Streamline setting up local dev env with docker?

We plan on growing our development team by 2-3x over the next year.

In order to minimize onboarding time, we have been considering if we can someone containerize a local development environment so all new devs can easily work in the same environment, and minimize time needed for set up.

For context, we’re primarily a Java shop.

Any thoughts, suggestions, best practices would be appreciated. Have done some research online but haven’t found anything them feels definitive yet.

Thanks!

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Best resources/tutorials for setting up basic CI for personal full stack web app

Hi, devops.

I'm a student trying to learn about continuous integration by setting up a basic CI pipeline for a web app. The app uses Python's Flask framework for the back end and React for the front end. I've been trying to use Travis CI.

I've had a lot of questions while trying to write the .travis.yml file to install the front end and back end and then run tests for each. For example, I'm not sure if I should create separate git branches (each with their own yml file) for the Flask app and React app, or if I should use a single yml file that somehow directs the Travis VM to call the installation and testing scripts in the front end and back end subdirectories.

I've been surprised by how few tutorials I've found for setting up a basic CI workflow for a project like this with some unit tests and maybe some tests that test the front and back ends together. I'm definitely a noob with devops though, so I might be asking the wrong questions.

Are there any tutorials or resources you would suggest for learning how to set up a basic CI pipeline for a simple personal project like this?

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MTV Cribs for DevOps

I work at a small company and I'm a junior engineer. I'm getting into DevOps but neither of my coworkers are really equipped to teach me about it. I've been reading lots of articles, but most are either about how to use specific technologies or about very general concepts like CI/CD. I want something between those two: specific enough to be practically useful, but general enough that the whole DevOps infrastructure is described. I'd love to learn how those that know more than me are doing things by having them show us round their systems and explain their rationales, a bit like how a pen tester will walk you through their exploit. Does this exist anywhere?

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Jobs hiring trend in 2021

Working from remote would be a new normal?


what do you think or see the trend going to be or happening right now?

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I'm conducting a market research and I have a conjecture, WDYT?

My conjecture is that due to the scarcity of DevOps engineers (from various reasons), or the fact that many times infrastructure and deployment mechanisms are designed and created by software developers without DevOps expertise, many companies suffer from rickety cloud infrastructures and deploy mechanisms which are not robust, not secure and not made by best practices.

How wrong do you think I am?

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Devops training help needed

Hello all.

I have taken the initiative to deliver sort of an internal training/seminar on the devops culture. There aren't going to be any tools specifics (maybe mentions here and there), but the intention is to help the company understand what devops is and isn't, and set the foundations for next projects to come.

At least 80% of the company are junior to mid developers, so I see this opportunity as particularly important.

What are your thoughts on some topics I could go through, and how would you approach them?

If you can think of any games/excercise that could help prove a point they would be very helpful.

Thanks, really appreciate your help, and keep delivering faster!!

Edit: typos

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HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate discount code?

Any discount codes for the exam?

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Creating Lambda and ECR in the same terraform

Hello devops masters.
We would like to create a lambda function that runs from a container, we would also like to create the ECR at the same time. The problem is that the lambda cannot be created with a non existing image.. (ECR is created first but it is empty) and the lambda cannot be created..

Since it's kind of a new feature I couldn't find any documentations 😔.

We want to manage the build of the code and the pushing to the ECR seperatly from the terraform which is infra only.

Does anyone have a way around that?

resource "awsecrrepository" "arepo" {
name = var.ecrname
imagetagmutability = "MUTABLE"
}

resource "awslambdafunction" "alambda" {
functionname = "a-lambda"
role = awsiamrole.a-lambda-role.arn
imageuri = "${awsecrrepository.arepo.repositoryurl}:latest"
packagetype = "Image"
tags = var.tags

}

Any comment is much appreciated

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Best courses to learn Kubernetes, Dockers and Containers from scratch

Hello

I am looking for some suggestions from experts here to help me with the courses to learn the important concepts of DevOps.
I have Linux Academy membership and can also buy courses from Udemy.

Please let me know where to start with.

Thank you

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Infrastructure State Visualisation For Terraform

Hi everybody!

This one is for the Terraformers among you. I’ve always felt the plan/apply output is pretty messy and could be improved upon, so I decided to do something about it. I’m currently working on a little project called Pluralith. We’re essentially talking about an application that visualises your Terraform state and integrates directly with the Terraform CLI.

