Pivoting back to cloud-native development and DevOps

Hey everyone,

I’m looking for some insight and maybe a bit of guidance. I have \~5 years of experience in software development, most of it in cloud-native development (mostly with Azure). I have a couple of AWS certs (Solutions Architect and Developer Associate) and used to work in a role where I was pretty deep into the cloud stack—containerized workloads, IaC, CI/CD pipelines, microservices, etc.

Earlier this year, I made a career move into embedded systems for better pay and what I thought would be an interesting change of pace but I’ve found I really don’t enjoy the work. It’s very far removed from what I liked about building and deploying in the cloud—things feel much slower, less flexible, and I miss working with modern DevOps tools and practices.

Long-term, I’m aiming to become a solutions architect, ideally on the cloud side. I’m trying to figure out the best way to pivot back into that world.

A few questions for anyone who’s been in or adjacent to this path:

1. What’s the current and near-future outlook for cloud-native development and DevOps roles?
2. Is there still strong demand for people with cloud experience and certs?
3. Any advice on how to make myself more marketable again for cloud or DevOps roles?
4. Would aiming directly for a junior/pre-solution architect position be realistic, or should I try to get back in as a cloud engineer/developer first?

Appreciate any thoughts or experiences you can share.

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I got offered a dev ops role over help desk. Should I take it even though I can fail?

I’m more of a jr sysadmin. Went to school for computer science. Have programmed little since graduating few years back. The majority of my work revolves around help desk, and I’m looking to break away from that once and for all.

For two months I asked the security department if I can work with them on some tasks because I want more things to put on my resume and learn.

Well they know I want to get out of help desk related tasks so they offered me a role where my main responsibility would be using puppet to do configuration management on the servers. I was apart of the puppet training. I would also be doing other security related tasks.

I don’t do much programming, but should I accept this role? Can I learn most of it on the job? To tell you the truth I don’t want to be on the operations side of things much anymore. I really regret not doing programming outside of school.

Basically should I take this opportunity? I don’t think my pay is adjusting but I much rather do this role, it’s just I’m starting from not much experience. But I feel like I’ll be a lot more motivated to learn and better myself outside of work because I have a clear path.

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How to make a dead project alive?

I'm a DevOps engineer working for a US based telecommunication company. We've been using CISCO as our vpn provider for years now. Apparently, it looks like CISCO is having licensing problems and we cannot go ahead with it for the long run. Before I joined, the previous engineering manager suggested that we should use Nordlayer as a replacement for everything we do with CISCO. He made a plan, convinced everyone that it'll work and suddenly he left the company. Now in the DevOps team it's only me and newly joined manager. Other people at company mentioned that previous manager had all the poc setup in our AWS, but as I checked it's not.

Basically what we want to do is make a connection between our DC to AWS via Nordlayer!

There's no documentation on how this thing worked previously, but management tells us that it needs to be up. We contacted Nordlayer support and they also do not have any documentation since it was a poc setup. So we're kinda stuck and the heat's on me because I'm responsible for AWS and previous setup was present in AWS. So I'm really not sure what needs to be done!
Thought of posting this here because I'm sure everyone must've gone through this situation once in there career to finish what's been dead for years. Help me out.

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Docker Setup for App with Frontend + 2 Backends + Certbot

Hi there,

I want to have a "simple-to-maintain" setup for having the following setup:

* Certbot
* Nginx (as reverse proxy sending traffic to backend & frontend)
* Two backends
* Frontend (Angular app)

For now I would do the following:

Certbot on the host without docker. To me it seems that having it inside docker-compose is too much of a hassle. The setup will be standalone so there will not be any other services requiring is to be in an isolated environment.

Nginx: To me it seems that it does not offer much benefits to put it into docker?

Backends: dockerized apps Inside a docker-compose

Frontend: How would you serve it? Would you rather put it on the host (since nginx is on the host already) or dockerize it (if so how?)?

What's your take on the setup?

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Best Course+Certification for Devops

I am a currently pursuing BTech CSE and learning cybersecurity.

1. Want to know if DevSecOps is a viable field to get into in the future.
2. I will definitely need to learn Devops whether i choose to get into devsecops or not. Can someone please suggest some certification that i can aim for, preferably with a course accompanying it.
3. Which Platform do you think i should learn as a cloud platform(AWS/Azure) and Container Tools(Docker/Kubernetes), as i believe they both go hand in hand(correct me if i am wrong).

