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1nqxvkb
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Kubetail: Real-time Kubernetes logging dashboard - September 2025 update
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andres200ok
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1nqxiz8
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Do you ever just… vibe code the way I vibe write? 😅
|
So I’m not a developer, I’m in marketing. Which basically means half my life is staring at a blank doc at midnight, pouring coffee into my soul, and just writing whatever feels right in the moment. No plan. No brief. No strategy. Just vibes.
And then the next morning I’m like… “who the hell wrote this nonsense?” Oh right, me.
Lately I’ve been watching the devs I work with and holy sh*t, you guys do the exact same thing but with code. Someone gets a random 2am brainwave, spins up a repo, slaps code together like it’s jazz improv, and suddenly staging is broken and nobody wants to admit who touched it. That’s what I’ve now learned is called “vibe coding.”
As an outsider, it’s honestly hilarious and terrifying at the same time. Like bro, how is my chaotic draft doc somehow less dangerous than your chaotic repo? At least my typos don’t take prod down. I actually ended up writing a blog about this whole thing because I couldn’t stop laughing at the parallels… how marketers vibe write and devs vibe code in almost the same messy way. Dropped it here if anyone’s curious: https://www.codeant.ai/blogs/vibe-coding
But more importantly… I gotta know: do you all do this regularly? Also, let me know if you want me to cover more technical aspects in this blog for you next time.
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Peace_Seeker_1319
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/r/devops/comments/1nqxiz8/do_you_ever_just_vibe_code_the_way_i_vibe_write/
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2025-09-26T10:37:26.668948
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"body": "I have work life balance. If my company wants me to login at 2am when I get an idea they can add a few zeroes to my salary.",
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"body": "Vibe coding is prompting Ai / llm to do the thinking and the code for you. Unless you also use Ai to write your articles then it's not the same. Devs making code from scratch with their own research or head knowledge isn't what the term \"vibe coding\" refers to.",
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"body": "You can’t be good at marketing if you fail at trying hiding your advertisement in this post.",
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"body": "Wanna see all my food stories???? 🥺🥺🥺",
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"body": "Haha.. makes sense",
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"body": "Haha fair point 😂 I guess I’ve been using “vibe coding” in the “chaotic midnight brain dump” sense rather than the literal AI-does-it-for-you way. Tbh, as a marketer, if I ever let AI write my stuff end-to-end, it’d probably sound like a TED Talk written by Siri… so maybe I am closer to your definition than I thought 👀 But yeah, whether it’s AI spitting code or me panic-writing copy with coffee and zero context, vibes are still running the show.",
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"body": "9 days old account. Doubt you have any. Go away.",
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1nqvfj3
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AI agent for internal documents
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Hello there! As mentioned in the title, I want to create a chat that replies to people's questions using the internal documents. For the simplicity I've chosen open-webui, but the replies are quite slow. What have you used with good results? Thanks in advance!
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andi_c1981
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/r/devops/comments/1nqvfj3/ai_agent_for_internal_documents/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1nqvfj3/ai_agent_for_internal_documents/
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2025-09-26T10:37:27.798440
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"author": "bluecat2001",
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"body": "What you need is RAG. \n\nSetup part is about 10 % of work. Be prepared to endlessly work on documents. \n\nImo, It doesn’t worth the time spent. ",
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"author": "Low-Opening25",
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"body": "you probably getting yourself into way more trouble than you anticipated. creating reliable AI Agent that will do what you want will take considerable amount of work and optimisation, think full time job for a few months kind of effort level.\n\nTo build a RAG, you will need vector database, you will need to design good data structure and schema for your chunking strategy, you will need to create data ingesting workflows, you will likely need to fine tune the model and to build guardrails around queries and response so it just doesn’t talk about random stuff. all that even before thinking how you will deploy and maintain it to support your userbase.",
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"body": "You want to build one or do you want to integrate solutions? \n\nI've seen chatgpt enterprise connected to confluence and SharePoint provide the results you are after.",
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"body": "I know that I need a RAG. And I also know about the work needs to be done. Still, there are not so many documents. I found a RAG tool here .",
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1nquexs
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New Relic's CCU-based pricing is creating unpredictable costs, pushing teams to sample heavily
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My teammate pointed out something about New Relic's pricing that I had to see for myself. They have this CCU (Compute Capacity Unit) pricing model that can lead to unpredictable costs.
When I went to their [pricing page](https://newrelic.com/pricing) to check what he was talking about, I didn't even realize CCU-based and user-based are two separate pricing options. They present it in a way where it's easy to think CCU is just a component of their pricing, not a distinct model. Had to look twice to catch that.
[I wrote about how their CCU pricing actually works](https://signoz.io/blog/new-relic-ccu-pricing-unpredictable-costs/) based on our customer conversations. The model charges based on peak concurrent usage, so one traffic spike can blow up your monthly bill.
Has anyone here dealt with unexpected costs from CCU-based pricing? How do you handle capacity planning when your monitoring costs can spike unpredictably?
Look, as a competitor (I work at SigNoz), we're always analyzing what others are doing in the space. But this CCU pricing thing? I'm genuinely lost on how their customers budget for this.
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ExcitingThought2794
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/r/devops/comments/1nquexs/new_relics_ccubased_pricing_is_creating/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1nquexs/new_relics_ccubased_pricing_is_creating/
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1nqrujv
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Exploring Terminals, TTYs, and PTYs
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This post explores terminals, tty and pty.
[https://cefboud.com/posts/terminals-pty-tty-pyte/](https://cefboud.com/posts/terminals-pty-tty-pyte/)
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Helpful_Geologist430
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/r/devops/comments/1nqrujv/exploring_terminals_ttys_and_ptys/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1nqrujv/exploring_terminals_ttys_and_ptys/
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2025-09-26T10:37:30.075157
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1nqqf79
|
is this a good dev name?
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AvdenAvden
|
/r/devops/comments/1nqqf79/is_this_a_good_dev_name/
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/r/questions/comments/1nqqexz/is_this_a_good_dev_name/
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2025-09-26T10:37:31.187759
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"body": "Fr Smh",
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1nqpjgc
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Need suggestions please
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Hey everyone! I come from a non-IT background (5 years of experience at Amazon) and I've almost completed 90% of a DevOps course. My major concern now is resume creation. Also, once they see my relieving letter, my designation will be clearly visible. (I resigned 6 months ago due to personal reasons, and since then I've gained knowledge in DevOps. However, I did not work on any DevOps-related roles or services during my tenure.)
In addition, my CTC was comparatively lower and when they ask these questions, I'll be totally clueless. I'm no longer afraid of attending DevOpsinterviews since I feel confident, but these two points are worrying me. Any insights would be greatly helpful. Thank you.
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MaleficentPassion869
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/r/devops/comments/1nqpjgc/need_suggestions_please/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1nqpjgc/need_suggestions_please/
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2025-09-26T10:37:32.321463
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"author": "majesticace4",
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"body": "Focus your resume on the projects and hands-on work you’ve done in DevOps, not just the course. Recruiters care more about proof of skills than your past title. For the CTC part, don’t overthink it, be clear about your transition story and aim for entry-level DevOps roles. Everyone starts somewhere, and showing confidence plus real project work will matter way more than your old designation.",
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"author": "Unusual_Money_7678",
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"body": "hey, this is a super common spot for career changers to be in, so don't stress too much about it.\n\n\n\nFor the resume, lean hard into a skills-based or project-based format. Put your DevOps skills (CI/CD, Docker, K8s, whatever you learned) and any projects from your course right at the top. Your Amazon experience isn't irrelevant – highlight skills like process management, working in a large-scale operation, etc. Frame it as \"what I learned about systems at Amazon that I can apply to DevOps.\"\n\n\n\nOn the designation/relieving letter, it is what it is. Most recruiters understand career pivots. Be upfront that you spent the last 6 months dedicated to upskilling for this new path. It shows commitment.\n\n\n\nAs for CTC, your old salary doesn't matter. Research what junior DevOps roles pay in your area and when they ask for your expectation, give them that number. Don't even bring up your old salary.\n\n\n\nGood luck with the hunt",
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"author": "DevOps_Sar",
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"body": "Yes I agree with the majesticace4 advise, focus your resume on skills and projects not just jot titles/Corteses! Even if you don’t have past DevOps roles, list what you’ve built while learning, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, infra as code, etc. Recruiters care more about what you can *do* now.\n\nProjects + Skills > past titles. Show, don't just tell.",
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"author": "akornato",
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"body": "The fact that you took six months to deliberately upskill shows initiative and commitment that many hiring managers actually respect. When it comes to your previous role and salary, be straightforward about it. Say something like \"I worked in operations at Amazon for five years, which gave me valuable experience with large-scale systems, but I realized my passion was in DevOps engineering, so I invested time in learning the technical skills to make that transition.\" Your Amazon experience isn't a liability - it's proof you can handle enterprise environments and pressure.\n\nFor the salary question, frame it around your career change rather than making excuses. You can say your previous compensation reflected a different role and industry focus, and now you're looking for opportunities that align with your new technical direction in DevOps. Most companies expect to pay market rate for the role they're hiring for, not based on what you made before. The key is demonstrating that your course knowledge translates to real understanding during technical discussions. If you find yourself struggling with how to navigate these potentially tricky questions during actual interviews, I'm on the team that built [AI interview assistant](http://interviews.chat) \\- it's designed to help people handle exactly these kinds of challenging interview scenarios where you need to position career transitions positively.",
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"author": "MaleficentPassion869",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Thank you so much for sharing.. Appreciate it :)",
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"body": "Thank you so much for sharing.. Appreciate it :)",
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"author": "MaleficentPassion869",
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"body": "Thank you so much for sharing.. Appreciate it :)",
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"body": "Whoa! That was quite a big one. Thank you so much for sharing.. Appreciate it :)",
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1nqo56i
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What certs/qualifications can I get as a Backend/DevOps to be more qualified and hirable?
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hey, 23 year old male with a degree in CS I have a lot of experience that puts me in a really good place where I live I make 10 times more than what juniors make and I make 6-7 times what seniors make but I'm not good enough to get a sponsorship and go to a country that gives me decent livable money while I get more experiences so I can actually be something eventually
so the goal now is to get a job in North American, Australia, EU whatever just whatever country, I know if I go to the EU I will be making a lot less money that what I'm making now but it will be more than full time companies salary here and I will be finally able to advance my career and skills in an office job more than contracting
so what I need now it some advice, should I go into DevOps or focus on being a Backend dev? what certs or what should I do to make myself hirable? I need to leave here asap because its either slave salaries or no advancements in my career.
should I get a masters?
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In-Hell123
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2025-09-26T10:37:33.521056
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"author": "Efficient-Yak-9374",
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"body": "You sound very inexperienced and immature by the way you write, I can only imagine how much worse it is to meet you in person. I'd skip the certification and work on the attitude problem. That'll be your biggest blocker for getting a better job.",
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"author": "gotnogameyet",
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"body": "If you're targeting North America, Australia, or the EU, certs like AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Docker Certified Associate, or Kubernetes Administrator are valuable for DevOps. For backend, look into Oracle Java Certification or PCEP if you're into Python. A master's can help but isn't necessary if you have a strong portfolio and relevant certs. Also, networking through LinkedIn can open opportunities. Focus where you feel your skills can shine more effectively.",
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"body": "The best qualification is a degree from the school of hard knocks",
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"author": "In-Hell123",
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"body": "I'd recommend you to read through my post history I was very nice to people that were respectful and an asshole to trolls you can see that clearly, anyways thank you for the advice you said it respectfully and I respect that",
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"score": -1,
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"author": "In-Hell123",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Thank you i appreciate it",
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"id": "ng938jj",
"is_submitter": true,
"parent_id": "ng91tsh",
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"author": "SalafiStudent",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Any idea what the middle east like? Thank you!",
"created_utc": 1758862801,
"id": "ng97erl",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "ng91tsh",
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"author": "In-Hell123",
"awards": 0,
"body": "sure do I right that on my resume? how to write it? I'm sure since your this clever you can def help",
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"id": "ng8r0zp",
"is_submitter": true,
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"author": "zootbot",
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"body": "I’d just put it at the top",
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"author": "SalafiStudent",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Thanks for your take! How does it relate to devops, or my question as a whole? Cheers :)",
"created_utc": 1758863847,
"id": "ng99gek",
"is_submitter": false,
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"author": "In-Hell123",
"awards": 0,
"body": "That's what yo mama told me to do",
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"id": "ng8wwa7",
"is_submitter": true,
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1nqm5v5
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The spam in this sub is unreal
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Two posts today, sock puppet SEO accounts. Poster with a lame premise, commenter in to suggest a solution.
Cant remember what the first one was (they deleted their post), but the second was Atlassian - https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/s/M5DUQGRrtj
Mods, please take note and stop this nonsense.
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shulemaker
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{
"author": "serverhorror",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Nice try Arlassian, not visiting your ad!",
"created_utc": 1758846610,
"id": "ng82f7j",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": null,
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1nqm5v5/the_spam_in_this_sub_is_unreal/ng82f7j/",
"post_id": "1nqm5v5",
"score": 35,
"stickied": false
},
{
"author": "Hotshot55",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Sorry, you'll need to share your opinion in the form of an article posted on medium for anyone to read it.",
"created_utc": 1758850347,
"id": "ng8d2iv",
"is_submitter": false,
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"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1nqm5v5/the_spam_in_this_sub_is_unreal/ng8d2iv/",
"post_id": "1nqm5v5",
"score": 23,
"stickied": false
},
{
"author": "themegainferno",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Mods don't gaf, they aren't really paid to do any of this. As long as its not overt hate, irrelevant, or bruises their ego, they won't do anything.",
"created_utc": 1758843685,
"id": "ng7ucpd",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": null,
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1nqm5v5/the_spam_in_this_sub_is_unreal/ng7ucpd/",
"post_id": "1nqm5v5",
"score": 29,
"stickied": false
},
{
"author": "Phenergan_boy",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Honestly, mods here are pretty good most of the time. Some of the other subs just get bombarded with shitty gen AI engagement baits",
"created_utc": 1758847340,
"id": "ng84h81",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": null,
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1nqm5v5/the_spam_in_this_sub_is_unreal/ng84h81/",
"post_id": "1nqm5v5",
"score": 8,
"stickied": false
},
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"author": "mirrax",
"awards": 0,
"body": "I don't put spamming above Atlassian, but I don't think they'd be shilling for Opsgenie. The product they are deprecating and are [actively trying to get people to migrate off of](https://www.atlassian.com/software/opsgenie/migration).",
"created_utc": 1758852835,
"id": "ng8jwxj",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": null,
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1nqm5v5/the_spam_in_this_sub_is_unreal/ng8jwxj/",
"post_id": "1nqm5v5",
"score": 13,
"stickied": false
},
{
"author": "Ok_Needleworker_5247",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Spam's a real issue in any online community and can ruin the quality of discussions. Mods have to juggle a lot and it's tough when spam isn't obvious to everyone. Maybe fostering a culture where users flag spam more actively could help ease the mods' burden. Sharing insights on spotting these patterns can also make the sub more resilient to such tactics.",
"created_utc": 1758849304,
"id": "ng8a2tu",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": null,
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1nqm5v5/the_spam_in_this_sub_is_unreal/ng8a2tu/",
"post_id": "1nqm5v5",
"score": 2,
"stickied": false
},
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"author": "badaccount99",
"awards": 0,
"body": "There was a guy promoting his movie AI thing.\n\nLets add some more mods?",
"created_utc": 1758855824,
"id": "ng8rub5",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": null,
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1nqm5v5/the_spam_in_this_sub_is_unreal/ng8rub5/",
"post_id": "1nqm5v5",
"score": 2,
"stickied": false
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"author": "The_Career_Oracle",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Here’s an idea, don’t have shit products and people will find you without trickery",
"created_utc": 1758882681,
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"is_submitter": false,
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"post_id": "1nqm5v5",
"score": 1,
"stickied": false
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"author": "TheDevDex",
"awards": 0,
"body": "The night gathers and your watch begins ;) but seriously, this sub does a better job than most others. Perhaps, msg them asking to be a mod?",
"created_utc": 1758864119,
"id": "ng99yst",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": null,
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1nqm5v5/the_spam_in_this_sub_is_unreal/ng99yst/",
"post_id": "1nqm5v5",
"score": 0,
"stickied": false
},
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"author": "BP8270",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Did you know there is a downvote button?",
"created_utc": 1758854996,
"id": "ng8pptq",
"is_submitter": false,
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"post_id": "1nqm5v5",
"score": -20,
"stickied": false
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"author": "alexklaus80",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Yeah. I'm modding smaller subs but this type of stuff is quite a lot of work. I mean each one occurence isn't a lot, but it piles up quite easily (because what's obvious to one may not be so from the other views and then there's a complaints to deletion and so on and on comes to modmail).\n\nI think volunteering for moderator is much better than asking for more actions.",
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"author": "BortLReynolds",
"awards": 0,
"body": "What makes you think they're actually doing anything? Two of em have no activity in the last 6 months to a year.",
"created_utc": 1758873804,
"id": "ng9r50t",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "ng84h81",
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"post_id": "1nqm5v5",
"score": 1,
"stickied": false
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"author": "HeadlessChild",
"awards": 0,
"body": "It looks like several people do.",
"created_utc": 1758862091,
"id": "ng95zki",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "ng8pptq",
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1nqm5v5/the_spam_in_this_sub_is_unreal/ng95zki/",
"post_id": "1nqm5v5",
"score": 7,
"stickied": false
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{
"author": "sinister_lazer",
"awards": 0,
"body": "I found it!",
"created_utc": 1758881851,
"id": "nga4ss2",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "ng8pptq",
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"score": 1,
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{
"author": "justanearthling",
"awards": 0,
"body": "I’m a moderator in small sub and it sucks. We are basically Reddit slaves. There’s absolutely no benefits from being a moderator, they could at least give us pro for this but no, nothing. And that’s exactly why I only care about it when I’m on Reddit and bother to look into my inbox.",
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1nqigf2
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Why does every startup think they need to build their own incident management system?
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Just joined a new company and they're super proud of their "custom incident response workflow" that's basically a Python script that creates Slack channels and a Notion page. Founder keeps talking about how "we're not like other companies, our incidents are different."
They're not different. Same dance every time service goes down, someone manually pages people, we all jump into a channel and start debugging while trying to remember if we updated the status page.
Previous engineer who built this thing left 6 months ago and nobody really understands how it works. Last week it created 15 incident channels for the same outage because of some edge case nobody thought of.
Every startup goes through this phase where they think incident management is their unique problem that needs a custom solution. Meanwhile we're burning engineering time maintaining this janky script instead of just buying something that works.
Anyone else dealt with this NIH syndrome around incident tooling? How do you convince leadership that some problems are worth paying someone else to solve?