The application is currently in an early state with a private alpha starting soon. I demoed the application at HashiTalks 2021 some time ago and the reception was overwhelmingly positive. I already posted in r/Terraform a while ago, but since Terraform is a pretty popular devops tool these days I thought I’d share the project in here and collect some more feedback from people all over the devops landscape. The project could take many directions in the future so if you’re not a Terraform user, but have any ideas or questions that involve any other tools in your workflow I’d also very much like to hear about that :)

If you want to get a better feel for the project check out the website **HERE**. If you are interested in being an early tester or simply want to know when the thing is available for download for your OS leave me your email and I’ll make sure to notify you when you can get your hands on it.

I’ve also created a little subreddit for user feedback, discussions, feature requests etc. We are already over 90 people strong so head over there and join r/Pluralith if you are interested in the project!

I’ve also created a little Linkedin page here so if you’re a Linkedin type of person you can find Pluralith **HERE**

As said feedback, questions, comments etc. are very welcome!

Cheers,

Dan

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MailServer on EC2 Or Kubernetes

Hello,

we're using some external mailserver which have many issues.

so we want to host our own mailserver internally.

We need a mailserver that Have API to create (inbox according to input name), Get Inbox by email name, Api to get email/delete emails by filters (subject)

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Please recommend on good ones that easy to setup on EC2 instance or on K8S (Existing cluster)

But full guide please.

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Thanks!

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CVE-2020-28243 SaltStack Minion Local Privilege Escalation stealthcopter stealthcopter Read more posts by this author.

Command injection vulnerability in SaltStack's Salt that allows privilege escalation via specially crafted process names on a minion when the master calls restartcheck.

Affected Versions: All versions between 2016.3.0rc2 and 3002.5
CVSS Score: 7.0 High
https://sec.stealthcopter.com/cve-2020-28243/

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Last minute UAT issue putting release at risk

Hi all,

New to DevOps and just starting to learn so apologies if this is dumb question...

Recently on a Friday before a weekend release our UAT team found a potential defect. Basically significant delays in messages being received between two components. I was surprised this came up so late.

Performance testing in the NFT environment, which I was told closest to Prod, could not replicate the issue nor in other environments INT etc. It seemed to me an issue with the UAT environment it self, but this Monday I was told the issue had been found, fixed and a new build promoted to UAT.

It just confused me, because it seemed UAT and NFT are not working on the same builds or perhaps not using all components.

We have a "DevOps" team who tame care of deployment and maintain the environments, but the UAT seems a pretty manual affair hence thought I would as here.

Thanks for any thoughts!

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Startup founders looking to create an MVP

Hi,

I thought there might be an interest in learning more about my startup,MVP Nowwhich helps non-tech domain experts build web and mobile apps without developers in just one hour.

Our team is on a mission to help businesses build software at the speed of their thoughts. I am a Lean startup practitioner and technology advisor at several tech cohorts in Atlanta , GA.
MVP Now Studio is an additional service we provide along with our MVP Now no-code tool to help small business and startups with:-Lean startup advisory (We guide startups on best practices and personalized business consulting)-Lead generation (Out-sourced lead generation, part of customer discovery and sales development)-Website and Application Design and wire framing-Development and technical consultingEarly adoptersThe stage of our development currently is BETA testing our products with early adopters. In this case, we have already created a solution for a non-tech domain expert in the environmental science industry to help find qualified volunteers for environmental projects Nova Conservationhttps://www.novaconservation.com/ We helped Nova Conservation to build a web and mobile app MVP in 1 hour without a single line of code. At this stage, our no-code tool is ready to build common applications such as CRM, HR, and other solutions available for external use with different types of users.Our next steps are to add additional features to help create more targeted solutions like social media, e-commerce, finance and other workflows to cover all possible cases for startup ideas. With this goal in mind, we are looking for non-tech founders and startups who can become our early adopters. We greatly appreciate any pre-accelerator members you can refer to us who might be interested in our services. We look forward to hearing more from non-technical startup founders about proposed solutions for their customers. We are happy to offer free feedback and explain how we might be able to create an MVP for your company today. Look forward to learning more from you !

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Embedded microservices

Hey folks! I share with you one of my project: a fully modular bike alarm. It's FULLY modular because I'm using containerization to build "embedded microservices" ➜ https://www.luos.io/blog/a-new-way-to-design-embedded-app-using-luos-step-1

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Am I basically doing DevOps?

Hi,

I've been a software developer for two years. I originally started at my new company in September of last year, and it's been crazy, with sometimes pulling in 45-50 hours a week. The company specializes in document validation. Almost all of our software is in PHP, some of our older work being in Zend and CodeIgniter, and the newer stuff in Laravel and some Python. We are not a startup, but due to circumstances that caused the company to become very small at one point, I started off with a small team where there were only 2 other developers and the CEO, and now we have added 3 more people and want to add more.

