‏ Any good engineering learning app/YT channel to listen to while driving?


I'm driving around 35 minutes to and from work each day, is there any good app/youtube channel to listen to while driving to learn from?

Topics: Networks, Product management, System engineering, DEVOPS and so on..

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What is your experience of working with ITIL practitioners?

Hey everyone.

I read a short article about why DevOps engineers should collaborate with ITIL practitioners ([here](https://exceed-team.com/tech/how-to-align-devops-and-itsm)) and I'd like to know your opinion about this approach because I considered that DevOps in closer to Agile methodology, and ITIL is quite old.

So what do you think? Maybe you can share your experience?

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Continuous Delivery in the Age of Microservices and COVID-19 - Interview with Tracy Miranda, CD Foundation, Exec Dir

In this discussion with Tracy Miranda, Executive Director of the Continuous Delivery Foundation, we talked about some of the pain points the organizations face when bolstering their CD practices and how the Foundation is helping to address them.

[Continuous Delivery in the Age of Microservices and COVID-19 - Interview with Tracy Miranda, CD Foundation, Exec Dir](https://www.linux.com/audience/devops/continuous-delivery-in-the-age-of-microservices-and-covid-19/)

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so many tools and frameworks in the DevOps Ecosystem does anybody build AddOn or Complementary tool to get additional income?

Hello
The DevOps Ecosystem is so big, looking for examples for paid plugins or Complementary tools
That Get to the creators some revenue.
I'm talking about indie developers, not big established companies
any examples?

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Considering using AWS Copilot for production stack. Is it a good or bad idea?

AWS made [Copilot](https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/) generally available recently and it looks so cool. Like, the simplicity of things like Firebase and Vercel but in AWS so future-proof and won't get unreasonably expensive.


Wondering what could be the reasons against using it for production? Has anyone used it already? Are there any significant tradeoffs or limitations?

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I am just not understanding Devops

I am a sys admin and always have been. I script tasks to make them easier, and I like to think my servers are cattle not pets. However, in my job we simply stand up servers and services. I provide AD, email, Sharepoint, various other services. But we don't develop any apps in house. I don't feel like I have an opportunity to do any of the "Dev" parts of Devops, and don't really understand how to begin. Even if I start to utilize my homelab, I'm not a programmer, so I don't really have anything to deploy. I don't have anything to use with CI/CD, or to place in a container. How does someone who is only a sysadmin, who only works as a sysadmin, even begin to practice Devops skills when it never comes up in their professional life?

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Any automation before Pull Request?

Upon Pull Request...

Do you run automation and then notify the reviewer that it’s “all clear” to do the code review?

Or, do you just let the reviewer review based on the PR and then if it’s approved/merged, then the automation happens?

I guess I’m trying to figure out if anyone thinks it’s overkill or pointless to do any automation before the code review.

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GCP Memorystore Redis queueing with GKE question

Hey, anyone using google managed redis instances in Memorystore and connecting from GKE?

I've got a built out webapp in gke already, and an existing redis instance in memorystore. Just curious on how to best connect then two to be a queue management system. Havent used redis enough so if someone could assist would be cool. Thanks in advance

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Helm Charts with Openshift

Hey guys !

I’m new to the Ops side of the DevOps thing. I am a developer and have joined a small company after leaving a big one. Because of my experience working in a DevOps environment, they want me to build them some things. I was able to build out couple jobs in Jenkins and was also able to containerize some apps.

But now, the ask is that I need to use helm charts with Openshift to deploy these docker containers and I can’t seem to find good tutorials for the both. I can find tutorials for Openshift and for Helm but not for both.

And that’s brings me here. I’d be grateful if someone can point me to a nice tutorial ? I have experience with Openshift web console and CLI from a developer stand point but no experience what so ever with Helm.

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Gitlab job exiting error code 1

Hello everyone !

So ... I'm having a problem running a job inside gitlab. I'm using it as a docker container, which both he and the runner are running on a server with CentOS 8 as the main OS. Below I will put information about the job log and the .gitlab-ci that I am using to try to build the application.

[Job log](https://pastebin.com/HvTS1L1c)

[runner log](https://pastebin.com/ugxW4NvH)

[.gitlab-ci.yml](https://pastebin.com/GtbQ9EaX)

Docker version: 19.03.13, build 4484c46d9d

Gitlab version: 13.4.1 (c90be62bdef)

Runner version: 13.4.1

Thanks in advance for who can help me with this issue.

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if you're a web developer please don't ignore this question.



hey in this year I have learned (MERN) stack and joined at least 5 internships in 4 months, in all of them for the first week I worked very hard and try to do all the task's before deadline's but in the second week I get very slow I feel like my mind is not working and I miss every deadline and end up disappointing my senior's I feel like I am dragging the team back and eventually I quite every one of my internship I have had, I never got fired I just quit, is it performance anxiety or something else I don't know but I know that I like codding but when someone gives me the task or when I see that the deadline is too narrow for just the simple task I panicked and I feel I am not able to do that task can you tell your experience is that ever happened to you.

