Cloudbees CI or Github Actions?

Hey guys.
I have been asked to do an analysis on which one is better among these.
We already have cloudbees jenkins enterprise in our environment.
I have little knowledge on Github Actions.
And security is a priority.

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How to Become a DevOps Engineer

Learn what DevOps engineers do, the required skill set, and the advanced technologies DevOps engineers use to do their job effectively.

https://www.codemotion.com/magazine/dev-hub/devops-engineer/how-to-become-devops-engineer/

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Help Learning Chef in Windows Environment PLEASE

What would a typical architecture look like for Chef in a mainly Windows Environment?

I need to learn Chef for a project coming up and I am struggling to understand what the Architecture should look like, could anyone give me some real life examples please?

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Would this be correct?

Chef Workstation (On User Local Machine/Everyday Laptop)

Chef Server (Linux*)

Clients (Server 2016, Server 2019, RHEL)

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Patch level monitoring dashboard for both RedHat/Ubuntu

Hi guys,

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I am looking for an open source dashboard that can monitoring and updated patches/packages in RedHat/CentOS/Ubuntu, tools such as fedora's cockpit (which actually fits perfectly) or RedHat's Sattelite...

But I want to here about more (free/prefably opensource) tools

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centralizing group information

We're writing an increasing number of inhouse applications that do SSO against a source that only provides us with authentication of the user but doesn't have a way for us to create groups.

In our pre-cloud days we could have used AD to store this information but I don't want to try to make LDAP calls across the internet.

How are people centralizing group information and what applications people have access to that can be available via API? We could probably use a database to do this, but if something already exists I'd love to hear about it.

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Which automation tool to pick first for a new devops engineer.

Out of puppet, ansible, terraform, and chef. What do you recommend to learn first and why?

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Team planning

Hello,


I'm working as an OPS & scrum master in medium sized team (\~ 15 people atm, and 5+ to come in january). Apart from the usual .ods/xls how do you guy manage the team planning/agenda?


Is there any decent (free and OSS if possible) software that would make my life easier? I'm also the administrator on our jira & confluence if you guys know of a specific plugin that would also do the trick.


Thanks !

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What about a business changes to align on a common platform?

Everywhere I’ve worked has been a mix of physical and virtual machines, on-prem and cloud. Every product had very different development processes for the next product. Most of these companies were mid startup or post startup. As such, few places had any consistency or a common platform to enable product development.

I would love insights from others who have experienced a workplace transition from similar beginnings that transitioned to a common platform.

Any insights into what about the business changes to align interest would be welcome:
size of product development
regulatory requirements
specializations
???

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Golang or Python After Powershell

I am pretty a MS sys admin who transitioned into cloud engineering and now Dev-Ops. As I go higher the stack, I see a need to break away from my dependency on Microsoft Technology.

I have been learning more about orchestration, containerization and I a C, playing with Linux and I am pretty good with PowerShell.

Since I am in the world of automation, it makes sense to learn another language to improve my automation skills cross-platform, I have been looking at python for a while, but I seem to be taking a good look at GO as most Server-side automation tools seem to be built with it.

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I am looking at focusing on one for the new year and will appreciate more insight from people who have had similar experiences.

I'd like to know what differences exist between the two as regards to dev-ops and automation. Thanks

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Error while generating ssh key during flux installation



after passing the command to generate a SSH key fluxctl identity --k8s-fwd-ns fluxcd

I'm getting an error

E1221 13:31:56.215032 81380 portforward.go:400\] an error occurred forwarding 42351 -> 3030: error forwarding port 3030 to pod e58438bcc3ddded6315b45e6590835ad0c7034204f2505aa0788ea90f42fab9b, uid : exit status 1: 2020/12/21 13:31:56 socat[97574\] E connect(5, AF=2 127.0.0.1:3030, 16): Connection refused Error: executing HTTP request: executing HTTP request: Post https://127.0.0.1:42351/api/flux/v9/git-repo-config: EOF Run 'fluxctl identity --help' for usage.

