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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[View Poll](https://www.reddit.com/poll/jzod1i)

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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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Serverless Vs Serverless on kubernetes

At this point in time how easy is Serverless on kubernetes (kubeless, keda, openfass) when compering to "traditional Serverless " (i.e lambda and the like).

I want my local development environment to be as close to production as possible,It seems like Its easier to do it with K8s (just install the production helm chart and play with it locally).

however solutions such as lambci also exists (what about step functions?).

Which option will enable the quickest deployment and the least amount of maintenance?

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Multi-channel notifications

I need something that can send notifications and alerts to a series of devices based on escalation rules. For example, first message is a push notification (to Pushover or similar) and if that doesn't get a response of some sort then it would escalate to another channel, perhaps including Slack or Google Chat, SMS, telephone calls, etc.

I know that PagerDuty does exactly this and it's what I'm currently using. However, it's quite expensive for my use case, but worse it's overly complex. I don't need incident management, ultimately I just want a simple means of delivering a short message to one or more people with an escalation until it gets a confirmation. Surely this isn't an uncommon requirement? What do others do?

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Trying to understand a new position

I have an interview with a Fortune 500 and I'm trying to understand what they're actually looking for. They're asking for a cloud engineer on paper, but are actually looking for a a solid network engineer who has automation experience. This is a big box retailer, they're using Google Cloud and AWS as far as I can tell. However, their main focus in my prelim interview was on BGP, EIGRP, and Ansible.

They did specify they wanted someone with BGP peering experience, specifically in GPC. Based on what limited info I have, does this position sound similar to what anyone else is doing? Is anyone working with similar technologies who can speak to the day to day work?

Thanks!

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is: njrat, nuclear-rat and xtremerat a industry wide program?

I dont know any thing about the programs in the title, but when i was looking on shodan for sites i noticed quite a lot of sites had these programs.

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Need some help understanding Terraform lifecycle rules

I'll try to give some background, we're deploying a Grafana instance via Terraform and GitLab CI/CD Pipelines.


The first time the pipeline runs the instance loads perfectly and we can access the grafana UI in a web browser. HOWEVER, if we then re-run the pipeline with changes, we will get a HTTP 500 error when trying to hit the grafana UI in a web browser again, every 'even' number run (2, 4, 6, 8, etc.) will cause this issue but the 'odd' number runs work fine.

​

I've found the fix to be to add 'ignore\_changes' block to the ASG, ignore changes to the loab\_balancers and target\_group\_arns - as is recommended by Terraform ([https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/autoscaling\_group](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/autoscaling_group))


However I'm struggling to understand what the implications of this change actually are, why does this fix the issue? I've had a Google to try and find some explanation but I can't say I understand any that I've read.


Could anyone help explain what adding these lifecycle rules to the ASG actually do?

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Automate NGINX Unit with Ansible

Almost half a year ago, we found ourselves migrating from uWSGI to the NGINX Unit application server. And because there was no Ansible content available at the time to help us automate deployment, we had to write our own.

Our initial plan was to create a minimalistic Ansible Collection that only contained an installation role. But we had to change our course of action when we realized there is no such thing as a NGINX Unit configuration file. Therefore, we created a new Ansible Collection that contains a few modules for managing different parts of the NGINX Unit configuration. Luckily, we are experts in developing Ansible Collections, so this was a no-brainer for us ;)

And the best part? You can use it too since we decided to release it as an Open Source project. You can find it on [Ansible Galaxy](https://galaxy.ansible.com/steampunk/unit/). Or go read our [quickstart documentation](https://docs.steampunk.si/unit/quickstart.html) that contains everything you need to know to get up and running in just a few minutes.

We wrote a [blog post](https://steampunk.si/blog/why-and-how-of-the-nginx-unit-ansible-collection/?utm_source=Reddit&utm_medium=organic) that contains even more information about our development process. So if you are interested in how the Ansible Collection development process looks like, this might be just the thing for you.

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