What is the most useful CLI command you use that others may not know about?

Because we name things dynamically, I always had some trouble figuring out the name of the CDK stack that I was deploying, and I was guessing a bit what it was. Then I found out about `cdk list` and it has made my life so much easier. Not super cool, but it just gives me directly what I need.

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Are people going to actually trust a service with all their Infra access?

I saw this article today and had a serious question about how teams were okay with this

We've been building in a similar space and had to open source our whole project because security and environments were so sensitive it was better to have teams own it through their own process

which is why I'm so baffled

what is community thoughts on this?

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/sre-ai-launches-to-automate-complex-enterprise-workflows/

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Ridiculous take home assignment

A friend of mine (based in London) was just given this as a take home assignment after acing multiple interviews. Any senior devops engineer could do this, but some of us actually have jobs and weekends. "Approximately 3 hours" according to the recruiter, this had me laughing. Do they want LLM garbage quality terraform? All this for a measly 5 figure salary.

Companies are sickening.

Ridiculous assignment

Edit:

I'm surprised how many ego-high people there are here

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Junior platform engineer/ infrastructure engineer in fintech

I’m currently interviewing at a few financial firms, one being a global payments technology company and one being an hedge fund / quant trading midsize firm.

Both are junior/ associate roles as a platform and infrastructure engineerand I’m looking for a better idea on what compensation I should expect from these roles, yes I have searched levels.fyi and Glassdoor however both roles are fairly niche/new and there is not enough data on it.

For my context around me I have 1.5 years experience in a Devops environment and despite not working as an infrastructure or platform engineer I have “strong foundational knowledge” in both and expect to receive offers hopefully. I’m not solely going to make a decision based on the financials however I just want a better idea of what to expect and what is deemed “fair” in the financial industry.

I appreciate the read and help.

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Devops Engineering in 2025

First of all, I am a Noob, Please Don't Make fun of me, I am just Starting to Learn Devops from Youtube wholeheartedly, B.tech IT pass out in 2020, Will I be able to Get a job in this era...
Should I learn this now or not?
I am little bit good with python only and Learning shell scripting from the base, Please Guide me If I will be able to get a job after 6-7 months in any Startup ? I mean Are there any Single Chance?
I am not Enrolling in any Paid course, Since Someone Told ne everything is already in youtube but what Actually scaring me is, Will I be able someday to get a single Job or not? Please Help or Guide me in any sense you can, Very Depressed Already

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Security lessons from the CodeRabbit exploit: ops mistakes that open the biggest holes

The CodeRabbit exploit is another reminder that the biggest compromises often come from day-to-day operational gaps, not exotic zero-days. A few patterns that stood out:

* Storing secrets in env vars instead of a secrets manager (rotation becomes painful when things leak).
* Leaving servers with open outbound access to the entire internet.
* Running dev/test tools in production without sandboxing (e.g. linters, formatters).
* Collecting logs but never actually analyzing them for anomalies.
* CI/CD and infra roles with far too much privilege.

I pulled together some practical lessons for app teams that manage production systems:
[https://railsfever.com/blog/security-best-practices-web-apps-lessons-coderabbit-exploit/](https://railsfever.com/blog/security-best-practices-web-apps-lessons-coderabbit-exploit/)

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How do I get back in the game ?

I graduated University in Software Engineering back in 2023, and since then I've been traveling (mainly back home as I recently got married).

I'm now looking for a job .. but have noticed that it is an extremely tough market in general. I've had one year of internship experience where my title was a DevOps Engineer Intern, so I'm mostly looking at DevOps positions, and relevant roles.

I understand that the 2 year employment gap is a big red flag for recruiters, so my question is:

How do I get back in the game and make myself standout? Are there certain projects I should try to be doing? Are there books that I should be reading? I understand DevOps is more hands on experience rather than learning loads of material, but where and how do I start?

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What are things you did that saved a lot of money to the company you worked for?

What are things you did that saved a lot of money to the company you worked for? I've been trying to look for some inefficiency in my infrastructure. Feel free to share.

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What is DevOps

I am interested in Full Stack but also IT and I asked chatgpt if there was something that combines both and it suggested Dev Ops.

What is DevOps?

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How do you folks usually audit your AWS setup? Any universal best practices?

Hey everyone,

I’ve been thinking about how to properly audit AWS infrastructure, not just a one-off checklist, but something that makes sense no matter what kind of setup you’re running (EC2, serverless, Kubernetes, etc.).

What I’m trying to figure out is:

What are the baseline things you always look at (security, compliance, costs, etc.)?
Do you guys lean on AWS-native stuff like Config, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub, or do you bring in 3rd-party tools?
Do you follow any frameworks/checklists (CIS, Well-Architected Framework, etc.)?
And most importantly… do you treat audits as a one-time exercise or more of a continuous monitoring thing?

I’d love to hear how others are handling this in the real world. Any tips, horror stories, or lessons learned the hard way are more than welcome !!