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How DevOps Plays a Beneficial Role in Mobile App Development

DevOps is a modern development approach. Let's know the role of DevOps in mobile app development, its benefits, and how to implement it in your project.


https://www.mindinventory.com/blog/role-of-devops-in-mobile-app-development/

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how to scale a multi tenant b2b saas

i want to make a b2b saas where i provide the business owner a website that they can use to handle their visitors

what i wonder is how to scale it so each tenant is isolated, so no noisy neighbour

i mean like if there are increasing client so they get their own resources

is load balancing do the job?
what about the database? how to scale it

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"Hello World" !

Hello guys, Im just joining this subreddit. I'm want to learn and to become a DevOps engineer. Mostly I self taught so I need some Advice on what to learn and how to learn it. I've known about the baisc of Linux, Networking and Virtualization.

Thank you for your time reading this !

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One Sentence for Every AWS Instance Type

Every time I'm starting a new service to run internally or reviewing something we have going, I find myself struggling to find the right instance type for the needs. For instance, there are three families (r, x, z) that optimize RAM in various ways in various combinations and I always forget about the x and z variants.

So I put together this "cheat sheet" for us internally and thought I'd share it for anyone interested. Pull requests welcome for updates: https://github.com/wrble/public/blob/main/aws-instance-types.md

Did I miss anything?

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Are developers going to rule the next coming years....

In the long run meaning at least like 5 years from now, do DevOps and SREs roles merge into Software Development, the reason i am asking this is, i am seeing SDE and programmers in general(SQL developers, frontend/backend devs) have already started taking on job duties of DevOps and SREs folks, devs in our org are doing CICD pipelines, IaC, developing custom pages/apps using APIs, watching APM alerts and figuring out performance issues, implementing security best practices etc. I know more than often businesses require dedicated Application and DevOps/SRE teams. But if one has to invest in learning and keeping up with advancements/changes in tech industry, would it help to start leaning towards SDE skillset, when it comes to skilling up and career path. I feel like companies have already started hiring developers with DevOps/SRE skillset (or train them if they are lacking). Just spit balling here, feel free to share your opinions...

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Automating the publishing of Helm charts to repo

Searching brings up a lot of pipeline for deploying the chart but what I want to learn is a workflow for publishing the charts to a repository. Let's say you have a folder Charts with many charts of your org. When that folder changes, trigger testing and push those charts to repo. I was going to script it but wondering if there's an efficient method.

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Broach devops technology? Whats that ? Help appreciated

Can someone help me understanding the term.

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Is standalone VPS for running unit tests the whole day considered a ToS violation?

I can imagine that buying any decent VPS machine at any provider and putting there an online system to run in a loop of unit tests can degrade the machine hard disk hard and create constant CPU usage.

Ngl; I am lightly comparing this to crypto mining which is not really the thing cloud providers allow to my limited knowledge.

I guess throttling VPS resources have its name

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macOS 11.1, VMware Fusion and Vagrant Plug-in for kitchen-CI HELP

Hi all,

After Virtual Box stopped working with Big Sur our company has told us to use VMware Fusion as hypervisor choice for corporate Macs. So need to replicate Test-Kitchen setup w/VBox on VMWare/Vagrant.

System configuration:

macOS 11.1
VMWare Fusion 12.1 (Latest)
Vagrant VMWare Plug-in 1.0.17 (purchased today)
Chef Workstation 20.7.96 (Infra Client 16.2.73)

VAGRANT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER

$ echo $VAGRANTDEFAULTPROVIDER
vmwaredesktop

**kitchen.yml:**

driver:
name: vagrant
provider: vmwarefusion

network:
- "forwarded_port", {guest: 5985, host: 55985}

provisioner:
name: chefzero
loglevel: warn

platforms:
- name: W2012-3.2.12-14DEC20
driver:
host: 127.0.0.1
port: 55985
guest: windows
transport:
name: winrm
elevated: true
elevatedusername: SYSTEM
elevatedpassword: null
driverconfig:
gui: true
guest: windows
username: Administrator
password: *********
communicator: winrm

suites:
....

