Jenkins Kubernetes Use Params

I am using jenkins on Kubernetes using the kubernetes plugin. Can someone point me to the syntax on how one can use Jenkins Params inside Pod Templates?

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Sysadmin Learning - What are the first steps to become Devops?

Currently I'm a new Sysadmin working mainly on Windows, and am wanting to advance my career as build a roadmap. I like creating a clear path and I would like some direction on what I should focus FIRST to become a Devops. For example, if I were to tell myself 2-3 years ago how to become a Sysadmin I would have given myself this rough roadmap to figure things out:

1. Active Directory (helps me understand the basics of a domain)
2. Windows Server and their roles
3. Visualizing those Servers using any Hypervisors (using 1 helped me learn the other)
4. Scripting on PowerShell for anything you do
5. Learning those above while getting certified in MCSA/MCSE etc.

I was hoping someone can give me just a list of bare minimum or most popular things I need to know to get started specifically from a non-developer and a Sysadmin to become a Devops. I get a bit overwhelmed searching when people start listing 10 different technologies I have never heard of, I can't figure out what they are or how to dive into it. What's the metaphorical "Active Directory" if you will of Devops...

My own guess that I've found is:

1. Learning containers like Docker? (Is Docker a good starting tool to learn about containers?) Should I learn Chef/Puppet first?
2. Ansible - To automate deployment? (I thought Python did that too, or should I learn Python?)
3. Linux in general
4. Should I skip all that above and learn Azure/AWS?

Do I sound like too much of a non-developer to become a Devops? I need to be more of a Cloud Admin or something?

As you can see I'm quite lost.

Much appreciated!

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Blog Post: How to Parse ARM Output Variables in Azure DevOps Pipelines

Hey guys, I just wrote a shiny new blog post you may enjoy.

Summary: Learn, step-by-step how to take the easy route to convert ARM deployment outputs to pipeline variables.

https://adamtheautomator.com/arm-output-variables-in-azure-pipelines-powershell/

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Any free certification in DevOps (to utilise the lockdown period) ?



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People with Devops/SRE title, What are your day to day activities at high level?

I know everyone won't be doing the same thing. and each day is different.

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Another free eBook, this time from Google: Building Secure and Reliable Systems

Enjoy! https://landing.google.com/sre/books/

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HashiCorp Vault alternatives

Hi all,

I was wandering can anyone suggest me an alternative to HashiCosp Vault? I wanted to use it, but lack of auto-unsealing and loads of posts I read about it gave me cold feet. I need something running in docker isolated network and be used by services on the same isolated network to keep SSH keys and service username/passwords during image builds and maybe rotating passwords for DBs. Maybe I did not quite understand its logic/purpose, but why would I want to have AWS or GCP instances just to be able to unseal something running locally? If this happens once, that is something I can live with; but on each reset?!

Thank you kindly

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DevOPs workflow ?

Guys, let me see if I am tripping balls or this is something somewhat achievable. total devops noob here, just know what it means =)

I haven't developed for a couple of years until i got involved in our CTI initiative at my company. Basically maintaning a couple of scripts that grab and parse data from our sandboxes and create stix packages and misp submissions.

It is all done in python and i am using pycharm and our internal gitlab to do most of the work.

Doing this over a couple of times I thought that it would be good to:

1) Have pycharm browse the gitlab (or other?) repository of projects

2) Once I find the repository i want to work on it it would lock the repository (or the file, i have done some research and it looks like there is no repository lock but only file lock on gitlab enterprise)

3) Have the GitLab repository somehow 'tell' Pycharm to setup a remote debugging session where the code on that repository is running.

4) Finally present all the files from the repository as pycharm tabs.

5) As it finishes, push the code to gitlab which will do CI/CD

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Am I alone ?

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Finding Good DevOp'ers?

I'm not sure if this is the proper place to ask, but a friend has asked me for advice on finding a good person/people for her website. The MVP started as a Wordpress site with lots of customization for all the API's they needed to hook into all the data sources required for her business. The dev who did the MVP is about at the top of her skill set and I suggested that she containerized the site and break it into microservices for the 2.0 site, as well as create a standardized build environment using Docker so anyone else brought in could jump right in. Unfortunately, the dev has zero experience with any of this and has prevented any real progress with the 2.0 version my friend wants to launch. She feels held hostage by her dev since she isn't a technologist and has no contacts in that arena. I though I'd ask here to see where you guys find good people for project like this. Any suggestions would be appreciated, and mods, sorry if this question goes against any rules here.
Thanks, all!

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Hashicorp vault

Hi all I am trying to create a child namespace under the parent namespace and I created the child name space successfully but I am unable to see it do I need to attach any particular policies for the group ? Any suggestions will be helpful

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Will express-sessions + redis for cookie auth mess up my Next API Route Serverlessness?