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Tiny_Habit5745
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"author": "ChicagoJohn123",
"awards": 0,
"body": "They don’t want to pay for a saas tool to do it?",
"created_utc": 1758834133,
"id": "ng72tp3",
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"post_id": "1nqigf2",
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{
"author": "Road_of_Hope",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Oh look, _another_ incident management ad pitch from u/adjective_noun####… 🙄",
"created_utc": 1758835782,
"id": "ng785hw",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": null,
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1nqigf2/why_does_every_startup_think_they_need_to_build/ng785hw/",
"post_id": "1nqigf2",
"score": 106,
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"author": "donalmacc",
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"body": "Two main reasons IMO \n\n- at first glance existing solutions are expensive. 30 minutes of a python script gets you something that will spin up a slack channel, make a notion page, and tag a group, and clean up. That’s usually the workflow it evolved from. Using incident or pagerduty is a new process new tool and is $20/mo/seat. This ties into the second point. \n\n- it’s easy to just make a slack channel and force everyone to be in it. Using an existing tool forced you to think about who is actually responsible for being paged and making sure that person gets time not on call. Writing a python bot avoids making that decision.",
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"score": 47,
"stickied": false
},
{
"author": "crytek2025",
"awards": 0,
"body": "They’d rather pay for man hours than a saas tool?",
"created_utc": 1758838230,
"id": "ng7fh8y",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": null,
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1nqigf2/why_does_every_startup_think_they_need_to_build/ng7fh8y/",
"post_id": "1nqigf2",
"score": 12,
"stickied": false
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"author": "MendaciousFerret",
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"body": "If you have Zoom, Jira & paging (like JSM) already then you're about 60-70% of the way to an incident management system (I'm assuming you have observability too). Most of the incident management tools I've looked at centre around a Slack integration anyway. \n\nThe two areas where an off the shelf system will shine over something hand-rolled is in analytics and possibly also AI/ML support for RCA. Doing analytics about incident trends and what comes out of PIRs with Jira dashboards sucks. \n\nMost of incdient management is having dedicated, professional engineers who care about running their systems and are diligent when the reliability dial tips the wrong way. The tooling is secondary, in my opinion at least.",
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"id": "ng7ihwc",
"is_submitter": false,
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"post_id": "1nqigf2",
"score": 8,
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"author": "Murky-Sector",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Every startup does not do this\n\nNo. Of the 20+ Ive been involved in no more than a few.\n\nAsk about these kinds of details in the interview. Look for stuff like this and avoid. Its way less than \"every\".",
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"id": "ng7fjou",
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"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1nqigf2/why_does_every_startup_think_they_need_to_build/ng7fjou/",
"post_id": "1nqigf2",
"score": 15,
"stickied": false
},
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"author": "PowerOfTheShihTzu",
"awards": 0,
"body": "I dunno why but after auditing a few incident management plans lately for work I found this thread kinda hilarious 😆",
"created_utc": 1758840013,
"id": "ng7kczr",
"is_submitter": false,
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"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1nqigf2/why_does_every_startup_think_they_need_to_build/ng7kczr/",
"post_id": "1nqigf2",
"score": 5,
"stickied": false
},
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"author": "snarkhunter",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Imagine if they put that energy into having fewer incidents.",
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"id": "ng7q0d8",
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"author": "vmelikyan",
"awards": 0,
"body": "just pay the pagerduty tax and focus on your business. Next....",
"created_utc": 1758841474,
"id": "ng7odky",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": null,
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1nqigf2/why_does_every_startup_think_they_need_to_build/ng7odky/",
"post_id": "1nqigf2",
"score": 6,
"stickied": false
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"author": "doryllis",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Because they can’t afford a real contract is my guess.",
"created_utc": 1758835881,
"id": "ng78gpr",
"is_submitter": false,
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"post_id": "1nqigf2",
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"author": "Best-Repair762",
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"body": "\\>Every startup goes through this phase\n\nNot really. Orgs that have experienced ops folks do not do this. A startup's focus should be on solving the key business problem which they set out to solve - and outsource everything else to a managed solution/SaaS.\n\nIf you have to convince leadership that this is necessary, you have bigger problems.",
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"id": "ng8szh6",
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"post_id": "1nqigf2",
"score": 2,
"stickied": false
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"author": "Pandas1104",
"awards": 0,
"body": "I spent a year doing research and gave 2 presentations about improvements and even priced out the tools. They didn't cave until our second largest client almost left us due to an incident and I made a huge argument it could have been avoided if they would just listen. They basically made me pick a solution, document, and implement it myself. I think they thought I would give up or quit, the joke was on them because it was wildly successful and we landed a huge new client because we had a system and could provide assurance to them to buy.",
"created_utc": 1758841773,
"id": "ng7p7aj",
"is_submitter": false,
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"score": 3,
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"author": "ohiocodernumerouno",
"awards": 0,
"body": "this must be a secret saas post",
"created_utc": 1758844753,
"id": "ng7xbl2",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": null,
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1nqigf2/why_does_every_startup_think_they_need_to_build/ng7xbl2/",
"post_id": "1nqigf2",
"score": 4,
"stickied": false
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"author": "CWRau",
"awards": 0,
"body": "I mean, what choices do we have for self hosted / open source incident management? I know of none 😅\nAt least not really modern stuff, I found some that are still installed with binaries instead of k8s, one that didn't work with alertmanager,...",
"created_utc": 1758834494,
"id": "ng740id",
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"score": 3,
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"author": "badaccount99",
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"body": "Because Jira is stupid expensive for a company with no income.\n\nBut it's actually a decent SaaS.",
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"id": "ng8rj7o",
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"author": "Singularity42",
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"body": "I think a lot of startups get the \"not invented here\" syndrome.\n\nI think this is for a few reasons:\n- people have more autonomy, so they can\n- it's quick to whip something up yourself cause you don't have to deal with the scale and bureaucracy of a bigger company \n- if you do it yourself you can get exactly what you want and not make compromises\n- it is free. At least on paper\n\nI don't think this is always bad, to start with. The problem is when it no longer scales and you are burning more time on it than it's worth.\nUsing an off the shelf solution can also take a lot of maintenance too, so it isn't always cut and dry.",
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"author": "tr14l",
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"body": "Because they have budgets and B2b tools are hilariously expensive",
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"body": "Because the off the shelf ones are genuinely terrible value for money.",
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"body": "Opsgenie (or whatever it got bought into by atlassian), datadog and incidentbot",
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"author": "LargeSale8354",
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"body": "Because startups all have got burnt by JIRA. The irony being that JIRA started life as a bug tracker/incident management tool",
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"author": "mjbmitch",
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"body": "Another ChatGPT post!",
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"body": "SaaS solutions are expensive and require people to maintain. Small projects like incidence management are good for Jr. devs to build up and maintain. It can also be customized to a companies unique situation if needed.\n\nStartups also tend to have really capable and productive developers and these projects don’t take too long to build.\n\nAt a certain point, it could be hard to scale and using a SaaS might make more sense. ",
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"author": "daedalus_structure",
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"body": "You don't need an incident management tool. \n\nA person can create a Slack channel and a Notion page. \n\nStop creating tools that require infrastructure and reliability engineering for things which take 10 seconds to do.",
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"author": "Loki0891",
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"body": "Throw that script into ChatGPT and have it explain the steps of the script to you. Maybe it will shed some light on how it operates. Then you can tell CGPT what issues it’s giving you and possibly point you in the direction of where in the script may be the culprit.",
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"body": "when you rely on an external tool for incident management, where do you log the incident for when it's down? you have to have something at the bottom that you've built yourself and doesn't rely on other people to work, or your solution doesn't always work.\n\n> Previous engineer who built this thing left 6 months ago and nobody really understands how it works.\n\nit's basically a Python script that creates Slack channels and a Notion page.",
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"author": "Longjumpingfish0403",
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"body": "Totally get the struggle. Sometimes, using open-source tools like Atlassian's Opsgenie or Sentry can bridge the gap before going all out on pricey SaaS. They can be customized yet offer structure and support, minimizing heavy dev time. Worth exploring if budget's tight but you need reliability.",
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"author": "notospez",
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"body": "I mean, honestly, why pay for a SaaS tool when all you need is a simple Python script to create a Slack channel? (that is how all these monstrosities are born - seen it happen way too often)",
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"body": "We spent 5 months looking for a SaaS tool, out of all the ones we found 4 were actually halfway decent, 2 where actually worth using (integration with our cloud provider of choice and easy to work with APIs/Webhooks), and both of them cost $15-20 per user/month...\n\nMind you a M365 E5 subscription which comes with Teams, SharePoint, Office, Exchange Online, Defender for Endpoint, Windows Enterprise, Entra ID P2, Intune, etc. cost $57/month\n\nSo I have to ask, what is it with these SaaS incident management tools that they think their product is worth the price of roughly half a subscription that provides an entire business worth of software. And you can't say it's Uptime, SLAs, or any of that kind of stuff, because they have plenty of their own outages and issues.",
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"author": "eltear1",
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"body": "That's usually ine of the reason",
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"author": "joeyignorant",
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"body": "they would rather pay a dev to fuck it up over and over and call it sunk cost \nstartup thinking in a nutshell",
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"body": "This is functionally it. \n\nThis is in fact the reason almost every time, when a company has a custom-rolled solution for something which is available on the market.\n\nBecause they look at the issue, they look at the Saas tools, see that the lowest tier is $1000/month, and realise, \"Hey we're a team of developers, we can roll our own for nothing\". \n\nBut then \"roll our own\" quickly starts getting more and more features bolted on by developers squeezing the work in and not following proper development patterns, until it's a maintenance headache.",
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"body": "At the same time - the impact of having \"everyone\" on call at all times gets fairly tiring very quickly. Especially when you have time zones or a large enough teams that not everyone needs to be on every MIM. \n\nAn issue with the DB? We don't front end designers on a call.",
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"author": "nooneinparticular246",
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"body": "Yeah. It’s fine until it isn’t. Zapier can make a pretty decent and cheap Incident.io replacement until you need the full thing.",
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"author": "WhatsFairIsFair",
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"body": "The more obvious reason? Incidents don't happen that frequently and when they do the most important part is investigating and resolving the issue. You don't need an incident management system for that and it can't help you with it anyways. You can just use excel or notion for documentation why not. \n\nDon't overinvest in something you don't need.",
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"author": "SMS-T1",
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"body": "But only until implementation. Paying for man hours of Ops and maintenance? Couldn't be my startup.",
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"author": "MuscleLazy",
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"body": "That is a super toxic work environment, people who did not collaborate on your proposal actually wanted to see you fail big time. I would look for another job, the company and your manager don’t deserve you.",
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"author": "LateToTheParty2k21",
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"body": "OneUptime took a pretty good stab at it. It's completely free to run on prem with no limits but they have a SAAS as well.",
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"author": "antCB",
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"body": "I mean, could use an ITSM tool for that - kind of like cutting a steak with a samurai sword, but it could be done. There are multiple paid and free options - SaaS or on-prem, and with various amounts of integrations ready (or at least ways to set them up yourself, via we hooks, etc.).\n\nThere are free (&open source) tools out there (OTRS, comes to mind) - they are a royal pain in the butt to configure and kickstart, but once they're set up, you are done. \n\nBut that requires process, and by the looks of it, this startup has none.",
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"author": "daedalus_structure",
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"body": ">when you rely on an external tool for incident management, where do you log the incident for when it's down? you have to have something at the bottom that you've built yourself and doesn't rely on other people to work, or your solution doesn't always work.\n\nThe home grown incident management tool that is not maintained as a first class product is going to be far more unavailable than a tool supported by an entire company of engineers and operations that is maintained as a first class product.",
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"author": "shulemaker",
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"body": "Super lame SEO spam from u/Tiny_Habit5745 and u/Longjumpingfish0403\n\nSomebody tell Atlassian their SEO person needs to be fired.",
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"author": "Soccham",
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"body": "Ain’t nobody promoting OpsGenie in 2025",
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"author": "Kalinon",
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"body": "Nobody wants to pay atassian’s price for an over engineered solution.",
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"author": "bedel99",
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"body": "We just had a single slack channel called incident. How many incidents are you having at once?",
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"author": "trashtiernoreally",
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"body": "My python scripts would be offended if they could read!",
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"author": "otterley",
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"body": "What do you expect out of your incident management mechanisms? There’s much more value to be had out of incidents than simply telling people that you’re having one and when it has been cleared.",
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"author": "donjulioanejo",
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"body": "Yep and those $15-20 per user per month is usually ON TOP of whatever you pay for Pagerduty, and also on top of what you pay for your monitoring software.",
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"author": "donalmacc",
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"body": "Absolutely no disagreement here. But that requires you actually have correct alerting per system, and to design responsibilities. Both of which are things startups don’t do!",
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"author": "Pandas1104",
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"body": "They didn't deserve it but I have an unhealthy relationship with my job. luckily this was 7 years ago, they sold the company and both got pushed out when the acquiring company figured out how toxic it was. After they left it was like waking up after an abusive relationship. I got a big raise and promotion and now manage a lot of the teams. Story with a happy ending thus far",
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"author": "CWRau",
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"body": "Ou, very nice! I'm gonna take a look at that!",
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"author": "tankerkiller125real",
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"body": "It's very good software actually, my only complaint is no integrations (yet) with vendors like AWS, Azure, GCP, etc. I know there's a workflow thing that in theory could let me send webhooks to it, parse them, and so forth so on. But that's a ton of manual work compared to a lot of the integrated platforms.",
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"author": "CWRau",
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"body": "Ah, never heard of ITSM before, was always searching for \"incident management\". I'll take a look, thanks!",
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"author": "akerasi",
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"body": "At least 15, according to their tracker /s",
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"author": "Nestramutat-",
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"body": "It's nice to have one channel per incident to make looking at incident history easier. \n\nWe just have incident.io handle the channel creation though",
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"author": "Shogobg",
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"body": "All of them /s",
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"author": "somnambulist79",
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"body": "Lmao, that’s pretty much what I thought. Just use a static channel.",
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"author": "CoryOpostrophe",
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"body": "And if you’re having more than one one channel with a few threads seems like a great way to keep people in the loop",
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"author": "bonoboho",
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"body": "Call `open()` and they can!",
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"body": "Glad to hear that!",
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"author": "LateToTheParty2k21",
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"body": "I agree but I was comparing this to a python script vs something like pager duty or xMatters for example. \n\nWhat is your use case here?",
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"body": "We have alerts already setup in Azure for things OneUptime simply can't track at the moment (like Azure SQL Database IO/Memory/CPU usage) being able to push those to OneUptime for the actual paging and response management would be ideal, currently the only way to do this (that I've found) is via the Work Flow system, which would get very complicated, very quickly for us (over 200 unique alerts, with several different incident groups)",
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"body": "Ah okay. Well I'm sure you could setup a notification policy to forward all events from Azure to OneUpTime which it can respond too. \n\nhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/alerts/activity-log-alerts-webhook\n\nYou would have to define workflow for each cloud provider to handle the different JSON structures but overall it wouldn't be that complex if I'm thinking it through right.",
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Deploy to production with just `docker compose up`
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Hey,
Working on lots of small projects at a startup, I kept running into the same issue: deploying to production is either overkill (Kubernetes) or a hassle (managing your own VPS/EC2).
All I wanted was: if it runs locally with Docker Compose, it should run in production the same way. No new CLIs, no servers to babysit.
So I built a service where you can literally do:
$ docker compose up -d
… and your stack is live in the cloud.
Would love feedback from the community, am I the only one to have this problem?
[https://wip.cx](https://wip.cx)
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"body": "Yikes. This is a great way to accidentally deploy dev to prod, especially if you ever get a second person working on it. Also I would rather use a remote system to perform the deploy so I'm not babysitting my laptop while the deploy runs. \n\nFine for one person throwing something together, but please emphasize that so people don't start using it on larger projects.",
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"body": "For some of my customers who want the in-between I build the \"poor man cicd\".\n\n\nThe deployment part is just templating out a quadlet on a VM, wherever that is.\n\n\nYou still want env vars, but I guess that's not the part you have problems with.",
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"body": "And where do you run that if not VPS :D",
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"body": "So the problem you're solving with this is....using kubernetes? I feel like there there's an easier way.",
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"body": "I'm going to bet that kubernetes is probably not overkill. It certainly could be, but the number of people who think it's overkill when it isn't...",
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"body": "I’m confused on the managing your own VPS/EC2 aspect of this. So this is a proxy that sits in the middle somewhere essentially? And it provisions the EC2 for us on demand? Or what is going on here?",
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"body": "Docker Compose is a dev tool, not a production tool.",
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"body": "Just build a proper CI pipeline?",
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"body": "You need to explicitly set \\`DOCKER\\_HOST=...\\` in order to deploy to production. I also agree this is useful for small to medium projects, and should not be used for larger ones. But most projects out there falls into the first category and options for to deploy to productions are limited and painful, in my opinion.",
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"body": "I know a lot of people are using internally some variations of this. Which can be worth it but still need maintenance. I know most teams would prefer not have to debug their production environment and for this, this is great.\n\nNot sure what you mean about the env vars.",
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"author": "Zolty",
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"body": "Can you not see the site it loads fine for me https://localhost:3000",
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"body": "It's not exactly a VPS, but yeah it's a VM. You don't need to maintenance yourself if you're looking to compare between running it yourself on a VPS or using this.",
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"body": "Do you know an easier way to deploy to production?\n\nAll major cloud providers either provide Kubernetes clusters as a service, or their own orchestrator like AWS ECS.\n\nBut if you want to deploy a docker compose project, you just run it on a linux machine.",
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"body": "Kubernetes is just a better/complete docker-compose",
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"body": "Yes, it's a reverse proxy for docker that automatically provision VMs to run your containers. Those VMs are automatically updated and managed. It's fully transparent for your docker client and is 100% compatible with all the docker suite and images.",
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"body": "docker itself is a toy, there's way better container runtimes around.\n\nthat damn root socket is the source of most issues with docker.",
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"body": "I have one, that's why I don't want to deploy by running docker compose up on my laptop.",
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"body": "Yeah if you don't want to deploy from your laptop, you can do it from github actions, it would work the same way, and the DOCKER\\_HOST can be a secret.",
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"body": "I had a look at your linked page, a bit of self promotion but I'm ok with that.\n\nI'm curious why you didn't go with podman as a container runtime instead of docker, the API is better to work with under the hood.\n\nwhat if I want to revert a deploy to a previous version?\n\nI don't see how you solved the problem of managing the underlying VM, OS upgrades and such.\n\nedit: brainfart, I see, you inject via reverseproxy the commands to start the VM, may I suggest to you using immutable images under the hood? even CoreOS looks like the right OS to start from.\n\n\n\nhow do you manage storage?\n\nbtw I currently use docker-compose to deploy to prod, I wrap it with scripts and use ARGS and the build section to handle image creation and tagging, it does 99% of what you want via bash only.\n\ndevs just do:\n\nssh application@server /application/deploy.sh\n\nand [deploy.sh](http://deploy.sh) wraps git to git pull from the repo, get the short commit hash, push it to docker-compose, I use it as an ARG to tag the image, docker-compose down and then docker-compose up and voila, the latest image is the one running, revert back is easy if they want to do it, a few maintenance scripts to clean the images, done.",
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"body": "A VPS and VM is the same thing? Regardless, both require OS & package updates, need to be monitored and need to be backed up.",
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"author": "ID10T-3RR0R",
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"body": "terraform... an ami... and a userdata/cloud-init script?",
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"author": "theweeJoe",
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"body": "Is your production deployment machine (which will host the containers) on Linux? Is it an ec2 or equivalent?",
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"body": "yes, 99% of projects don't need kubernetes (or autoscaling, lmao).\n\nYou can set up a literal script to deploy to whatever VM you're renting to from your git repo, it takes not a very long time.\n\nI know, I know...Google uses 50 million lines of IaC and 50 morbillion auto scale cluster tree shaking monkey breaking automobile VMs but most companies have 1/100000000 of the load and complexity the giants do on their core services.",
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"body": "Yes. In a very oversimplified way, I would say that is true.",
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"body": "So do have a separate compose file for prod vs local?",
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"body": "> I'm curious why you didn't go with podman as a container runtime instead of docker, the API is better to work with under the hood.\n\n\nPodman is also a good option I might move to in the future. I also explored rootless docker but had too much limitations compared to standalone docker.\n\n\n> how do you manage storage?\n\n\nUser relative data such as containers, images, volumes are stored on a separate VM disk and is stored on a cephFS cluster. Its retrievable on demand.\n\n\n> btw I currently use docker-compose to deploy to prod, I wrap it with scripts and use ARGS and the build section to handle image creation and tagging, it does 99% of what you want via bash only.\n\n\nTotally agree. I used to handle this In a similar way by having a github action that scp everything to the remote machine and run docker compose up.\n\n\nThe thing is we got issues on scaling with this. Our project was using too much ram and triggered swap to the point of the kernel having to kill a process. In our case it killed an IAM relative process which brought down the entire ec2.\n\n\nJust to say that this is not a server bullet. You need to check and maintain yourself.\n\n\nA lot of cloud products are built around this, the promise you just haven't to focus on code and features.\n\n\nThis exists for Kubernetes so why not for Docker?\n\n\nThis setup work great but you might profit from more stability that wip.cx would provide, in a deploy forget it philosophy.",
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"body": "Right, and you're responsible for this when you get a VPS to deploy, but not if you move to Kubernetes. Which is a shame cause Kubernetes is much more complex than Docker and don't fit small projects. What I'm proposing is a way to have the best of both worlds. Fast deploying and no maintenance required.",
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"body": "This is easier?",
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"body": "I'm using a linux VM per user. It's not an EC2 it's running on a proxmox cluster that gets managed automatically when users wants to deploy a new docker project. Check the article on [https://wip.cx](https://wip.cx/) there's a lot more details.",
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"body": "I see your thinking, I'm not going to do this for my customers because for one reason or another this doesn't fit them, mainly they are either too big or too small.\n\nI still see the thinking behind this and wish you the best, I do believe some people will find it useful.\n\nSend me a message if you want collaborators, I'm a Linux guy and am deep into this sort of thing and have ideas on how to make this slightly better, maybe.\nLike: Lua/openresty in nginx to work on the calls Dockers sends to the remote host?",
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European Pulic Clouds
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Hey everyone! Is anyone working with a european public cloud at your company already? My company is currently considering StackIT and Telecom Cloud, bith are German. What are your experiences with the respective european cloud providers so far in the corporate context?
Edit: public instead of pulic
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"body": "There was today a public talk about the state of EU Data Platforms/Cloud Providers.\n\nThe reality shows how EU Cloud Providers are offering their services on top of US tech\n\nhttps://mastodon.social/@leonoverweel/115264193382579482",
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"body": "I looked at StackIT maybe a year ago or so. Unfortunately lacking a lot of features that we needed back then.",
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"body": "Germany:\nhttps://www.hetzner.com/\n\n\nFrance:\nhttps://ovhcloud.com/",
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"body": "It always depends on what kind of services you need. Is it just a few compute instances, and S3-like bucket of fancy stuff only Hyperscalers tend to have?",
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"body": "If you want a very quick support feedback, try gridscale gmbh https://gridscale.io/\n\nThey have offerings such as kubernetes loadbalancers databases caches vms etc",
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"body": "Haven't looked at the ionos cloud services yet, but it seems to have a very cheap VMs out there",
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"author": "headdertz",
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"body": "There is one I know, the Scaleway:\n\n \n[Europe's empowering cloud provider | Scaleway](https://www.scaleway.com/en/)",
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"body": "what services are you using?",
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"body": "Object storage, databases, Kubernetes and the various networking/DNS services that are necessary to use the aforementioned. We don't use anything exotic",
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1nq8tk5
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Built a EC2 & VM price comparator to save my own sanity
|
I work as a cloud engineer for a big bank firm in Europe, my job basically consists on conducting proof of concepts for any new tools that we have to implement in our infrastructure so I spent all of my time deploying EKS/AKS clusters and EC2/VMs instances here an there.
I basically got tired of juggling to find the cheapest but still capable EC2 type in the CLI for each test while keeping performance decent. So I built a small site that lets me quickly compare EC2 instance families and prices side-by-side. I did not expect to make it public to be honest, but I thought it could help a fellow devops colleage struggling like I was at the beginning.
It’s minimal—no logo, no cookie banner—, let me know if you guys want any new functionality, I will try to implement it asap when I have some free time. There is also an AMI and VM image search tool. Reserved prices and savings plan are next on the roadmap, let me know what you think. [cloudpylon.com](http://cloudpylon.com)
ps: It is deployed on a 3 dollar hetzner server so it might feel a bit slow at times :)
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"author": "OverclockingUnicorn",
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"body": "Why's it better than https://instances.vantage.sh/?",
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"body": "I felt that was too bloated with much information that I did not need, just to sort for spot prices I had to scroll all the way to the right on the table, and If I do that I lose track of the instance name on the second column. \n\nAlso when I clicked onto an instance it has no price comparison between regions, which is the main use case I am looking for, just find the cheapest one across all AWS regions.",
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1nq86lx
|
[Free Course] Complete GitHub Actions Course — From Beginner to Pro!
|
Hi folks! —
I just released the latest course in my DevOps Beginner to Pro series, this one focused on GitHub Actions!
- Video: https://youtu.be/Xwpi0ITkL3U
- Companion Repo: https://github.com/sidpalas/devops-directive-github-actions-course/tree/main
The course is 3.75hrs long and covers:
- History and motivation for Continuous Integration
- Why GitHub Actions?
- Core platform features
- Advanced platform features
- Consuming GitHub Actions Marketplace actions
- Authoring first-party actions
- Common automation workflows
- Improving the developer experience
- Best practices for using GitHub Actions
- An end-to-end capstone project
Check it out and let me know what you think!
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1nq2mtz
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4M+ outages logged in 2024 — but 39% of orgs still had downtime in the last 30 days
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According to data collected by Robotalp, , 2024 was rough:
4 million+ outage events were recorded
1M+ total hours of downtime
Black Friday was the worst day — systems just couldn’t handle the traffic
Slowest recorded response time: 83.56 seconds
While many organizations managed to stay online consistently, about 39% still experienced at least one outage in just the last 30 days of the year.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1nq2mtz/4m_outages_logged_in_2024_but_39_of_orgs_still/
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"author": "PelicanPop",
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"body": "Respectfully, is this an attempt at trying to start a discussion?",
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"body": "Probably a bad try at promoting his robotalp product",
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"body": "I actually just wanted to present our data, but it seems that hardly anyone cares… Sad.",
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1nq125z
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Deployed MERN app on AWS EC2 – Frontend works, but backend not accessible externally
|
Hi everyone,
I’m learning AWS by deploying a **MERN full-stack project** on an **EC2 Linux instance**, but I’m stuck with the backend. Here’s what I’ve done so far:
1. Launched an **AWS EC2 instance** (Linux) and connected via SSH.
2. Installed **Node.js** (same version as local).
3. Cloned both frontend and backend repos.
4. **Frontend setup:**
* `npm install` → `npm run build`
* Installed **Nginx**, enabled service
* Copied build files to `/var/www/html`
* Opened inbound rules for ports **80, 443, 7777**
* Frontend works fine on public IP
5. **Backend setup:**
* `npm install` → `npm start`
* Works fine with `curl` [`http://localhost:7777/`](http://localhost:7777/) and `curl` [`http://13.60.42.60:7777/`](http://13.60.42.60:7777/) inside EC2
* But when I try [`http://13.60.42.60:7777/`](http://13.60.42.60:7777/) in my browser (local machine), it doesn’t load
* Tried running with **PM2** → still the same issue
# What I expected
My backend should be reachable at [`http://13.60.42.60:7777/`](http://13.60.42.60:7777/) from my local machine.
# What actually happens
* Works locally inside EC2 with `curl`
* Not accessible externally from browser
I’ve repeated this process 3 times with the same result.
Does anyone know what I might be missing? Could it be related to binding `localhost` vs [`0.0.0.0`](http://0.0.0.0), security groups, or something else?
Thanks in advance! 🙏
Edit: working now issue resolve i'll set proxy for that in nginx and then try to access in my browser and it's wokring
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"author": "majesticace4",
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"body": "Your backend Node.js server is probably bound to `localhost` only. Change the host binding in your `app.listen` (or equivalent) to `0.0.0.0` so it listens on all interfaces:\n\n```js\napp.listen(7777, \"0.0.0.0\", () => {\n console.log(\"Server running on port 7777\");\n});\n```\n\nSince you already opened the port in the security group, this should make it accessible externally.",
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"author": "zeal_swan",
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"body": "have you opened the port in the security groups?",
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"author": "GeorgeRNorfolk",
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"body": "You can check to see if you can access the backend from within the VPC by creating a second EC2 and running a curl against the private IP of the host EC2.",
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"author": "FlounderMysterious10",
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"body": "Im assuming 13.60.42.60 is ur machine ip, can u post the screenshot of output for netstat -anp | grep 7777",
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"author": "Cool_Palpitation9096",
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"body": "Done this already",
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"body": "and what is the behaviour you get when accessing from the browser. timeout or any errer",
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"body": "ubuntu@ip-172-31-41-244:\\~$ netstat -anp | grep 7777\n\n(Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info\n\n will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.)\n\ntcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:7777 0.0.0.0:\\* LISTEN 3427/node",
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"author": "Cool_Palpitation9096",
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"body": "don't know how to post a picture i can't see any option",
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"body": "Yups i opened the port in security groups\nI’ll get timout error in browser",
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"author": "FlounderMysterious10",
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"body": "Seems to be a security group issue then, also try (telnet 13.60.42.50 7777) to see if the ip and port is reachable if not u can confirm its a security grp issue",
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"author": "zeal_swan",
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"body": "And wait. Why are you trying to connect to the backend from outside the ec2? Is there something in the backend that shows something like html or something when / is accessed?",
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"body": "ubuntu@ip-172-31-41-244:\\~$ telnet [13.60.42.60](http://13.60.42.60) 7777\n\nTrying 13.60.42.60...\n\nConnected to 13.60.42.60.\n\nEscape character is '\\^\\]'.",
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"is_submitter": true,
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"author": "zeal_swan",
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"body": "Have you tried the same on your local? Whats the response or output there. \n\nSounds like development problem instead of devops",
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"author": "Cool_Palpitation9096",
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"body": "No, i just do that to check if my backend is working or not",
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"author": "FlounderMysterious10",
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"body": "So its reachable, could u try curl http://13.60.42.60:7777/ and see if it returns same value as what u get inside ec2 if u do curl",
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"body": "Think of it this way, what would any browser request to your backend give. Nothing. So youre getting just that",
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"body": "PS C:\\\\Users\\\\dell> curl [http://13.60.42.60:7777/](http://13.60.42.60:7777/)\n\ncurl : Unable to connect to the remote server\n\nAt line:1 char:1\n\n\\+ curl [http://13.60.42.60:7777/](http://13.60.42.60:7777/)\n\n\\+ \\~\\~\\~\\~\\~\\~\\~\\~\\~\\~\\~\\~\\~\\~\\~\\~\\~\\~\\~\\~\\~\\~\\~\\~\\~\\~\\~\\~\\~\n\n\\+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.HttpWebRequest:HttpWebRequest) \\[Invoke-WebRequest\\], WebExc\n\n eption\n\n\\+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebCmdletWebResponseException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeWebRequestCommand\n\n\n\nget this in my local machine",
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"body": "Hey I tested it from my browsert and got\nDevConnect backend is running as output",
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"body": "ohh on that [http://13.60.42.60:7777/](http://13.60.42.60:7777/)? \nit's strange, now it's working on my also when i set a proxy in nginx for [http://13.60.42.60:7777/](http://13.60.42.60:7777/) to /api",
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Should backend-to-database connections use SSL if proxy already has SSL?
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If my backend is running behind a reverse proxy (e.g., Traefik/Nginx) that already has SSL/TLS enabled for client traffic, do I still need to enable SSL/TLS on the database connection between the backend and the database server considering when in Docker-compose or K8s the database is running on internal network therefore not exposed to the outside traffic?
