Is DevOps another business management method?

I recently came across FinOps as a cloud financial management approach and am now somewhat confused by DevOps seemingly plural meanings.

Are there additional cloud business management methods like DevOps and FinOps?

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[Kafka] Insulator, an open source tool to interact with Kafka

Insulator is an opensource and multi-platform UI to make easier interact with a Kafka cluster.

It's easy to configure and supports SSL, SASL or Plaintext connections to the cluster.

Main features are: Avro consumer with easy search functionality, Avro producer, Schema registry viewer and more.

Check it out at [https://github.com/andrea-vinci/Insulator](https://github.com/andrea-vinci/Insulator)

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Practical DevSecOps Training and Certification ?

Have any of you ever paid for a training or a certification from [Practical DevSecOps](https://www.practical-devsecops.com/) ?

Would you recommend it or not ?

Would you recommend any other training or certification for DevOps or DevSecOps ?

Thanks

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Look, I'm just going to come out and say it

And you can downvote me all you want but...

Microsoft, within the last couple of years, has really shown a vested interest in expanding the DevOps tools they offer against both their cloud and on-prem platform. PowerShell (my primary scripting language) is just so damn powerful in an all-Windows environment. I feel like just about anything is possible once I've really **dug into and learned** this tool in-depth.

I feel that a lot of traditional DevOps folks don't really spend a lot of time to truly learn the PowerShell platform, and suffer because of it. They try to mold it into a scripting platform they're familiar with, having worked in Bash or Python, and they just don't quite get it - and they misinterpret that as a limitation in the tool and the OS.

I'm thankful that I'm able to build really awesome tools for my team and internal customers, and put together logic structures that are just **so darn good**.

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I am a Windows DevOps enthusiast, don't @ me.

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Looking to relocate from the UK to the west coast. 2 years of general DevOps experience. What are my chances?

So I have a vested interest in moving to the states, especially the Oregon, Washington states. I visited Portland last year and I really enjoyed it there, feel like I need a change in scenery among other reasons. My general experience involves a year of working with tools such as AWS, Terraform, Ansible, and a lot of the Alatisan product line like Bamboo, Bitbucket, JIRA and alot of bash scripting. Then another year of working more on the container side and Azure DevOps. Finally, I am looking to get myself K8S certified with the CKA exam and teaching myself python.

I guess my question is after the covid situation with my skillset, would it be likely for a company on the west side to take an H1B sponsorship with my skillset? Thanks.

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Regarding SignalFx monitoring ruby applications

Hi folks,

Did any of yall instrument ruby application tracing in signalfx. I'm having some hard time setting it up. Was wondering if you folks had any experience in that sector

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What is the actual impact to the customer?

This may not apply to your workplace, but most places I've worked customer impact is rarely evaluated unless there is a major incident. Even then sometimes a guess is good enough. This comes from working at both large and small companies. I honestly think its kind of a shame because for almost every incident/alert (big AND small) there is some customer impact and this tells us something about the experience of our customers without them having to open a ticket.

I personally think it would make sense to follow up every single alert resolution (even self-recovered) with an analysis of the customer impact that can be tracked over time. This can also be rolled into prioritization if need be.

I'm wondering if customer impact determination is common place for others? If not why don't you care about it that much?

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Has anyone experienced with Backstage.io?

I am looking open source portal to better organize my microservices, is [https://backstage.io/](https://backstage.io/) a good one?

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Pandemic Learning Goal (DevOps/SRE/Cloud Engineer) 🦃 🍂 🔥 🍽 🥧 👪 🍗



Hi Reddit:

How can I learn/get better with below tasks; please advise suggest links/projects so that I get confident in interview as well as after having the position. Thanks a million, in advance! 🙏

· Design, implement and maintain all AWS infrastructure and operational services.

· Create process to perform continuous deployment, including full orchestration of deployment process.

· Develop tools and scripts to improve efficiency of operational tasks.

· Create and provide best practices to the organization for DevOps, builds, CI/CD, and infrastructure.

· Implement monitoring processes and design/deploy monitoring dashboards.

· Build and support system automation, deployment, and continuous integration tools.

· Thoroughly demonstrated working knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology (processes, and deliverables).

· Maintain and monitor production environments.

· Design and support internal development environments inside both AWS and Azure.

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I have several apps that are deployed in one AWS EC2 instance, and I need to deploy several more. Do I deploy everything in one instance? Or do I separate them into different instances?

Basically the title. I'm an intern at a company and new to DevOps, what's the best way to organize deployed apps in AWS EC2 instances??


Deployed apps = (NodeJS API, ReactJS App, VueJS app)
To-be deployed = another reactjs app, and another vuejs app.

