Seeking Recommendations for a Knowledge/Training/Documentation Platform

Hey guys, I'm looking for recommendations for a solid platform that can deliver the following capabilities. I'm offering to paypal beer money and buy a 6-pack for whoever suggests the platform that seems like the best lead. Hit me with what you got!

**Capabilities Needed:**

* Store user-facing documentation for each department in the org as a sort of high-level organization directory for each team, tool, IT process. The goal is to build a an org directory and landing page with introductory materials for each team's tools, processes, interfaces, and common customer-facing informtion and links.

* Provide some light e-learning style training materials for each IT platform and tool in the org - stuff like videos, KB's, and tutorials. I would ideally like to organize these materials into courses/categories.

* It must be easy for each team to administer their own content

* Bonus Points if the platform can support doing qual-cards/skill matrixes/track internal certification.

Explanation: Our IT organization is huge and there is virtually no onboading orientation for new IT employees/contractors. It takes about 2 years for a new hire to get their bearings enough to navigate the system effectively, and each person must individually build their own list of processes, documentation, links, and resources.

Our goal is to centralize all of this information in a way that is easy to consume. The platform would support a new "new hire orientation" process designed to expose them to the key teams, systems, and processes they will need as IT staff. This system will also need to support light training/qualification courses where teams can build out week-long training sessions on specific tooling, such that people who need access can get their access provisioned, understand the major components and processes, gain exposure to best practices and common tasks, and generally gain a high-level understanding of the sprawling IT organizations and teams at play.

Willing to look at SaaS, open source, or commercial products (with a preference for Open Source) - from SharePoint to Confluence. What can you recommend for this purpose?

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Post deployment ECS API validation testing

Been working on expanding our post deployment tests for an ECS hosted REST API. Currently the suite has some basic smoke test calls the all the endpoints. I wanted to expand into more validating the, I guess you could say "ops" perspective, as the endpoints already have an extensive functional test suite which is ran prior to deploying. I'm thinking about doing some boto3 calls to check that the task/service is running etc. What type of stuff can/should I test for here to validate it's good?

https://redd.it/g3dnzr
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Does Solr or ElasticSearch work better with search terms from a HSQLDB or MySQL database?

I am new to Solr. I just know it takes json queries. I wish to know as much as possible.

​

Also if my hypothetical task is to search multiple queries into one unstructured lengthy text to see which queries get a hit, which search would be best?

https://redd.it/g3hd5j
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COVID-19 IMPACT ON devops ENGINEERING

Hi! I am interested in speaking with dev-ops engineers whose work has been impacted by COVID-19 for an article. Can be on or off the record, anonymous is totally fine as long as I can confirm any details. Please feel free to reply here or PM me if you're interested in speaking with me! Any insights are extremely helpful.

https://redd.it/g39u98
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Is Jenkins the best on prem build tool?

For a variety of reasons, we're forced to use only on prem build tools. And while there's tons of hosted options out there, there seems be very little competition otherwise.

We did look into team city, but got a bit of sticker shock. We don't mind paying for tools, but holy shit.

https://redd.it/g3gibh
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Linux vs aws, azure

My job is kinda forcing me towards the middleware red hat amq route. I don’t know jack about it so I’m thinking of signing up to Linux academy. On there I see courses for aws, azure. I don’t get it what does Linux have to do with azure. Doesn’t Microsoft have its own os? I can understand why aws would run on Linux I suppose.

Second question are the terms middleware, devops cloud. Are middleware and devops considered cloud tech? Thanks

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Has anyone setup Jaeger with AWS Elasticsearch

I'm trying to setup Jaeger with AWS ES, but I get the following error from the jaeger collector

```
"failed to create primary Elasticsearch client: health check timeout: no Elasticsearch node available"
```


```
{"level":"fatal","ts":1587117078.5171704,"caller":"command-line-arguments/main.go:70","msg":"Failed to init storage factory","error":"failed to create primary Elasticsearch client: health check timeout: no Elasticsearch node available","stacktrace":"main.main.func1\\n\\tcommand-line-arguments/main.go:70\\[ngithub.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra.(\*Command](https://ngithub.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command)).execute\\n\\[tgithub.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra/command.go:698\\ngithub.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra.(\*Command](https://tgithub.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra/command.go:698\ngithub.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command)).ExecuteC\\n\\[tgithub.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra/command.go:783\\ngithub.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra.(\*Command](https://tgithub.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra/command.go:783\ngithub.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command)).Execute\\n\\[tgithub.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra/command.go:736\\nmain.main\\n\\tcommand-line-arguments/main.go:117\\nruntime.main\\n\\truntime/proc.go:203](https://tgithub.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra/command.go:736\nmain.main\n\tcommand-line-arguments/main.go:117\nruntime.main\n\truntime/proc.go:203)"}
```

I am using the official Jaeger chart.