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"author": "m39583",
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"body": "In theory any more security/encryption is good but the problem is the PKI/certificate management for all the backend systems. You would probably need an internal root CA that signed all the certificates and then you need a way to rotate the certs etc. It's a total ballache and risks a major outage if you drop a ball and a certificate expires. For it to be viable it needs to be fully automated and that is a significant engineering effort.\n\nWe compromised, and used self signed long lived (50 year) certificates for backend internal traffic. That gives you encryption which prevents someone that can sniff the traffic from reading the data. In theory being self signed means you don't get the authenticity of the remote system, but an attacker would need to compromise your DNS or routing in order to divert traffic rather than just sniff it to attack that.",
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"author": "nooneinparticular246",
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"body": "Lots of weird advice and cargo culting here. Just do a quick threat model with the team and make your own call.",
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"body": "It's a good idea even then. If I'm an attacker and got access to a container on the same network as the db, if it's not encrypted I have a chance to get the credentials to your database by sniffing the traffic. If it's encrypted I cannot do that.\n\nIt's a tiny threat, but mitigating that threat is not hard as well.",
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"author": "roiki11",
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"body": "Your biggest guide should be compliance. \n\nBut the effort to use it is pretty minimal so why shouldn't you. It's another security layer.",
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"body": "In my experience, if you're using managed databases, SSL/TLS is built in and free. There's no reason I wouldn't use it. \n\nIf you're self-hosting, ask yourself if the cost of managing the SSL is worth it. If the answer is yes, then go for it. It's not a huge overhead so I would default to yes being the answer",
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"body": "Yes. Defense in depth ",
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"author": "NotesOfCliff",
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"body": "It wasn't that long ago that people thought this way in business. No TLS or relaxed permissions when exclusively on internal networks.\n\n\nWe have since learned that defense is best implemented in layers. The goal is to slow down any potential attack as much as possible.\n\n\nArchitecture decisions like TLS everywhere cost very little, but make each step of an attack more difficult and time consuming.\n\n\nYou should also be scoping permissions to only what is needed. Processes should not be owned by root and a bunch of other best practices.\n\n\nGood luck out there.",
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"body": "Yes, all connections should be encrypted",
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"author": "j0holo",
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"body": "It is still a best practice even when your k8s nodes have an encrypted network. It is required if you are running in the cloud.",
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"author": "Hale-at-Sea",
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"body": "If the backend and database are effectively running point to point, then it's not really necessary. I recommend setting SSL up anyway if possible, because there's no guarantee the app's network environment will stay closed off forever. \n\nIt's also much easier to tell auditors \"all of the network traffic is encrypted\" rather than have to explain why some connections are fine without it",
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"author": "mb2m",
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"body": "The trade-off: What is more harmful? A hacker that gets into the local network and can possibly capture unencrypted database traffic or that your application is down because of errors caused by the encryption between backend and db (cert renewal failed, …).",
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"author": "Fresh-Secretary6815",
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"body": "Hey man, super simple question here: is this an intRAnet or intERnet facing app?",
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"author": "vlad_h",
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"body": "It’s not necessary but it’s a good practice regardless to use SSL everywhere so you don’t slip somewhere where it matters. Most traffic now goes through SSL by default.",
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"author": "McBun2023",
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"body": "in our company we are trying to make everything encrypted, even if we are far from it",
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"author": "m_adduci",
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"body": "If you don't trust the platform where your services are running, encryption in transit is highly recommended.\n\nIf you have a trustful host, you could skip TLS from backend to database or thing about using a proxy such as PgBouncer (if you use Postgres) and let the backend communicate over TLS with it and then use a plain connection between pgbouncer and the database.",
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"author": "joeyignorant",
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"body": "i would if it makes sense to do so unencrypted traffic even internally can be sniffed , \nsay your backend gets hit with a supply chain now you have a bad actor inside your internal network \nall that data is exposed to be sniffed or altered \nusing a self signed cert with an inter root CA is free or even use an ACME cert",
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"author": "dobesv",
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"body": "It depends on whether the service and database are running in an environment where network snooping by other processes is theoretically possible. If you're in a network where it's just your service and the database maybe it's not worth it. \n\nSometimes you're running in an environment where network traffic is automatically encrypted at a lower level, e.g wire guard, in which case you don't need it.",
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"author": "complead",
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"body": "Running SSL/TLS on db connections, even with a reverse proxy handling SSL, adds a security layer that can deter insiders or compromised systems within your internal network. Yes, certificate management is a hassle, but automating it minimizes risks and overhead long-term. Think about future flexibility if your infrastructure evolves. SSL might seem redundant now, but it can prevent surprises later, especially as tech stacks grow or move.",
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"body": "one the same node, maybe, cross node, cross zone? prob not.",
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"author": "fr6nco",
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"body": "On Kube, cert-manager or any service mesh can do this easily for you. \n\n\nIf not on Kube, vault + consul-template can help you",
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"body": "It’s really just not that difficult. I’ve done this with OpenSSL, mTLS for Keycloak + PostgreSql + Nginx. Everything is in containers. Certs rotate every 88 days in a B/G deployment model so if a cert error bubbles up, the traffic is redirected to a current valid cert path given that my hard rotation requirement is 90 days. System design has infinite tradeoffs and is overwhelming at times but at some point you just need to pull the trigger.",
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"author": "endre_szabo",
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"body": "that's right, talk to compliance, infosec, industry regulatory bodies",
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"body": "thank you",
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"author": "xagarth",
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"body": "This is not a thing.\n\nWould you care to elaborate on how would you accomplish this?\n\nYou do realise that traffic between containers do not go through arbitrary containers, right? So, given you have access to B, traffic from A to C is not visible to you.\n\nThat's for starters.\n\n\nIf an attacker would gain access to an application container, they don't have to sniff traffic they'll just get credentials from the app config or whatever.\n\nEncrypting traffic is always a good idea but, it requires resources and imposes quite an overhead.\nFor private networks and intercluster coms, the benefit is almost non-existent, as if attacker has admin access, they can extract certs, keys, secrets, and everything.",
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"author": "dashingThroughSnow12",
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"body": "How is a random container sniffing traffic?\n\nDid they escalate to host access? In which case, they can probably sniff the TLS cert too.",
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"author": "MartinMystikJonas",
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"body": "How would you sniff traffic of another container?",
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"author": "zynasis",
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"body": "Can’t sniff traffic like this on modern hyper visor environments",
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"author": "virtualGain_",
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"body": "Personally I say just use self signed certs ultimately having encryption is way better than not a self-signed cert only really leaves you vulnerable to a man in the middle attack at least you're not just blindly trusting your hosting provider not to sniff your traffic at that point",
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"author": "Prod_Is_For_Testing",
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"body": "> There's no reason I wouldn't use it.\n\nIt adds significant overhead to each connection and can cause performance issues ",
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"author": "nooneinparticular246",
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"body": "“It is required” what? AWS’s PCI DSS guidance explicitly calls out that VPC traffic is point to point and can’t be sniffed, meaning encryption in transit isn’t always necessary",
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"author": "carsncode",
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"body": "A risk model that examines only impact and not likelihood has no value",
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"body": "It's a cloud native configuration setup where the database runs internally therefore not exposed to the outside world while the server interacts with clients behind a reverse proxy over TLS",
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"body": "Not true in many cases, but yes, internal pods or enclosed namespaces can forego encryption under the assumption that the security zone is otherwise encrypted.",
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"body": "I disagree. SSL is cheap to implement and defense at every level is a must. You will fail so many audits if you have unencrypted connections regardless of if it’s public.\n\nYou need to assume your network is compromised if you want to create a quality solution.",
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"body": "What?",
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"author": "carsncode",
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"body": ">Your backend and your database should be in their own isolated network with no outsides access (no egress, no ingress from other networks).\n\nThat'll certainly protect it from getting any connections from your frontend. As long as you don't need anything to be functional, it'll be very secure.",
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"body": "Use a CLM, pretty straight forward",
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"author": "carsncode",
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"body": "Imagine spending a hundred man hours making the world's most trivial decision... It's free, the overhead is small, anybody coming to Reddit for advice should just turn it on and be done with it",
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"body": "Good TLS protocols are safe from sniffing.",
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"body": "There really is no threat of the attack working exactly as he described if a network device hasn't been breached that is routing the traffic over to that container. The real concern is that all the network devices that traffic goes across can sniff the credentials which means you just have to blindly trust your hosting provider or whoever has access to that Network gear\n\nThere are certain compliance requirements that don't allow you to trust your hosting provider but if you don't fall into any of those categories like HIPAA for example then it's up to you whether or not you need to encrypt that traffic",
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"body": "It's true but hasn't been relevant for any business I've worked with in the last decade. What does that truly resolve to mean? Probably <1s of latency for a connection which should be reused in a pool in most platforms.\n\nYou're totally right, it just doesn't really form a consideration for most platforms that don't have a considerable scale.",
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"body": "It depends. The biggest overhead exists when establishing a connection- if you aren't doing that in the hot path you are probably not going to notice it. i.e if you just maintain a pool of healthy connections and aren't making a new connection to the db while your apps client is waiting for a response. \n\nIf you are making connections in the hot path, the biggest overhead is often the increase in round trips over the network. Those matter much less in a fast internal network. They also can be optimized with tls session resumption and 0rtt in tls1.3\n\nOutside of connection establishment there is still some overhead, but encryption can be offloaded to the kernel.",
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"body": "Do you have any data to back that up? What is \"significant overhead\"? In what circumstances is TLS the cause of performance issues? What performance issues does it cause?",
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"author": "virtualGain_",
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"body": "Yea this requires you to trust AWS and just expect there isn't some clown engineer that goes Rogue one day in the thousands of Engineers that they employ",
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"body": "No everybody is running on AWS and have virtual private network enabled correctly. But fair, now only AWS can sniff on your data.",
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"author": "Fresh-Secretary6815",
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"body": "So a containerized BFF setup?",
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"body": "Yeah, but no. It's not necessary that it would take a hundred man hours to decide this on every org. I agree it's not something anyone should be asking on reddit.\n\n\nedit: I'd argue you'd get in trouble if something like this would take a hundred man hours to decide and you just \"turn it on\"",
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"body": "Commenting on Should backend-to-database connections use SSL if proxy already has SSL? Free? Cpu resources do matter? And depending on the database, and usage this could be a lot more costly than free.. but if he means backend servers then it may have benefit vs same..",
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"author": "dashingThroughSnow12",
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"body": "Ram sniffing?",
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"author": "Randolpho",
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"body": "And they totally promise not to — unless it’s necessary",
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"author": "Svarotslav",
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"body": "Generally with inter-container communication where you don't have external access it is done using a bridge, where you have a virtual ethernet connection with pipes the data out of the container into the bridge, and then from another virtual ethernet connection from the bridge into the other container and landing on it's virtual ethernet interface.\n\nThere's also a question about if someone or something is in or manages to enter that namespace, the packets are not encrypted.\n\nYou also have the enshitification factor where an app becomes more than something to be run on a single host or somehting else changes and all of a sudden it is moved to a different environment. Like a container..... and someone forgets to turn on SSL. \n\n \nThe threat might be small, but it is a vulnerability and there are a huge amount of actors out there who will be trying to find attack surfaces like that.",
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"author": "endre_szabo",
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"body": "so you argue against a service mesh but you put database passwords in environment variables?\n\noh boy",
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"author": "carsncode",
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"body": "It's really easy for the comment I replied to: \n\n>that's right, talk to compliance, infosec, industry regulatory bodies\n\nTo total a couple dozen man-hours. A hundred was just hyperbole.",
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"body": "The reverse proxy having SSL is unrelated to the DB connection using SSL. It's a red herring. The CPU overhead is negligible and if OP is asking Reddit about this instead of a security team, they're not likely to be operating at a scale where the extra CPU cost makes any difference.",
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"body": "If you rooted the server where the database or the application is at the level of being able to sniff RAM of other processes/users, then your data is already compromised, TLS or no.",
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"body": "Hijacking a container and pivoting is wildly different than being able to privilege escalate. What even is this question?",
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"body": "Why do people forget this?",
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"body": "I’m glad we agree.",
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"author": "dashingThroughSnow12",
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"body": "What type of pivoting are you talking about?\n\nThe root of this conversation is talking about sniffing other containers’ traffic from a compromised pod.\n\nTo do that, one may do a host pivot (break out of the container into a privileged state in the host node). At that point when one has access to start reading other containers’ sockets to look at their traffic, it isn’t that far of a stretch to think you have enough access to inspect their ram.\n\nFrom my limited understanding (and I do emphasize limited), the type of attack where a compromised container can start sniffing other containers’ traffic basically means game over in some way.",
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"author": "vikinick",
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"body": "If the compromised container is on the same network as a container that connects to the database, the compromised container can pretty easily record all traffic on that network. And if the traffic is not encrypted on the backend (like OP's question), it will be sending credentials over plaintext.",
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"author": "dashingThroughSnow12",
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"body": "How? Genuinely want to know.",
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"author": "zomiaen",
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"body": "The containers lives within their own network namespace, however, they can't just sniff the wire.\n\nYou need to get root to break out. That's why we run rootless containers as a security best practice.\n\nUnless of course the container is running on host networking, or has been given extended capabilities/is running as a privileged container. Which for the most part, should never done on a container that's exposed in a manner that could get it pwned, and avoided as much as possible any other time.",
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I'm currently looking to change jobs due to an impending return to office mandate. I've been proactively applying for roles for around 3 months and am struggling to find anything. Are my salary expectations too high?
I'm currently on ~£65k with 2 yrs DevOps, 2 yrs Platform Engineering and 15 yrs in infra roles prior to that. Ideally looking for a remote role on at least a matching salary. The main thing I want rn is stability. Feedback from the one interview I've had so far is that there were some knowledge "gaps" based on my salary expectations. Have rates dropped over the last 2 years or do I just need to brush up?
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"author": "spicypixel",
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"body": "Yes they’ve dropped lot.\n\nI’d be taking a 30k haircut to leave my role as it stands.\n\nI regularly keep an eye on the market both from a hiring manager perspective and job seeker and it’s definitely flatlined at best.\n\nOn the roles where the money hasn’t notably dropped the expectations in experience and seniority went up instead.\n\nIt’s title deflation and given the title inflation for years I’m not fully sold it’s a bad thing yet.",
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"author": "Individual-Heat-7000",
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"body": "£65k for that mix of infra + DevOps + platform doesn’t sound crazy at all, but a lot of companies have tightened budgets and are more picky now. Remote roles especially get tons of applicants, so they can afford to nitpick on “gaps.” Might be worth brushing up on the latest tooling/cloud trends and being flexible on salary for the right fit, then negotiate up once you’re in. Stability > max comp in this market.",
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"author": "InfraScaler",
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"body": "I mean it's going to depend a lot based on what those 15yrs of \"infra roles\" mean. If those are \"15 years of doing the same you learn in 1 year\" then you are on the high band for juniors and 65k is a bit too much. If those 15 years gave you skills like in depth\\*\\* OS/networking knowledge then you could be around 100k. \n\nWhat knowledge gaps where highlighted?\n\n \n\\*\\*really in depth, down to OS internals, not \"I use Linux at home and update some conf files with vim\" depth.",
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"author": "CanaryWundaboy",
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"body": "Feel like I’m in golden handcuffs at the moment, if I look to leave my current role it’s an instant £40k drop. Might as well stay where I am and bide my time.",
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"author": "Redmilo666",
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"body": "I’ve 6 years experience in London for a decent sized company at £60k. Few and far between for higher salaries it seems unless you move into principle engineer territory. Or management",
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"author": "Nize",
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"body": "That's an expensive hair cut!",
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"author": "No_Engineer6255",
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"body": "Would have been at least 150k and 250k+ by US standards for 17 years of experience but lol , good ol capitalism in EU",
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"body": "I progressed to 3rd line support, mostly carrying out cloud migrations, working for managed service providers, etc. My experience with Linux was limited and I've been mostly Windows based. That has changed since the move to DevOps but I still have a lot to learn on that side... I'm enjoying the ride much more in this area though.",
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"body": "How much is in-depth though?",
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"body": "Deeply unpleasant at that",
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"author": "InfraScaler",
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"body": "One thing that I always found funny is that many people think \"support = little knowledge\" when it's the actual opposite. 3rd line support sometimes knows more about their product than the actual developers. It's crazy!",
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"author": "InfraScaler",
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"body": "It means you don’t just know how to run commands or configure services, but you understand how the kernel itself works. Someone with Linux internals knowledge can explain what really happens when a process is created, how memory gets mapped and reclaimed, why a syscall blocks or wakes up, or how packets travel through the networking stack before they ever hit user space. It’s about knowing the mechanics of scheduling, memory, filesystems, drivers, and synchronization at the level the kernel implements them, not just the abstractions exposed to users.",
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"author": "crytek2025",
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"body": "Got it, thanks. Can I DM you sometime?",
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"author": "a-sad-dev",
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"body": "Where's the best place to learn linux internals as someone who's very comfortable with linux user space but hasn't dove deep into the kernel?",
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"author": "InfraScaler",
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"body": "Sure!",
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"author": "InfraScaler",
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"body": "I don't think there is a *best* place (happy to hear other's opinions to discover new stuff). In my case it is the result of many years of problem-solving that required looking up specific stuff, and at some point the pieces of the puzzle start clicking with each other.\n\nNowadays it could be interesting to start asking a good LLM about these topics. Start at high level, like what is \"scheduling\" in the context of Linux. It'll spill a bunch of information and at that point you can ask further specific questions about what the LLM is telling you. Having general knowledge about foundational topics will give you a far greater understanding of any issues/scenarios as your brain will immediately add those variables to context, then you'll dig deeper into specifics.",
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1nptobe
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Dockerhub is down
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Update: it's back now, all systems operational.
TL;DR:
Docker Hub is partially down (mainly auth + registry + web). They know the issue and are working on it.
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TheDevDex
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/r/devops/comments/1nptobe/dockerhub_is_down/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1nptobe/dockerhub_is_down/
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"author": "wysiatilmao",
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"body": "If you're running into issues like this again, it might help to set up a local Docker registry for redundancy. It can provide a useful backup and speed up CI workflows. You can sync it with Docker Hub periodically to keep it updated.",
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"author": "JagerAntlerite7",
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"body": "🤣😂😅🥲😭\n\nIt _wasn't_ just me!\n\nAssumed rate limits.",
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"author": "TheDevDex",
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"body": "https://www.dockerstatus.com/",
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{
"author": "TheDevDex",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Update: it's back now, all systems operational.",
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"post_id": "1nptobe",
"score": 2,
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},
{
"author": "Reeces_Pieces",
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"body": "I spent way too much time thinking something else was wrong after a power outage today....\n\n\nFfs",
"created_utc": 1758768546,
"id": "ng299aa",
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"parent_id": null,
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{
"author": "trick-host-",
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"body": "🤔😮😜😢😭😂😁😉😆",
"created_utc": 1758780744,
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"author": "gaelfr38",
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"body": "This.\n\nI can't believe this is not the default setup.",
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"author": "nrmitchi",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Same",
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"is_submitter": false,
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"author": "glimitzu",
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"body": "We shall not discuss the time spent trying to figure out why I had sudden errors sigh",
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1npprpa
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Is environment setup still one of the biggest pains in reproducing ML research?
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Awkward-Plane-2020
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2025-09-26T10:37:48.072324
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"author": "zemega",
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"body": "Because researchers were never trained on dev ops. Or at least have any idea about it.\n\n\nSimply telling them about how to operationalise their code is sometimes enough to nudge them to write more operational code. Also ask them to use tools like MakinaRocks Link, or marimo, is enough to make them realise how spaghetti their codes are. Which leads to better codes.\n\n\nSeriously, walk them through uv and marimo. For everyone sake. They write better reproducible code. You get codes that are much easier to operationalise.",
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1npnqut
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SQL Indexing for Real-World Performance: What Every DevOps Engineer Should Know
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As DevOps engineers, we often focus on CI/CD, automation, and infrastructure — but database performance can become a hidden bottleneck in production.
I recently made a beginner-friendly breakdown of SQL indexing that keeps it simple, visual, and practical:
Heap tables – what happens when no clustered index exists
Clustered indexes – how data is physically ordered and retrieved
Non-clustered indexes – when to use them and how they reference the table
Stored Procedure Lookups – real performance examples that show why indexing matters in production
👉 The goal: make indexing easy to understand for people who don’t live inside SQL every day, but still need to keep systems running fast and reliable.
Video link here: https://youtu.be/cDiCp64V-uQ?si=qCKHn0hyGd_ID5MM
Would love to hear how you approach database optimization in your DevOps workflow (monitoring, tuning, automation, etc.)
| 0 | 0.37 | 3 | 1,758,747,242 |
Dry_Razzmatazz5798
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/r/devops/comments/1npnqut/sql_indexing_for_realworld_performance_what_every/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1npnqut/sql_indexing_for_realworld_performance_what_every/
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2025-09-26T10:37:49.234493
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"author": "Owlstorm",
"awards": 0,
"body": "I had a look.\n\nI think the demo missed key fundamentals.\nBroad things like the tradeoffs of adding indexes, how to benchmark performance, knowing when an index is needed, and what makes a good index.\n\nWithout knowing *why*, somebody watching the video and cargo-cult style adding an index is probably doing more harm than good.\n\nThese are good demos:\n\nhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/sql-server-index-design-guide\n\nhttps://use-the-index-luke.com",
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"author": "ninetofivedev",
"awards": 0,
"body": "LinkedIn AI slop.",
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{
"author": "llitz",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Freaking emojis, it looks like AI studied MLM guidelines",
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1npktxx
|
Good DevOps projects for practice?
|
So I'm looking for any open source DevOps project that is fully functional but lacks all DevOps tools (pipelines, K8s files, docker files, ...). I want to use the given project as a way to demonstrate my knowledge of these tools by adding them to build the app further from CI to monitoring.
| 5 | 0.78 | 5 | 1,758,740,447 |
MediumGlittering7505
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/r/devops/comments/1npktxx/good_devops_projects_for_practice/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1npktxx/good_devops_projects_for_practice/
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2025-09-26T10:37:50.363021
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"author": "chinmay185",
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"body": "Check https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo and practice writing ci cd and k8s manifests and otel monitoring",
"created_utc": 1758761427,
"id": "ng1pmqo",
"is_submitter": false,
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"score": 3,
"stickied": false
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{
"author": "sandin0",
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"body": "Ask ChatGPT to make one for you and save the solution to a file but don’t read the file until the end or also ask it to add instructions with hints and you solve.",
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"score": 3,
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},
{
"author": "DevOps_Sar",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Take the RealWorld \"Medium clone\" app, containerize it, add CI/CD, deploy on K8s, and hook up monitoring/logging.",
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"post_id": "1npktxx",
"score": 1,
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1npha6u
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The $7 Trillion Delusion: Was Sam Altman the First Real Case of ChatGPT Psychosis?
|
SS: Super interesting and semi-satirical article that just popped up in my feed, makes me wonder what happend to this entire 7 trillion ordeal. I think its very very relevant to ask and understand how the people in charge interact with AI. The article touches on many current issues surrounding the psychological and by extension societal impact of AI, and I think it has multiple points that will spark an interesting discussion. The article brings a new angle to this topic and connects some very interesting dots about the AI bubble and how AI delusions might be affecting decisions. [https://medium.com/@adan.nygaard/the-7-trillion-delusion-was-sam-altman-the-first-real-case-of-chatgpt-psychosis-949b6d89ec55](https://medium.com/@adan.nygaard/the-7-trillion-delusion-was-sam-altman-the-first-real-case-of-chatgpt-psychosis-949b6d89ec55)
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EinStubentiger
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/r/devops/comments/1npha6u/the_7_trillion_delusion_was_sam_altman_the_first/
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2025-09-26T10:37:51.557357
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"author": "Skriblos",
"awards": 0,
"body": "This artical gets fundamental points wrong. \"What if Sam Altman didn’t just build the product...\" he didnt. Sam Altman didnt build shit, just hype.\n\n\n“Delusional.” - that pretty much means the person has lost it. If you are acting delusional you are acting wrongly and on top of that incapable of changing.\n\n\n\"...briliant CEO...\" you are delusional.",
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"author": "ares623",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Hard to believe a psychopath to be manipulated like that.",
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"author": "leetrout",
"awards": 0,
"body": "I've for years held that Google is operating on an AI driven playbook.",
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"score": 1,
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1npeylo
|
Hetzner doesn't offer Managed databases (PostgreSQL) on CCX23. What Can I do?
|
Hello everyone, I'm sorry I'm not very familiar with DevOps, so excuse me if I don't know what I'm talking about.
I need to host a Laravel app, with a PostgreSQL database, Redis, and Grafana for monitoring.
So far, I've come to understand that my low-cost robust options are limited (max 25$ per month), and it seems that if I want a good performance for my application with a low response time, I should go with CCX23 (dedicated CPU).
My understanding is that I can allocate 10-12 GB of RAM for the app, and the rest for Grafana and Redis.
But Hetzner doesn't offer managed databases with the Hetzner Cloud VPS.
Are there any better options to host this App, and its database effectively in order to avoid any resource-related issues in the first year of the application (first year most likely ending in 500 users at an RPS of 200, 70% of which are reads).
I will be implementing caching and many other strategies with OPcache, Gzip... but I just want to host this application effectively for now.
