Looking for suggestins for good VPN provider

could somone suggest my a VPN provider with

* 1. a documented API and
* 2. the feature torenew ip, for given city/country. Ideally non US, no US-Server provider.
* 3. cost efficient (annualy payment)

I also accept suggestion for a fitting /r/somefoo to ask/discuss such stuff.

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Provision a Ready to GO Azure Server

https://slides.com/hatemtayeb/deck-919eb7

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Handy little GitHub action for auto-updating documentation

I spent some time yesterday trying to get a GitHub action that will automatically update my documentation. I thought my final solution was kinda nifty and was wondering if you guys have solved this problem in other ways.


name: Generate Docs

on:
push:
branches: master

jobs:
docs:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Set up Go
uses: actions/setup-go@v2
with:
go-version: 1.15

- name: GenDocs
id: GenDocs
continue-on-error: true
run: |
GO111MODULE=on go get -u github.com/princjef/gomarkdoc/cmd/gomarkdoc
~/go/bin/gomarkdoc . > ./docs.md
exit $(git diff docs.md | wc -c)
- name: Commit Changes
if: steps.GenDocs.outcome == 'failure'
run: |
git config --global user.name 'AutoDocAction'
git config --global user.email '[email protected]'
git add docs.md
git commit -m "auto generated docs"
git push


Although as I typed this up I realized I'm an idiot and I could have just allowed the Commit Changes step to continue-on-error.

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Anyone know how I can use Gitlab CI/CD to auto accept a Chef Inspec license?

ERROR: Chef InSpec cannot execute without accepting the license

Thanks :)

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CI/CD pipeline creates Helm chart on the fly - anyone done this?

Hi DevOpsers,

looking for a little bit of feedback on this idea:

let's say we have a bunch of containerized apps. Every repo already has a docker-compose.yml file which allows developers to quickly spin up the app with all its dependencies locally.

As a next step, we want to add automation to our CI/CD pipeline which spins up a test instance of an app on a Kubernetes cluster whenever a new PR is created ("PR Environments"). This will be useful for a range of things, such as automated testing, user acceptance testing, customer demos etc.

My thinking here is that the docker-compose.yml files already contain most of what we need to achieve this (service definitions etc) and I'd like to avoid duplication. I.e. I wouldn't wanna maintain a separate set of K8S config files or Helm charts or similar.

The approach I'm trying out right now is to set up a CI/CD step which creates a Helm chart on the fly using kompose.io, using alternative conversion. I.e. the Helm charts never get checked into source control, they always get created as part of the CI/CD build automation. Whatever additional config is needed on top of Docker Compose gets injected via --set, e.g.

helm install --wait --set service.type=LoadBalancer

Any feedback on this approach, is this sensible? Anyone done something similar?

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Help understanding package repositories

Hey all, I'm new to the DevOps world and am working on ways to improve the current workflow of our C++ projects.

One thing I can't seem to wrap my brain around is the use of GitLabs Conan package repository (or any similar concept).

Is the point so that we can store any required external libraries there? And then they can be used during a later stage in the pipeline or another branch so we don't have to build them again and can be sure we have the right versions?

If so, would our conanfiles then reference our packages stored in our GitLab?

And one person would setup the packages initially so the full development team can pull them locally and reference them?

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Sonarqube scanning in Azuredevops pipeline

I have some backend codes written in scala.I am using sonar for for static code analysis.I have written a sonar.properties file for scala.But when scanner is running, its throwing some java compile issue.Also the codes contain some play framework modules.If anyone can help me with the issue?

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Open ended Q: Any Ops Contractors/Freelancers?

Hey Devs,
When you hear of “freelance software development” do you also imagine web development, front end, and branding exercises as being the typical freelance contract work for a developer?

I’m wondering if there are any devs out here that do freelance on more interesting, less design centric projects.

So Open ended question here: Does anyone do contract/freelance work that involves data engineering and cloud infrastructure? How about project management or SCRUM/Agile freelance?

If so where do you find these contracts and what types of arrangements do you have?