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how did shopify, wix and any other companies that offer services handle their client sites / the server

Hi guys
just wondering, how did shopify, wix and any other companies that offer services handle their client sites / the server,

limiting each client maximum traffic,

and also how they handle increasing client

i need to see advice from you guys, thanks

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Junior DevOps Engineer, recommended learning to advance my career?

I've been an infrastructure engineer for the past 6 months, I manage Jenkins pipelines for our developers and many linux servers. Its been quite rough since I was new to pretty much everything, just had some basic linux skills so had to get lots of help with every issue from other engineers.Because of the holidays I have time to take some courses and can really ramp up my skills.

I'm lucky to have access to [linuxacademy.com](https://linuxacademy.com), a few Linux Foundation courses, and O'reilly courses.I need to get good at Bash Scripting, Linux in general, and writing Groovy scripts for Jenkins pipelines.Example course: [system admin guide to bash scripting](https://linuxacademy.com/cp/modules/view/id/72?redirect_uri=https://app.linuxacademy.com/search?query=scripting), [Oreilly Jenkins course](https://learning.oreilly.com/videos/practical-jenkins/9781788398749/)

I have about 2 weeks to deep dive into any topic, so I want to make sure I'm taking the best courses. We also use a lot of Redhat products so RHCE could be something of interest. I'd also like us to move to an automated setup with Terraform, Ansible and Jenkins all working together so all these skills could be useful. Thanks for any suggestions.

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Terraform config

Hello I’m quite new to terraform and devops as well. I would like to know the buildspec file for terraform. You can even provide resources or links or some documentation on terraform related buildspec.

Thanks in advance 🙌🏻

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Does scaling depends only on load/ traffic in cloud?

Does scaling only depend on increase of traffic or load of a resource or can scaling depends on other needs?

Are there any other reasons to scale an application on cloud?

I’m new to the entire cloud computing autoscaling paradigm.

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USING DOCKER CONTAINERS TO RUN ANSIBLE AND TERRAFORM CODE

Hello everyone, I think this is my first post on here so go easy as I'm relatively new. I'm part IT, part programmer at my company

I notice we are using a specific ansible server with an ansible user to run playbooks against our environment, and we are just starting to adopt Terraform for creating infrastructure in our cloud environment (mostly Azure with a bit of AWS). We are thinking of how we want to deploy these Terraform Modules we are building.

I had the idea to completely scrap using a VM to run off of and also not rely on something like Azure Automation runbooks (which is platform specific), but instead to create a quick Ubuntu docker container, configure the OS how we want it with scripts, do my ansible/terraform installs, authenticate myself as admin, and run my playbook/module against whatever environment (be it QA or Prod). After running the change against the environment we are going to delete the container and poof everything is gone and we dont need to manage servers. This would also allow us to pivot between cloud providers and switch to something more "microservice" related.

Is this a standard approach? I'm trying to stay away from spinning up machines to tend to and I just want to use our Git, and our local machines if possible relying on IAM and MFA for authentication.

Is there a better practice for what I'm trying to do? are there some common pitfalls I'm going to encounter when I try to explore this path? I'm trying to see if someone has thought to use this approach for my purposes before and
has some advice. Sorry in advance if the question is formulated poorly or isnt clear enough!


Edit: sorry for the caps lock title, I'm not sure how I can edit that as it would not let me enter normal caps when I created the post.

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CircleCI

Hi

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We're considering moving from Jenkins to either GitLab or Circle CI - looking at Circle CI a bit more - it feels like it is a straight replacement for Jenkins (e.g. no static code analysis, no artifactory/maven repository, no container registry etc.). Is that a fair comment?

Also, anything you'd say makes CircleCI shine above all else for Jenkins 2.0?

Seems like GitLab is heading more to be the the one-stop shop for everything.

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Can't remember website for pre-screening DevOps candidates

I came across a site and have since lost it in which you could send job candidates randomized tests based on specific subject matters including DevOps. We have a huge pool of candidates with very impressive resumes and are keen to narrow the field with a basic DevOps competency test.

Does anyone know of any sites that accomplish this, or even better, does anyone actually use one themselves?

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Which of these types of monitoring do you most frequently use?

I'm assuming that "most frequently use" closely matches "find most valuable".

If you find some other types of monitoring tools more valuable, please share in comments. Thank you!

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Any of you guys recording gaps and drift in their infrastructure?

You are not alone ;)
Sharing [a link to this article about infrastructure drift](https://driftctl.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=reddit&utm_campaign=reddit) for those interested
Happy to discuss the topic

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On Average, Do Devops guys get paid better than developers for the work they do?

It seems like the devops job is relentless compared to a normal developer. Do they get paid enough for the work they do?

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DevOps Professional looking for next move

Happy Thanksgiving y'all.
I have 2+ years under my belt FullTime + Internship and I am looking to make a change. What salary should I be targeting?

**Skills**
* Python
* AWS
* CI/CD

Anyone here got an offer recently? Could you please share details? Thanks

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