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Punk_Saint
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/r/devops/comments/1npeylo/hetzner_doesnt_offer_managed_databases_postgresql/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1npeylo/hetzner_doesnt_offer_managed_databases_postgresql/
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"author": "BrocoLeeOnReddit",
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"body": "Is high availability mandatory? Because if so, you won't be happy with Hetzner unless you build a cluster of at least three VMs for your DB. But the same would also apply to your app and monitoring so my guess is that at the moment, you don't really need HA. Just host everything on one VM (ideally each component containerized) and make regular backups and monitor if you push performance limits.\n\nDeploying PostgreSQL in a container is really easy and well documented.\n\nYou could write a compose.yml for your entire application stack (aka all the services you need), run `docker compose up -d` and Bob's your uncle.",
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"author": "aghost_7",
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"body": "How many users are you expecting to have? If its just a few (e.g., side project), consider going serverless route.",
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"id": "nfynkyb",
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"author": "anonveggy",
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"body": "I don't know what happened to this sub that people here are throwing absolutely money burning abysmal advice around.\n\nYes, you can absolutely serve 250 people an App on a CCX23. Just set yourself up the docker compose environment since you've already said dockerized. \n\nI really don't know why other's have said that HA clustering is required - your requirements are absolutely fine for a single deployment of postgres (might I add that SQLite will absolutely also work - most people distrust it because it's not a server but in a lot of scenarios SQLite absolutely shits on all these server RDBMS performance and ease of use wise - don't know how well laravel interacts with it tho) - most likely it's gonna be the app that's going to have availability issues not the DB. \n\nUntil the app has actual maturity it really is laughable to yank OP around with HA stuff.\n\nAs for the serverless suggestions - please waste someone else's development time, performance and upkeep cost. Go \nBack to your consultancy job and go sell some snake oil somewhere else.\n\nTo OP: easy is fast, cheap and great to build upon. Don't let yourself be frightened by what the devops world has come to consider normal and standard practice. Most times it just cost ineffective self-indulgence.\n\nJust make sure you set the VM up with some security in mind. Depending on your environment - if you need to expose that machine to the outside make sure that less is more. Don't be exposing DB ports to the outside. When push comes to shove you can use cloudflare tunnels for a cheap and relatively secure reverse proxy.",
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"author": "Impressive_Ad1188",
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"body": "Taking into consideration only the context you have provided, CCX23 should be more than enough to host your application comfortably, given that your expected workload is read heavy, caching and query tuning could take you very far with those server specs.",
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"body": "If high availability is needed, you might look into a cloud provider that offers managed PostgreSQL and Redis services. While Hetzner is cost-effective, platforms like DigitalOcean or AWS can offer managed solutions within your $25 budget, especially if you optimize resource allocation and use their free tier or discounted rates. This might save you time on DB management and ensure performance stability as your user base grows.",
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"body": "Digitalocean, aiven.io, OVH and I'm sure others provide managed pg and refis/valkey, which sounds like what you want. Aws/gcp/azure all have some kv store to pair with a manage pg as well",
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"body": "If you aren't fixated on Postgres I would suggest Sqlite. Given your expected load this should work without problems. With Litestream you'll get db replication to e.g. s3 compatible storage, for which you can use Hetzner's offering. Disaster recovery is quite easy with litestream. This setup would be really cheap and above all quite simple to manage.",
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"body": "Run self hosted docker containers for db and redis and take a backup on regular basis. Keep them in a remote storage. Also there are some free tier Postgres on various providers that can be used initially in the given budget.",
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"body": "Use [Cloudnative Postgres](https://cloudnative-pg.io/)!",
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"body": "Hi OP, You might consider cross-posting this in the unofficial r/hetzner subreddit. There are a lot of long-time users there who may be able to give you some more tips. In the meantime, you might also want to look at this page: [https://github.com/hetznercloud/awesome-hcloud](https://github.com/hetznercloud/awesome-hcloud) \\--Katie",
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"body": "If you can't or don't want to self host PG on Hetzner, there is a variety of managed offerings which run PG on Hetzner. \nMost of them require a cluster though and don't run on a single instance which is also being used for other means. \n\nAlso you don't need a dedicated VPS for good PG performance.",
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"body": "Thank you very much. I already have everything in my local environment dockerized; I just never took care of deployments because an old coworker used to, and now it's fallen on me after he left. \n \nWhat can I do in the case of wanting high availability?",
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"body": "For the first year, we have a waitlist of about 200 users so far. It's not a side project, it's for a client.",
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"author": "Punk_Saint",
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"body": "In the end everyone was giving helpful advice, no matter my situation, they were all viable solutions. I want to thank everyone for that first... but I'm aware of over-engineering as well in the development world and was wondering whether that's the same case in the devops world as well.\n\nFrom the many solid advices I got, many stand out like yours where it was just to use docker and backup my stuff. that was my original concern but many of you have eased my mind that it's the right choice and I have to stop being anxious and just go through it.\n\nThank you very much, I really appreciate all the help I got in this subreddit and specifically to you for showing me the simple smart way to do it.",
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"body": "okayy thank you, that eases my mind a bit.",
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"body": "I saw this earlier, can you explain it a bit more please if you don't mind. Is it like a plugin?",
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"body": "High availability without managed services like on Azure, AWS or GCP is a bit more complicated. I guess you chose Hetzner for privacy reasons?\n\nTo be perfectly honest with you, you won't be able to achieve HA on Hetzner while sticking to your budget, you wouldn't even manage to do so with a Cloud Provider and a managed DB if you want to host your entire stack.\n\nFor example, to have a highly available DB cluster self hosted, you'd need at least three machines (VMs or bare metal) because you need quorum (feel free to look up what that means). But if you want your entire stack highly available and containerized, you won't get around a container orchestrator like Kubernetes or OpenShift or a complicated bare metal setup.\n\nPersonally, given your budget constraints, I'd just stick to a single machine and a fairly simple Docker compose setup and make frequent database backups because if your application were mission critical, your company would allot you a way higher budget.",
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"body": "Its going to be pretty difficult to have something which is robust on just 25$. We might have different definitions of robust, but to me that means having redundancy.",
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"body": "I kind of assumed you were using kubernetes, so if not you can ignore me. But cnpg is an operator for kubernetes that manages Postgres dbs. It can take care of clustering, replication, backups , storage and most other aspects of run g a db. It really make running Postgres in kubernetes super simple. In AWS I would prefer to run this over RDS, I haven’t run anything in hetzner, so I’m not sure if that translates.",
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"body": "I want to thank you for your response. It pretty much matches what i'm currently reading on devops. I'll start as you said slow, and go on from there...",
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"body": "25 max per month is just starting out, I'm definitely increasing that budget after 6 months of deployment for a backup with load balancing.",
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"body": "I have actually never considered Kubernetes for some reason, and I'm currently reading about it. I think it can help me greatly, thank you for mentioning this!",
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"body": "Selfhosted, high-availabilty kubernetes won't fit your budget and is not easy manage if you have no K8S experience.\n\nJust setup some docker containers and make regular backups of the DB. Much easier and enough for 500 users.",
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"body": "You might like this if you go hetzner + kubernetes:\n\nhttps://github.com/kube-hetzner/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzner",
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"body": "Yeah that's what it seems like. Is there any best practice for backing up the database?",
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Second-guessing the feature-flag hype: looking for real DevOps pain points
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I’ve been thinikin recently of feature flag systems lately, trying to figure out where the real value is for DevOps teams vs what’s just imaginary problem. I’m toying with the idea of building something open-source/self-hosted (working name [FlagshipX.cloud](https://www.flagshipx.cloud/)), but right now it’s literally just notes on paper — no code, no prototype. Don’t wanna solve fake problems.
The rough idea: a UI-first tool you can self-host (or just use a dead-simple managed version), where every flag has an owner/intent/expiry baked in. Think lightweight (Postgres + stateless API, optional CDN snapshotting), typed flags (boolean/enum/JSON schema) so you don’t shoot yourself in the foot, proper audit trails and scoped perms, and delivery via signed snapshots so stuff keeps working offline.
What I’ve seen bite people (and honestly scares me) are things like: prod toggles with zero traceability, stale flags rotting in configs, dashboards drifting away from Git/IaC, outages because control plane died, or rollouts nuked because someone pushed the wrong targeting rules.
So I’m curious — for folks actually running flags in prod: what’s sucked the most for you?
* Ever been burned by LaunchDarkly/Unleash/Flagsmith/etc? What worked, what didn’t?
* Do you like Git-based configs or prefer a live dashboard?
* How do you keep flag cleanup/lifecycle sane?
* Any governance/policies you wish you had before things got messy?
Would love to hear some real war stories. Trying to sanity-check whether this idea is worth pursuing or if I should just shut up and use what’s out there.
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"body": "We use a custom feature flag process with a small AWS lambda API that gets/sets flag states and an internal UI that shows states and can be used to flip flags. \n\nIf we didn't have that internal capability to build it ourselves, I'd probably want a small open source API / UI I could self host in lambda.",
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"body": "AI slop",
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"author": "RoadsideCookie",
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"body": "How do standard configuration management practices fit in your solution?",
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"body": "> What problems have you hit\n\n\nNo problems using feature flags in production. Been using feature flags systems for over 15 years. Feature flags are a dead simple concept \n\n\n> How do you deal with flag cleanup and lifecycle?\n\n\nFlag cleanup is not needed.\n\n\n> Have you used LaunchDarkly / Unleash / Flagsmith / GrowthBook / Flipt or others? What worked, what didn’t?\n\n\nYes. All were effective at their task. We built in house config management solution after product matured for all feature flags to use across the ecosystem \n\n\n\n\n\n\n> Do you prefer Git-based flag configs or a live dashboard?\n\n\nThis is not a equivalent either/or choice, they are fundamentally different. You use both, and more.\n\n\n> What kinds of governance/policies would help your team avoid chaos?\n\n\nStandard configuration management solutions.",
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"author": "juliusz-cwiakalski",
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"body": "Thx for sharing u/GeorgeRNorfolk ! What made you develop your custom solution rather than using something off the shelf?\n\nAre you facing some real painpoints with your current solution?",
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"body": "And also - do you evaluate feature flags states on UI, backend or both?",
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"body": "I did not really plan to address standard configuration as of now. \n\nMy focus is on temporary code and settings that are in the product due to experiment and validation of feature/business idea. And governance of this temporary stuff so it does grow into messy tech debt. \n\nAnother key aspect I was focusing on was the successif roullout (1% of users/tenants -> 5% -> 20% etc)... \n\nDo you think this separation makes sense? Or you'd actually prefer to have single tool fro \"standard\" and \"temporary/feature\" configs?\n\nThx in advance for your thoughts on this u/RoadsideCookie",
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"body": "Thank you u/meowisaymiaou for sharhing perspective having 15 years of experience - it's super valuable!\n\nWould you mind going bit deeper? I'd love to understand your patterns.\n\n1. You mentioned that flags clanup is not needed. Does it mean you have only short lived flags and remove them just after release? Or maybe have some tooling that is clenaing it for you?\n\n2. OK, understand you tried several other tools. But what made you decide to implement your own after product matured? \n\n3. Yes, you are right. In my approach I was more focusing on release proces in a dynamic way (post deploy), not thinking hollisticly. Could you elaborate more what is your process and how you use git/dashboard/other approaches?\n\n4. When you say \"standard configuration mgmt solutions\" do you mean something like Ansible/Terraform? Or some kind of app layer configuration store?\n\nI'm trying to understand how teams evolve their approach to feature flags over time. Especially when they hit the scale - so any thoughts you'd share would be very appreciated (maybe you've fall into some pitfalls or have interesting lessons learned that others could benefit?).",
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"author": "StaticallyTypoed",
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"body": "Humans will read human written posts. If you write AI slop, don't expect anything but AI slop responses. Go ask chatgpt what it thinks",
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"body": "Maybe you (or your AI?) misunderstood the question. I'm talking about configuration management. There are standard practices and tools that make overarching feature flag systems unnecessary.\n\nAdd command line option to your application, use configuration management to set it programmatically using change control best practices (e.g.: GitOps).",
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"body": "AI responses are insulting.",
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"body": "I was trying to say, that I consider configuration management somehow orthogonal to the feature flags and product experiments. I'm thining of a solution more suitable for the product owners that can design some experiment, decide when to enable it and at what scale (what percentage of users etc). I could even imagine testing 3 or 4 concepts of the same solution at the same time on different cohort of users.\n\nI'm basically thinking of UI first solution so then no configuration change per se and no redeployment of backend services is required.\n\nThat's why I said I did not plan to address or replace standard management tools and practices. \n\nFor example GitOps does not fit from my perspective for this kind of experiments if you think of mobile or web apps running on thousands (or millions) of customers devices.",
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"author": "meowisaymiaou",
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"body": "Feature flags and their management is configuration management. They fundamentally cannot be separated ",
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"author": "juliusz-cwiakalski",
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"body": "Thank you for pointing that out. Need to reconsider my thinking. In my reasoning I separated it cause I see that it could be managed by different roles (DevOps, Product owners etc) and different phases (deployment of code/configs vs release of functionality).",
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1npd0s3
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IT or Computer Science
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I'm 16 year old with skills of: Linux, Bash, Git, GitHub, Networking, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and now learning Kubernetes.
I also have certs of AWS CCP and AWS SAA.
My goal is to become DevOps & Cloud. Based on me, which would u recommend, IT or Computer Science?
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Leather_Deal6585
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"author": "nooneinparticular246",
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"body": "Computer Science. Don’t worry about specific roles, just focus on skills and ideas. It will be a different world in 5 years.",
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"id": "nfy9gyy",
"is_submitter": false,
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"post_id": "1npd0s3",
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"author": "vebeer",
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"body": "I’m 35. I’ve been working as an SRE for 6 years (on-duty, Golang, Linux troubleshooting, etc.), before that I worked 3 years as a Linux admin in fintech, and before that 6 years as a network engineer in a very large telecom. \n \nIf I could give any advice to my 16-year-old self, I would recommend learning the fundamentals: programming (including algorithms), networks, and operating systems(what they do and how they work in general). \nSome technologies change every 5 years (for example, Ansible is not as popular now as it was 7-8 years ago, although it is still used), and some can be learned in just a few evenings (like Git, since 90% of use cases are covered by 4-5 commands). \nBut deep knowledge of networks, for example, is what makes me different from many of my colleagues, who start to panic when they need to read packet dumps in Wireshark.\n\nI don’t know exactly what you mean by IT and CS, but I think fundamentals are what will really help you become a good specialist and not worry that ChatGPT will replace you in 2-3 years. Maybe it will, but not as fast as many others. \n \nSo don’t choose only by the names of technologies, choose fundamentals.",
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"post_id": "1npd0s3",
"score": 17,
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"author": "SpudzzSomchai",
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"body": "You are 16. I appreciate that you have an idea of what you want to be. At 16 I barely knew my name. \n\nMy advice is keep learning but don't worry about it. IT changes so often that what is hot now may be obsolete by the time you get to the real world. Ask all those AI Prompt Engineers how that job market is going.\n\nBe a kid. Enjoy life. The working world will be there when its time.",
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"id": "nfz13j2",
"is_submitter": false,
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"post_id": "1npd0s3",
"score": 5,
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"author": "deacon91",
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"body": "Computer Science. CS gives you background on areas like DSA whereas IT... really doesn't.\n\nShore up on theory knowledge in school. Build practical knowledge outside of classrooms.\n\n>Linux, Bash, Git, GitHub, Networking, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and now learning Kubernetes. \nI also have certs of AWS CCP and AWS SAA.\n\nWhile commendable, don't lose sight of the importance of being able to solve problems and don't get fixated on certs.",
"created_utc": 1758725368,
"id": "nfyg60y",
"is_submitter": false,
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"post_id": "1npd0s3",
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"author": "Merry-Lane",
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"body": "Devops and cloud dev aren’t entry-level roles, you don’t just study devops stuff and get hired for that role.\n\nIt’s a late-career option. Like, you could work as a dev for a few years before becoming software architect, team lead, analyst,… or devops. Developer or support/infra roles experience are the two big roads to devops.\n\nDevops is the kind of job you get later in your career. Having a master could help a bit over having a bachelor’s degree.\n\nYou can’t get a dev job without a bachelor’s degree nowadays (the chances are abysmal) and there is no indication that it would change in the next decade (the industry was burn out by bootcampers).\n\nSo, don’t worry, you are in no hurry, since you need a bachelor’s or master’s diploma and like 5 years of experience => maybe in ten years.",
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"author": "Ok-Canary1766",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Are you going to school for a four year degree? You are on the way with those skills in devops. A four year degree in Computer Science may not specifically benefit you within DevOps but it will be good to have the degree and you will definitely take away intangibles that will help you going forward. Those certs are a great start but make sure you are building your repertoire by completing projects in each of those skills. That will increase your appeal to prospective hiring companies.",
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"id": "nfya2gl",
"is_submitter": false,
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"author": "Best-Repair762",
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"body": "Focus on fundamentals. I am not sure what subjects are taught in IT but CS is the safe bet here. Learn the basics of computing first.\n\nTools come and go, fundamentals stay the same (at least for a long time).\n\nEdit: grammar",
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"id": "nfyj6h9",
"is_submitter": false,
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"post_id": "1npd0s3",
"score": 2,
"stickied": false
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"author": "Bubby_Mang",
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"body": "Comp SCI by a mile. You don't want to be an IT guy without some programming chops and I don't think the university curriculum has caught up to reality yet.",
"created_utc": 1758727808,
"id": "nfyok1l",
"is_submitter": false,
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"post_id": "1npd0s3",
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"author": "JagerAntlerite7",
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"body": "IMO a CS degree is not going to really be an advantage. I know that is contrary to the prevailing opinions from most responses, but I have a CS degree. Algorithms, data structures, and low-level languages like C are not applicable skills for DevOps. What has been mildly helpful is symbolic logic and set theory.\n\nIn retrospect, I would have gone with an IT degree. OJT as a network, systems, and virtualization engineer have provided the most useful skills. Also working as a backend web developer for APIs and databases. My team does a lot of IaC and CI/CD (shell scripts, Python, and some Go). Understanding to automate processes and deploy cloud architecture is critical for me.",
"created_utc": 1758728191,
"id": "nfypvqx",
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"post_id": "1npd0s3",
"score": 2,
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"author": "mikey_rambo",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Either is fine. I did information systems and now do software engineering. Comp sci might be a better program",
"created_utc": 1758728272,
"id": "nfyq5wj",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": null,
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1npd0s3/it_or_computer_science/nfyq5wj/",
"post_id": "1npd0s3",
"score": 2,
"stickied": false
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"author": "jblairpwsh",
"awards": 0,
"body": "At 16 you are well on your way and will likely be ahead of your peers when you enter the job market !",
"created_utc": 1758748274,
"id": "ng0n7dx",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": null,
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1npd0s3/it_or_computer_science/ng0n7dx/",
"post_id": "1npd0s3",
"score": 2,
"stickied": false
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"author": "Vegetable-Put2432",
"awards": 0,
"body": "16yo????. My suggestion is to save money, solo travel, and explore the world",
"created_utc": 1758729644,
"id": "nfyv13g",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": null,
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1npd0s3/it_or_computer_science/nfyv13g/",
"post_id": "1npd0s3",
"score": 1,
"stickied": false
},
{
"author": "Twisted_skills352",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Is this ragebait?",
"created_utc": 1758740200,
"id": "nfzvr10",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": null,
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1npd0s3/it_or_computer_science/nfzvr10/",
"post_id": "1npd0s3",
"score": 1,
"stickied": false
},
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"author": "purefan",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Here's something pretty obvious to everyone except me, Computer Science makes you a scientist, meaning there is aaaaa lot of theory. Im a doer, I learn by doing, and after 2 years in CS I had enough, switched to IT and had a blast! \nMy advice is to check the specific curriculum and be sure what you're getting into",
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"id": "nfzwgyp",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": null,
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1npd0s3/it_or_computer_science/nfzwgyp/",
"post_id": "1npd0s3",
"score": 1,
"stickied": false
},
{
"author": "Leather_Deal6585",
"awards": 0,
"body": "my school doesnt teach any IT, i learned all that by myself,and of course i apply knowledge in projects, i forgot to specify it on post.",
"created_utc": 1758726811,
"id": "nfyl489",
"is_submitter": true,
"parent_id": "nfyg60y",
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1npd0s3/it_or_computer_science/nfyl489/",
"post_id": "1npd0s3",
"score": 1,
"stickied": false
},
{
"author": "Leather_Deal6585",
"awards": 0,
"body": "my school doesnt teach any IT in general, i learned all the stuff by myself, and i always apply my knowledge in projects, forgot to mention it in post. thanks for advices!",
"created_utc": 1758726907,
"id": "nfylg6k",
"is_submitter": true,
"parent_id": "nfya2gl",
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1npd0s3/it_or_computer_science/nfylg6k/",
"post_id": "1npd0s3",
"score": 1,
"stickied": false
},
{
"author": "Leather_Deal6585",
"awards": 0,
"body": "but there is always some more to aim for :), thanks for the support tho 🫶🏼",
"created_utc": 1758782734,
"id": "ng3307a",
"is_submitter": true,
"parent_id": "ng0n7dx",
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1npd0s3/it_or_computer_science/ng3307a/",
"post_id": "1npd0s3",
"score": 1,
"stickied": false
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{
"author": "Leather_Deal6585",
"awards": 0,
"body": "no, why?",
"created_utc": 1758741257,
"id": "nfzzcul",
"is_submitter": true,
"parent_id": "nfzvr10",
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"post_id": "1npd0s3",
"score": 1,
"stickied": false
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"author": "DSMRick",
"awards": 0,
"body": "I have a masters degree in IT. I don't think anyone really teaches IT. I think schools run a few years behind business in general, and in the case of IT running 5 years behind is disastrous. There are IT fundamentals that you can learn, but even those don't really show up in school. Contrarily, a sort algorithm is a sort algorithm, and we have been teaching most of the same ones for 40 years. And a lot of what AI is running on originated in academia. So I am not sure IT will teach you anything, but CS will.",
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"id": "nfyvdyb",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfylg6k",
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"post_id": "1npd0s3",
"score": 1,
"stickied": false
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"author": "Leather_Deal6585",
"awards": 0,
"body": "i meant in general, we dont have any subject about IT in my school.",
"created_utc": 1758730643,
"id": "nfyyhli",
"is_submitter": true,
"parent_id": "nfyvdyb",
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1npd0s3/it_or_computer_science/nfyyhli/",
"post_id": "1npd0s3",
"score": 1,
"stickied": false
}
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1npbgwj
|
Backstage Scaffolder
|
Hey everyone,
I'm working with Scaffolder templates and specifically trying to streamline the experience for **creating new repositories** (e.g., in GitLab).
**The Challenge:** The `RepoUrlPicker` field is fantastic for importing existing repositories, as it allows users to pick from a list of what's already there. However, for templates that are *solely designed to create a brand new repository*, this feature becomes problematic:
1. **User Confusion:** Users might accidentally select an existing repo, leading to template execution failures (as the `publish` action tries to create something that already exists).
2. **Unnecessary UI:** The dropdown for existing repos just adds visual clutter when the template's purpose is clear: "create something new."
**What I'd ideally like:**
* **Option 1: A** `RepoUrlPicker` **with an option to hide existing repos.** Something like `ui:options: { showExistingRepos: false }`.
* **Option 2: A separate, simplified "RepoGroupPicker" or similar.** This would only allow selecting a group/namespace (like `platform/my-team` for GitLab) and then combine that with a simple text input for the new repository name. This would be combined with a simple string parameter for the new repo name in `template.yaml`.
The current alternative involves either using a static `enum` (which is not scalable) or writing a custom frontend field extension to strip out the unwanted functionality (which feels like a lot of work for a common use case).
Has anyone else felt this pain point or found a neat workaround? Is this something that could be considered for a future enhancement to the `RepoUrlPicker` or Scaffolder fields in general?
Any thoughts or experiences are highly appreciated!
Thanks!
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Umman2005
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/r/devops/comments/1npbgwj/backstage_scaffolder/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1npbgwj/backstage_scaffolder/
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1npb4s9
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Need advice on software development machine
| 0 | 0.25 | 0 | 1,758,717,844 |
george4482
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/r/devops/comments/1npb4s9/need_advice_on_software_development_machine/
|
/r/macbookpro/comments/1npanpj/need_advice_on_software_development_machine/
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devops
| false | false | false | 0 |
2025-09-26T10:37:57.486282
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1np9rcy
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Open source on-call & incident response tools — recommendations?
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 1,758,713,822 |
devopsingg
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/r/devops/comments/1np9rcy/open_source_oncall_incident_response_tools/
|
/r/sre/comments/1np9qpx/open_source_oncall_incident_response_tools/
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1np9ce5
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Keeping SPF record under the ten lookup limit
|
How do you keep your SPF record under the ten lookup limit when you add new vendors ?
| 5 | 1 | 4 | 1,758,712,441 |
Alarming-Material-33
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/r/devops/comments/1np9ce5/keeping_spf_record_under_the_ten_lookup_limit/
|
https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1np9ce5/keeping_spf_record_under_the_ten_lookup_limit/
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"author": "AccessIndependent795",
"awards": 0,
"body": "a good approach is to push some vendors onto subdomains so they manage their own SPF. Another option is to route mail through a central relay or provider so you’re only authorizing that one source. Flattening is possible, but I’d only use it if there’s no other way since it’s hard to keep updated.",
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"post_id": "1np9ce5",
"score": 7,
"stickied": false
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{
"author": "scottmc83",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Https://SPF.guru/ of self host https://GitHub.com/smck83/expurgate-solo",
"created_utc": 1758753707,
"id": "ng13tir",
"is_submitter": false,
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"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1np9ce5/keeping_spf_record_under_the_ten_lookup_limit/ng13tir/",
"post_id": "1np9ce5",
"score": 3,
"stickied": false
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"author": "rchupp",
"awards": 0,
"body": "I have used this with success https://github.com/letsencrypt/spf-flattener",
"created_utc": 1758746422,
"id": "ng0h1ir",
"is_submitter": false,
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"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1np9ce5/keeping_spf_record_under_the_ten_lookup_limit/ng0h1ir/",
"post_id": "1np9ce5",
"score": 1,
"stickied": false
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{
"author": "ucffool",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Thanks for this; I'm under the limit, but never thought I was close (9!). Note to self: use subdomains.",
"created_utc": 1758755196,
"id": "ng1827z",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "ng13tir",
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1np9ce5/keeping_spf_record_under_the_ten_lookup_limit/ng1827z/",
"post_id": "1np9ce5",
"score": 2,
"stickied": false
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1np8xoe
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I messed up
|
Ran a select \* in prod, realized it was a bad idea, to late, cant ctrl c
Wish me luck
(I am one month in)
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ArifiOnReddit
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/r/devops/comments/1np8xoe/i_messed_up/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1np8xoe/i_messed_up/
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"author": "robloxianerz",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Well good news is you are not deleting anything.",
"created_utc": 1758711359,
"id": "nfxcuvx",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": null,
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1np8xoe/i_messed_up/nfxcuvx/",
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"score": 24,
"stickied": false
},
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"author": "alexterm",
"awards": 0,
"body": "You did not mess up - it's an organisational failure that a single engineer can run something which takes out a DB host. Based on what you mentioned in other replies, this sounds unlikely, but this is a great learning opportunity for your team. How can you prevent this kind of thing happening in future?",
"created_utc": 1758714864,
"id": "nfxkrqo",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": null,
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1np8xoe/i_messed_up/nfxkrqo/",
"post_id": "1np8xoe",
"score": 11,
"stickied": false
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"author": "spicypixel",
"awards": 0,
"body": "I mean if they let you do that due to less than granular permissions then they’re probably not mature enough on the platform or observability side to know who did it.",
"created_utc": 1758711234,
"id": "nfxcley",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": null,
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1np8xoe/i_messed_up/nfxcley/",
"post_id": "1np8xoe",
"score": 10,
"stickied": false
},
{
"author": "IridescentKoala",
"awards": 0,
"body": "You can kill the query.",
"created_utc": 1758711592,
"id": "nfxdcuv",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": null,
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1np8xoe/i_messed_up/nfxdcuv/",
"post_id": "1np8xoe",
"score": 7,
"stickied": false
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"author": "pdp10",
"awards": 0,
"body": "> (I am one month in)\n\nA bad query can take a long time, sure, but I would have restarted it by now.",
"created_utc": 1758746819,
"id": "ng0ie3u",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": null,
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1np8xoe/i_messed_up/ng0ie3u/",
"post_id": "1np8xoe",
"score": 1,
"stickied": false
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"author": "ArifiOnReddit",
"awards": 0,
"body": "According to my senior I should have asked him first but he is often busy... but considering i took down prod with this i guess i should be more patient \nI guess I should be more wary, remember to add limit, etc etc",
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"is_submitter": true,
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"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1np8xoe/i_messed_up/nfxl8kh/",
"post_id": "1np8xoe",
"score": 0,
"stickied": false
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"author": "ArifiOnReddit",
"awards": 0,
"body": "I already report it to my senior, i dont want the problem to grow out of hand \nGot a strike",
"created_utc": 1758711366,
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"body": "I tried ctrl c repaetedly doesnt work \nI tried to ssh from another terminal, cant connect\n\nMemory usage is at 100% I think from what I have seen from my senior fixing my mess",
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"body": "I meant I am one month in the job",
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"body": "What does your policy specifically say? \"Make sure that every command you run against a database is signed off first\"? If that's the case, then there should be a technical process in place where it is impossible to run commands before having them approved.",
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"author": "IridescentKoala",
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"body": "If a select statement can take down prod then your senior is the one who should be fired.",
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"author": "IridescentKoala",
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"body": "A strike? Are they going to put you in time-out next?",
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"author": "crytek2025",
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"body": "Damn, when does the whip come out?",
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"author": "courage_the_dog",
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"body": "Yeah that can happen when there are no safeguards on select statements, good news is that now they can see how to implement it.\n\nWe had an outage on prod for 2hours for the same reason.\nHad a date field that didnt have any default values on the frontend so whenever an agent searched something and dint put in a date, it would give out all the records.\nYou probably just need to wait until it finishes",
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"author": "courage_the_dog",
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"body": "It's the company's fault for giving them prod access, but it's also OP's responsibility to know what they are doing.\n\nRunning a select * on prod isn't something I would do without knowing how the DB is structured. But i wouldnt give someone access to prod if they arent aware of the consequences",
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"body": "I dont think there are? Its not really clear, i rarely access DB anyway, its usually my junior coworker",
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"author": "ArifiOnReddit",
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"body": "Strike as in Three strike and i am fired",
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"author": "ArifiOnReddit",
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"body": "My senior do something that I dont understand that let him access the thingie and terminate my query, i think its stabilizing now\n\nHopefully the company doesnt lose anything",
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"author": "westixy",
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"body": "I would leave this company only due to this rule",
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"body": "Yeah it's quite easy to do it when you know. You'd find the process running the query and try to kill it, though it wont always work if it's eaten up too much ram and cpu.\n\nYou can argue that if they fire you and hire someone else then that person might also do this.\nBut you've now learned not to do it and will do better next time. \n\nSorry that your company sucks if they give you a strike just for this, it's an easy mistake to do.",
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"body": "Can you explain why? Sorry I dont understand how they do it oversea",
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"body": "Its a normal policy here in my country (Indonesia) SP1, 2, and 3",
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"body": "Normal companies expect juniors to make mistakes and *don't give them* the ability to break things by mistake ",
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"author": "westixy",
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"body": "As he said, if you are not allowed to make mistake, you will block yourself to do things. What I mean by that, is that mistakes are inherent from human work, putting in place processes that limit the mistakes we can do is the right way. \nIf you do a mistake, it's ok , we just need to find a way so that mistake cannot happen again",
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1np89zj
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Introduction to Go concurrency
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1np86u5
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GitHub Actions CPU performance benchmarks
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[https://runs-on.com/benchmarks/github-actions-cpu-performance/](https://runs-on.com/benchmarks/github-actions-cpu-performance/)
Comparison of CPU performance across different GitHub Actions runner providers. GitHub's own runners score poorly, almost all providers beat them with a large margin.
