Beginners help

Hey guys,

My team have just been introduced into DevOps and will be learning all about it over the coming weeks but I need a quick solution for this if possible?

Can I put an excel file for all my team to edit without us all downloading and uploading all the time etc..?

If so what's the best/easiest way to do this?

Many Thanks

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Bridge the gap - Manual deployment vs CI/CD

How do people deal with the scenario -

Your desired plan is to deploy EC2 as code (terraform) and automate the configuration of the instance through tools such as Ansible. This is a good scenario - however sometimes the customer wants to treat their servers as pets and backup and restore as you would a traditional server on-prem.

How do you deal with this clash of these worlds, what happens to your tfstate when you terminate and restore an instance, how do you deal with this now being outside the known state

I’m sure other people have had the same issues and have overcome them

*presume you have no control over how the customer operates their apps installed on said compute

Any comments appreciated :)

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Dev to Devops

For developers who switched to devops, why did you switch and do you regret this decision? If not, what do you enjoy the most about switching?

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Idempotent infrastructure as code? Now you can with Ansible Clusterverse

Shameless plug to what my team has been building for the past year or so.

https://github.com/sky-uk/clusterverse

You don't need to track Terraform tfstate files anymore, if your Infra is getting built by Ansible too. The role will make sure the DNS/VMs/SGs/LBs that are running, are the ones you're asking it to get running.

Full lifecycle with redeploys and canary.

Give it a go, and feel free to raise PRs or ask any questions.

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Hello People!!!

Guys, how are you? I am writing for the first time and I would like your opinion. In the company I have several jenkins in the company and it always gives a problem and several errors happen with the development team and I am trying to unify the environment. I wanted an opinion from the group. If I put an Azure Devops to centralize DevOps and I put Jenkins as a slave. Or some solution to let programmers continue to do their CI / CD. And I thank you all.

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Restrict AWS Bill to $5K based on tagged resources.

Hi DevOps,

Is there any way to restrict the aws billing to $5k based on different tagged(Diffrent project tag) resource in a shared AWS account.

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Thanks.

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Microservices – Combinatorial Explosion of Versions

As we transition to microservices with modern CI/CD pipelines, the new question arises - how we keep track of versioning our product as a whole.

I believe there is currently a missing piece between CI and CD. That new layer would say what exact component versions from CI should go into CD and when. Full article here:

https://worklifenotes.com/2020/03/04/microservices-combinatorial-explosion-of-versions/

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Elements of Modern Cloud-Native Solution Design


A few years ago, while working as an Infrastructure Engineer for a startup team, I wanted to be able to do something really simple, but powerful. To share a browser bookmarks folder of all our service endpoints with my team, preferably with two-way synchronization. I googled for existing solutions in the Firefox/Google Chrome Extension stores but found squat. So I took it upon myself to design and implement a solution, and this is what I came up with!

[blog post](https://zemanel.eu/posts/2020/03/elements-of-modern-cloud-infrastructure/)

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Are there ways to get paid more as a DevOps Consultant by getting paid on deliveries or would an hourly rate of e.g. $90 work best in general?

Are there ways to get paid more as a DevOps Consultant by getting paid on deliveries or would an hourly rate of e.g. $90 work best in general?

So I've been operating as a freelancer for the last 5 years and I'm looking for ways to increase my income.

I would like to book some progress and there is only so many hours you can work and bill weekly.

What would be a natural progression for a DevOps freelancer?

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Looking for regular backup and restore of physical machines offsite

Not sure I'm in the right subreddit, but I imagine you guys have experience here, and strong opinions. My QA labs have a number of physical boxes hosting critical infrastructure for our test environments. They are not currently backed up. I am looking for a solution that automatically backs up the physical machine to a remote location, and allows for a restore if necessary. These machines are almost exclusively Windows.

Ideally I'd like to start hosting the infrastructure in the cloud as a VM, but I have challenges exposing cloud instances back to my test environment.

Any opinions?

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Should I change my job title from DevOps Engineer to Site Reliability Engineer? What is more prestigious and work sound better for future jobs on my resume? I can pick my own job title at my job.

