I have a university grad intern starting next month, need some good starter resources.

Hey r/devops. Platform engineering manager here. I have a computer science post grad intern starting next next month and they’re a little wet behind the ears with practical experience.

I really want to give them a good head start and some useful resources, preferably on YouTube. Full disclosure I’m a grizzled old Gen-X who uses YT occasionally.

Does anyone have any good channels that introduce devops concepts to starters? I need to cover CI/CD, IAC, Cloud technologies observability etc.

Thank you in advance!


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What to do when a project fails?

Hey, everyone!

I've be‌en in IT fo‌r over 5 y‌ears, someti‌mes backe‌nd, sometim‌es f‌ree‌la‌‌nc‌e.‌ My ex‌peri‌ence varies from sim‌ple la‌nding p‌ages to ‌comp‌lex finte‌ch sys‌tems. A‌nd rece‌ntly, I thou‌ght I h‌ad l‌anded m‌y dre‌am pro‌ject: a cl‌ient fro‌m th‌e U‌S, a‌n ide‌a for an‌ AI-bas‌ed educ‌ational platf‌orm, g‌ood b‌udgets, an‌d a lo‌ng t‌erm. I‌ sign‌ed u‌p, assembl‌ed my ‌te‌am‌, an‌d w‌e confide‌ntly g‌ot st‌arted

W‌e wor‌k‌ed fo‌r o‌ver thre‌e mon‌ths, puttin‌g o‌ur hear‌ts int‌o it, b‌ut it wa‌sn't all smo‌oth‌ s‌ail‌ing‌ - th‌e docu‌mentation wa‌‌s w‌eak, th‌e too‌ls w‌ere ‌ra‌w, an‌d we ‌of‌ten ‌h‌ad t‌o imp‌rovise. Th‌en th‌e‌ c‌lient star‌ted respon‌ding m‌ore sl‌owly, an‌d ev‌entually ju‌st wr‌ote:

“W‌e ha‌ve de‌cided to p‌ut th‌e‌ pro‌ject on h‌old. T‌hank yo‌u” LO‌L

Thr‌ee mon‌ths of w‌ork - do‌wn t‌he dra‌in. Almos‌t n‌o pa‌yment, th‌e team‌ was un‌motivated, a‌nd I wa‌s broke

B‌ut I di‌dn't lo‌se eve‌rything, beca‌use I've be‌en inter‌ested in c‌‌‌r‌‌‌yp‌‌t‌‌o‌ f‌or a lo‌ng ti‌me. I'v‌e bee‌n fo‌llowing var‌ious c‌ommuniti‌es sinc‌e 2021. ‌And‌ rec‌ently, I cam‌e ac‌ross a post b‌y a ‌guy o‌n R‌eddit [link\], a‌nd dec‌ided t‌o gi‌ve it a try. I‌ man‌aged to r‌ise a littzle c‌‌‌as‌‌‌h, j‌u‌st e‌nough t‌o rent an apar‌tm‌ent 😅 Ve‌ry tim‌ely, br‌o

Th‌is ex‌perience tau‌ght m‌e a l‌ot - bot‌h tech‌nically a‌nd m‌entally. N‌ow I a‌m mor‌e cautiou‌s ab‌out long‌ proj‌ects with‌out clea‌r gua‌rantees an‌d tr‌y to a‌llocate r‌esourc‌es be‌tter, and I ad‌vise you to d‌o th‌e sa‌me

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Looking for a mentor or co founder ... We have a certain product that we want to distribute direct to customers (D2C)..

We want to create a distribution channel online through our own website.. but i am researching about how to create a good reliable website or app ... We are 2 founders of this product that we can't disclose yet .
How do you hire someone to get this done in efficient manner without burning too much capital .
Is there a way to outsource them . Does the website or app need constant backsupport.. what's the general process in creating such streamlined system.
Anyone who knows about stuff ...can you explain it in the comments for now .

Would really help us get the nepali perspective on this .

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KubeDiagrams 0.5.0 is out!

**KubeDiagrams** 0.5.0 is out! **KubeDiagrams**, an open source Apache 2.0 License project hosted on GitHub, is a tool to generate Kubernetes architecture diagrams from Kubernetes manifest files, kustomization files, Helm charts, helmfile descriptors, and actual cluster state. **KubeDiagrams** supports most of all Kubernetes built-in resources, any custom resources, namespace, label and annotation-based resource clustering, and declarative custom diagrams. This new release provides many improvements and is available as a Python package in PyPI, a container image in DockerHub, a kubectl plugin, a Nix flake, and a GitHub Action.

