First day finally receiving accesses as a Jr and It really fucking sucked.

Today I finally got a ticket and I was quite shocked to realize that I understand next to nothing about their systems even after reading a couple docs that explained the architectural walk through

I don't know why they pick X ports, I don't know how the services interact together and I don't know how anything is connected or how to implement monitoring. I am on probation, 2 months and afraid I might not pass it. It's remote so there is no way to have a senior around and the team is fairly small despite the size of the org which is prominent and well established.

The seniors openly dislike hand holding and I don't know what to do, it's frustrating and they are responsible for assessing me that the end of this whole thing. At the same time afraid that I might ask too much and get written down as downright incompetent.

How on earth can I survive here when everything is so complex and connected? Shit I never coded an API or whole app just simple things and I genuinely don't know what it takes for an app to communicate with all its components.

Took me a fucking whole day to write notes on the architecture and spit out a document with questions that seemed semi decent and I understood perhaps only 45% of it

I have no Dev exp , am a new grad and a couple of months ago I was going through an awful time and working a hotel job and aiming for sysadmin. anyway no idea why they chose me.

Three people vouched for me and that also fucking sucks because if I don't do well their judgement will get called out inside the org.

I don't want to quit but I genuinely am concerned that I might not make the cut and the guilt is killing me

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can anyone help me with my problem ?

I am looking for to be a SRE. I am just a student in 10th class. I finished networking fundamentals and leaning Linux. But i got a problem , I can't stop using windows. I am a tech enthusiast so i spend lot of time to master windows. I use many tools and software which save lot of my time and can do my tech research efficiently. ya, Linux have many alternative but Linux softwares are not suitable for my tech research. I want to master linux like windows but i can't stay in Linux after sometimes i switch dual boot 1st priority to windows. As a senior of mine. Can anyone help me, please.

I really need help . also which programming language should i learn? Is that will be good to learn golang or python first then switch to Linux .

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How is your SecOps team handling Claude Code / Copilot access for proprietary repos?

Our security team flat-out refuses to let cloud AI agents scan whole proprietary repos or run freely on dev machines, but the productivity gap is getting hard to ignore.

We’ve been playing with a middle ground: mapping repo trees locally first, pulling only specific context/signatures into the prompt, and making every diff require manual write approval on disk.

Are you guys using enterprise SaaS zero-retention SLAs, running local models, or putting proxy/mapping layers in front of web models? What's actually working in practice?

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Training Recommendations

As part of the Security team I work closely with our DevOps engineers. What are some good resources to get some hands on experience in a lab environment to learn the foundations of DevOps? With a focus on AWS. TIA.

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Do I need to learn now how to write python or shell scripting?

Hello Everyone! I started as an intern as a DevOps Trainee and Now I am a full time here , and most of the shell scripts or python automation scripts I need is generated by Claude/ GPT . So I wanted a headsup as to how much should i know to write them by myself because when i get them done from AI I feel that why I can't write such big automation scripts point being considered as a beginner I cannot write but still that self doubt comes. Also Why i use AI because company wants that and want their tasks to finish fast so there's no room to write on my own . I want to switch next year around May -Jun so I need help with that as well that what more should I study or keeping on learning to get a good paying job.

My current capabilities include intermediate or beginner level AWS , Azure Exp., Docker , Linux, Kubernetes and Terraform , Jenkins . Please I need genuine help!

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Anyone still using Jenkins?

I mean as title says, I've used Jenkins couple of years ago. I can still fire it up now just to test, but on current alternative tools/stacks available specially in enterprise, do you still use Jenkins? Why keep it? why not change it?

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What actually breaks your focus during the day?

I've been struggling to stay focused during my work days lately , either interrupted by emergencies, unwanted conversations, multiple not organized micro-tasks. I want to know about your experiences .


Not looking for a specific answer, just want to hear what it's actually like and how you deal with it.

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Migrating From Gitlab to Azure DevOps

We're an on prem shop and our manager wants to migrate all DevOps teams from Enterprise Gitlab self managed to ADO on prem.

We don't know what to expect with this move, anyone has experience with ADO on prem ? what kind of challenges would we face if our entire Gitlab infra (platform + runners) are hosted on K8s.

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Why not do your own opensource infra?