Following is a curl response from the ES cluster,

```
root@ubuntu-84697fcc95-bvg7t:/# curl -X GET https://xxxxxxx.es.amazonaws.com:443/_nodes/http?pretty
{
"_nodes" : {
"total" : 2,
"successful" : 2,
"failed" : 0
},
"cluster_name" : "xxxxx",
"nodes" : {
"9HtXgDe-SBqYLEkFtx4vrA" : {
"name" : "9HtXgDe",
"version" : "6.2.3",
"build_hash" : "c59ff00",
"roles" : [ "master", "data", "ingest" ]
},
"u3xYMULYR0ObHsuUOKKdXQ" : {
"name" : "u3xYMUL",
"version" : "6.2.3",
"build_hash" : "c59ff00",
"roles" : [ "master", "data", "ingest" ]
}
}
}
```

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Docker project idea suggestions for newbie

Hey there I am new to DevOps, I am learning docker right now, I was given a task to use docker and solve any common problem that a developer or any person faces in daily life, I am out of ideas, would anyone of you suggest something😅,
Currently I have basic knowledge about docker containers, volumes, network, patting(port address translation), docker compose, and other basic stuff, I have to build something using these concepts.

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Does it pay off to host apaches behinx nginx proxy instead of proxying nginx behind nginx?

For me as a more dev guy its all about commonly used .htaccess by third party modules

I feel like in most cases its about the .ht files.

While I understand the idea behind nginx not having equivalent of .ht files, the usual developer in most cases wants that possibility (ie. SEO reasons) and if he hears something like "nginx-first app" then i suppose he will be like "un oh we don't do that here"

https://redd.it/g2zfl9
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Make APIs simple again!

Hi everyone!

My name is Johnny, my team and I developed a platform to simplify all the steps for developers to deploy, scale and consume APIs.

What are the biggest challenges you guys face in this whole process? And if you want to make money with your cloud function, how you do it?

Thanks, stay safe.

https://redd.it/g2rrm7
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Provisioning a highly available load balancer in Hetzner Cloud with Ansible, haproxy and keepalived

Hi! For anyone interested, German provider Hetzner has published an article of mine in their tutorials library on provisioning HA LBs with Ansible. Some bits are specific to Hetzner Cloud ma can be easily adapted to other providers who have APIs to manage floating IPs for the failover. Here's the link, hope it's useful.

https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/howto-highly-available-load-balancer-hetzner-cloud-ansible

https://redd.it/g2iek3
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Testing & validating AMIs

I'm building AMIs with Packer right now, and I'm interested in writing tests to validate my images and make assertions about their state, to basically automatically verify that all the dependencies I need are properly installed.

I could just write a shell script to do this, but I'd like to avoid reinventing the wheel if possible. Are there any tools/frameworks that can do something like this?

https://redd.it/g2mhoo
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Where can I go constructively volunteer my free time and continue learning while unemployed?

I recently got terminated from a position and, due to the pandemic, worried it might be a little while before I can land the next position. Anyone know of good volunteer opportunities with non-profits out there where I can go volunteer my time and continue working on DevOps projects? Just want to make sure I'm not staying idle and find a way to continue contributing.

https://redd.it/g2hswf
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Does anyone here have a side devops gig?

What sites/resources do you guys use to pick up short term contracting jobs in devops field. I live in Alaska, so most of my options are most likely remote jobs anyway.

Apologies in advance if this isn't the right sub for this.

https://redd.it/g2m2mr
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SSD OR HDD

Hey folks, I'm trying to run a multithreaded python application on EC2 instance, which type of ebs storage should I use? The machine is basically for migration so lot of memory, network and disk resources will be utilised. The data could be anywhere around 50 TB, do you also think if amazon efs would be useful, I'm a newbie in AWS...

Thanks!!

https://redd.it/g2i0pw
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how to land job in devops?

Good day guys, I've been a developer for quite sometime. I'm interested in the role of devops and started learning courses online. I have successfully deployed on GKE witn Ingress, Helm, Ngix, Docker.

I'd like to know where or how can I find this role. Just a bit background of myself. I've been doing freelance for the past 2 years of my dev career but I wasn't able to get into a team where this techs and methodology is used. Majority of the project I encounter were for individual web app and hybrid apps.

Thank you in advance.

https://redd.it/g3owqs
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Update systemd controlled Docker containers

Hi folks,

I'm migrating infrastructure over to docker and I'd like to start the images with systemd as the IAAS provider we are bound to is notorious for restarting machines without warning.

For the production environment I plan to pin the deployed image tags, but for staging, I need to be able to update them automatically through a CI job.

I'm wondering how I could get the automatic updates in place without committing to the infrastructure repository (at least that would feel strange to me). My ideas vary around using sed to replace the systemd unit files and running ansible again with an overwrite-vars file, but both options seem to be cumbersome. Is there a better way I'm missing?

https://redd.it/g3nd01
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Looking for a realtime configuration management solution

Hey,

Curious to know what is your experience with configuration management. Looking for a solution that allows for real-time configuration management and monitoring, specifically one that clearly reflects what's it the effective configuration **currently** running per each service on each node.

Also, I would love to know how well do these solutions work with a hybrid environment that runs both a K8S cluster and bare, non-orchestrated applications and services?

https://redd.it/g2hvq5
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Did AWS just kill Docker AND Kubernetes with 1 Announcement?

What do you guys think? AWS appears to just have made K8 without the complexities of K8.
[https://medium.com/devops-dudes/did-aws-just-kill-docker-and-kubernetes-with-1-announcement-d7caf5ee4ced](https://medium.com/devops-dudes/did-aws-just-kill-docker-and-kubernetes-with-1-announcement-d7caf5ee4ced)

https://redd.it/g2odpj
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MicroK8s?

I have a dedicated and a few VPS systems to which I'm thinking about converting over to MicroK8s. Does anyone have some experience with it? And is it worth the hassle?

https://redd.it/g3wkci
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