Try it on your own Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, helmfiles, and actual cluster state!

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Every startup wants "DevOps", until they realize what it actually takes

I’ve lost count of how many early-stage teams want CI/CD, infra-as-code, multi-env setups, monitoring, rollback, zero-downtime deploys… all before even having stable revenue.

And they assign it to a solo dev or junior engineer as a “side task”.

Meanwhile:

No one owns infra debt.
No budget for proper tooling.

Everyone wants “just one more feature” instead of paying infra tech debt.

When something breaks in prod, it’s magically “DevOps’ fault”.

DevOps is not a checkbox.
It’s a long-term investment that touches culture, workflows, and team maturity.

You either take it seriously, or you're just writing TODOs that'll bite you in 3AM alerts later.

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Medical Student Looking to Transition into Data Science

I'm 25 years old and currently a second-semester medical student at a public university.

I've always been passionate about technology, especially data science, cybersecurity, and bioinformatics, but my ENEM (Brazilian university entrance exam) score allowed me to get into a federal university in the south for medicine, so I decided to go for it.

Now, I'm considering switching programs at the same university to data science, with the goal of eventually working in cybersecurity or bioinformatics. I’ve already started the bureaucratic process for the transfer.

I know data science isn’t the perfect degree for cybersecurity, for example, but it offers a wide range of career opportunities.

For those working in this field: What are your thoughts on the job market?

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Is there a chance for me as an IT Help desk with no programming experience

Long story short i have bsc in information technology & worked as an it helpdesk for 6 months (have experience with Microsoft Active directory & Domain controller / configuration of Cisco switches / opnsense and pfsense firewall / some Linux CLI experience / used to mess with aws ec2 as well)

my issue is I forgot most if not all of my programming knowledge

I am now unemployed (yea cuz I had enough of why my MoUsE is not working or my printer is jammed) and I really don't want to stay stuck in the loop, my original goal was to get a job as a network engineer but even if i had a ccnp certification it's so fucking hard to even land an interview let alone getting accepted

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Tired of switching branches manually in multiple git repos (with submodules)? I built a simple tool for that!

Hi all,
Recently, I was working on a project where I had to manage several git repositories at once, many of them with submodules.
Every time I needed to switch to a specific release branch (for example, when deploying or integrating), I had to go into each repo, checkout the right branch, make sure the submodules were on the same branch, and sometimes I forgot one and things broke… It was a huge headache, especially when using tools like Helm and mounting multiple environments.

So, I decided to build a simple open-source GUI tool in Python (with Tkinter) to handle this pain point:

Scan a folder and find all git repos (including submodules)
See the current branch of each repo
Switch branches in all repos with a single click
Bulk set a target branch for all repos
Autocomplete branch selection
“Pull All” support

It’s cross-platform (Linux & macOS executables available), open-source, and works out of the box — no install required!
I hope it can save you the frustration it saved me.

GitHub link:
https://github.com/orinu/multi-repo-git-manager

Give it a spin if you think it’ll help you too!

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Kotlin DSL enhancements in TeamCity

JetBrains shared an update about enhancements in Kotlin DSL support, for a bunch of recent major TeamCity releases.

It covers not syntax changes for particular features, but improvements which may make the life of admin easier/more effective.

What would you actually prefer for configuration, YAML or a real programming language like Kotlin? Any TeamCity users here to share their opinion?


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Using grafana beyla distributed traces on aks

Hi,

I am trying to build a solution for traces in my aks cluster. I already have tempo for storing traces and alloy as a collector. I wanted to deploy grafana beyla and leverage its distributed traces feature(I am using config as described here https://grafana.com/docs/beyla/latest/distributed-traces) to collect traces without changing any application code.

The problem is that no matter what I do, I never get a trace that would include span in both nginx ingress controller and my .net app, nor do I see any spans informing me about calls that my app makes to a storage account on azure.

In the logs I see info

"found incompatible linux kernel, disabling trace information parsing"

so this makes think that it's actually impossible, but
1. This is classsified as info, not error.

