve found it pretty tough sometimes working with devs that clients bring on through offshore agencies. One thing I’ve noticed: they often stop as soon as they hit a roadblock and immediately try to shift the blame.

For example, one dev was supposed to deploy a test Django app on a private EC2 instance. My part was to set up the subdomain/update the LB/security groups, etc. But before they'd verified their deployment locally, they kept pushing to know the domain name so they could "test" it from the browser. From past experience, I’ve learned not to share everything until at least they've done a basic smoke test, like hitting the app locally with curl to see if it’s even running.

I don’t love working like this, but it seems to be the way to avoid headaches. Would love to hear your experience.

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A social without Ai trash

Recently I get a lot frustrated about Ai, that comment random post, and now even the video are Ai, this suck and I was thinking about a social were you disable all possibility to create bot, multiple accounts and no way to post Ai shit, and also made this social whit a paywall so the data remain in the social and also will limit the “spam”

So you think that’s a great idea?

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Defining DevOps Toolset

I am new to DevOps, and I already have experience with git/GitHub and Jenkins(CI/CD). I'm interested in picking up other tools to increase my agility in regards to the operations aspect of DevOps. I am currently learning using AWS, but I would like to focus platform agnostic tools to maintain mobility from cloud to on-premise tools. With this I am currently against learning AWS cloud formation.

So my question becomes, what other tools can I learn to "complete" my DevOps Toolkit? I'm not really interested in learning ruby, so that removes Chef. Could someone explain these tools and main use cases: Ansible vs Puppet, Terra form, kubernetes and Docker!

I understand my needs and tools may change, but I'd really appreciate it!

Thank you in advance!

Be well!

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Got rejected on the very first question of my first ever full-time interview

I’m currently working as a DevOps intern at a startup, but honestly, I’ve been lagging behind compared to the other interns. Then recently, the first company came to our college for a pool campus placement drive(3lpa for 6months and then 5lpa after that).

To my surprise, I cleared the technical assessment and was the only one selected from my college. That gave me a little confidence boost. On the day of the interview, I was traveling and quickly brushed up on SQL and OOPs on the go.

I was the first one to be interviewed. They handed me a laptop and gave me a question: left shift an array by K positions. I tried building logic through trial and error. But then I realized my screen was being shared via MS Teams and I started panicking. The interviewer asked if I’d prefer another question — and out of self-doubt, I said yes.

She gave me a string manipulation problem (reversing alphabets in each word of a sentence), and I’ve never solved such a string problem before. Anxiety hit hard. I froze and eventually gave up. She politely ended the interview, and I walked out in 15 minutes.

I feel ashamed, but I know I’ve got to turn this into fuel. I’m planning to focus fully on upskilling in DevOps and aim to convert my current internship into a full-time role.

If anyone’s been through something like this, would love to hear how you bounced back.

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Best ai chatbot for roleplay

please answer

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How to dockerize and deploy a node application with database to cloud ?

Hello ,
I have cloned and run medusa backend , used docker based postgres and redis and it was running locally and write a Dockerfile and tried to run it and I am unable to run it no matter what and these is some error any way what, I have built the docker image and tried to run it but it fails ever I tried i thought it was the error in my env files then I came to know that for an application with database we need to use docker compose file so then it's for local development if I want to deploy it to some cloud like AWS ecs with fargate what should I do like what is the process and how things work like I don't understand how these kinds of projects are deployed and whatvcan I do to learn these.

Please help me to understand things better
And I don't understand this diff between local deployment with compose and how to deploy it using the cloud ecs with fargate.

Please mension any resources or blogs to understand things better.

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Securely Expose Local Docker Services Using Cloudflare Tunnel

If you’ve ever needed to share your locally running Docker apps, whether it’s a dev backend, internal dashboard, or homelab monitoring stack, without exposing ports or using a VPN, Cloudflare Tunnel is a game-changer.

I just published a detailed guide on using Cloudflare Tunnel as a reverse proxy with Docker Compose. The setup includes:

A working sample project (Node.js services + `cloudflared`)
DNS routing with your domain or subdomain
Zero Trust-friendly structure
Security best practices

Read it here: https://blog.prateekjain.dev/expose-docker-services-securely-using-cloudflare-tunnel-9b89fe1ed2b7?sk=ca040c0d0965958aab074ff90fba437c

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Datalog remove ip, useragent_details from logs

Any idea on how to remove fields from context before passing logs to datadog.i have tried something like this using beforesend but its not working

import { datadogLogs } from '@datadog/browser-logs'

datadogLogs.init({
...,
beforeSend: (log) => {
if (log.message.config)
delete log.message.config // or whatever property you want to remove
},
...
});

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ASP .NET Website Project CI/CD deployment

Has anyone worked on .NET Framework 4.7 website projects specifically those without a .csproj or similar project file?

Kindly note I’m referring to website projects, not web applications or class libraries.

When attempting to publish using commands like:
msbuild ./<website-folder-name> /t:Publish /p:PublishDir=publish ,it doesn’t seem to work.

Has anyone faced this scenario? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!



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Podcast: Reliability Rebels, Ep 6

(x-posted from r/SRE)

I chat with Chris Evans (founder & CPO at incident.io) about the promises and pitfalls of AI in incident response, based on his recent article Avoiding the Ironies of Automation.

We also dig into his time at Monzo, including a major incident in 2019 involving a centralized Cassandra cluster that sat squarely in their critical path!

Links:

[YouTube](https://youtu.be/sysa6ubTv2s?si=P17QBZJ-7r_OPy1z)
Spotify

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