I am always looking to grow, and I see my boss relying on me more and more. He often messages me early in the morning, at night, and on the weekends to make sure we are ready for this demo or something something is up with the database. I find myself doing less code, but I do a lot of the planning for our software, like the pipelines, the message queues, redis, which database to use, writing config scripts and merging and fixing issues, as well as setting up Sentry, CPanel and AWS resources. I would like to dockerize things but that is difficult to do with our current infrastructure. I will often write the Laravel jobs and the routes for functions, but the core programming algorithms in Python, (the functions themselves), which involve searching and sorting through data structures and solving specific tasks, I leave to a teammate who relies on the pipeline to do his work. I also support a frontend guy with his queries to the database and help him solve problems in the debugger. I also write documentation for the databases and how to operate the software. So I do a bit of delegation, and I have quite a high level of responsibility for the role I technically am (formally just software designer, but basically junior developer).

I was wondering if this basically constitutes devops - I know that devops is a broad subject, but I would like to grow in my career and know which direction I am heading so that I can focus on the professional development needed to grow. I am interested in software configuration, though I find it extremely challenging.

The biggest fear I have always is breaking something, or having a security breach take place under my watch. But I find that I am often having to do investigative work, whether it's related to our application's permissions or work that was left behind by a previous developer and trying to figure out what they were trying to do.

If I am in fact doing DevOps work, and my boss is relying on me to essentially be his right-hand guy, I would like to ask for my title to change to DevOps developer (just the title for now, I don't think I've been at the company long enough for a raise), just because I feel the responsibility I'm taking on is getting very large. But if it is not DevOps, I don't want to overstate my qualifications. Part of me wanting to make clear my title is because if my role is more clearly defined, I am able to confidently delegate and do certain procedures that I know I can be sanctioned to do.

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Getting an "SSH authentication failed" error when creating EC2 instances using Terraform

I am trying to run an Ansible to create an EC2 instance using [this example](https://github.com/startup-systems/terraform-ansible-example).

It is creating the EC2 instance along with the security groups and VPC, however, at some point, I am getting the following error:

>Error: timeout - last error: SSH authentication failed ([email protected]:22): ssh: handshake failed: ssh: unable to authenticate, attempted methods \[none publickey\], no supported methods remain

This is how the log looks like:

aws_instance.web (remote-exec): Connecting to remote host via SSH...
aws_instance.web (remote-exec): Host: 18.212.56.230
aws_instance.web (remote-exec): User: ubuntu
aws_instance.web (remote-exec): Password: false
aws_instance.web (remote-exec): Private key: false
aws_instance.web (remote-exec): Certificate: false
aws_instance.web (remote-exec): SSH Agent: true
aws_instance.web (remote-exec): Checking Host Key: false
aws_instance.web: Still creating... [5m20s elapsed]

Error: timeout - last error: SSH authentication failed ([email protected]:22): ssh: handshake failed: ssh: unable to authenticate, attempted methods [none publickey], no supported methods remain

Does anyone have any idea why it happens and how I can solve it?

Thanks!

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What did you do on your first week as a DevOps engineer?

I come from a dev background, starting my first day as a DevOps engineer next week, am super excited!!! As per title, I'm curious what did you folks do on your first week as a DevOps engineer? Were you taking it easy or did you have a lot of things to do?

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DevOps for blogging with Pelican

I set up Jenkins to automatically publish my blog posts. Are there more people who are so lazy that I automate everything?

My full blog post.

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How does the recruitment process for DevOps engineers actually work?

Hi,

I have a question for those who have been involved in recruiting DevOps engineers.

It seems that the term is somewhat misleading due to the sheer range of skills and backgrounds required in a functioning DevOps culture i.e., One DevOps engineer could have completely different qualifications to another, save for a mutual understanding of DevOps and how it works. I even heard one engineer say that he hates the term because it mostly exists for the benefit of recruiters.

My question is this: when you need someone with a specific skillset, would you even look for DevOps engineers specifically, or is this something you would expect the candidate to pick up once they join? e.g., recruiting for a software developer position and mentioning your DevOps culture in the job description but not the job requirements.

Would you use terms to look for a specific type of DevOps engineer?

Would you even say you are looking for a 'DevOps engineer', or would this attract the wrong kind of candidate?

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Ansible linting with GitHub action

Hi...I am new to ansible , need to complete a task ..when user create Pull Request ansible lint should kick and show the user whether code is mergable or not , should be automated ,so need to create jenkin pipeline file as well, can some one help me out

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