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How long it usually takes to build a CI/CD

Hi,
I am wondering on average how long it usually take you to build an automated infrastructure and CI/CD For your application regardless of the technologies / tools used (AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Packer, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Cloud Based CI)... Etc

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Automatic maintenance page using Cloudflare & Terraform

I've created a plugin which automates maintenance pages with Cloudflare workers and Terraform:

https://github.com/adinhodovic/terraform-cloudflare-maintenance

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How to get better with the deployment of web apps?



Hey guys,

I'd call myself a junior developer. I am working for a small start-up and do all kinds of different stuff, from Frontend to backend, and also deployment. I am mostly fine with the tech I am using since I learned and love programming. However, when it comes to deployment there is so much going on that I often get lost and need several hours or even more to deploy an app for a customer. When I finally got to the point that the app is running with ssl enabled. I then just hope that I never need to touch it again, because I am scared of breaking it again.

Luckily we do have more experience devs who can often fix all kinds of problems. However I myself wanna get better with deployment. But there is no really hands-on course for this kind of stuff is there?

Yesterday for instance I tried to deploy a rocket chat instance on a VPS but it did not work at all.

How can I get better with the deployment of third party software and in house developed software?

I am posting here because I wasn`t sure where else this topic would fit.

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Argus - A TypeScript based successor to Watchtower

## Argus

https://socialify.git.ci/VibhorCodecianGupta/Argus/image?description=1&language=1&pattern=Circuit%20Board&theme=Dark

Update your Docker container to the latest base image effortlessly

Super thrilled to announce v0.1.4 of Argus! I started out this project as a part of a hackathon, continued it to take a gander at Docker SDKs and writing TypeScript, but stuck with it because it was turning out to be something. Argus comes with minimal functionality of automating the base docker image update with few CLI options to customize for now, but a lot of nifty/essential features are planned ahead: Support for webhooks (for image push/pull), Docker swarm, metrics for monitoring, push notifications to communication channels, and much more.

Fresh out of undergrad, I am the sole contributor to this project and would really appreciate you all to head over and give it a go, come up with some bugs and features (as I'm sure people with much more experience than me will) and report issues. Anybody who wishes to contribute is absolutely welcome. Finally, if you like what you see, consider dropping a star!

### Summary

Argus monitors all (or specified) running docker containers and updates them to the latest or tagged available image in the remote registry. The updated container uses the same tag and parameters that were used when the container was first created such as volume/bind mounts, docker network connections, environment variables, restart policies, entrypoints, commands, etc.

To find out more in-depth, head over to the docs

Cheers!

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Best tool for managing deploying and running application on Windows EC2 instances?

Heyo, I'm wondering if anybody has some suggestions on a tool for deploying a package on Windows EC2 instances when they startup and then ensuring the application always runs on subsequent startups. We use instance refresh for version updates so it wouldn't need to do any update management, just ensuring the first deploy happens and then if the instance reboots the application needs to autorun. Also looking for something not strictly coupled to AWS, no codedeploy or anything like that. We don't use Chef or Puppet or Ansible so I'm not sure if one of those would be the right option here?

To give an idea of where we're currently at, when an instance spins up, we use a userdata run script to download and deploy the package and then create links in the startup programs folder, followed by a reboot to get them running (we've tried to run them directly through the userdata, but they end up backgrounded and unkillable that way and that causes a mountain of other headaches). It takes up to 10 minutes with this for new instances to be usable and that is... really bad, haha.

We're also using Packer for our AMIs and Terraform for our general infrastructure. I don't think we'd want to build a new AMI with the package on it each deployment tho, so ideally something that we could install on our base AMI if that exists?

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Need study partner for starting with Devops

I want to get started with Devops and particularly Azure devops. I am hoping to talk to someone who can help me start out with it. Like maybe build a pipeline and automate it.
I actually do not have any idea at all even though I read a lot of theory on DevOps. Hoping someone who has a little bit more practical knowledge than me to help me out.
Thanks in advance!

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Porter: Open source Heroku that runs on a Kubernetes cluster in YOUR OWN cloud provider.

Hey r/devops!

tl; dr - Porter is a Kubernetes powered PaaS that runs in your own cloud provider.