I think this is more of a rant post, or despair.

I am a linux sysadmin by trade, and doing a lot of linux work with scripting here and there, have setup a lot of self hosted stuff.

Now at my organisation I am setting up Loki with self hosted S3 options. This is my second logging infra, the first one was based on Elasticsearch stack.

I have deployed and maintained a lot of other FOSS stuff as well. Deploying stuff is all I know, difficult and complex systems.

However, very often I see posts here saying something along the lines of:

Do not deploy your own logging infra. Just do EKS. It is cheaper than paying someone to do it for you self hosted.

Look, I wish I was a good software developer and write fantastic code. But no matter how many times I try learn programming I just can't, either I run out of time or get demotivated.

Setting up and running good FOSS infra is all I know and at this rate, I will be out of job if everyone would just go to datadog and AWS.

All this devops stuff like monitoring, prometheus, logs, OTEL, kubernetes, it is all interesting and I can do it, all except writing the actual product.

I should pick up another backup trade I guess.

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It's 2030 and the marketing dudes at a CICD company accidentally get access to Mythos 6.7 and ask for help making their competitors look bad

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Thoughts on ADO?

I'm being brought in to assist with getting a devops plan in place. The current team is using ADO for issue management and code repos. They have no real existing IaC, CI-CD, monitoring, etc.

My first reaction is to tell them to run from ADO. But then I look at GH and their bullshit and I wonder if I'm just not being open minded. I do see a lot of rumblings about MS internal projects moving out of ADO.

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How do you handle per-user API tokens for an internal platform API? Static tokens feel wrong but OIDC doesn't cover humans

We run an internal self-service platform API. Individual humans wanting CLI/scripted access this is where I'm stuck .

Currently we mint a static token, show it once in the UI, and the user keeps it. Two things bother me:

1. Authority is frozen at creation. We store the list of accounts the token may touch. If the user later loses their admin role on one of those accounts, the token keeps working. The credential outlives the entitlement.

2. Distribution is copy-paste. It ends up in .env files, shell history, occasionally a chat message.


If you've done per-request authorization lookups, what did it cost you in latency and directory load? How long do you cache, and how do you handle the lookup failing fail open or fail closed?

For humans needing programmatic access, has anyone made short-lived tokens work by exchanging an existing SSO session? Feels like the "right" answer but I haven't seen it described much outside cloud provider SDKs.

Is there a simpler option I'm missing? Something like mTLS with per-user certs, or just accepting static tokens with a short expiry and good auditing?

For anyone who went the secret-manager route: did rotation actually work invisibly, or did you get outages from clients that cached the value?

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Azure DevOps vs got alternatives

Hi everyone,

I am an engineer with relatively little experience, as have been working in devops for the past year and an half. I work for a consulting company and have done a bit of everything from infra creation to very basic CI/CD, platform management, observability.
The whole time I have been working for the same client using azure and ADO, covering multiple complex projects.

I have read a recent post about migrating to ADO from other git based services and a lot of people seem to hate on ADO.
Having had no real work experience with using GH or gitlab for automation or big projects, I struggle to see why the general consensus appears to be so negative regarding ADO.

Compared to the alternatives, I find the use of projects to contain many related repost with a centralised pipeline and artefact section really useful. I also like how simple it is to use environments, libraries, secure files. I especially love using service connections to easily manage access to cloud resources from the pipelines.

On one hand I agree that ADO agents are particularly annoying and self hosted parallel jobs look to be crazy expensive, and service connection scoping can be a real pain since it is not properly supported by most official tasks. On the other, I struggle to see why it would be so inferior to other platforms.

In your experiences, what is there that I am not seeing that makes ADO such a negative experience. Reading the comments it almost feels like using this tool I am missing out on some commodities or feature present on other services.

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Need advice: Should I mention my previous 1 year of experience when applying for DevOps roles?

Hi everyone, I’m Satish Arya from India.
I graduated in 2024 and got placed as a Graduate Engineer Trainee (GET) in an industry. I worked there for around one year, from September 2024 to October 2025, and resigned due to health reasons.
My previous role was completely related to core engineering, mainly PLC, DCS, instrumentation, and plant operations.
It was not related to IT, DevOps, cloud, or software.