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blockcounter
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/r/devops/comments/1np86u5/github_actions_cpu_performance_benchmarks/
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"author": "crohr",
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"body": "Thanks for posting this, trying to keep it updated as best I can!",
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"body": "If you want performance, you really need to bring your own runners. GitHub wants adoption so people start paying for it as their usage climbs, performance isn't too important for that, DevEx is much more critical.",
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1np865b
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What pub/sub system do fast food restaurants use?
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Question above! interested in the stack of McDonalds or any Yum Food brands... If anyone here works there would be fantastic to know!
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No_Weakness_6058
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/r/devops/comments/1np865b/what_pubsub_system_do_fast_food_restaurants_use/
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"author": "GrandJunctionMarmots",
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"body": "Every Chick-fil-A location has a Kubernetes cluster running onsite. (k3s)\n\nThat's my only fast food tech knowledge.",
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"score": 29,
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"author": "Mr_Dvdo",
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"body": "My order number gets pubbed to the kitchen. The kitchen subs to it and proceeds to make my order.",
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"id": "ng111n8",
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"author": "swabbie",
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"body": "I've never setup a restaurant, but I have setup other businesses with kiosks, mobile devices, cameras, terminals, along with cloud syncs.\n\nMQQT allowed us the same lightweight pub/sub libraries across WiFi, Bluetooth, and Z-Wave connections, where each device could continue working off grid and independently in case of outages. Re-syncing easily upon recovery.",
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"score": 3,
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"author": "buggeryorkshire",
"awards": 0,
"body": "But why?",
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"author": "larsonthekidrs",
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"body": "I mean it’s a lot of RHEL, Kuber, Kafka, Java, etc",
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"author": "BloodAndTsundere",
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"body": "That feels over engineered?",
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"author": "InvestigatorJunior80",
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"body": "So that's the secret ingredient to the sauce 😋",
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"author": "Beautiful_Travel_160",
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"body": "Not necessarily, these restaurants often need to run software at edge locations for various purposes.\n\nAll cloud providers have their own packaged Kubernetes edge deployment that integrates well with their other cloud services. It allows to deploy to hundreds of locations with same governance/tooling they have in the cloud. But it’s damn expensive so I can see why someone would go out their way to do a cheaper version of this.",
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"author": "GrandJunctionMarmots",
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"body": "Not really. It let's them run a bunch of stuff on a small physical computer without things like VMware or whatever. And can use kube native stuff.",
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"author": "Curious-Money2515",
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"body": "Probably. An entire VERY busy restaurant POS system used to run fine on a 386. That 386 slurped up all the sales data, stored it, and could fine tune the labor needed. If someone complained about a previous order, it was easily looked up.\n\nThe difference now is there is online ordering, but I can't imagine it adds much complexity. (The customer is inputting the order instead of a POS device, still a CRUD operation.)\n\nBut, it obviously works great for the stores, and Chick-fil-A is held up as the gold standard of a k8s use case.",
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"body": "Maybe not my concern that it's over engineered, I'm more concerned how beave the devs are to ship this to other customers as \"offline\" product.\n\nI saw this in older versions of TrueNAS and one network switch management tool. I'm sure there's more.",
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1np85tj
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How can we rapidly build and deploy intelligent automations across multiple systems and APIs without the months-long development cycles and technical complexity that traditional RPA solutions require?
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We’ve been looking into RPA, but honestly the traditional platforms feel like overkill. Theyre super expensive, take months to deploy, and you need a team of specialists just to maintain the bots.
What we really need is a way to quickly spin up intelligent automations that can connect across multiple systems and APIs, but without the heavy dev cycles. Has anyone found a lightweight approach that doesn’t take long to roll out?
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grand001
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/r/devops/comments/1np85tj/how_can_we_rapidly_build_and_deploy_intelligent/
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"author": "ifatree",
"awards": 0,
"body": "have you perchance heard of the \"good, fast, cheap\" triangle?",
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"post_id": "1np85tj",
"score": 13,
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"author": "Master-Variety3841",
"awards": 0,
"body": "What exactly are you trying to do? \n\nIf you’re trying to solve problems that RPA Platforms offer solutions for, then there isn’t really a lightweight way to do it, you’re either automating processes with an heavy handed RPA Platform, or you’re completely changing your processes to work with alternatives like n8n + custom hand crafted solutions.\n\nEither way you’re going to be investing time, money and resources, and you’ll quickly be moving away from the target of lightweight anyway.",
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"post_id": "1np85tj",
"score": 3,
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"author": "louis3195",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Maybe this can hel? [https://github.com/mediar-ai/terminator](https://github.com/mediar-ai/terminator)",
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"id": "nfyl5fy",
"is_submitter": false,
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"author": "Alone-Arm-7630",
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"body": "RPA tools they’re powerful, but the setup and upkeep can be brutal. I’ve seen smaller platforms popping up that focus more on speed and API first workflows. I've tried one called Pinkfish before, and it was way easier to get automations running compared to the usual RPA suspects. Not saying it’s perfect, but if you’re mid size and want something faster to deploy, it might be worth checking out.",
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"author": "Seref15",
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"body": "Every group that does this RPA low code bullshit always runs into the inescapable universal truth:\n\nGood software is hard.\n\nSomeone sells the dream that it can be cheap and easy, and it ends up being tech debt on day 1. It's always more expensive that you thought it would be, it always needs some supporting infrastructure or software changes that you were trying to avoid in the first place, and they're tremendously fragile with very little ability to write in any kind of edge case handling logic.",
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1np6lbh
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Best Path Forward?
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Hey everyone,
I’m trying to figure out the best way to connect with an existing firm or shop that might need extra hands when they’ve got more work than they can handle. My background is pretty deep in Linux, with solid experience in AWS and GCP. I’m US-based and comfortable jumping into contract roles if it helps take some of the load off.
Has anyone here gone this route before? How did you find firms willing to subcontract out work? Any tips on where to start looking or how to approach the conversation would be appreciated.
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"body": "You need to have friends. Most leads I ever got were from friends whom I've worked with. Sometimes it's the hardest thing at work, to maintain good professional relationships but that's the best thing you can do. \n\nIf you do have excolleagues, even if you haven't been in touch with you, and you remember them in a positive way, contact them and ask them.",
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1np5gbd
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Engineering intelligence - worth the hype?
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So I keep hearing about these platforms that say they can tell you how your team is performing without asking you to track everything manually.
Cool in theory, but does anyone actually use them day-to-day? Or is it just another dashboard graveyard?
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Andrew_Tit026
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"body": "How are you going to quantify something without tracking it?",
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"author": "Low-Opening25",
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"body": "it’s not new and it has always been just hype.",
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1np3ubo
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Path to AWS devOps for very beginner
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Hi everyone, I’m 30 and lately I’ve been thinking about learning AWS to land a job in 2026. Back in my 20s I went to IT school, so I’m somewhat familiar with technologies, but I haven’t really done anything hands-on in a long time since I was focused on other things.
I’d love your honest opinion — is it too late for me to start now?
Also, if anyone can recommend some good beginner-friendly courses, I’d really appreciate it
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26BF
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"author": "DrDuckling951",
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"body": "Not too late. But devops isn’t an entry role. You’ll need years of experience before you’re qualified (unless you know someone who’ll give you a chance). \n\nhttps://roadmap.sh/devops\n\n* do people still recommending this roadmap?",
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"body": "It’s definitely not too late. You’ve got plenty of time to make the switch. But keep in mind, companies won’t hire you just because you did a couple of AWS certs or online courses. It’s a bit of a catch-22, you usually need hands-on experience to get the job, but you need the job to get the experience.\n\nWhat helped me was being upfront with my manager that I wanted to move into DevOps while I was still working as a backend engineer. I got really lucky because my team needed someone for that role, and since I was already in the company, it was a win-win, they didn’t need to hire a new person, and I got to do both backend and DevOps.\n\nSo my advice: start learning AWS, yes, but also look for opportunities inside your current or future roles to apply it. Even small things like setting up CI/CD, managing infra for a side project, or helping with deployments will count way more than just certs.",
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"author": "yiddishisfuntosay",
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"body": "Agree with others, devops is a career you aim for, it’s not something you can immediately just jump to typically. Even if you have devops certs, the muscle folks look for is what you’ve both been exposed to and how you have prepared along the way. Start practicing source control, doing personal projects, document the steps; get your hands a little dirty. Make mistakes. Focus on stuff that exposes you to pipelines and automation. You’ll eventually see your portfolio grow enough to get a sense when it’s appropriate to make the leap.",
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"body": "I started working in devops at 38. Start building pipelines for your personal projects that come as close to “a push to git results in a deploy with no other intervention” as possible. Github or Gitlab using terraform to deploy to AWS. Pay attention to the Pareto principle to find the right things to automate. Xkcd has a chart called “Is it worth the time” that I show juniors. Sometimes it’s more cost-efficient to automate something 90% of the way rather than 100, this comes with experience. Publicize your pipelines on your resume/linkedin.",
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"author": "badseed90",
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"body": "AWS, or any other hyper scaler is one of many steps and definitely not the first. \n\nI recently read that being a good DevOps requires you to be either an experienced ops or dev first.",
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"author": "AffectionateZebra760",
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"body": "Not too late, see here as it outlines the specifics in areas needed for a devops: https://weclouddata.com/blog/devops-transformation-roadmap/, best of luck!",
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"author": "CyberKiller40",
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"body": "Not too late, but your timeframe isn't realistic. You'll need years of practice and experience before getting a job.",
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"author": "daalchawaluser99",
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"body": "Why don't u build your team and run small company?",
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"author": "26BF",
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"body": "Thanks everyone for detailed answers!",
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"author": "26BF",
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"body": "I used to work on the backend as well, which is why I mentioned being familiar with different technologies. I’ve done React Native for mobile apps, Python for some home robotics projects, and quite a bit of PHP/Laravel.\n\nI moved to the U.S. seven years ago, and since then I literally haven’t written a single line of code.\n\nMy plan is to sit down this winter and really get back into it. Thank you so much for encouraging me!",
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1np3sto
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[FREE] AI-Powered Veo 3 Script Writer – Looking for Beta Testers! 🎬🤖
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Hey r/devops 👋
I’ve built a free web tool called Veo 3 Script Writer that helps creators turn plain text into production-ready Veo 3 video scripts.
It’s live now and I’d love some early feedback from the Reddit community.
https://preview.redd.it/fyhb1j8cr1rf1.png?width=1276&format=png&auto=webp&s=b951c7cf4046ef8c35b4ad8432acb1806b2f2b6a
https://preview.redd.it/p71p6dwgr1rf1.png?width=1546&format=png&auto=webp&s=154ad9f2a696036dfcbbbfd1645541979a112655
# ✨ What it Does
* Intelligent dialogue detection – automatically finds every line of spoken text.
* Visual prompt generation – creates scene cards and cinematic prompts ready for Veo 3.
* 95-character dialogue limit – auto-splits long lines so they’re Veo-friendly.
* Character & environment settings – keep characters and scenes visually consistent.
# 🛠 How to Use
1. Paste any script with dialogue.
2. Click “Generate Script.”
3. Get a full Veo 3-optimized script with scene prompts and dialogues you can copy or download.
# ✅ Why Test It?
I’m looking for real-world feedback from video creators:
* Does the dialogue detection work for your scripts?
* Are the generated scene prompts clear enough?
* Any features you’d love to see added?
It’s 100% free to try—no signup needed.
👉 Give it a spin here: [https://www.avioncitojuego.com/](https://www.avioncitojuego.com/)
Thanks in advance for any thoughts, bug reports, or feature ideas! Your input will help make this a go-to script generator for Veo 3 and other AI video platforms.
— RAOGY
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1np3kbi
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MVP Deployment, your take?
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I have an MVP running on ExpressJs, MongoDB and NextJs. I don't anticipate much traffic, say maybe less than 10,000 active users a day. I'm trying to think of the most affordable near-prod cloud infrastracture to host it. I was thinking of just using two lightsail instances, one for my backend and another for the frontend. Do you think a single lightsail can handle say 10,000 active users a day just fine? Or should I go all in with Kubernetes?
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SocialKritik
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"author": "mattbillenstein",
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"body": "Put it on a single instance for vps somewhere - vertically scale that until you have a reason not to - traffic, or redundancy.",
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"author": "Interesting_Shine_38",
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"body": "Get a VM in Hetzner, spin everything with docker-compose, get the free version of cloudflare and manage the domain, TLS etc... \nIntegrate Hetzner with Cloudflare and block other public traffic - [https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/cloudflare-website-protect](https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/cloudflare-website-protect) \nEdit: don't forget to setup volume for the mongodb data so that it persists. You can add extra volume for mongodb to make it fancy.",
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"author": "quiet0n3",
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"body": "The absolute cheapest with some resiliency and easy to scale up would be AWS ECS. \n\nECS cluster of 1 micro instance for both front and and another for the DB. Run the apps in containers.",
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"body": "The Lightsail will probably cost you more and in this case i would not prefer using the lightsail; you may know once you provision the lightsail instances; you cant scale down the instance type and size (while scaling up is possible). \n \nYou should rather go with the MVP running on the VPS or rather a mid size VM's so that you cn make the descison acordingly going froward.",
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"author": "Longjumpingfish0403",
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"body": "Consider DigitalOcean or Vultr for affordable VPS with easy scaling. They offer simpler pricing and can handle moderate traffic well. You might find them cost-effective and user-friendly compared to AWS options.",
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"body": "Also, fwiw, had good luck on Linode, Hetzner, etc. Also have systems with lots of uptime on AWS.",
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1np26t4
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Need guidance for Platform Engineer interview prep (Istio, K8s, AWS, Terraform, CI/CD)
|
Hi everyone,
I’ve got a technical interview coming up for a Platform role at a foreign MNC (payment domain). The JD mentions 3–5 years of experience, but I’ve only got about 2 years. Somehow my resume matched and I got the call.
The role mainly requires Istio, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and CI/CD. I’ve worked with these technologies before, but I don’t feel super confident about how deep I should go or what to focus on for interview prep. I worked in startup so I kept hands on all most all the tools they required but I am afraid what if loose this opportunity, I am being preparing since last 2-3 days with some chatgpt mock interview and practicing python scripting.
The interviewer will be from Brazil (I’m based in India), and I’m not sure what kind of questions to expect.
Can anyone suggest how I should prepare, especially for interviews at this level? Maybe some resources, topics to prioritize, or typical questions asked in such roles?
Thank you in advance
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__Goodguy____
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"author": "Longjumping-Green351",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Do share your questions after the interview. 😅😅😅",
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"author": "Mindless-Hair688",
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"body": "I was in the same spot with \\~2 years going for a platform role in payments. What helped me was a 2–3 day sprint on depth: K8s primitives and failure modes, Istio traffic policies and mTLS, Terraform state/backends and module design, and walking a CI/CD pipeline from commit to deploy.\n\nI did quick mocks with a friend using prompts from IQB interview question bank and recorded myself on Beyz coding assistant to tighten answers to \\~90 seconds. Build a 6-story bank covering an outage, a migration, a cost win, and a security fix. For each, state tradeoffs and what you’d do differently.",
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"author": "akornato",
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"body": "You're actually in a better position than you think - having hands-on experience with all those technologies at a startup means you've likely dealt with real-world problems and constraints that many candidates with more years but less diverse exposure haven't faced. The fact that your resume got you the call means they see potential, and startup experience often translates to being scrappy and adaptable, which platform engineering roles desperately need. Focus your remaining prep time on being able to articulate specific challenges you've solved with each technology rather than memorizing theoretical concepts. Think about times you debugged Istio service mesh issues, scaled Kubernetes clusters, optimized Terraform modules, or fixed broken CI/CD pipelines.\n\nThe gap between 2 and 3-5 years isn't as massive as it feels, especially in platform engineering where practical problem-solving matters more than tenure. Your biggest advantage is that you can speak to the interconnections between these tools since you've used them together in a real environment. Be ready to discuss trade-offs you've made, incidents you've resolved, and how you've improved developer experience or system reliability. The interviewer being from Brazil shouldn't change the technical focus, but they might appreciate hearing about how you've worked across different time zones or cultural contexts if that's relevant to your startup experience.\n\nI'm actually on the team that built [AI for interview practice](http://interviews.chat), and it's designed specifically for situations like this where you need to work on articulating your technical experience and handling those curveball questions that can throw you off during the actual interview.",
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"author": "ElevatorJust6586",
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"body": "Can you tell me what platform engineer is I currently learned java backend development and making projects in it but I heard a lot about platform engineer is it worth it and is it tough ? Can freshers do it",
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"author": "__Goodguy____",
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"body": "Thank you so much for your words",
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1np0hdl
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Interview Test Prep suggestions for Oracle SRE-DevOps position?
|
I have a technical interview scheduled for a DevOps position at Oracle (the new health division) and there will be a scripting test as part of it. It could either be Python or PowerShell, I'll probably do Python since I've worked with it more than PowerShell recently. I'd rank myself as intermediate with Python... I can get the job done but don't have much memorized. I didn't get to use Python in my last DevOps position because so I'm not even familiar with what people build in it.
Any suggestions on prepping? The phone screen interviewer didn't provide any direction to narrow it down from "Python" and I'm wondering what to expect or what will likely be in the test. She said they use Hackerrank and I got on there and started going through challenges but I can't imagine a lot of what I've done so far is what's going to be expected. I also have 3 or 4 different languages rolling around in my head and I know I'll get tripped up on syntax.
Any help is appreciated!
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"body": "Second hand knowledge, If you're intermediate at Python, you should be good. The assessment is there for you to prove you have experience and to demonstrate your problem solving abilities. I would wager the behavioral questions are worth more. Depends on the team who interviews you.",
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"body": "I’ve done a couple SRE/DevOps loops with a Python scripting test and was in the same boat. What helped me was a week of short reps: parse a sample log file, read/write JSON and YAML, hit a simple API with requests, and add argparse so the script takes flags. I practiced in a blank editor to avoid relying on muscle memory, kept a tiny syntax crib sheet, and narrated my thinking while adding quick sanity prints or a try/except.\n\nI pulled practice prompts from the IQB interview question bank and did dry runs on Beyz coding assistant. Prep 4 to 6 STAR incident stories and keep each answer around 90 seconds.",
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"body": "Since it's an SRE/DevOps role, they're probably not going to ask you to reverse a binary tree on Hackerrank. It's much more likely to be a practical problem that's been shoehorned into the Hackerrank format.\n\n\n\nI'd focus my prep on common DevOps tasks that are scriptable:\n\n\n\nAPI Interaction: This is a huge one. Practice writing a script that hits an API endpoint (you can use a free public one like the JSONPlaceholder API), parses the JSON response, and then does something with that data, like printing out specific fields. The requests library is your best friend here.\n\n\n\nLog File Parsing: Super common task. Get a sample log file (like an Apache access log) and write a script to find all the 404 errors, or count the number of requests from a specific IP address. This tests your file I/O, string manipulation, and maybe some regex.\n\n\n\nAutomating System Tasks: Think about scripts that interact with the operating system. For example, a script that checks the disk space on a machine and sends an alert if it's over 80%, or one that finds and deletes files older than 30 days. The os and subprocess libraries are good to review for this.\n\n\n\nThe key is showing you can think through a problem and use Python as a tool to solve it, not that you've memorized every single library function. Don't worry too much about getting the syntax perfect. If you explain your logic and the code is 95% there, most interviewers will see that as a win.\n\n\n\nGood luck with the interview! You got this.",
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"body": "Oracle's scripting tests for DevOps roles typically focus on practical automation scenarios rather than complex algorithms, so you're probably overthinking the Hackerrank challenges. They'll likely test your ability to parse logs, manipulate files, interact with APIs, handle JSON/YAML data, and maybe write basic monitoring scripts. The syntax trips are real - I'd suggest spending time on Python fundamentals like file I/O, string manipulation, working with dictionaries and lists, and basic error handling since these come up constantly in DevOps work.\n\nYour intermediate Python skills are probably more than enough if you can demonstrate practical problem-solving rather than memorizing obscure methods. Focus on understanding how to read documentation quickly during the test since most real DevOps work involves looking things up anyway. Practice writing clean, readable code that solves the problem even if it's not the most elegant solution - they want to see that you can automate tasks effectively, not that you're the next Python guru. I work on [interview copilot](http://interviews.chat), which helps people navigate exactly these kinds of technical interview scenarios where you need to think through problems clearly under pressure.",
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"author": "DiogonesTubTime",
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"body": "be brahmin caste. they likely already have someone they want to sponsor and you're just interview fodder for them. good luck lol.",
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"body": "Gauging my actual Python skill is tough. I'm mostly self-taught through projects or going through tutorials. Recently was working through Hugging Face's AI agents course... parts are already outdated and was able to work through that, some with googling, some just me. I also did things \"my way\" and made it work with Ollama rather than their models or OpenAI or something. Given a problem I can figure it out, but it does involve other resources to look up information and learn.",
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"body": "This is super helpful. Did you import libraries for json and yaml or do it all from scratch?",
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"body": "I do need to spend time on the fundamentals, and knowing more specifically which ones is helpful, thank you! I need to try and at least commit those to memory. I'm more of a \"figure out what I need to know per project\" kind of person, and they aren't often enough to commit it to memory.",
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1np08hp
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New hires, what helped you land the job??
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4 years DevOps and overall 10 years IT experience. I’ve been looking since January (remove & even Raleigh, NC). Thousands of applications and the only 10 interviews I’ve gotten, I’ve been passed by other candidates and unsure why.
I’ve tried the LinkedIn Ai to tweak my resume, jobhire.ai to mass apply, endless resume ATS checkers, I’m honestly too burnt out to keep applying. Even putting freelance work on my resume
Has anything specific worked for yall? Any new tech I should be specifically looking at like azure, kubernetes, or terraform?