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Is my plan valid

So I am actively learning DevOps related skills such as tools methodologies, hands on practice labs all by myself. I don't really have any job experience. Though I am currently doing a devops internship.
Which has almost 1.5 months remaining to complete. After that internship I work remotely as a freelance data scientist where my friend gets all the projects for putting food in the table so I am working almost 16 hrs daily.

This routeen is very taxing on my health so.

My Plan
After finishing my internship I plan to keep doing the freelance work, and then keep learning DevOps related stuff by myself as I have a clear direction now. To cater the experience issue I plan to get certs.
The cloud practitioner
Solutions architect
And maybe the sys admin professional.
And I know I will not just preparing for the cert but actual practice first and cert exams at the end.

So what do you guys say.

Getting a relevant job at the place I am an intern at might be a possibility but it does not seem likely. Even if I do get a job there, they use old styles stuff on prem servers, windows servers vms. Somehow it is related too.

In short: this is a bad company pays less , minimal learning.

Thanks

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Inferencing GPT-OSS-20B with vLLM, Observability for AI Workloads

https://www.parseable.com/blog/vllm-inference-metrics

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Which is the best Book of Networking for DevOps?

I am on the way for DevOps and now I want to learn Networking but have no idea which book should I read that should be sufficient for DevOps. As networking in itself is a very large topic so I was hoping for only What is necessary for DevOps.

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Saving audit logs

Hi,
How can I best save audit logs for a company?
I tried using Grafana with BigQuery and GCS archive. The storage cost in GCS is cheap, but the retrieval fees from GCS are very high, and also BigQuery query costs add up.

Any advice on better approaches?

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Anyone else hit a wall with CI/CD pipeline bottlenecks?

Last week, our team’s CI/CD pipeline started choking during a big release. We’re using Jenkins with a bunch of custom scripts, and it took hours to debug why our tests were hanging. Turned out, a misconfigured Docker image was clogging the build queue. We fixed it by pruning old images, but it’s clear our setup needs an overhaul. Have you dealt with pipeline bottlenecks like this? What changes or tools helped you streamline your CI/CD process?

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Manage multiple Lambdas using container images

Hi r/devops. We have a few Lambda functions deployed using container images. All of them use the same Dockerfile but we have different CI processes for building and pushing images to ECR, and updating the Lambda separately using the commit tag. It seems quite painful to manage 10s of repos and building/updating images. Was wondering how this should be ideally handled. Do you guys use a single ECR repo and use an image from this repo to update/deploy all Lambda functions? Any additional info is appreciated.

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Concerns about Renovate

I have been trying to get Renovate to run locally on my computer locally without providing a PAT(in dry-run mode) or onboarding my repository and its proving challenging. I know I'll have to provide a PAT to create a PR but its simply not working locally. Using the Renovate Github APP is easy as pie but I have concerns over security and them just using my private codebase to train the LLM or whatever.

Documentation, tutorials, and general conversation on how to run Renovate locally is very sparse and generally doesn't work. I've even given chatGPT a shot for a general explanation and error after error after error.


Has anyone here had luck working with Renovate in a CICD pipeline? Or locally?

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Basic "enterprise ready" AWS setup review

Need some advice! I want to standardize the terraform setup for my startup. Requirement is to keep things in Terraform and avoid using paid platforms.

Here's what I've used in the past that worked well:

## AWS Setup

WAF for firewall (DDoS protection, rate limiting, known IP blocking etc)

ALB for load balancing

Cert Manager for domain resolving

EKS cluster + ec2s for services (autoscaling)

RDS Postgres

AWS Secrets Manager for env vars

Logs on Cloudwatch -> pipe stdout to Grafana or DataDog


## CI/CD
Github Action workflow for new code releases, upon merging to main:
1. Test, compile, create new Docker image with version tag
2. Push image to AWS ECR
3. Update helm charts values (release version)
4. Deploy with helm (redeploys the pods)


I liked this setup so far because it scales easily, relatively headache free (once you get it working) and is an easy sell when selling to large enterprises ("robust", data doesn't leave our systems, etc).