Hey - pretty new to all this. Am I good using express-sessions for serverless? Deploying to AWS Lambda

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Twitter Handles to follow

Any good twitter accounts you guys recommend?

Trying to grow my Twitter. 0 following 0 followers looks pretty great but then I’d be yelling into the void

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Friends and Family Minecraft Server Terraform Recipe

Now is a great time to setup a virtual space for you and your family to play together digitally. I created this Terraform recipe to make it super easy to get a sanely configured Minecraft server up an running. It's secure and shuts down automatically within 24 hours. Game state is preserved across sessions. Left unattended it will cost less than $2 a month to host. Go show your family the magic of devops :)

[https://www.futurice.com/blog/friends-and-family-minecraft-server-terraform-recipe](https://www.futurice.com/blog/friends-and-family-minecraft-server-terraform-recipe)

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Is the AWS Devops Certified Engineer a good introduction to devops?

I currently use AWS at work and have been wanting to learn more about devops and possibly work towards getting a devops role.

Is this an overall good cert for learning devops practices and tools? I know you're locked down to AWS tools, but I'm wondering if the fundamentals and processes and are the same and if the knowlege would translate to more commonly used open source tools. Thanks!

*AWS Certified Devops Engineer

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Terraform in resume

Hey community, I've been using Terraform extensively for the last 6 months to **build and provision the architecture of my team**. This involved writing modules for a variety of services such as APIs, queues, functions and others. But now that I am trying to update my resume, I have found it difficult to describe the work as it is literally building and provisioning infrastructure through Terraform, which is one bullet point. I had to do the same issue when adding the Serverless Framework to my resume; which I was using to do the same but in a different team.

Will having one bullet point be enough? Any ideas of how to provide better information? Thanks in advance.

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Should a developer be familiar with SRE practices?

Hi. I am a front-end developer who only worked with javascript related staff.

Recently our company switched development approach, so every developer now has to be familiar with Kubernetes/Jenkins/SLI/SLO and etc. The official reason is that our SRE guys are overloaded and we have to help them by solving some trivial DevOps problems without their involvement.

It's not a small company, we have \~600 R&D people in EU.

What do you think about such an approach ? I have now access to all AWS/Azure environments (except prod) and I'm a little bit worried about it. (I am also thinking of deploying minecraft server to ur cluster)

Also, I am extremely confused with Kubernetes (the third day trying to configure Traefik ingress service on local microk8s cluster without success). There is a lot of information on the internet and it differs depending on the Kubernetes version and its implementation. Could you guys please recommend some good learning plan(resources) for Kubernetes? I would like to learn it on my local Linux system without the virtualization level (VirtualBox) and not mess with the cloud, for now, this is why I chose Microk8s.

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Which tool to use for Automation windows machines patching

So, basically we are looking for a way to automate windows patching in our environment. We are working quite well with Ansible for Linux machines however did not find anything suitable yet { mostly for the fact that restarts are not performed automatically} for windows patching. Anyone found a suitable tool which can achieve such task?

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New to DevOps, been a developer for 2 years. Had a few questions!

So for a bit of background: I have been doing full-stack web development for just shy of two years now. Back in February of this year my company shut down and I was laid off. Prior to SaaS web development I did several certificate based courses in Front End Web Dev, Python 3, and C#. I was a helpdesk tech that handled networking and backups at a small wholesale company prior to web development.


Last week I was contacted by a recruiter and managed to land a job with a pretty large company as a Jr DevOps engineer. They were wanting a former developer to train from the ground up, and as my skillset and background matched their must-haves and desired list to a T, I was hired 30 minutes after the interview.

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My question is this: I have some experience with things like Docker, AWS (a small bit), and Portainer. I am currently doing some courses on Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and Travis CLI just to get a bit more familiar to reduce the potential "culture shock". Are there any words of advice or warning, or even tips, to a new DevOps guy? Any things to watch out for? Any must-have things?

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DevOps tool to contribute

What are some open source projects for beginners to contribute, especially for DevOps?
Projects which are open source and newbie like me can contribute.

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Have any of you been looking for or found a volunteer opportunity to fight off the COVID-19 pandemic?

I have the sense that research and epidemiological institutions could use the help of DevOps professionals and I'm wondering how I can help.

I reached out to the American Society for Microbiology given their free e-text Principles of Virology and the videos but these kinds of organizations don't usually have the time to manage laypersons such as myself.

I am stuck working from home and need something to keep me busy past the 40 hours I bill for.

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Integrating DataDog instrumentation library with Jaeger agent

Did anyone try to integrate DataDog dd-trace libraries with jaeger agent so that the tracing part of dd-trace can be used with in-house jaeger installation?

Or does this interest anyone else?

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