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"author": "WholeBet2788",
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"body": "Well, it comes down to what can you do and what are requirments in the job you are applying to.\n\nIf the job requires terraform and k8s and you are not experienced in them, you wont get even call back. Usually employeers are willing to overlook maybe one or two technology missing in the tech stack.\n\nE: To clarify if you have experience only on prem and they are working on public but you are profficient in everything else you might get a call.\nOr if you are missing some monitoring stack or jenkins. If you are missing k8s and their whole infra is in k8s, you wont probably get call back.",
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"author": "NotAlwaysPolite",
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"body": "Try asking why you fell short? Only they know.",
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"author": "LeadSting",
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"body": "Keep applying, and make networking a priority (especially if you’re more experienced/older). The market is saturated right now, and to be blunt, the recruiting process is pretty broken.\n\nIf you’re not getting direct messages via LinkedIn, that usually means something’s off with your profile or positioning. It’s also critical to know how to negotiate and clearly value yourself.\n\nPeople can sense burnout, so it’s important to reset, show up with energy, put a smile on your face, and know how to ask the right questions. And just as important, build a real-life support network. Having people around you who get it makes a huge difference.",
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"author": "Cute_Activity7527",
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"body": "Being cheaper than 99% of US folks.",
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"author": "jack-dawed",
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"body": "Writing a very funny cold email to really stand out. Works best at smaller companies.\n\nEmails that are sharp and witty, that tells them as much about my personality as my capabilities and prior work. It helps to have an impressive portfolio with hackathons and open source projects/contributions.\n\nGot my first job out of college this way. And recently got two job offers as someone with 5 years of experience. Still works. The hardest hurdle is the bs you need to go through just to get in a call with a hiring manager. Once you’re talking to another engineer, it’s usually easy.\n\nUsually I find jobs on Hacker News’ Who’s Hiring thread on the first of each month.\n\nIf you’ve been sending out thousands of applications and you are only getting 10 interviews, that is an abysmal hit rate which indicates a red flag with your resume or profile.",
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"author": "MDParagon",
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"body": "I was applying in their website and saw some elements were broken, I wasn't able to upload a CV and was returning an API error.\n\nMailed them, told them I can fix their cloud issue in an interview. I was able to be interviewed, finessed them and 4 months later I got the job",
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"author": "d3mn8",
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"body": "Can you explain a bit better your past experiences and areas of expertise? I was a little confused in the end with your question.",
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"author": "the_Oculus_MC",
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"body": "Eh, it's a bit of luck of the draw in some cases. \n\nI'm sure you've applied to tons of jobs you could do in your sleep but you never got contacted outside of an automated rejection. \n\nIt took me 75 applications to land a job and of those 75 I was interviewed by 3 companies. \n\nThe key is to nail the interviews when you actually get one. And, hopefully, you have strength in most of what they are looking for in the job description. For me, it was broad AWS knowledge, CICD, and Terraform. Then doing well in the interviews. \n\nIt kind of sucks because Dev Ops can be so broad you may get asked things in a technical screen that aren't your strength and then you lose the opportunity. \n\nGood luck.",
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"author": "Socc3rPr0",
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"body": "Have you reached out to people on LinkedIn? I would find people who you have something in common with. Example \"went to the same university\" and break the ice that way with a message telling them you applied for a job and if they could forward your resume to HR. Also make sure you are clear that their company might give them some money if you are hired just to push them to forward your resume as they recommended you. Just be short and concise.",
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"author": "Arkhaya",
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"body": "Conversion because I built a good relationship with my supervisor. Knowing shit and having a homelab helped in the interview but my soft skills made me secure my spot, which took me a long time to understand is as if not more important",
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"author": "electrowiz64",
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"body": "I’ve mentioned to EVERY DAMN HIRING MANAGER significantly less pay expectations like $45/hr or $95k. Unfortunately I feel like they are rather going for experience or some other magic then actual salary, I don’t get it\n\nIf h1bs were making ass, I don’t know how else to lower myself even more if they don’t seem to care",
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"author": "jameshearttech",
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"body": "When I changed careers back in 2014, I almost had no experience in tech. My first tech job I got because I shared a funny personal story about moving cross country and road tripping for a week with my wife and dog.",
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"author": "electrowiz64",
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"body": "I’ve been working on new server deployments with Ansible and AWS/packer. and packaging and upgrading server apps via BigFix.\n\nI’m starting to get desperate because my commute is just WAYY too long where the other 8 out of 10 people in my team get to stay remote. So I’m at the point I’m just trying to find another skill set or tool I can learn & buildout so I can get a job faster because I’m getting to a point of burnout on my commute :(",
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"author": "electrowiz64",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Mind me asking how many years you’ve been a DevOps or IT engineer? & how many projects have you put in your resume?\n\nI think I’m lacking that department at this rate",
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"post_id": "1np08hp",
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"author": "Cute_Activity7527",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Move to EU, US companies offshore tons of work here.\n\nInstead of hiring one engineer for 250k they can hire 5 that will most likely do a better job and faster (at least from my experience).",
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"id": "nfzllej",
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"author": "d3mn8",
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"body": "For your YoE I would expect you to be very proficient with at least one cloud vendor, have a good hands on experience with modern IaC like Terraform, know your way around a Kubernetes cluster at minimum and a really good experience with modern CI/CD tooling and patterns. \n\nNot sure if you have all that, but keep in my mind that is the baseline for DevOps and SRE with this much experience in every US position i’ve applied.",
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"body": "Very similar to your experience. \n\nTen total years in the field. \n\nMaybe like 5-6 doing CICD, a bit less doing AWS-focused stuff. \n\nLots of \"release engineering\" where I'm deploying stuff for dev teams. \n\nI don't really have a count of \"projects\" on my resume. I have a handful of roles that have bullet points of some achievements that I could reasonably talk about in an interview. \n\n\"Migrate legacy apps to AWS\" and then I can explain it in an interview showing my skills and thought process. Stuff like that.",
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1nowuvi
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How's Debian for enterprise workflows in the cloud?
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I’ve been curious about how people approach Debian in enterprise or team setups, especially when running it on cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
For those who’ve tried Debian in cloud environments:
Do you find a desktop interface actually useful for productivity or do you prefer going full CLI?
Any must-have tools you pre-install for dev or IT workflows?
How does Debian compare to Ubuntu, AlmaLinux or others in terms of stability and updates for enterprise workloads?
Do you run it as a daily driver in the cloud or more for testing and prototyping?
Would love to hear about real experiences, what worked, what didn’t, and any tips or gotchas for others considering Debian in enterprise cloud ops.
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"body": "Oh, you mean for desktop. Debian is very popular for container images. For a workstation any distribution can be just fine and it comes down to comfortability/experience. I use Debian with WSL on Windows at work.\n\nGenerally in enterprise it comes down to what the company will support and you don’t get a ton of choice without swimming against the current.",
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"body": "I can't believe you asked this as a separate question for every distro lol.",
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"author": "Low-Opening25",
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"body": "Debian desktop in cloud? that doesn’t make any sense, no one uses desktop interface to work with Linux other than if it is your personal desktop computer at home/work. Linux in terms of how you work with it as DevOps is 101% cli, no matter what Linux.",
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"author": "pdp10",
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"body": "We use Debian and Alpine, with rare exceptions. The Debian repos, in particular, are deep.\n\n~~Nobody~~ *Everybody* uses CLI on a cloud/IaaS server. `tmux` is used often for multitasking and session resumption.",
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"author": "nooneinparticular246",
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"body": "Learn to use a terminal. Even windows server has terminal only installations these days. No one will take you seriously if you manager servers with a GUI",
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"body": "For servers or base images I'd personally go with Ubuntu, as Ubuntu builds on top of Debian, thereby eliminating whatever issues that would otherwise be on Debian. Ubuntu will also have newer packages and better compatibility overall and integrates better with other software and systems. Debian is often \"held back\" for the sake of \"stability\".",
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"body": "nobody uses cli? what?",
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"author": "Low-Opening25",
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"body": "that’s actually untrue, Ubuntu adds many issues that don’t exist on Debian, mostly adding things that don’t meet Debian’s high standard and ethical (open source) requirements.\n\nDebian is much more consistent, predictable and stable distribution that has been around since Linux began, making is solid choice for servers.",
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"body": "Fixed!",
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Why aren't devs using proper branch names?!
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A branch name isn’t just a placeholder, it’s a mini communication channel.
When someone sees `feature/login-retry-limit` vs. `newbranch123`, they instantly know what’s happening without clicking around.
We started treating branch names as little status updates for the team, and it made reviews and cross-team handoffs much smoother. Bonus points if you add your Ticket numbers to your branch names, like `GK7485-release-notes`. It’s one of those overlooked Git details that doubles as documentation.
Curious if other teams lean into this or just stick to “whatever works.”
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"body": "You can use git hooks to enforce branch naming conventions. We also usually follow “feature/JIRA-1111” pattern",
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"body": "branch name I can excuse, they are mostly short lived. what grind my gears is messy commit message and pull/merge request description. like bro you can jam 100+ lines of code into people throats but cant be bothered writing some proper context",
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"body": "Ticket number in branch name is also a good idea and may allow for some automation depending on what you're using for tickets/ci/code management.",
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"body": "Anything we actually make money on is feature/ticket#/initials/login-retry-limit \n\nInternal stuff is a mess though",
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"body": "Neah, seems like a waste of time if you're just going to make a PR and put everything in the description. Bothers me when they don't give proper PR titles when things are going to be squash merged though.",
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"body": "For something that’s only going to exist for a day or two, who cares? I’ve literally never looked at the branch name of a PR, only the title, description and content.",
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"body": "Been at this for a while:\n\n- A branch name like `users/ben/fixap` is almost all you need if you have merge policies requiring work items to be linked to the PR. With that branch it's clear it's Ben working on it and his team has context of what he is busy with (fixing an access profile). The most important thing is that you can see it's Ben's branch. These names also work great if you use them as part of an image version tag.\n\n- Longer living branches if you really have to use one then a proper name like `feature/fix-the-access-profiles` obviously works better.\n\n- `feature/203231323_fixap` is terrible. Spare a thought for those who work on the terminal a lot and switch between branches. Having those ticket numbers at the start of a branch name kills tab completions. If you really must for some reason have a ticket number in the branch name (because you're using a repo server etc they don't have a way of linking tickets to branches by commits?) then put them at the end.\n\n \n\n`git commit -m \"Fixed Access Profile 1 #234523\"` in some repo servers will auto link the commit that branch is to that ticket number. \n\nI don't think you need more than this. Over \"governing\" things with silly little rules all over the place do more damage than good.\n\nFrom a release perspective the only branches you should care about and govern are main and release/*.",
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"body": "Don’t like branch name conventions. Just linked Jira with GitHub using plain text and autolink ref so tickets are always linked and automatically closed at pr merge. So all tickets have a pr linked. Don’t see the value of having all branches with the same pattern. Does anyone look at the open branch list? I find more insightful looking at opened pr list",
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"body": "Its amazingly difficult tog et people to use the git integration of their ticketing system.\n\nStick your jira ticket ID somewhere in the branch name and commit message. For Azure DevOps work items its AB#012345 where 012345 is the work item ID. Getting people to actually use the tools they have is so annoying.",
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"body": "I don't say you zre wrong but our experience is that branch names are never useful, our main focus is on PR and their title is important but branc names and commit messages are just internal details.",
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"body": "I hate ticket numbers at the beginning of branch names, it breaks tab completions",
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"body": "Eh, branch names aren’t super important. PR title and description should tell me what’s going on. Don’t spend forever coming up with the perfect branch name, we delete them after merging anyways",
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"body": "Different branch prefix names get different protections also. feature, private, user, they all have different expectations. If you check out my private branch don't get all mad if I rewrite history on you!",
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"body": "$ticket-number/$brief-description is what I encourage and works well from my experience.",
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"body": "We enforce naming conventions on pull requests. They have to start with 'internal', 'hotfix' or a ticket number. Otherwise the CI will fail and they can't merge it.",
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"body": "I encourage my team to use JIRA-1234_short_descriptive_slug",
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"body": "I preferred to do `feature/ticket#_short-desc` - new team? I’m the only one. \n\nOlder dev always says “you can just search for the ticket number!”\n\nMy argument is making that less tedious and more obvious.",
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"body": "My favoured approach to get traceability of requirements on code changes is to use short-lived feature branches, don’t really care what the name is, squash-merged with conventional commit syntax (enforced by CI) and the Jira ticket ID as the conventional commit topic. Requiring every code change to be tied to a work item adds more friction than it does value and discourages refactoring.",
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"body": "We always just do feature/JIRA-1234-descriptor, which automatically becomes a link without the descriptor, I usually just add a small word after the ticket to indicate which region of a given repository for skimming",
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"body": "I tried teaching my team to properly name branches and describe commits. Manager said good, team lead said nice - no one does it besides me. I stopped asking about ticket numbers or pages where the features are described, until they contact me and ask why the PR is not reviewed - it’s just a hanging piece of code I have no idea about.",
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"author": "leetrout",
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"body": "Most of all of us are the wrong kind of lazy.\n\nLazy commits. Lazy PR descriptions. Lazy work in general shoved into lazy / sloppy branch history.\n\n> it’s a mini communication channel\n\nYou got that exactly right. If you approach a PR like an email (even to your 6-months-in-the-future-self) then framing the description is pretty easy. \n\nTop engineers at the big shops doing things a better way (for some value of better). Martin at HashiCorp who is a principal engineer on Terraform is always a good example of taking it all the way to 100 https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/commit/3cc1c1e4e762c531ca44c2a0fad16b273f55c03a\n\nBut you aren't going to find that on average teams. The reality is so many of us marry our laziness to our entitlement to form very poor opinions on proper dev practices and hand wave things away when in reality they pay major dividends in the long run. It's not unlike the way most companies just worry about this quarter. \n\nThanks for coming to my ted talk.",
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"author": "phatbrasil",
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"body": "people choose anti patterns when there are no consequences from following the established pattern and its easier for them. \n\nTL;DR: \"that sounds like a you problem\"\n\nproper patterns with the culture to follow them its amazing.",
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"author": "Fapiko",
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"body": "Honestly I don't really care. It probably depends on the platform but I've mostly used GH in my career and generally recommend opening a draft PR as soon as code has been pushed to a branch. The PR link is what I ask for if someone wants me to take a look at something. As long as all the relevant info is in the PR I could care less what the branch is named.",
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"author": "angellus",
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"body": "Branch names do not matter. Branches should be short lived so just automatically prune stale branches. That only thing that matters is the final product, the intermediate steps. Let devs work however they want and just enforce PR/merge conventions. \n\nThe real big problem with enforcing branch naming conventions is when scope/direction changes. Enforcing hard branch names discourages devs from experimenting and trying new things. Start working on ticket A and realize you figure out how to do ticket B or that ticket A really needs to be turned into ticket D, E and F. Or maybe a dev just wants to experiment and work on something as part of a 20% R&D or whatever your company has going.",
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"body": "The question is always 'what are you trying to solve?' Enforcing branch naming requirements for the sake of having naming requirements is unnecessary friction, but if it solves a problem for your team, then by all means.\n\nOthers have already mentioned it, but branches are short lived and are to be deleted in my opinion as soon as the code is merged to main. What's really important are the commit messages. I am much more likely to spend more time curating my commit messages than fussing over branch names because commits once they hit main are the breadcrumbs you leave behind to potentially solve problems in the future.\n\nI'm glad you and your team have found value in branch naming schemas though!",
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"body": "One of the bestest features of azure-devops was that it recognized slashes `/` as paths in branch names and grouped stuff into folders and subfolders. The only microsoft product I actually enjoyed working with.",
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"author": "FortuneIIIPick",
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"body": "I do this, not only at work but for my personal projects too.",
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"body": "Why do you need to look at branch names?\nAre there multiple devs working on the same branch for an extended period of time?\n\nFor my experience, branch is short lived and individual scoped, means it’s gone after the PR is shipped. You can’t even see branch names in commit histories, so what’s the point of spending efforts naming it?",
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"body": "Branches and especially feature-branches are short lived. As soon as they are merged (or squashed) into the main branch they seize to exist. So their name is not really important.\nWhat stays on forever in the history are the commit messages, or if you squash when merging, the PR title. Yes, they should be named carefully.",
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"author": "Majinsei",
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"body": "I have no problem with the branch...\n\nWhat I do hate is that direct push to develop/qa/main/dev/prod is allowed without restrictions!!!\n\nI've had to debug a few times and I hate the hell out of it when people push the commit directly to develop~ At least a pull request for a branch to review and not a mess of meaningless commits~",
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"body": "I’ll call my branches snoggletart and you’ll say nothing sir! GOOD DAY",
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"body": "We include developer user IDs at the top level so we know who to yell at for not cleaning up their stale branches. Sometimes that 3 year old feature branch is related to a backlogged ticket the developer still thinks is important (or spent too many hours on before having to set it down).",
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"body": "Our branches last a matter of days, a hard naming convention is pointless. We focus on commit history and PR descriptions which will be referred to in the future.\n\nAs long as the ticket is in the commit, our ticket system picks that up just fine and links in the relevant PR to the ticket. So there's really no benefit otherwise.\n\nBranches also auto delete on merge so they don't stick around.",
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"body": "Branches that take a while to develop get a nice name. Branches I make that last 15 minutes before being merged get whatever I dream up. Lately “bitnami-bad” has been a common one.",
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"body": "I dont know why it's so hard to make clean commit messages like: \nfeature/<jira> \nfix/<jira>\n\nor even for devops (my team) \nOPS/<jira>\n\nIt just makes glancing over a commit history, especially if you're doing an ENV branch strategy super useful. Also makes history clean too. \n\nthere's a whole code smells on Repos that I carry around with me and I just tell me my team to follow to make it clean. yes it's kind of dictatory but some standards just 'need' to be enforced until they are second nature. The benefits can be explained but it's also one of those things you put your foot down against the laziness.",
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"author": "MasSunarto",
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"body": "Brother, my team uses the following format: `dev/developer's-initials-[jirakind]number-message` and so far the members are observing the convention quite closely. 👍",
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"author": "dmikalova-mwp",
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"body": "Linear has a feature where it generates the branch name for you from the ticket so you just click to copy it.\n\nI always have a ticket with any work so I just TICK-123-short-desc, but I don't care enough about other people's workflows to nag them about it. Some of our repos do automated enforcement, and its a hassle even though I'm already doing this 90% of the time but maybe got some detail wrong.",
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"author": "jvleminc",
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"body": "We use feature|bugfix|chore|dev/<target branch>/jira-id_<tiny_description>. Our pipeline use this to create image names like <target_branch>:<tag> and Bitbucket automatically links the jira ticket.",
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"author": "crash90",
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"body": "> There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.\n\n> -Phil Karlton",
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"author": "amanryzus",
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"body": "Yea we do this \nJira ID followed by the feature info",
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"author": "elhammundo",
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"body": "Branch names start with jira ticket eg. ABC-123\nCommits use conventional commit format, with Jira number, eg feat(api): ABC-123 add health endpoint enforced by pre-commit hook",
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"author": "imajes",
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"body": "Because people are inherently lazy.",
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"author": "kabads",
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"body": "We validate branch names and commit messages to make sure they match. If it doesn't match, the dev can't build / deploy / merge.",
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"author": "LastAccountPlease",
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"body": "Bcoz fuck you, let me do what I want and you worry about your job",
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"author": "Odds-Bodkins",
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"body": "I like [conventionalcommits.org](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/) (would be interested to see if people agree/disagree)",
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"author": "davka003",
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"body": "It is not bonus points for including jira ticket if, it is the the lowest required level to even be considered for code review and collaboration.",
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"author": "Scoth42",
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"body": "As always, relevant XKCD: [https://xkcd.com/1296/](https://xkcd.com/1296/)",
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"id": "nfygmi4",
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"body": "We also use {Type} e.g. Task, Feature, Bug etc. /{Ticket number}-Name\n\n\n{Type}/{TicketNumber}-{Name}. E.g. bug/TK1234-update-tls",
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"author": "daedalus_structure",
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"body": "Devs are lazy, and that helps them be efficient. \n\nSo if there are things you need them to do, you need guard rails so they can't not do it.",
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"author": "FileWise3921",
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"body": "I have a small script that uses fzf ans jira cli to create the branch like JIRAPROJECT-TICKETNUMBER/description-of-the-ticket but I'm mostly working on IAC (terraform, ansible, k8s infra managed by Argo) so the feature etc has less meaning than in an application codebase.",
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"author": "btshaw",
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"body": "We/I use <team>/<dev_name>/<task number>_short_description.. works pretty well in my view. \n\n\nI have a bash function alias that parses out the task number and injects it into my commit messages",
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"author": "ouarez",
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"body": "```git checkout -b \"booger-aids-v2\"```",
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"body": "It is simple: storynumber_story_name_snake_case",
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"author": "Aggravating-Share297",
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"body": "Anyone who did a random, not useful branch name on my team would get a serious talking to.",
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"author": "xagarth",
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"body": "Loooooool, srsy daddy issues, I sense.",
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"author": "reubendevries",
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"body": "The same reason why people don't use [Conventional Commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/) messages either you enforce it in your CI/CD or .git\\_hooks or it simply doesn't get done.",
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"author": "PuzzleheadedPop567",
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"body": "I perhaps have a somewhat controversial opinion, but I don’t find branching especially useful for most development in industry. \n\nIt makes a ton of sense for Linux. They have a relatively unique process whereby hundreds of features are developed over years on feature branches. Then each release, they decide what they want to incorporate.\n\nIt also makes sense for a lot of open source projects. Where, again, different people are working async on different features over months. \n\nLet me say this about most industry use cases: I worked at Google for a while, which famously doesn’t use git and doesn’t have branches. I can’t say I missed branching.\n\nIn most businesses, a dev makes a 100 line changes and merges it within hours. Then they make another one. And another one. Even large features are implemented piecemeal like this. \n\nThe Google model of “fork from main, write 100 lines of code, merge back into main” just works, in my opinion. I’d point out that the Linux model requires a team of maintainers to referee the merge conflicts. The Google model works better in the absence of such a system is self regulating (first merge wins).\n\nThis is all to say, I think the people giving random branch names basically view development using the Google model. Branches don’t have semantic meaning to them. It’s just a proxy for a single main commit hash. \n\nOf course, if your company has other processes, I agree with the comment that you should add a commit check. And of course, I personally always follow the conventions of the company I’m working at. \n\nJust explaining the perspective that some of these devs might have.",
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"author": "Endangered-Wolf",
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"body": "Normally, adding #work_id in the git message automatically links the commit and branch to the work_id. So name your branches whatever.\n\nIf you have the need to spend time naming your branches, you have a long-living branches problem.",
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"author": "Zaphod118",
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"body": "We do developer-moniker/ADO#/short_descriptive_name and I like it a lot. Tells you who did the work, where to find it, and basically what it is",
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"author": "Sea-Nerve-5756",
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"body": "I thought this was the norm been using this in here.",
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"author": "deltanine99",
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"body": "we name ours after the ticket tracking the work.",
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"author": "mjbmitch",
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"body": "ChatGPT",
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"author": "siodhe",
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"body": "If you want to make notes, whether directly or through automated means, you should explore \"git notes\". It has huge potential.",
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"author": "PitiRR",
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"body": "Totally agree, definitely make it descriptive. But if you want to establish an easy standard for others, referencing ticket or user story id is good. It’s similar logic as newbranch123 but makes sense to others. Allows the devs to not think how to name the branch - clearly they dislike it\n\nAt my place just descriptive branches, PR titles and sometimes commits do. Ticket in the PR description, commonly",
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"author": "ucffool",
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"body": "All the counter arguments are just that, counter arguments.\n\nIf this works for your team because of how you *process* PRs, great. For others, with more integrations with a work management system like Jira, ticket links are more useful as information is a click away.",
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"body": "The only rule I have is,\n\n> For any branch you create, have prefix \"personal/\"\n\n\nBecause a developer branch should be personal.\n\n\nOtherwise, all other branches are production branch, not personal. Like a patch branch is the target of the PR merge. That is not a personal branch.\n\n\nOr name it \"do-not-delete/\", if you want to keep some personal branch alive longer.",
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"author": "emperorOfTheUniverse",
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"body": "We're a small team. Branches get funny names. 'fixesthefixonshitfromthefixfrombefore'. 'Miranda' 'This-is-my-branch-there-are-many-like-it', etc",
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"author": "ryanstephendavis",
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"body": "I agree, but with one big caveat... I don't like when it's enforced to have ticket number at the start of the description in the name, I want the ticket number at the end so my git branch autocomplete works better. \n\n`feature/12345-update-models` would force me to remember the ticket number\n\n`feature/update-models-12345` allows me to push f, tab, up, tab and likely see the branch name",
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"author": "DarkMoonbg",
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"body": "Because they are Devs, can't expect too much of them",
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"author": "Comfortable_Clue5430",
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"body": "branch names are free documentation. It blows my mind when people still use test or fix1. Clear names make reviews faster and reduce context switching. Adding ticket IDs is clutch too since it ties the code directly back to the work item",
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"author": "kneebeards",
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"body": "Our commit messages would ruin you.",
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"author": "RobotechRicky",
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"body": "It grinds my gears that people do not properly name feature, hotfix, support, release branches.",
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"author": "Tucancancan",
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"body": "Having a bit of text after the ticket is nice tho, I've seen teams where it's only the number and looking in github is like a wall of JIRA-1234, JIRA-1243, JIRA-1324... ",
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"author": "mr_pablo",
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"body": "We also use GitHub actions to block PRs with incorrect branch name formatting.",
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"author": "jmfsn",
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"body": "\"feature/JIRA-1111-description\" and then a git that automatically adds [JIRA-1111] as a prefix of a commit message. That's the carrot.\n\nAfter that it's cultural. People need to be called on it, needs to be part of the onboarding, people need to feel annoyed if they don't do it. Getting extra tasks to find out why a change went in the code base also helps. That's the stick.",
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"author": "JeanYKA",
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"body": "we do jira111/devinitials - find the ticket and the culprit ...... :-). git blame in disguise",
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"author": "hamlet_d",
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"body": "Similar ours is something like:\n\nfeature/developername/JIRA-1111\n\nbut \"feature\" can also be: \"bugfix\", \"patch\", \"security\" etc. with each having a specific meaning. Feature or dev is genearlly new work, bugfix is self explanatory, patch is for work being done to maintain without feature adds but isn't really a bug, and security is reserved for updates to fix security holes (often just updated imports but sometimes more)",
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"author": "schmurfy2",
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"body": "This only works when there's one ticket involved.",
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"body": "We do this, same with commit linting to keep coms clean",
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"author": "CarpenterLanky8861",
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"body": "The issue is ran into githooks is that it runs locally on my device; I dont know how to enforce it for the team.",
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"author": "EstablishmentFluffy5",
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"body": "I’ve just moved to a new team where NOONE does this, and it’s driving me insane…\nAnd the first PR I opened up to review had triple digit commits.",
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"is_submitter": false,
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"author": "Fapiko",
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"body": "I started following conventional commits just due to how much traction it seems to have gained in the industry and how it can be tied into CI/CD to automate versioning, but I'm not a huge fan.\n\nEverything's going to get squashed anyways when the PR goes through so I'd rather focus efforts on making the PR description and merge commit meaningful than coming up with good commit messages during development. Especially when I'm trying to debug something in the CI/CD pipeline and I'm doing oodles of tiny commits just to try to get a build working ",