I could have asked this question on Quora but I thought this is the best place to get this particular question answer.

Thank

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Pluralsight or acloudguru

Which one is preferred for devops related trainings. Please suggest if there are any other alternatives. My organization will be paying for it. They are suggesting pluralsight, but I heard that many courses of pluralsight are outdated.

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AWS Compliance scan with cloudquery

I've added compliance queries for AWS - [https://github.com/cloudquery/cloudquery#aws-compliance-pack](https://github.com/cloudquery/cloudquery#aws-compliance-pack) . I'd love to get feedback

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What's the best setup for an on-prem server running a handful of containers?

I am moving some of our internal tools out of the cloud and into a rack in my office. Today I am setting up a new server to run a handful of webapps, most likely in containers.

The plan is to setup oauth2-proxy and then a handful of low-traffic, internal use only, mostly open source apps.

I would like to be able to update the apps independently, and to be able to tell at a glance what all is running and if they are good. We are a small team and these tools are nice to have a more than mission critical. So I don't need a bunch of residency as long as I can recreate the setup relatively easily.

These containers will be the only thing running on this server. The database is on another server and will be accessed via an isolated network (public Nic for proxy, internal Nic db/admin).

I don't have much experience with kubernetes, and that seems to be overkill. My current thinking is that docker-compose could be a good fit, especially since I could ensure the proxy and apps are configured in the same place.

But I don't know what I don't know.

Is there a distro that really excels at something like this? Or maybe some kind of admin panel (cockpit?) that makes managing a single container server a breeze?

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Noob Question - Can(or should) I Orchestrate Containers with Different Configurations?

So I've started a business, and we need a way to quickly deploy very similar applications. In essence they're simple web applications that hook into some niche data, and can quickly provide websites. Each container will contain one instance of the application(of course more can be added depending on the client's needs), but each instance of the application is tailored a bit to the customer. The number of containers will get pretty high so I feel that container orchestration is definitely necessary to easily keep the application up to date. In my mind, Kubernetes will work just fine in this situation I'm just not too sure.

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Spinnaker vs Helm Discussion

Hey guys,

I am a young developer who has used spinnaker but has just jumped into helm deployments to kubernetes at my first job.

I was wondering which tool (spinnaker or helm) you guys thought is better and why? Why would I use one and not the other?

Additionally, I was wondering which continuous deployment tool is easier to setup / use. Thanks.

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XSS Question

Hi

In my application I have a formula where I have an input for username and the user can type his username in the formual as <script > alert ('1') </script> but it's saved in the database a string with a double quote like this "<script > alert ('1') </script> ", does that make my web app vulnerable to XSS ?

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AWS or Azure

So I want to host my small web app and I am wondering whether to learn AWS or Azure. From what I understand, AWS is superior to Azure in every way. However, there is no way to set hard limits on spending using AWS whereas Azure doesn't even require a credit card.
So I'm mostly going to go with Azure due to this reason. However, I wanted to know how transferrable is the knowledge? If I wanted to use AWS later, would I find it easier due to my previous experience with Azure?

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Jenkins pipeline with the Jira plugin, how to create a ticket?

We're currently using the [Jira](https://plugins.jenkins.io/jira/) plugin for Jenkins and I'm trying to work out how to use it to create a ticket in Jira via pipeline.

Looking at the documentation, it makes an offhand comment on permisions needed for a service account, but doesn't explain how to do it, let alone how to do it in pipeline. The only documentation I can find for pipeline is in [here](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jira-plugin/blob/master/COMPATIBILITY.md).

Am I being blind \\ daft?

Use case: In a certain repo, all branches need a jira ticket number otherwise it'll get rejected. So the job creates a ticket, creates a branch in Bitbucket using the ticket number and then does some changes to an XML doc etc etc etc.

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Apache Kafka Lag Monitoring at AppsFlyer

This article covers one crucial piece of every distributed system: visibility. At AppsFlyer, we call ourselves metrics obsessed and truly believe that you cannot know what you cannot see.

With 150+ billion events per day, Kafka monitoring and metrics are crucial. Here's how AppsFlyer built a Kafka lag monitoring solution with time-based metrics, smart alerts, and decoupling.

[https://www.confluent.io/blog/kafka-lag-monitoring-and-metrics-at-appsflyer/](https://www.confluent.io/blog/kafka-lag-monitoring-and-metrics-at-appsflyer/)

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What metrics do you visualize monthly for your DevOps adoption?

Currently been reporting on
Delivery Lead Time
Delivery Prep Time
Delivery Wait Time
Deployment Frequency
I use Tableau to show alot of this. Looking for some creative ways people have uses metrics when reporting to management

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