2. It's hard to believe that azure would have such an outdated kernel.

So I am still clinging on to hope. Other than that logs don't contain anything useful. Does anyone have experience with using beyla distributed tracing? Are there any free to use alternatives that you'd recommend? Any help would be appreciated.

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DevOps Education Survey, Friendly Invitation to Instructors, Students, and Professionals

Hi, I'm working on my **bachelor thesis** on how **DevOps** is taught in higher education and how we can facilitate teaching and learning DevOps with effective methods and tools. I want to understand the **challenges and strategies in teaching** DevOps, but also **students' perspectives** on their learning experience. Also interesting to this research is, whether graduates are properly equipped with **industry relevant skills**. I would like to invite **instructors, students** (who participated in DevOps courses or related software engineering courses), and **professionals** (also HR personnel) to participate in an **anonymous, short survey (8-10 min)**. Your input is appreciated and will help me understand how I can contribute to make DevOps education better with my research. Thank you!

* For instructors: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdPEv3\_-N743ovx-uCw8fTxVfiEuSzlfeNEHesiWQ-KuU7Ybg/viewform?usp=header](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdPEv3_-N743ovx-uCw8fTxVfiEuSzlfeNEHesiWQ-KuU7Ybg/viewform?usp=header)
* For students: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecKjREIHqPgbYrs0eBTodN1dsQN\_ZsE3RA9KMPu8odaToWqg/viewform?usp=header](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecKjREIHqPgbYrs0eBTodN1dsQN_ZsE3RA9KMPu8odaToWqg/viewform?usp=header)
* For HR personnel and professionals: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8gpU4PoxHnnJK\_NfvoDQYJO7iRmx-c60iPZ322Pwj8QswMg/viewform?usp=header](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8gpU4PoxHnnJK_NfvoDQYJO7iRmx-c60iPZ322Pwj8QswMg/viewform?usp=header)

If you know other channels, where I could find potential participants, please don't hesitate and let me know!

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Monitoring Wildfly deployment folder on Grafana

Hello everyone,

I need some advice.

I. have one server with Wildfly operating in standalone mode. There is multiple jar files deployed on it. How can I put information about the number of deployed and undeployed jar file and the name of the file on Grafana ? (We are using Grafana at work, so it can't be substituted to Zabbix or something else)

I thought about creating a bash script to check the number of .jar.deployed files and ingest the values into a database. This will act as a data source.

My problem with this method is that it will depend on the frequency of the program, so it won't be in real time. I also know the existing of Wildfly metrics from this link but I have no clue on its implementation.

Does anyone have an idea ? Thank you!

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Is Chef/Cinc client still worth using in 2025?

I'm asking this because chef is still being used in my organization at a wide level.
It was being used for linux only to be specific and they have so many cookbooks written for the linux configuration.
Now they're expanding this to windows nodes as well.
So i have to redo most of the things done for linux, in windows... and also I should create some new cookbooks for that as well.

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Help Migrating to GCP

Hi everyone,

I’m working on migrating different components of my current project to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and I’d appreciate your help with the following three areas:

# 1. Data Engineering Pipeline Migration

I want to build a data engineering pipeline using GCP services.

The data sources include BigQuery and CSV files stored in Cloud Storage.
I'm a data scientist, so I'm comfortable using Python, but the original pipeline I'm migrating from used a low-code/no-code tool with some Python scripts.
I’d appreciate recommendations for which GCP services I can use for this pipeline (e.g., Dataflow, Cloud Composer, Dataprep, etc.), along with the pros and cons of each — especially in terms of ease of use, cost, and flexibility.

# 2. Machine Learning Deployment (Vertex AI)

For another use case, I’ll also migrate the associated data pipeline and train machine learning models on GCP.

I plan to use Vertex AI.
I see there are both AutoML (no-code) and Workbench (code-based) options.
Is there a big difference in terms of ease of deployment and management between the two?
Which one would you recommend for someone aiming for fast deployment?

# 3. Migrating a Flask Web App to GCP

Lastly, I have a simple web application built with Flask, HTML/CSS, and JavaScript.

What is the easiest and most efficient way to deploy it on GCP?
Should I use Cloud Run, App Engine, or something else?
I'm looking for minimal setup and management overhead.

Thanks in advance for any advice or experience you can share!

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What’s your workflow for tracking upstream updates for internal tools?