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"id": "nfymix0",
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"author": "danekan",
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"body": "Jira itself will automatically index it and link to Pr/commits from the issue if it has the the issue as branch name. It just has to start with that. But also it will do the same for commits themselves or prs when descriptions start with the jira issue. (Though, the functionality to move ticket status around is horrible and broken in weird ways, IMO, but, also when we have asked atlassian for explanation they agree)\n\n\nImo adding jira issue somewhere should be mandatory for pull reviews. We ask for it to be added when it isn't there. ",
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"author": "metalOpera",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Isn't that always the way?\n\n*\"The cobbler has no shoes.\"*",
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"id": "nfus0za",
"is_submitter": false,
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"author": "joshsmithers",
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"body": "Initials, really? They can't tell who signed the commit??",
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"id": "nfwiyx4",
"is_submitter": false,
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"score": 4,
"stickied": false
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"author": "Systembolaget2000",
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"body": "Agreed. I create short lived branches and review should typically happen within a few hours, max a day. No one care what I name the branch.",
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"id": "nfwcg01",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfuxh88",
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"post_id": "1novyn3",
"score": 5,
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"author": "federiconafria",
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"body": "Exactly, I'm pushing for a PR. the branch name is for me on my machine. \n\nBranches are cattle, not pets.",
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"is_submitter": false,
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"post_id": "1novyn3",
"score": 6,
"stickied": false
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"author": "Barnesdale",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Yeah, our feature branches are short lived and we have information like ticket documented elsewhere in the process, there is no reason to micromanage branch names.",
"created_utc": 1758671739,
"id": "nfv0o8u",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfuw5gd",
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"post_id": "1novyn3",
"score": 11,
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},
{
"author": "thisisjustascreename",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Why initials? Their user id or email is in the commit history, no?",
"created_utc": 1758670127,
"id": "nfuw03d",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfuuttp",
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1novyn3/why_arent_devs_using_proper_branch_names/nfuw03d/",
"post_id": "1novyn3",
"score": 7,
"stickied": false
},
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"author": "danekan",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Does it index it in the jira issue itself properly when it starts with initials?",
"created_utc": 1758672133,
"id": "nfv1sbr",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfuuttp",
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"score": 1,
"stickied": false
},
{
"author": "yourparadigm",
"awards": 0,
"body": "You never have multiple developers contributing on the same feature branch?",
"created_utc": 1758677984,
"id": "nfvice5",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfuuttp",
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"post_id": "1novyn3",
"score": 1,
"stickied": false
},
{
"author": "SilentLennie",
"awards": 0,
"body": "And of by one errors",
"created_utc": 1758701850,
"id": "nfwweyf",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfvz4df",
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"post_id": "1novyn3",
"score": 1,
"stickied": false
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{
"author": "anaiG",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Like it much better than all this nonsense about jira issues in branch names. ",
"created_utc": 1758739317,
"id": "nfzspnl",
"is_submitter": false,
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"score": 2,
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{
"author": "rrrx3",
"awards": 0,
"body": "git commit -am “GOD DAMN IT”",
"created_utc": 1758759960,
"id": "ng1likj",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "ng15js2",
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"author": "Background-Flight323",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Are you not using trunk-based?",
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"post_id": "1novyn3",
"score": 3,
"stickied": false
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{
"author": "AuroraFireflash",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Switch to a forking workflow, get developer branches out of your primary repo. Then the mess becomes that developer's problem and stops cluttering up the primary repository.",
"created_utc": 1758713559,
"id": "nfxhnvt",
"is_submitter": false,
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"score": 3,
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"author": "thisisjustascreename",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Why initials? Their user id or email is in the commit history, no? In general I find signing code a sign of weirdness.",
"created_utc": 1758670045,
"id": "nfuvrmi",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfus4rg",
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"post_id": "1novyn3",
"score": 7,
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"author": "serverhorror",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Whose initials?",
"created_utc": 1758671171,
"id": "nfuz0q2",
"is_submitter": false,
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"score": 1,
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"author": "deadlysyntax",
"awards": 0,
"body": "We used that convention for a while before ditching it, feeling unnecessary. I'm curious what benefits you get from it?",
"created_utc": 1758707930,
"id": "nfx6czu",
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"score": 2,
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"author": "bmamba2942",
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"body": "I feel like a little context can go a long way too so I try and add some with the ticket number too. \n\n1234-add-create-user-endpoint\n\nSo if I need to switch back I can at a glance to address PR feedback or whatever.",
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"id": "nfv8pvo",
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"score": 38,
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"author": "1armsteve",
"awards": 0,
"body": "We do feature|release|develop/JIRA-1234 for branch names and put more detail into the commit messages which we format as “JIRA-1234 - added webhook to non prod”. Then branches are deleted upon merge into main.\nThis makes it super easy to find all the commits that are related, either to each other or by a ticket number.",
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"score": 11,
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"author": "GeorgeRNorfolk",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Yeah we follow \"feature/JIRA-123-some-description-here\" and have hooks to enforce it.",
"created_utc": 1758701669,
"id": "nfww4fw",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfv00ki",
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"author": "Matemeo",
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"body": "We do `dev/Jira-1234/name/additional_context`.\n\nDidn't do the name but to begin with, but we rarely have tickets that another author might take a crack at. Also a nice little bit of context when you see the branch names enumerated somewhere like GitHub.\n\nNo complaints - and its all enforced via local hooks and additionally remotely, so the branch can be automatically linked to the jira ticket.\n\nAdditionally have some other special branch prefixes like `release/...`, which are automatically protected and more restricted in the remote. As well as triggering actual release pipelines.\n\nHas worked well enough that it'll likely be my default suggestion/guideline for future projects/jobs.",
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"author": "jregovic",
"awards": 0,
"body": "We have a merge check that ensures a minimum length and a valid, open ticket.",
"created_utc": 1758676619,
"id": "nfvej1q",
"is_submitter": false,
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"author": "Popeychops",
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"body": "You can go find the complete contexts on JIRA-1234 and 1324",
"created_utc": 1758708060,
"id": "nfx6l5q",
"is_submitter": false,
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"author": "fsw",
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"body": "You can also use GitHub rulesets. Or do you have more specific checks that are not covered by that?",
"created_utc": 1758704244,
"id": "nfx09l7",
"is_submitter": false,
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"score": 1,
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"author": "psrobin",
"awards": 0,
"body": "What's the behaviour here? Does it automatically close a PR with a comment or something else?",
"created_utc": 1758711265,
"id": "nfxcnt8",
"is_submitter": false,
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"score": 1,
"stickied": false
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"author": "Powerful-Internal953",
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"body": "I don't like this because branches sometimes need to be shared...",
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"id": "nfwj1lr",
"is_submitter": false,
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"score": 3,
"stickied": false
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"author": "aenae",
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"body": "In gitlab you can configure it under push rules, or in the custom_hooks directory if you're self-hosted.",
"created_utc": 1758701950,
"id": "nfwwkro",
"is_submitter": false,
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"score": 5,
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"author": "pplmbd",
"awards": 0,
"body": "oh definitely, i mean do whatever you want in your branch, but once it gets to trunk you have a responsibility to provide context.",
"created_utc": 1758761659,
"id": "ng1qakg",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfymix0",
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"score": 1,
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"author": "zootbot",
"awards": 0,
"body": "It’s just for glance appeal",
"created_utc": 1758701320,
"id": "nfwvkfn",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfwiyx4",
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"score": 2,
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"author": "Curious-Money2515",
"awards": 0,
"body": "This. With trunk based development, branch life should be very short, one day max on a very busy project.",
"created_utc": 1758711374,
"id": "nfxcw1p",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfwcg01",
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"score": 5,
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"author": "Seref15",
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"body": "Could be good to establish ownership of a branch, if you work that way. A branch can have many commiters but the feature could be owned by someone.",
"created_utc": 1758670609,
"id": "nfuxeb5",
"is_submitter": false,
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"score": 2,
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"author": "desolstice",
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"body": "Where I work we do: \ndevelopers-initials/branch_name\n\nWe like this since in ado it makes it to where every dev has their own little folder of branches. If you want to know what a specific person is working on you look in their folder. Or if you have someone who is really bad at cleaning up branches you don’t have to see all of their clutter.\n\nFor a while we were doing:\ndevelopers-initials/ado_id_branch_name\n\nBut we ended up seeing no additional value in including this since few people would have multiple active stories at any given time and we required stories to be linked to PRs to be merged.",
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"author": "MasSunarto",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Brother, just like the sibling reply said, it's about feature (or support/fix) ownership.",
"created_utc": 1758670832,
"id": "nfuy1bg",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfuw03d",
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"score": 1,
"stickied": false
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{
"author": "MasSunarto",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Brother, I don't think my company links the PRs & commits into Jira tickets. 🤣 Previously, my team uses Azure DevOps and the PRs get linked to the DevOps' ticketing system. But, management told us to use Jira so yeah... It's still a mess though in general, EMs and ICs have no problem with the branch convention.",
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"score": 1,
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{
"author": "MasSunarto",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Brother, we have. It's about ownership.",
"created_utc": 1758679919,
"id": "nfvntde",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfvice5",
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"author": "BoBoBearDev",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Too much work",
"created_utc": 1758729425,
"id": "nfyu94r",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfxhnvt",
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"score": 1,
"stickied": false
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"author": "braczkow",
"awards": 0,
"body": "The single person that worked in this branch. \nProblems start when there's more than one",
"created_utc": 1758684387,
"id": "nfvz8ds",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfuz0q2",
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"stickied": false
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"created_utc": 1758685198,
"id": "nfw15ms",
"is_submitter": false,
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"author": "mr_pablo",
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"body": "Afaik rulesets cannot check the format of the branch name specifically? As in, if the branch name does not follow a certain regex, flag it.\n\nObviously it's a bit late to run at PR stage, but it helps highlight the fact that the dev isn't following our processes and means they need higher intervention to merge the offending PR",
"created_utc": 1758704427,
"id": "nfx0k38",
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"parent_id": "nfx09l7",
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"score": 1,
"stickied": false
},
{
"author": "mr_pablo",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Fails a status check meaning the PR cannot be merged by mere mortals.",
"created_utc": 1758712431,
"id": "nfxf5gt",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfxcnt8",
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"stickied": false
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"body": "Huh, alright, I guess.",
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"author": "Systembolaget2000",
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"body": "The code itself already have \"ownership\" (via author and committer). Assigning ownership to movable commit reference seems quite odd. Why do you do that?",
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"author": "Background-Flight323",
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"body": "Having a dev workflow that assumes nobody will be pair programming is crazy",
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"author": "Systembolaget2000",
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"body": "Personal feature branches is a much bigger mistake than what someone name their branch.",
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"score": 1,
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{
"author": "gabeech",
"awards": 0,
"body": "[You can use a regex in the metadata pattern for branch name.](https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/configuring-branches-and-merges-in-your-repository/managing-rulesets/creating-rulesets-for-a-repository#adding-metadata-restrictions)",
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"author": "Famous_Technology",
"awards": 0,
"body": "yes we use branch name rulesets to enforce naming patterns.",
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"author": "MasSunarto",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Brother, again, Jira ticket <=> PRs. PR can have many commits from many ICs. But in Jira, currently only one assigned person who \"own\" it. Other than that, EMs can look at a PR and know the one who responsible for corresponding feature. Not to mention, some ICs are somewhat specialised in some parts of the system and may or may not have similar skill level, it ease the EM to get a sneak peek of what the PR is about without opening JIRA.",
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"author": "Systembolaget2000",
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"body": "It sounds like you are using a poor setup of systems where a ticket is worked on by multiple people but only assigned to one. Odd. \n\nAnyway, you do you, but it sounds like your organization is using left over mindset from 90s. I remember those times and I am glad I moved on.",
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"score": 0,
"stickied": false
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1nov284
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DIY platforms: when did you realize it was a trap?
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Most platform teams start with a noble mission: “We’ll just build our own platform—it’ll be faster.” then fast forward two years and suddenly you’re maintaining a half-baked CI/CD tool, a custom audit log nobody trusts, and an endless backlog of “please make it more like \[vendor X\].” When did it hit you that build-it-yourself wasn’t going to scale? What was the tipping point?
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Creative_Reveal_901
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"author": "Jmc_da_boss",
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"body": "We never realized that, ours works well.\n\nIt's only a trap if there's no leadership investment. \n\nYour director and vp have to want it and then be willing to pay for it.\n\nTHEN the engineers go define a happy path and execute it.",
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"author": "Sufficient-Past-9722",
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"body": "New account with no post history, this is guerrilla marketing.\n\n\nOP, what's the all-in-one solution we can buy from you?",
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"id": "nfwnirs",
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"author": "lavahot",
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"body": "We apply DRY/DROP principals, so we maximize our re-use. We're also poor, so we only spend money on what is absolutely necessary. Everything else we build.",
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"is_submitter": false,
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"author": "raindropl",
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"body": "Well.. we built Argo so that’s that…\n\nThe rule is: see if something in the market can do what you need. If nothing then build.\nIt is ok to glue different products that’s what devops is all about.",
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"id": "nfw8uoo",
"is_submitter": false,
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"score": 3,
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"author": "lucifer605",
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"body": "We went down this route - our internal tool was good enough but we had also invested a shit ton of resources which might have been better used to make product engineers more productive.\n\nA new CTO came in and his first question was why we decided to build all of this in-house",
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"author": "badguy84",
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"body": "I don't think there is a particular tipping point. Many as-a-service platforms provide relatively low cost solutions for something you really don't need a team/hardware/software to maintain. Only when you have special regulatory or other very highly classified data restrictions does an as-a-service platform not make sense. The biggest companies in the world run on Github/Gitlab/ADO/Bitbucket and use their internal CI/CD tooling to get stuff done.\n\nI think the tipping point should not be built it yourself to SaaS... it's rather the otherway around: what requirements make it worth all the time/money involved in rolling your own?",
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"author": "No-Row-Boat",
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"body": "Never ran into this because we are fully in control, we did however had a HUGE issue when mesosphere decided to pull the plug from their PaaS offering. And this caused that we only use building blocks, no longer full fledged platforms. \n\nBitnami pulling all the images could have been a catastrofe, but we decided to trust in our own capabilities, so we only had 1 of their images for a cli tool we sometimes used. \n\nIt's very important to exit plan not only your vendors, but also understand the lockin you build yourself.",
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"author": "NZObiwan",
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"body": "The company I used to work at had a custom deployment tool for PHP apps (they ended up scrapping it when they moved away from VMs and towards containers).\n\nYou'd type \\`beam up prod\\` and it would do a composer install in a temp directory (on your computer), sometimes it was configured to do a npm build as well, then it would rsync the files up to the server.\n\nIt was super useful for simplifying deployments so that front end devs who didn't know anything about composer or the servers wouldn't have to worry about either of those things.",
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"author": "Low-Opening25",
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"body": "Mostly when I see the quote for Vendor X that lets me just hire entire team instead and keep the expertise local. There are tonnes of wildly supported Open Source tools that don’t require you creating anything feom scratch. What you describe is engineering leadership issue, not engineering issue.",
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1nouefh
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I got pulled off a Cybersecurity Management position and put on a DevSecOps position. Outside of managing Azure and using Terraform I am completely lost here because my entire 10 year career was stacked in Windows and Industrial Control Systems not AWS and Linux...need guidance
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Certification stacks? Udemy Courses? They're willing to let me train and Terraform and managing IAM has been my saving grace so far. I don't even want to explain how this transition happened but it's a way to keep me employed after how a merger imploded in my companies face.
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LetterheadCorrect276
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"author": "nix-solves-that-2317",
"awards": 0,
"body": "it's easy. just use grok or claude for assistance. you'll learn everything",
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"id": "nfuf10m",
"is_submitter": false,
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"author": "xelio9",
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"body": "I’d honestly run away anyway",
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"id": "nfumlps",
"is_submitter": false,
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"post_id": "1nouefh",
"score": 4,
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},
{
"author": "Gullible_Vanilla2466",
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"body": "Fake it till you make it I guess. See if you can delegate your work. Biggest question is are they aware of your lack of experience in this area? If not, dont let them know. Just gotta dive into the deep end and just learn one by one what your tech stack does.\n\nBiggest thing, tackle the low hanging fruit. What comes up on the daily? Weekly? Any regular, recurring tasks? Get a handle on those now, know when to do them and how.\n\nThen start learning everything in the environment. Where it lives, what it does and what to do if it shits the bed",
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"author": "Low-Opening25",
"awards": 0,
"body": "This sounds like complete re-qualification, you may either take the challenge or look for new job better matching your skill set, depending on your appetite. If cloud and linux aren’t your thing and you aren’t bothered to learn them, I would pick the latter",
"created_utc": 1758708245,
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"is_submitter": false,
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"author": "LetterheadCorrect276",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Lol",
"created_utc": 1758664539,
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"author": "StevoB25",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Why? The role sounds way more interesting",
"created_utc": 1758702838,
"id": "nfwxzxu",
"is_submitter": false,
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"post_id": "1nouefh",
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"author": "LetterheadCorrect276",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Im up for the challenge ",
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"post_id": "1nouefh",
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"author": "LetterheadCorrect276",
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"body": "Right now IAM is my saving grace. I've used Linux in my personal life for a home media and email sever. I did Linux in a data center for a while but it was basically SAN storage and maintenance and maintaining physical systems so devs could do their work on it. \n\n\n\n\nFor me I'm looking at this as a challenge, one I'm willing to take on. Terraform is 100% good because it was relatively quick to learn and I've made myself the ICAM engineer but I can look at this stack and tell I'm going to have to get into CD/CI eventually.\n\n\nI'm willing to roll with the punches on this because ICAM is what I wanted to eventually get into anyway. I know the other guy said run but the hell with that - the job market sucks plus this jobs 100% remote and they're giving me hours to train in between doing Terraform and AWS IAM task. ",
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"author": "LetterheadCorrect276",
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"body": "It was my thing for a while, but working with the feds was my specialty. As mentioned before I managed \\*Nix systems in a data center for a year and right now ICAM seems to be my saving grace for this role as there's a lot that needs to be done on this front.",
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"author": "DrDuckling951",
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"body": "Plan your exit strategy. Set a timeline of your “challenge”. You’ll either make it or use the exit strategy.",
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"id": "nfvgags",
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"author": "xelio9",
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"body": "I don’t say that to avoid challenge, I’m like you, I’d just avoid toxic environment tbh, I’m done with unhealthy companies, and, sorry for you, this sounds pretty much going that direction",
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"author": "Gullible_Vanilla2466",
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"body": "Yeah fuck it you’ll at least have this on your resume. Plus you seem to like it, and you already got a handle on terraform. Full send dude. You got the golden ticket, sink or swim. In a few months you wont even remember all the shit you didn’t know",
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"is_submitter": false,
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"author": "LetterheadCorrect276",
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"body": "FWIW, I'm doing IAM pretty well and they need this job. I'm understanding why ICAM is a full time job they make decision about long term employment end of February. I was originally brought on to help with a company purchased but it imploded horribly. They want someone directing all the security procedures and efforts and I'm doing that well enough... So guess we'll see. ",
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"score": 2,
"stickied": false
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"author": "LetterheadCorrect276",
"awards": 0,
"body": "You'd be shocked if I told you what company did this. Like really shocked that one of this size is screwing up acquisitions and mergers. ",
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"id": "nfxcih9",
"is_submitter": true,
"parent_id": "nfwkc9l",
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"post_id": "1nouefh",
"score": 2,
"stickied": false
},
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"author": "DrDuckling951",
"awards": 0,
"body": "That… actually sounds really cool and terrifying at the same time.",
"created_utc": 1758678198,
"id": "nfviy8c",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfvhmil",
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1nouefh/i_got_pulled_off_a_cybersecurity_management/nfviy8c/",
"post_id": "1nouefh",
"score": 1,
"stickied": false
},
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"author": "xelio9",
"awards": 0,
"body": "I know very well companies like Microsoft so to say I don’t get shocked",
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"id": "nfxfn2l",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfxcih9",
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1nouefh/i_got_pulled_off_a_cybersecurity_management/nfxfn2l/",
"post_id": "1nouefh",
"score": 2,
"stickied": false
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"author": "LetterheadCorrect276",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Tell me about it... My whole life has been this job the past month. My guess was this was supposed to be the \"let him collect a check after we fucked up\" but meanwhile I'm stepping up and all I'm hearing is good feedback and to \"continue to let him grow\" ",
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"is_submitter": true,
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"post_id": "1nouefh",
"score": 1,
"stickied": false
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1nou65j
|
CircleCI Self Hosted concurrency limits
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So I've been recently trying to self-host our CI runners to avoid the ramping costs.
I'm currently on CircleCI. I started this research by considering migrating to GitHub Actions and then self-hosting on GCP. But there's a considerable amount of repos that would need to be migrated, and there would be a huge cost to do that.
So back to trying to self-host CircleCI runners: got it to work in a couple of hours, but got hit with the 20 self-host concurrency limit thing (we're in a performance plan, not scale).
20 concurrency is far from what I need. I believe that migrating to the Scale plan and paying for the concurrency limit should fix the problem. Has anyone done something similar in the past and would be able to share what the cost per "unit of concurrency" is?
I'm just trying to evaluate things here before moving forward with anything.
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1notict
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Here's my little gift to the devops community: sshPilot
|
I've been working on [sshPilot](https://sshpilot.app), a free, opensource SSH connection manager/client for the past few weeks, and stable versions for Linux and macOS are now available.
This is meant for people who manage multiple servers and need a way to keep track of remote machines in one unified interface.
It uses your existing ~/.ssh/config as its configuration file so it's ready to use out of the box (unless you use sandboxed mode which won't touch .ssh/config)
sshPilot comes with a lot of features aimed at making life easier for a sysadmin/devops engineer including easy key generation and deployment, built-in SFTP file manager and terminal tabs.
Project page:
https://github.com/mfat/sshpilot
Downloads:
https://github.com/mfat/sshpilot/releases/latest
Flathub:
https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.mfat.sshpilot
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"author": "complead",
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"body": "For those concerned, using open source projects like sshPilot can be more secure because you can audit the code yourself or rely on community reviews. Plus, with its integration with standard keychains for storing sensitive info, it minimizes risk compared to some closed-source options. If you're cautious, running it in sandboxed mode is another layer of safety. Curious if any users have feedback on using sshPilot with large server sets?",
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"body": "Ohh a famous French IT blogger covered your tool\n\nhttps://korben.info/ssh-pilot-gestionnaire-connexions-linux.html\n\n\nAlso do you think it would make sense to fuse both your ssh pilot and systemd pilot?",
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"body": "I was actually looking for something like that thank you I will try it out.",
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"body": "This looks great. I have been using ZOC for many years which is pretty good but yours seems to have some cool key features I like the sound of (been meaning to get away from passwords for ever😳).\nI'll try it as soon as o get home from the hospital (hip replacement)😩",
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"body": "Gonna try it tomorrow. Thanks…",
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"body": "Quick feedback on your tool (maybe this is not the place and I should just extend your tool myself)\n\n- Tooltips when hovering UI buttons would be nice\n\n- I have to daily connect on ~60 different VM, before your tool I would do \"ssh XXX\" where XXX is the ID of the vm, I like it because there are some VMs I have to connect more often than other and typing \"ssh 12\" is faster that typing \"ssh 12-production-db\", the problem I have with your tool is that it edit my .ssh/config so if I want to edit the nickname in your tool like renaming \"12\" in \"12-production-db\" to gain in context it breaks my flow where I would just type \"ssh 12\" in my regular terminal, maybe I didn't read the documentation enough yet and there is something for this already, but I'd love a way to nickname the ssh connections independently of my. ssh/config\n\n- I'm sorry I don't want to sound rude and this is purely subjective but the Icon is not very pretty in my opinion\n\n\nThanks a lot for what you're giving free to the community",
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"body": "I’ve messed around with this idea for a while! I’m gonna check this out when I get home this weekend, would love to contribute.\n\nWhat are you using for integrated terminal? Have you seen the recent [libghostty](https://mitchellh.com/writing/libghostty-is-coming) announcement? I could see this being a good candidate for future use.",
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"body": "Sounds cool for people looking for a new SSH client for a replacement to standard SSH clients. \n\nPersonally for me, I block all SSH connections unless it comes from my gateway server (Apache guacamole). Hoping maybe the newer NetBird update will replace this…. But I will probably stick to Apache Guacamole.\n\nBecause of this, I do not and cannot use a local SSH client.",
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"body": "I have to SSH into dynamically generated hosts a lot. In an ideal world I'd want to provide a simple function to determine which hosts I can connect to right now (since the names and IPs change all the time). Is this something you could support?",
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"body": "Would I have to reveal any secrets to your programm to use it properly? I guess this is a question for any software especially if it handles these kind of secrets but how do I know I can trust it. In case of established tools I trust it because the community trusts them. For new projects like this I feel like getting that trust is probably the first issue in getting wider usage?",
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"body": "Thanks. Plus this has gone through security checks by Flathub before it was published on that platform.",
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"body": "Thanks for sharing. \nNot sure integrating those 2 tools is a good idea and anyone would want that. But I'd love to do a total revamp of systemd Pilot.",
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"body": "Hey thanks. Hope you enjoy it. And get well soon!",
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"author": "walterblackkk",
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"body": "You're welcome, would love to hear your thoughts.",
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"body": "Hey many thanks for your detailed feedback. \n\nEditing an alias won't break your ssh config, you can still type \"ssh 12\" and connect. What sshpilot does is that it creates a new sshconfig block that inherits your exact same settings from the original block and uses them for your new alias.",
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"body": "My second point may be a me issue, I'll just try to have a second ssh/config",
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"body": "I'm using vte and its been working great. Will definitely look into libghostty. Thanks.",
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"body": "I've been thinking about a host checking/status monitoring feature for a while. Hopefully I'll add it soon.",
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"body": "This won't store any secrets in plain text. It uses your platform's standard keychain/keyring to store passwords/private key passphrases.\nThe source code is available publicly and you can see how exactly it works. \nSecure key storage was one of my primary goals when i started this. \n\nPlus you won't have to \"save\" any secrets. That's completely optional.",
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"body": "Ah, I have an Intel Macbook pro - I'll attempt to build it with brew",
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"body": "Then I messed up somewhere or I'm using ssh/config wrong for all this time, I had originally ~60 blocks in my ssh/config file one for each VM, and your tool definitely remove the block or change its nickname if I edit the connection through sshpilot, it did not create new blocks it's using the one I already had.\n\nI tested it multiple times renaming, adding, removing connections from withing the tool and it definitely changes my one and only set of blocks in my ~/.ssh/config\n\nI'll look into it I don't want to be a burden with crappy user feedback lol",
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"body": "Yeah it creates new blocks only if you edit an alias as a separate connection. \nOtherwise it leaves your ssh config untouched, and just \"presents\" your aliases as separate connections in the ui. \n\nIf it's not still clear kindly open an issue on GitHub and share your configuration. I'll also update the relevant wiki section to make this more clear.",
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1notg9a
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Looking for some advice on a deployment as a Jr
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Hey folks,
I’m a software dev by trade, not a DevOps engineer, but I’ve landed in the deep end. My company is tiny staff-wise (it’s just me and one other guy), but we run a huge infrastructure — we’re basically our own ISP.