Should I change my job title from DevOps Engineer to Site Reliability Engineer? What is more prestigious and work sound better for future jobs on my resume? I can pick my own job title at my job.

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Configuration Management in IT... Help!

Hi everyone,

Hope all is well! So, I've recently been trying to build my knowledge base within the DevOps realm more and more. I started off with a couple of basic PowerShell scripts that would report on various directory service events. I then learned about Jenkins and built out a Jenkins instance for my department, created projects using cron tabs to run the aforementioned PowerShell scripts but now on a schedule and within that environment. I've been moved on to Git and moved all of my scripts into our enterprise Git and and now have Jenkins using SCM to said Git repo.

I've dabbled with PowerShell DSC in the past and I'm now looking at Chef. My basic problem is this...

Is silly as the sounds my biggest trouble when building out PowerShell DSC or now chef isn't so much learning the architecture or DSL, but how configuration management could effectively be used in an IT environment? could someone please give me examples of when and how you would want to use configuration management for your servers such as a DHCP server, domain controllers, DNS servers, etc.?or am I barking up the wrong tree and is configuration management not even remotely close to be used in an IT Operations department. Thanks everyone!

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Should I change my job title from DevOps Engineer to Site Reliability Engineer? What is more prestigious and work sound better for future jobs on my resume? I can pick my own job title at my job.

Should I change my job title from DevOps Engineer to Site Reliability Engineer? What is more prestigious and work sound better for future jobs on my resume? I can pick my own job title at my job.

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MySQL high availability

Please give a read on [https://medium.com/devops-enthusiast/how-to-make-mysql-highly-available-a383111f19ad](https://medium.com/devops-enthusiast/how-to-make-mysql-highly-available-a383111f19ad). Feedback is appreciated.

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How can i change my domain from server support engineer to devops?

I am currently good with proliant ML DL and blade servers with respect to the hardware breakfix. I am learning VMware esxi 6.7 and in progress.
What else skills do i need to have to become a devops?
Next i am planning to learn dockers.

Kindly suggest as what would be better way to progress towards becoming a devops.

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Opportunity - Cloud Engineer vs Site Reliability Engineer - Which?

Hello All!

I will be crossposting this into [/r/TCareerQuestions](https://www.reddit.com/r/Devops) as well just to get more visibility. I wanted to get some opinions from the community on which opportunity they think is best. I have been fortunate enough to have two options before me. One is for a Cloud Engineer position at a privately owned, 700 person company, in the Insurance / Healthcare Technology space. The second is for a Site Reliability Engineer position at a publicly traded, worldwide, Software Company (Older Software company but well known).

Here is my resume (I have redacted my name and company name for privacy): [https://imgur.com/a/UPwZz1s](https://imgur.com/a/UPwZz1s)

Here is the job description of Company A - Cloud Engineer: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRYV7kIXlc58ipZ2C3lFZHZ4BC0LYQ4S9tooc13IWvN6XD4NdmNDdd-sJAmsj\_DaMxPKpwdpCmwDSSS/pub](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRYV7kIXlc58ipZ2C3lFZHZ4BC0LYQ4S9tooc13IWvN6XD4NdmNDdd-sJAmsj_DaMxPKpwdpCmwDSSS/pub)

Here is the job description of Company B - Site Reliability Engineer: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQNpgD0s2GtESBQRvdvJJNwjaYPs9LcOVhjhr-swJa2OylTX1NyviTvi8DkkKmWYsSUUZdfOpvD6j\_F/pub](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQNpgD0s2GtESBQRvdvJJNwjaYPs9LcOVhjhr-swJa2OylTX1NyviTvi8DkkKmWYsSUUZdfOpvD6j_F/pub)

Facts:

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\- Both positions pay about the same. Company A pays for all your healthcare benefits (medical, vision, dental), Company B does not. However, Company B is paying slightly more (a few thousand). So in my mind, it evens out.

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\- Both have your standard package of 401k, life, etc.

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\- Both have education assistance programs, Company A is $2500 a year, Company B doesn't have exact figures.

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\- Both companies are located 25 minutes away from me, so distance isn't a factor.