When I run kitchen converge I get this:

-----> Starting Test Kitchen (v2.5.3)
-----> Creating <VM-W2012-3212-14DEC20>...
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'vmwarefusion' provider...
==> default: Box 'W2012-3.2.12-14DEC20' could not be found. Attempting to find and install...
default: Box Provider: vmwaredesktop, vmwarefusion, vmwareworkstation
default: Box Version: >= 0
==> default: Box file was not detected as metadata. Adding it directly...
==> default: Adding box 'W2012-3.2.12-14DEC20' (v0) for provider: vmwaredesktop, vmwarefusion, vmwareworkstation
default: Downloading: W2012-3.2.12-14DEC20
An error occurred while downloading the remote file. The error
message, if any, is reproduced below. Please fix this error and try
again.

Couldn't open file /Users/<pathto>/.kitchen/kitchen-vagrant/VM-W2012-3212-14DEC20/W2012-3.2.12-14DEC20
>>>>>> ------Exception-------
>>>>>> Class: Kitchen::ActionFailed
>>>>>> Message: 1 actions failed.
>>>>>> Failed to complete #create action: [Expected process to exit with [0], but received '1'
---- Begin output of vagrant up --no-provision --provider vmwarefusion ----
STDOUT: Bringing machine 'default' up with 'vmwarefusion' provider...
==> default: Box 'W2012-3.2.12-14DEC20' could not be found. Attempting to find and install...
default: Box Provider: vmwaredesktop, vmwarefusion, vmwareworkstation
default: Box Version: >= 0
==> default: Box file was not detected as metadata. Adding it directly...
==> default: Adding box 'W2012-3.2.12-14DEC20' (v0) for provider: vmwaredesktop, vmwarefusion, vmwareworkstation
default: Downloading: W2012-3.2.12-14DEC20

STDERR: An error occurred while downloading the remote file. The error
message, if any, is reproduced below. Please fix this error and try
again.

Couldn't open file /Users/<pathto>.kitchen/kitchen-vagrant/VM-W2012-3212-14DEC20/W2012-3.2.12-14DEC20
---- End output of vagrant up --no-provision --provider vmwarefusion ----
Ran vagrant up --no-provision --provider vmwarefusion returned 1] on VM-W2012-3212-14DEC20

This gives me the impression the Vagrant VMWare driver is not working. I have had the setup working before but with macOS 10.15, VMWare Fusion 11 and Vagrant VMware Plug-in 1.0.7. Latter don't work with macOS 11.1.

Anyone please able to share wisdom of how to get this working.

Regards and happy holidays.

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Has anyone figured out a trunk based strategy using GitHub Actions?

I come from Azure DevOps where we use separate build and release pipelines that are linked and therefore implementing this is trivial, the release pipeline has access to various build pipeline variables and published artifacts.

I found this post https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/gnnr5a/functionality_to_trigger_github_actions_builds_on/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=&utm_content=comments_view_all and is not really what I’m looking for, I’m hoping there is a native solution. The comments on that thread are pretty terrible, not what I’ve come to know from this sub, but I’m a more recent subscriber.

The idea I’m shooting for, if you’re unfamiliar, is building once and promoting artifacts (or containers images) to environments either by approvals, button clicks, or other checks, as opposed to using separate branches that creat new builds for each environment (which seems to be the new norm?, but I’m not interested in doing things that way)

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Hi Team is there any possibility to periodically rotate the token not with manual automation for hashicorp

Looking for any Feasibility to generate dynamic tokens for kv secret engine for hashicorp vault for automation.
With the cli we can do but without human intervention is there any suggested automated way to do this.
I need to generate new token after some amount of time with hashicorp vault in automated way.
I am looking to write one custom service from outside but is there any way which hashicorp tool itself gave us.
Need some suggestions.
Thanks in advance.

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