After leaving that job, I decided to switch my career to DevOps. I’m currently learning DevOps and have covered topics like AWS, Linux, Git, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, and Kubernetes.

My main doubt is: Since I’m applying for DevOps roles, should I mention my previous 1 year of experience on my resume, even though it is not related to DevOps?

Will mentioning it help me in the current job market, or would it be better to apply as a fresher and focus only on my DevOps skills and projects?

Also, how should I explain this career transition during interviews?

I would really appreciate advice from people who have made a similar career switch or are currently working in DevOps.

Thank you!

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How to effectively use RDS with serverless backend for db migrations?

I'm using AWS SAM to provision API Gateway, Lambdas, and RDS. I want to know how I can do database migrations easily without having to keep up an EC2 instance just for the purpose of connecting to the RDS db and running db migrations?

I wanted to use something like alembic so that most of the migration stuff is automated but ig I can't really use that.

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How do you guys manage backups of servers?

I am currently using restic to push backups from each server every hour to the R2 bucket.

One thing that bothers me is that in case the server is compromised, the restic bucket is also in danger as it holds r2 token (limited to bucket + object read & write) and restic repo password. The attacker can basically `restic forget` and backups are gone from R2.

I am currently exploring restic's rest-server with append-only option. Although I'm not sure if that'll solve what I want. AI suggested it so I'm exploring that.

I'm thinking from first principles to decide on a backup strategy. Would love to know yours.

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NPM Supply Chain Compromise | ChainDrop
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/08/04/chaindrop-supply-chain-compromise-anatomy-self-propagating-worm/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

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How are you guys using Claude code or any other ai tool for devops. My team have started using Claude code but we are struggling to make it work at team level.

How are you guys using Claude code or any other ai tool for devops. My team have started using Claude code but we are struggling to make it work at team level. If I create tasks which have well defined acceptance criteria, team mates are still producing code using Claude code which doesn't meet AC. If I review merge request by Claude code and then run experts opinions on it, it finds additional issues. I then ask codex to review same MR and then codex finds additional issues. When I merge both codex and Claude feedback and ask Claude to fix the issues and ask Claude to run experts reviews, it finds issues again. Codex review find issues. It is never never ending. What are you guys doing to fix it ? My code is infrastructure as a code terraform deploy on AWS. We are using eks , aurora DB, gitops, argocd, cloud front, API gateway S3 etc

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Home Lab Solutions

Hey guys I wanna to do some home labing ( using a kube cluster to run my workflow and use cases .. ) but I need some free infrastructure solution ( Servers for exemple) .. I tried to get A1 OCP ( ORACLE CLOUD) Server which is free ( 24Gb RAM and 8 VCPU .. ) but Always I'm getting OUT OF CAPACITY.. so if someone know some other SOLUTIONS ....

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Gym for DevOps practice

I have seen a coding interview that hands in docker logs, the logs have some error, and the interviewer asks you to recreate that docker file from the logs, what really struck my mind is that, i have never really practiced docker like that and now i feel that i was wasting my time not knowing how to critic my skills and put them in question, which is what practice does, in this context, are there any ways i could practice certain tools in DevOps? specially docker, kubernetes, terraform

also i am looking for something free

PS: i have experience with docker, primarily from the nextcloud app i deployed on an old pc sitting around in my house

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Platform/DevOps/SRE practitioners: looking for independent technical review of a research implementation

I’m developing HybridOps Core, an MIT-0 open-source research implementation for governed infrastructure operations, and I’m looking for practitioners willing to give a short, candid technical assessment of specific parts of the work.

The work examines whether infrastructure intent, environment policy, dependency ordering, preflight, execution, verification and run records can be expressed through a stable runtime contract across heterogeneous environments.

I’ve published several technical papers alongside the implementation and opened focused GitHub review threads for independent critique. The aim is not a code audit or unpaid QA. Reviewers are being asked to assess the architecture, operating assumptions, failure boundaries and practical relevance of the work.

Current review areas include contract-driven runtime design, image lifecycle and verification, reproducible network environments, infrastructure authority and source-of-truth boundaries, and recovery operations.

If one of those areas overlaps with your experience, comment with the area and I’ll send the relevant paper and review thread. Critical findings and counterexamples are welcome.

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