Considering Fargate instead (simpler/cheaper?), but I only have experience with EKS. Thoughts?

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Gaming API latency: 100ms London, 200ms Malta, 700-1000ms NZ - tried everything, still slow

Running a g@ming app backend (ECS/ALB) in AWS eu-west-2. API latency is killing us for distant users:

\- London: 100ms

\- Malta: 200ms

\- New Zealand: 700-1000ms



Tried:

1. CloudFront - broke our authentication (modified requests somehow)

2. Global Accelerator - no SSL termination

3. Cloudflare + Argo - still 700ms+

4. Cloudflare → Global Accelerator → ALB - no improvement

Can't go multi-region due to compliance/data requirements.



Is 700ms+ just the physics of NZ→London distance? Or are we missing something obvious? How do other platforms handle this?

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Você está mentorando alguém que deseja começar a carreira como dev. Que dicas você daria para essa pessoa?

Sou apaixonada por programação amo Python, Java e desenvolver sites :)
Apesar de ter um certo receio sobre como a evolução da IA pode impactar a área, minha paixão pela tecnologia só cresce.
Às vezes sinto que sei pouco diante de tantas possibilidades no mundo da programação... Pensando nisso, que dicas vocês dariam para alguém que sonha em começar a carreira como dev? como vocês sentem o mercado?

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We seem to have an antagonistic relationship with our infra/devops team, and I'm not sure what to do

I've worked at many places but this is the first time I've encountered this. Basically we are a small company that is handling a very complex, very large cloud infrastructure. There's about 5 people on the devops team and I get the feeling that they are overworked and under constant stress. I feel this way because our interaction with their team are often either short and curt (ie we would ask a question and they would answer with yes or no and act annoyed if we ask for more details), or get heated with blame/responsibility shifting. They seem very eager/glad to get anything off their plate, basically the attitude is "your app broke this, pls fix asap, it's not our problem". There is like one guy on the team who is nice and patient and helpful but he seems to be the exception..everyone else is like "I'm too busy, file a ticket first and we'll get back to you."

I've actually made a similar post about this before about how hard it is to work with the devops team, but I think I understand what they are going through, I just don't know how to make things better. Their team manager is also not an easy guy to communicate with, he seems even busier and barely responds to any messages.

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Earthly, Jenkins, and Shared Buildkit

Wrote this post about my experience with earthly, a remote buildkit and lots of jenkins pipelines

https://paulbecotte.com/blog/post/combining-jenkins-with-earthbuild-and-a-shared-buildkit-daemon


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What are some common anti-patterns you see in Kubernetes configurations?

What are some common anti-patterns you see in Kubernetes configurations? Feel free to share.

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Fresher here struggling with logs while debugging, need some advice

Hi everyone,

I’m a fresher just starting out in DevOps/SRE stuff, and honestly I keep getting stuck when it comes to debugging issues through logs.

Most of the time I feel like I’m blindly searching or filtering and not really understanding what’s going on. If there are multiple services involved, I get totally lost trying to stitch things together.

For people with more experience, how did you get better at handling logs? Are there specific practices, tools, or mindsets that helped you not feel so overwhelmed?

Would really appreciate any genuine advice. Right now logs feel more like a wall than a helpful tool.

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DevOps & Azure – is it possible to switch?

Hi everyone,
I’m a 2018 B.Com (Computers) graduate with 5 years of non-IT work experience. Recently, I’ve started seriously learning Azure Cloud + DevOps because I want to switch my career into IT/cloud.

So far in the last 30 days I’ve covered:

Resource Groups

Storage Accounts

IAM & Access Control (different levels)

Containers

Virtual Machines

Virtual Networks

I plan to continue learning more in Azure + DevOps (pipelines, monitoring, automation, Kubernetes, etc.) along with hands-on labs.

But here’s my main concern Since I’m not a B.Tech/Engineering graduate, will companies even consider me? Or is it nearly impossible to break into Azure/DevOps or azure system administration without a “technical” degree?

I’m ready to put in hard work, do projects but I don’t know if my degree/background will stop me from getting hired even compared to freshers.

Any advice, motivation, or roadmap from people who made a similar switch would be super helpful!

Should I focus on certifications + projects?

Are there entry-level cloud/DevOps roles open for non-tech graduates?

What skills are a MUST to actually land a job?



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