Repository: https://github.com/porter-dev/porter

Platform as a Service (PaaS's) like Heroku are great and affordable until your app grows out of it and you start paying 5x the amount of money you would pay to AWS/GCP for the same infra. Porter brings the Heroku experience to Kubernetes without overhead (you don't even need to know k8s at all) but gives you the full flexibility of k8s when you need it. You also directly pay your cloud provider for hosting without paying the expensive middleman cost like you do on Heroku.

It's built on top of Helm and is compatible with standard Kubernetes management tools like kubectl, so it's ready for mature DevOps work from day 1.

This is how it works:

1) Porter spins up a Kubernetes cluster and image registry in your own cloud provider with just one click. (Currently we only support AWS but will be supporting GCP and DigitalOcean soon)

2) Build and push your docker images to the provisioned registry.

3) The images you have pushed will show up on our dashboard. Deploy them on Porter with a few clicks - no need to write a YAML file!

If you already have a Kubernetes cluster you want to use, you can also link up your own instead of provisioning through Porter. You can give it a go by following the README on the repository. The project is still in early stage, but we are moving at turbo speed so please leave us a star if you'd like to keep an eye on our progress!

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How do you manage your sets of Dockerfile ?

Hello :-)

How do you guys handle your dockerfiles ? Nowadays, there is a lot of base image, sandbox, CI agent,...

\- Do you use a monorepo ? One repo per Dockerfile ?

\- What kind of check do you do on a built image ?

I took the time to handle my dockerfiles in a more structured way : https://github.com/romainPrignon/dockerfiles

​

Do you have any feedback ?

​

PS: It is written in js, but the same principle apply with Python, go,...

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Could not find command "cheflicense". Why does it do that after it says the product license was accepted?

Anyone know what this means?

\+---------------------------------------------+ ✔ 1 product license accepted. +---------------------------------------------+

Could not find command "\_chef_license".

What's that mean? I googled it looking at a Github error, but it was not relevant to my situation.

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What DevOps tools are a must for v1 release of a SaaS app?

I'm releasing the 1st version of my SaaS app (first app I built as well, so no prior experience).

What tools should I absolutely include in the 1st release? Currently I only have sentry for error tracking. Are there other tools that you'd consider essential to have in place from day 1?

From my research online I've read about:

\- Log trackers (graylog, papertrail, elastic)

\- APT (graphite, prometheus, splunk)

\- System monitoring(sensu, zabbix, incinga)

\- CI/CD pipelines (jenkins, travis)

\- Visualizations (grafana)

\- Security (vault, firewalls, EPP)

Help me get a feel for what actually matters. Thanks.

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Hi team need some setup suggestion for Hashcorp vault HA.

Hi team is there any vault HA setup comes under open source for Hashicorp vault or it will only available in enterprise versions.

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SAST vs SCA

If the average organization is developing apps with 80% OSS but only using a Static to scan for vulns... does that mean 80% of the code in it’s apps are exposed to hackers? (I know that’s pretty broad question but any insight/thoughts would be appreciated)

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University students in STEM degrees often ask me these questions. Would love to get this community's insights into them.

1. What’s driving the demand for DevOps engineers and how does one become a DevOps engineer?
2. Is there a shortage of DevOps engineers? If so, are there estimates on how many we are short of?
3. What are the skills required of a DevOps engineer? Please elaborate in terms of - but not limited - to the following:
1. Platform familiarity
2. Programming/scripting languages
3. Configuration management
4. Provisioning and deployment
5. Security
6. Integration
7. Communication/team management
4. Are there certification programmes for DevOps engineers? If so, what are these and should DevOps engineers or aspiring DevOps engineers go for those certifications? Why and why not?
5. What is the typical career path for DevOps engineers, if any?
6. How are DevOps teams usually organised? Who are the members and what are their responsibilities e.g. software developers, systems architects, QA engineers etc.?
7. Are there any roles that are not usually seen as DevOps roles but are instrumental to the success of DevOps teams? E.g. user experience engineers and non-technical roles.
8. Skills and experience notwithstanding, what does it take for a DevOps engineer to succeed?

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