I believe regular version upgrades are important. Our team uses a lot of third-party tools internally, or even something integrated into our product.

Curious how you guys are tracking their versions in an efficient way? Or just a manual check?

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Snowflake is ending password only logins. What is your team switching to?

Heads up for anyone working with Snowflake.

Password only authentication is being deprecated and if your org has not moved to SSO, OAuth, or key pair access, it is time.

This is not just a policy updateIt is part of a broader move toward stronger cloud access security and zero trust.

Key takeaways

• Password only access is no longer supported

• Snowflake is recommending secure alternatives like OAuth and key pair auth

• Deadlines are fast approaching

• The transition is not automatic and needs coordination with identity and cloud teams

What is your plan for the transition and how do you feel about the change??

For a breakdown of timelines and auth options, here’s a resource that helped
https://data-sleek.com/blog/snowflake-password-only-access-deprecation/

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Need a partner to practise and learn DevOps after my office hours

I'm currently in a data analytics role, and I'm looking forward into breaking into roles like DevOps/SRE/cloud. And need a friend with whom I can make projects, and have a learning journey. I'm looking forward to do this after my office hours.. ie btwn 6pm-12am (IST) ... I need someone to share my projects... Get feedback, help on my projects... And learn.

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Can you give me some recommendations regarding certifications

Hello group i want to get some DevOps related certificate , can you share your opinion which technologies and certificates have real work value . I was wondering for AWS DevOps, but before i start i just want to see which will be better. Keep in mind that i dont have many experience with the role more like Sys admin / network security of a guy .

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The Jira use (or misuse)

Do you find it funny that, engineers or senior managers who advocate for tools like jira, are the ones who less use it, while engineers who most use it, hate it?

What I mean is, senior managers or PMs for example, usually only deal with setting milestones and writing epics, then every now and then pull some reports and that's about it. While engineers do have to deal with setting boards, sprints, labels, views, queries and what not...which can be frustrating to say the least.

I just don't understand how this tool made it to be industry standard, when 80% of its features nobody uses. Its so bloated, now AI is being pushed into it of course.

I'd be willing to bet other tools would achieve the same just fine, for a fraction of the cost. Now, of course, fighting that fight with a while company is another story...

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Follow up on "How to not be shitty at DevOps" a few months into the role.

Hello Everyone..

Using my alt account as Reddit don't seem to like users using VPNs and throwaway email addresses...

Anyhow, a while back I asked how to not be shitty at DevOps was a new adventure (I was a Linux sysadmin with K8s and scripting skills) - https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1klkh3e/how\_to\_not\_be\_shitty\_at\_devops/

I thought I owed it to the community to come back and follow up...

Initially I had some major concerns about "ooops" moments and if I measured up. I am happy to say that I landed in a great environment with a great team and good leadership. They didn't pay me to say that, honest! That said, its a hardcore environment and results are important (but in a not at all costs way).

The first few days where "OMG What have I done?" but after that, once all the accounts worked as expected and getting to know the people it turned out to be a very good experience. I *thought* I knew the tools and tech but it was a whole new level. That said, they have been kind and patient with me and my boss is overflowing with praise because he is getting really good positive feedback from all quarters.

As for "oops" moments, sure I made a few mistakes but haven't taken anything down (yet) but the thing with DevOps is that is why you have multiple environments and when pushing to prod its triple check, dry run, triple check again. You learn how to minimize oops issues.

As for the pay, yes, it was very worth it. :D

I got headhunted so I cant really advise on getting positions but I am glad I made the jump. If you get the offer, consider it











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Dealing with a bad brand new manager

I was working as a Backend-Platform Engineer in a very famous scale up company. And you know, things get reorged and a SRE got promoted to EM. This EM (brand new, fresh manager) has a bad style managing:


\- Writes "hello" without a context (thus not following https://nohello.net/en/)
\- Asks you to just click the Apply Terraform button instead of just doing it itself
\- We don't any doc summarizing our 1:1
\- No plans for promotion or feedback given to me, and this is important, I was a Senior Eng previously but I'm not considered Senior here
\- When rushing in projects, he doesn't show up in meetings, we are (the soldiers) just working late nights

I already got an offer from another company, but my current job pays REALLY well and will not get the same TC anywhere. I already was in a mood of quiet quitting, but I would like to hear your opinions and suggestions. THANKS!

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