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Typosquatting GitHub's Ghrc.io container registry

A user discovered an active container registry at ghrc.io, not ghcr.io, which is the official GitHub Container Registry. This reflects an escalation from typosquatting individual package names to targeting entire registries.
https://cloudsmith.com/blog/typosquatting-the-ghcr-registry

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guidance and tips

i'm a network engineering student and next year will be the last year so i have to look for a 6month internship to finalize it , i've been wanting to get into devops and cloud for the past months but i still find myself lost and really at the beggining compared to my peers , they all doing those cka and azure and aws certifications and already applying for internships while i feel that i'm not ready yet to apply, i can't afford the same certifications they are doing or the plans they are enrolled to online , i really want some help to do projects and improve my portfolio so i can feel confident enough while applying to interviews.
is there any tips or projects or study plans i can do to improve myself in the following weeks to have chances in this competitive fields (free plz)

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Is there any decent free SAST tool that scans your infrastructure code for issues and vulnerabilities?

Is there any decent free SAST tool that scans your infrastructure code for issues and vulnerabilities? I was looking for some, but all of them weren't open source or free to use.

https://redd.it/1mxarne
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Looking for the best budget alternative to Hetzner CPX31 which costs ~23$

CPX31 has 4 AMD vCPUs 8 gigs of ram 40 gigs SSD 3TB bandwith. Want to host coolify, multiple apps and apis to reduce costs. Was thinking of OVH.. I would prefer a US instance but I'm fine with europe.

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[Question] Advice on Lateral job transition when leaving Devops and going back to school

I am planning to pivot out of devops/tech entirely. For me this means going back to school for a masters, which will be quite expensive.

I am evaluating my options for a lateral transition to a job that will pay the bills for the next 3-5 years in the mean-time. I would like to not completely kill my tech career in case I need it as a fall-back. Ideally I'm looking for something I could transition to quickly (say a few months), but I'm also willing to take another devops job for another year to work on certs/portfolio if that is the better way to go.

**My Criteria**

* Need a solid salary so I can save up to pay for school
* Staying devops for awhile would probably pay the most and get me there sooner, but also would be very difficult for me
* Position needs to have enough demand that I can get hired
* Reasonably low stress and out of hours work
* Ideally low-barrier to entry (with my background)
* Boring is perfectly fine for me right now

**What I'm looking to avoid**

* 24/7 support
* Regular out-of-hours support
* Constant troubleshooting

**My Background**

* \~10 years in tech (\~4 sysadmin/engineer + \~6 Devops/Platform Engineering)
* Worked with the usual stack (Iac, ci/cd, cloud providers . . .)
* I've had alot of certs (google, vmware, cisco, etc . . .) in the past

**What I'm Considering**

* Technical Writing
* I really the idea of this and have started looking into it, but I'm not sure:
* How soon this will be taken over by ML/LLMS
* How high the barrier to entry is
* IAM
* In alot of ways this sounds great, but I'm not sure how difficult the transition would be?
* Security Analyst
* This sounds really hit-or-miss (could be ok, could be very stressful)
* Might require going back to a junior position to get a job?

Has anyone else taken a similar route? If so what do you think about the positions I'm considering? Is there something else you might consider? I've also considered trying to find a lower-stress devops position at some larger company, but that's not ideal for me.

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Smarter Scaling of Kubernetes workloads with Keda

Scaling workloads efficiently in Kubernetes is one of the biggest challenges platform teams and developers face today. Kubernetes does provide a built-in Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), but that mechanism is primarily tied to CPU and memory usage. While that works for some workloads, modern applications often need far more flexibility.

What if you want to scale your application based on the length of an SQS queue, the number of events in Kafka, or even the size of objects in an S3 bucket? That’s where KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling) comes into play.

KEDA extends Kubernetes’ native autoscaling capabilities by allowing you to scale based on real-world events, not just infrastructure metrics. It’s lightweight, easy to deploy, and integrates seamlessly with the Kubernetes API. Even better, it works alongside the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler you may already be using — giving you the best of both worlds.

https://youtu.be/S5yUpRGkRPY

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Help me to become a Devops Engineer

Hey Guys,
I want to start learning Devops Engineering.
I am from non-technical background and want to start from scratch.
Could you please guys provide me a best roadmap to start to make a career in Devops Engineer?
Like where I can start or Suggest me any best courses for that?


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Keep motivation during my devOps self learning journey

Currently I'm following devOps online bootcamp. It's consists with Linux , git , docker , jenkin , k8s , AWS and monitoring tools. My problem is how to maintain good discipline and motivation for self studying thos stuffs. Currently I'm MSc student in Computer Science. Looking for some advices.

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Visa inc

Has anyone here Know what its like on a final interview in Visa Inc? Kinda overthinking because it is onsite interview.

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What is the biggest networking problem that you helped solve?

What is the biggest networking problem that you helped solve? I think we had a misconfigured security group that prevented us from accessing production server through SSH and no one thought about checking the security group for some odd reason. I think all the brains of the organization left because of the angry project manager who kept shouting at them.

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Database Containers for Ephemeral Lower Level Environments

Hi community, I was wondering if anyone had any experience building out database images with pre seeded schema and seed data in containers? My use case is the following - I have multiple lowers level ephemeral environments with many different databases and would like to provide a ready made database container that can be instantiated for quick development iterations. I don’t need these dbs to be long live or really have any other backups of any sort, I just need quickly deployable seeded database that can be created on the fly. Does anyone have any experience building this type of infrastructure or operationalizing this type of setup with containers?

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