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\- Both companies offer the same amount of PTO

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\- Company A lets you work from home a maximum of 2 times per month(15 times per year). Company B is more flexible, doesn't care where you work (at least they say that, no hard policy).

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My main questions to the community are this.

1. First, what is your gut reaction to both positions? Which seems like the better move?
2. Which title is better in the long run? A glance at job postings has Cloud Engineer a bit ahead in terms of positions available, but I know SRE is growing in popularity.
3. The Cloud Engineer position appears to be more infrastructure-focused, solutions architect leaning, with some automation. The SRE position seems much more software engineering oriented. ----> My concern here is I am having some imposter syndrome. The interview process for the SRE position was MUCH more difficult:

\- I went through a technical phone screening that involved debugging a small script (I passed that without issue);

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\- An in-person, 6-hour long interview with 9 different people doing extensive whiteboarding (some programming problems, architecture problems, and API questions). I stumbled through the first programming problem, did fine on the other two sections.

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\- Final in-person, 3-hour long interview with 3 engineers, I did more programming problems ( things like, "given a string of 0s and 1s return to me the number of 0s and 1s in that string"). I was able to complete those. I also got some Linux questions (no issues).

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I wanted to share a replt of a python program I wrote that showcases my work utilizing the boto3 library. The program basically gathers data from our Monitoring service via its API, compiles it, uploads it to S3 and then moves it into redshift.

[https://repl.it/repls/PerfumedTruthfulTitles](https://repl.it/repls/PerfumedTruthfulTitles)

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My last question here (3), is given the job description of the SRE, what I've shared, my resume, and my program, do I have what it takes? My mind is telling me that 11 people interviewed me and they obvious

ly thought I could do the job...I just am again...having some imposter syndrome. The Cloud Engineer position, I have no doubts I could do. Part of me feels I could also turn that Cloud Engineer position into a Cloud Security role (I'm studying for my masters in Cybersecurity so it would be more related to my degree than an SRE position would) or even Cloud Architect in the long run too.

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THANK YOU all for taking the time to read this, review it, and give me your honest opinions. I wish you all a great Sunday!

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Bundling Python Dependencies in a ZIP Archive

> Shipping dependencies for your scripts as a single file, built with ‘shiv’.

If you have a set of Python scripts that are all using the same set of required packages, you can distribute those dependencies in the form of a zipapp, i.e. in a single executable file.

You can also deploy any PyPI package that way, with a simple call of shiv, as shown in the post using Pandas.

Read on at https://jhermann.github.io/blog/python/deployment/2020/03/08/ship_libs_with_shiv.html

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Advice for moving to DevOps.

My IT background is owning a small computer repair shop for 9 years. I do hardware and software service for consumer electronics (laptop, PC, TV). I mostly use software by Microsoft, but I know a little bit of Linux.
I started researching the DevOps field and I think it would suit my interests and curiosity.
I saw that AWS is very popular, so I started a course to get certified for their Cloud Practitioner Certification.
Do you have any advice on what do I have to do and to learn to get a DevOps position?

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What DevOps features can I implement in my IT job?

I'm very new to this, I've only learned about devops in the last few months and I'm trying to learn the tech, but what can I implement in my current role? I'm an IT tech at an MSP and while I dont do much of the server work I believe my boss would give me access to different resources if I asked. What should I be looking to automate? Right now the highest tier tech is a good powershell guy but that's about it. If you were starting pretty fresh and could build out the DevOps side of a business what would you look to do?

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Looking for a new DevOps environment

Hey everyone!

I'm in the process of setting up a start-up in software engineering. While I already have clients, a business plan and idea of where to go with the business I'm still missing a key element: a DevOps environment. I'd love to hear your suggestions on one or more systems that can help me with:

\- Repositories (GIT)
\- Code Builds (CI/CD) + Deployment (preferably not Jenkins)
\- Ticket Management (I.E. Jira? Preferably a tool that links with the GIT-environment).

I'm happily willing to pay for a product, but as you can imagine: as a start-up I don't want costs to be too high.

Note 2: I'm also happily willing to set-up in the cloud OR host it in office. It really depends on what the system is.

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Thanks in advance! If for anything, I'm always open for discussions: feel free to comment below.

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