I’ve been tasked with rolling out a network monitoring system (NMS) for everything, and it needs to be highly available. After a lot of research, here’s the plan I came up with:
• Infra: vSphere / VMware, spread across 3 datacenters (no cloud).
• Cluster: Kubernetes with Talos, 5 control planes (2-2-1 across the DCs for quorum).
• CNI: Cilium.
• CSI: Mayastor.
• Monitoring: Zabbix via Helm chart.
I’ve spent hundreds of hours digging into this (Kubernetes, HA design, storage, CNIs, etc.), and I’ve definitely learned a ton. But I’m still not sure if I’m on the right track:
• Will this actually work the way I think it will?
• Is this anywhere close to “best practice”?
• Or… did I just massively overengineer this when there might be a simpler HA setup?
Constraints:
• No cloud — fully self-hosted.
• Storage available: NFS / TrueNAS / ZFS.
• Needs to handle large-scale infra, but the ops team is literally 2 people.
Ask: If you’ve deployed HA Zabbix (or any big NMS) — does this setup make sense? Should I stick with the K8s + Talos route, or would you recommend something more straightforward?
Any advice, feedback, or gotchas would mean a lot.
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VesselFromTheVoid
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"author": "TheDevDex",
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"body": "Honestly, this feels pretty overengineered for a 2-person team. Unless you already have a strong K8s ops practice, you’ll spend more time keeping the cluster healthy than running Zabbix. A simpler HA VM setup (2–3 Zabbix nodes behind a load balancer, DB replicated via PostgreSQL HA, storage on your TrueNAS/ZFS) will cover 95% of your needs with a fraction of the overhead. K8s makes sense if you’re standardizing the whole stack on it, but for a single NMS, keep it boring and reliable.",
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"author": "VesselFromTheVoid",
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"body": "Thanks for your reply! \n\nI do agree it is over-engineered (especially cause I’m mainly doing this by myself) I have a somewhat decent idea of k8s but obviously no where near what is needed to actually manage this once it’s deployed and running. If I had the skills (and 9 more people) I think it would be more viable to continue as we are wanting to use it more in the future for more applications.\n\nI will definitely be considering the proposal you’ve suggested!",
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"author": "TheDevDex",
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"body": "Sounds good!",
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1norwrl
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DevOps engineer needs to learn B2B/B2C authentication?
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"author": "dacydergoth",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Yes. Devops needs to know all the things to catch dev screwing up before it goes live",
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"author": "IT_Grunt",
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"body": "Yes. You should understand authentication frameworks. Devops is the ideology that a team is able to get something possibly complex like this working.",
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1nopfpa
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Creating an API test suite
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My team has an [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET) Core Web API. We are only two developers. The API is mature, and has hundreds of endpoints. We had to update our framework from .5 to .8, and now we have to test the API to make sure that migration doesn't break anything. We don't have any tests at the moment, so I am creating a test suite using Postman. Creating test scripts for every endpoint is taking forever, and I've only just started. I've resorted to just creating a smoke test of sorts that is just checking valid inputs and successful status code, until I have more time. Any advice on what to test for a very lean team. Thanks
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Sudden-Finish4578
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2025-09-26T10:38:26.377400
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"author": "psychomanmatt18",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Do you deploy to multiple environments?",
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"id": "nfttr7q",
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"author": "psychomanmatt18",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Like a developer instance, a QA instance, and then a production instance",
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"id": "nfttukg",
"is_submitter": false,
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"author": "Sudden-Finish4578",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Yes",
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"is_submitter": true,
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"author": "psychomanmatt18",
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"body": "What I would recommend is you want to test full functionality in the Dev environment at all times.\n\nWhat we do is deploy through Argo CD, and then have Argo spin up an end end tests container. In our development instance that runs calls to every single mutation of the end points that we have. (GET,POST,PUT, PATCH, DELETE)\nIf any of them fail, the pipeline immediately fails out, and does not continue to deploy to be higher environments\n\nThen in the other instances we run smoke tests kind of like what you were talking about. Just validating from environment to environment that the most common versions still works the same",
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"id": "nfuezjd",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfu5x8u",
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"post_id": "1nopfpa",
"score": 1,
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1nop7mj
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Best ops approach for AI reliability (routing fallbacks etc), cost, and compliance?
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Internally deployed AI apps and model reliability (outages, fallbacks), unpredictable usage bills, and compliance questions all seem like headaches. Are folks here mostly tracking and reacting ad hoc, or are you implementing frameworks that can automatically enforce cost and governance rules?
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nordic_lion
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/r/devops/comments/1nop7mj/best_ops_approach_for_ai_reliability_routing/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1nop7mj/best_ops_approach_for_ai_reliability_routing/
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"author": "Status-Theory9829",
"awards": 0,
"body": "We've been running AI workloads through access gateways for the cost/compliance angle. Think of it like a reverse proxy but for any service (APIs, DBs, K8s). Key insight: if all AI access goes through a single control plane, you can set spending limits, mask PII in real-time, and get proper audit trails without changing how devs actually work.",
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"author": "nordic_lion",
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"body": "Yep, single control plane is exactly the kind of unified layer that makes cost + compliance workable without killing velocity. Sounds like you’ve built that internally, which is impressive... but imagine many teams might not have the bandwidth to roll their own.",
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"body": "I'd love to take credit for it but I did not build it. We use hoopdev.",
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1nop3gb
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Hiring for API dev
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Need to hire coder to script automate. You'll use custom api to implement on. I prefer to hire US, EU/UK. Or East Asia based people. But anyone can apply. I'll pay $40/h.
You should know to use proxy, have whatsapp. After this is done i'll likely hire more /h in the future. You should say what you know about prgrms / api coding work when you send me dm and when you are available to work. It's not web dev/chatbot related work. It's api/coding related work. I pay via bank / usdt. I want to hire quick.
edit: Sorry if this post isn't allowed here. I can delete it if I should, but I tried posting on rforhire. Nothing against them, but the English wasn't fluent on some and just want some more applicants that are fluent, and more options.
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Briyo2289
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/r/devops/comments/1nop3gb/hiring_for_api_dev/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1nop3gb/hiring_for_api_dev/
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"author": "Briyo2289",
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"body": "And don't dm me if you haven't worked with API before",
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"body": "Why don't you check rocketdevs as another option. It's much faster than going through reddit. Also, you won't have to worry about the vetting of it, it's not a bidding system, it's a matching one. You can get matched to an API dev within 48 hours, and that's after the free onboarding.",
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1nok2n8
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SSL fingerprinting in action
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Hi community!
I wrote an article about SSL fingerprinting, specifically the JA3/JA4 hash. I want to provide the full context for the DevOps and security fellows, which is why this explanation is a bit lengthy and includes a lot of details.
[https://arxignis.substack.com/p/943582c1-9927-466d-b5ee-e61001b4ede0](https://arxignis.substack.com/p/943582c1-9927-466d-b5ee-e61001b4ede0)
If you have any feedback or experience on how you use this technology, please share it here!
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arxignis-security
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/r/devops/comments/1nok2n8/ssl_fingerprinting_in_action/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1nok2n8/ssl_fingerprinting_in_action/
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"author": "AdrianTeri",
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"body": "Lead with the problem/need.\n\nI'm puzzled what problem/issue you are solving with this. Expecting something along the lines that any **CA**(Certificate Authority) can issue certs against your domain and thus you are tracking for these rogue issuances.",
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"body": "The problem is that over the last several years malicious actors have gotten a lot better at hiding their origins when sending hostile network requests – for malware payloads, session hijacking, good ol DDOS attacks, really anything that they want to hide in among a lot of legitimate traffic. Many operators of high-demand sites came to find that tried-and-true methods for filtering and blocking hostile patterns, long baked into firewall rulesets, no longer worked well enough. JA3/JA4 fingerprinting methods leverage inherent characteristics of SSL/TLS connections to make it possible to regain this capability. Though my experience is that only very large and well-funded organizations can afford to implement JA3/4-based solutions themselves; many of us will encounter this technology as relatively new features rolled into enterprise-grade WAF products. Still well worth digging into and understanding.",
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"body": "That's a super answer!\n\nThat's one of our missions: to bring JA3/JA4 technology to mid-market-sized companies that can't afford big enterprise plans.",
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"author": "AdrianTeri",
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"body": "Still trying to get relevancy for majority of services as they are Client-Server even with some functions being pushed/delegated to \"the edge\".\n\nAs you've already hinted you must be a big/fat pipe like a CDN, firewall application for these problems to apply. This company should be a department in one of these handful/countable by hand \n\"pure\"/core business companies of internet. What I conclude by posting this up is this company is \"advertising\" for acquisitions.",
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"author": "arxignis-security",
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"body": "Thank your feedback.\n\nThis big company's playground is not true. We are also working with mid-sized and small companies.\n\nFor this technology, it's not necessary to be a big thing. You have a lot of options. I wrote in the article that currently, not many companies are utilizing many of the available places.\n\nThe most important thing is where SSL termination occurs for the first time. If you are not using CF or you have an enterprise plan, you can easily collect and use this data.\n\nHere is a real and simple example:\n\nGoogle: Loadbalancer -> Nginx/Ha proxy/Envoy\n\nDigitalOcean: Loadbalancer -> Nginx/Ha proxy/Envoy\n\nHetzner: Loadbalancer -> Nginx/Ha proxy/Envoy\n\nAWS: NLB -> Nginx/Ha proxy/Envoy",
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1nogxzx
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Cloud costs vs. security hardening
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We have been tightening our security posture in the cloud. more monitoring, more logging, stricter configs. The problem is every step adds cost. More logs = higher bills and more controls = slower pipelines.
Management wants both secure by design and lean spend. Reality is, the two goals clash constantly. Im confused how other teams are managing this trade off. Are you cutting scope somewhere else?
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Budget-Consequence17
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"author": "hijinks",
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"body": "its engineering.. everything you do has a + and a -. There is no perfect solution\n\nYou either spend the money with a saas or get by with 5 opensource products that get you 80% of the way there.",
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"author": "IridescentKoala",
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"body": "Everything is a trade-off, you can't have your cake and eat it too. Cut cost where you can and adjust when they realize they did not prioritize appropriately.",
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"author": "dariusbiggs",
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"body": "Identify and document the risk\n\nIdentify the cost to reduce the risk and maintain that level of risk\n\nIdentify if the risk is associated with regulatory compliance.\n\nIdentify and document which are acceptable risks and which have to be reduced or mitigated.",
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"author": "blazmrak",
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"body": "It is very simple: When management comes to you, you say \"implementing X will cost you Y\". It goes into the bottom of the backlog very quickly.",
"created_utc": 1758642033,
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"author": "kibblerz",
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"body": "What are you currently using to store logs? I've found Grafana Loki to be more lean with costs than using kibana/ElasticSearch",
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"author": "abuhd",
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"body": "What are you required to log and monitor? This is a good starting point. Write it all down.\n\nCreate a list of every metric event you monitor for each service, app, hardware, and software. (Do you actually need to monitor all this or is it just nice to have?)\n\nFigure out what's required by SLA or SOP. Ask management when you aren't sure. (How long do you need to keep the logs and events for, days? Months? Years?, maybe old logs can go into cold storage?)\n\nCut the stuff that isn't required through business approved changes.\n\nYou'll find that going through these exercises, cost will start to make more sense as you start to tally up what costs the most and its level of impact/importance",
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"author": "Comfortable_Clue5430",
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"body": "Sometimes focusing on prevention over detection saves both money and effort. less chasing issues, more efficient pipelines",
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"author": "crytek2025",
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"body": "Something’s got to give, prioritise, present cost vs returns",
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"author": "Confident-Quail-946",
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"body": "yeah this is the constant struggle. more security usually means more cost, unless you rethink the base approach",
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"author": "Motor_Rice_809",
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"body": "Our CVE noise dropped, monitoring overhead is lower, and compute cost savings are noticeable after switching some pipelines to Minimus. It helped reduce overhead without compromising security and is a lighter alternative to heavier scanners, keeping pipelines lean while still catching real issues",
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"author": "tlokjock",
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"body": "One way to square the circle is **tiered logging + cost-aware retention**. Not every log stream needs to live forever in CloudWatch/Elastic. A pattern I’ve seen work:\n\n* **Hot path**: security/audit events → short retention (7–30d) in expensive searchable storage.\n* **Warm path**: bulk app logs → ship to S3 w/ lifecycle → Glacier. Search via Athena/Loki only if needed.\n* **Cold/off**: drop the pure noise (e.g. health checks) at the edge with filters.\n\nPair that with **security controls as code** (CIS/LZ configs in Terraform/CDK). You get compliance evidence without paying for 12 months of noisy debug logs.\n\nFraming it as: *“We’re not cutting security, we’re classifying signals and paying for the right tier”* makes the convo with management easier than “we can’t afford secure + cheap.”",
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"author": "fragbait0",
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"body": "Give them the logs they ask for today and the savings they want (urgently!) tomorrow when I delete them.\n\nI'm sure as shit not paid enough to solve the humanity insanity.",
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"body": "What critical services are you using that don’t have logging turned on that they can’t already audit? You’re looking for AuthX behavior and Changes no matter what. You audit where that can happen.\n\nFocus on the boundaries. Figure out what those are. That where you need logging and how you keep it trimmed down and less noisy.",
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"author": "DehydratedButTired",
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"body": "What does having your data taken, having for send out letters and then pay fines cost? They either gamble or pay to know the are as secure as the can possibly be.",
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"body": "Be prepared and tag all costs related with X so you can calculate which team generates the most costs.\n\nAnd the next time someone complains about cost, then send this person to the team which generates the cost.\n\nFor example regarding monitoring you could also self host the Grafana stack by installing the helm charts in a Kubernetes and store the metrics/logs in an S3 bucket. That is a fraction of the cost for Datadog or Cloudwatch. Or use Grafana.com, still way cheaper than Cloudwatch.",
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"author": "bobobo5",
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"body": "Echoing what others have said, you have to break some eggs to make an omelette. Also in my opinion optimizing for infra costs ahead of developer time is a false economy unless you're at massive scale.",
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"author": "AdrianTeri",
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"body": ">Management wants both secure by design and lean spend.\n\nThere is an role/job for that called an architect. If they wish/want an LLM to do that work it's their problem.",
"created_utc": 1758645752,
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"post_id": "1nogxzx",
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"author": "Ashamed_Claim_5422",
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"body": "You guys should try less hassle expenses on cloud storing through using other platforms [like this one](https://cast.ai/?ref_id=293) especially the ones with a free full demo. we managed to cut our budget on cloud using it btw.",
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"author": "MendaciousFerret",
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"body": "Yep, this. If you make sure they are neck deep in prioritising spend, signing off business cases for security investment, reading your automated finops reports and giving you a pat on the back for the optimisations you do every month then they will have less questions.",
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1nogfe3
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Top ai bots with actual memory?
|
Has anyone found an AI chatbot that actually remembers things you mentioned a long time ago? I’ve tried a few and most of them are great for a quick chat but as soon as you start a new conversation, it’s like they’ve completely forgotten who you are.
Nectar AI is the best I’ve seen so far. But I need more comparison. would love to hear what others are using that has good memory features, anything else out there worth checking out?
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Ok_Roll_5714
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2025-09-26T10:38:32.212312
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"author": "sylvester_0",
"awards": 0,
"body": "In before removal: read up on the background of how LLMs work. None of them truly have \"memory.\" Some fake it by providing past context with every request. Obviously passing in lots of context gets slow and expensive.",
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1nogf8y
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Feeling stuck 2 months into new role — Cloud vs Full Stack vs Staying Put?
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Hi everyone,
I’m a bit lost and hoping for advice from people who’ve been through similar situations.
Background:
-Graduated last year.
-Worked 1 year as a Frontend Developer, then resigned.(Bad management)
-Currently 2 months into a Software Developer trainee role. Most of my work is implementing and deploying customized billing solutions acting as a bridge between products, billing systems, payment gateways, and API integrations.
Where I’m struggling:
-I dont have a problem with my current work, but I find myself thinking sometimes if this kind of job would help me leverage my career and have a better salary in the next one or two years.
-I’m interested in Cloud but I’m worried salaries for entry-level cloud roles might be lower, and I really need to save money right now.
-I’ve also thought about Full Stack Development, but job posts usually require CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and other tools I haven’t touched yet — which feels overwhelming for me rn.
What I’ve done so far:
-AWS Cloud Practitioner certified.(Wanna take this to the next lvl and add AWS SAA, but unsure if this is gonna be smart or not)
-Built a few personal websites.
-Revamping my portfolio.
What I’m unsure about:
Should I stick to my current role for now and see how it goes?
Should I start building cloud skills even if it means a possible salary reset later?
Or should I pivot toward full stack and gradually learn DevOps-related tools as I go?
I just don’t want to waste time going down the wrong path or end up struggling financially.
Any advice from you guys would mean a lot.
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"body": "Rule of thumb: try and stick with a company/role for 2 years. If you resigned with one company after 1 year only as your first job and then the next one just a few months in... I would think twice about that sort of resume landing on my desk.\n\nI'll be honest with you: you sound like you are focused on your pay. Which is as an employer a really bad sign. It means that you'll just go work for whoever pays you more, and you aren't worth investing in. You should focus on career/expertise/knowledge growth because that will be the fastest way to get more money. Switching jobs only gets you so far: especially if you switch on a less than annual basis. \n\nYou seem to be doing the direct opposite of what you are trying to achieve.\n\nStick with your role, work hard: EARN that paycheck that you seem to think you deserve. Honestly unless you HARD pivot there is no \"salary reset\" unless you keep switching jobs this often. And honestly DevOps is a role historically for \"veterans\" people who have been in the trenches and have \"seen it all\" you are barely sticking around long enough to know where the coffee machine is.\n\nNote: DevOps isn't *only* for veterans and you can find entry level DevOps but you need a decent team there to support you or you'll just be filling in on-call gaps and running around with your hair on fire constantly.",
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Connecitng Metrics ↔ Traces with Exemplars in OpenTelemetry
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A hands-on guide to exemplars, how they connect metric points to the exact trace that caused them, why they matter for faster debugging and cost efficiency, and how to enable them end‑to‑end with OpenTelemetry (apps → collector → backend).
[https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2025-09-22-connecting-metrics-to-traces-with-exemplars/view](https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2025-09-22-connecting-metrics-to-traces-with-exemplars/view)
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Why should I invest time learning programming if I do not want to be a software engineer(but a devops engineer/modern sysadmin)?
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I want to re-study(I already have a degree where I badly studied them) these subjects to an extent:
- data structures
- algorithms
- compiler design
- operating system
- database management system
But I am not getting a good reason to study these subjects as an aspiring DevOps engineer from Nepal. The time investment required to study all these in depth would be 3-6 months of full time study. I am currently unemployed. So the important question is, "Is my time better spent learning kubernetes and other Ops stuffs?"
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"author": "redvelvet92",
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"body": "Why bother learning anything at all?",
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"body": "DevOps people should already be a senior in one of the two roles you're merging (Dev/SysAdmin) \n\nSo whatever gets you to that level faster, if you have zero experience in either and already have a degree I would move onto a job and look for experience.",
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"author": "Coffeebrain695",
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"body": "Most software engineers don't have a strong understanding of those concepts, let alone platform/DevOps engineers. The exception may be if they're in research or programming microchips or something. But you don't need to know about compilers or operating systems to build a Python application for example. In DevOps, writing code is necessary so you can automate things.",
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"author": "hw999",
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"body": "As a devops engineer, your customer is the dev team. How are you going to effectively help that customer if you dont speak their language and understand their pain points. All the best devops people come from the software side.",
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"body": "DevOps still means writing production-grade code (infra, pipelines, monitoring, etc.), and many mid/big tech companies in NA still do SWE-style coding rounds. Fundamentals help with both day-to-day and interviews, but of course infra knowledge is non-negotiable in this field.",
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"body": "DevOps engineer without software engineering it’s just IT Sysadmin.",
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"body": "This is actually difficult on the hiring side. I will see 20 candidates before one can code. I can’t move you past the technical screen if you can’t write software. These are software engineering roles focused infrastructure and operations tasks. Not rebranded sysadmin/IT roles.\n\nI’d actually encourage you to build experience as a backend engineer and get really good at this stuff. When you see the process for delivering software and participate in it you will be more effective and empathetic to the developers you’re trying to accelerate. Then if you want to transition into the role you will have a much easier time.",
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"body": "A language like Python of Go is useful as a DevOps engineer but you are completely justified in that it's not a major part of the role. I would say it's more useful to be proficient at it if you are a Platform Engineer or SRE.\n\nYou're not wrong.",
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"author": "anno2376",
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"body": "What exactly is a ‘modern SysAdmin’? 😂\nThe traditional SysAdmin role is effectively obsolete.\n\nIn the DevOps world, coding skills are non-negotiable. The strongest DevOps professionals combine a solid software engineering background with infrastructure expertise — or vice versa.\n\nAnd software engineering itself goes far beyond just ‘coding’ or develop",
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"author": "courage_the_dog",
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"body": "This is the main issue I see nowadays with the saturated market for these types of roles.\n\nNo offence but a lot of times it's people from south asia that went to a bootcamp that teaches the bare minimum (sometimes even less) to get the quickets job possible instead of actually studying because you want to learn the field because you like it.\n\nYou might not have to learn a deep understanding of all the concepts you mentioned, that would depend on the industry you are in.\nFor example I've never had to use data structures in my line of work, though i did study it at university though I've probably forgot everything.\nI've worked as a linux systadmin/sys engineer, and now devops focusing on linux infrastructure for about 10years total.",
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"author": "Rough-Lavishness-466",
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"body": "There's dev in DevOps.",
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"author": "Low-Opening25",
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"body": "You will never be good DevOps if you don’t understand SWE.\n\nYou don’t need to be SME in any programming language, but you should understand all the fundamentals and be able to read and understand code and offer to write code\ntoo. You should also have good understanding of data structures.\n\nAdditionally the more senior DevOps you become you will also be expected to write tools and scripts in python, js, go, bash, as well as debug and fix tools/scripts other wrote.\n\nWithout SWE skills you will be at best a decent system operator that responds to tickets, clicks buttons and occasionally runs scripts someone better paid wrote, it’s a dead end IT career wise.",
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"author": "lwjohnst",
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"body": "DevOps is literally a cultural practice, not a job (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps). DevOps is the joining of development with operations so that any individual team is responsible for the full pipeline. So yes, you need to learn programming. It's literally in the name (Dev = development).\n\n \n(Yes, I know many companies have \"DevOps\" teams and positions, but they are probably also doing \"Agile\" too :eyeroll: and \"AI\" and \"AGI\" and any other trendy words without understanding what those words actually mean. You probably want to stay away from those types of companies if you value your mental well-being.)",
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"body": "Software Engineer roles pay a lot more than devops for equivalent experience.",
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"author": "xagarth",
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"body": "You shouldn't. Just learn proper prompting.",
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"author": "PhroznGaming",
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"body": "The fact that you think you can learn all of this in depth, in 3 to 6 months is adorable",
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"author": "courage_the_dog",
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"body": "Yeah, why learn networking as well i dont wanna touch routers",
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"author": "ZippityZipZapZip",
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"body": "So a DevOps junior would be a Dev or SysAdmin senior?\n\nTruely the elite.",
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"author": "tastuwa",
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"body": "I have 2.5 years of linux helpdesk experience.",
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"body": "I really want to learn them. Maybe I can work towards being a university teacher? But I do not have a masters degree.",
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"author": "Zenin",
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"body": "Agreed generally, but some is just overkill. Most software engineers don't actually grok much less use advanced DS&A. When's the last time you actually implemented a sort from scratch? DevOps work almost never will touch them.",
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"author": "tastuwa",
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"body": "Agreed.This used to be a 1 semester curriculum at our university. I am not learning in that depth (like designing compiler and stuffs). I cancelled out compiler design from here.",
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"body": "To be effective, generally yes.\n\n\nYour job is to get ahead of the needs of these roles and others with a deep and practical enough understanding of them to automate much of the process tasks entirely out of human hands.\n\n\nWe use mostly high level \"easy\" tools like yaml and Python, but it's not about understanding the syntax, it's about knowing what to write.",
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"author": "courage_the_dog",
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"body": "Well yes, you can't really automate and improve the process for deployments if you dont really know the basics of those deployments and systems.",
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"author": "quiet0n3",
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"body": "I find the idea of a Jnr DevOps silly. It is by design a Snr level role. \nBasically you can be learning one side of the job on the fly, but trying to learn both at the same time would make you very ineffective.",
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"body": "I would continue working towards been a snr SysAdmin then.",
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"author": "Zenin",
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"body": "Then learn them to learn them. I did, informally, mostly playing on \"leet code\" challenge sites that make a game of it.\n\n\nI almost never use that knowledge directly in my DevOps work, but I enjoy understanding how things work under the hood and that better understanding does inform my work a bit.",
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"author": "hw999",
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"body": "True. Devops people should focus more on software engineering, and less on computer science.",
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"author": "PhroznGaming",
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"body": "Rofl bro. If you think a semester even teaches you enough of one of these for a job youre out of your mind.",
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"author": "JimroidZeus",
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"body": "Gotta know the processes well before you can automate them!",
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"author": "ZippityZipZapZip",
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"body": "Don't give career advice based on an idealized (and theoretical) representation. \n\nYou're blowing hot air, that is ok. I can see through it, they maybe can't.",
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"body": "The dev-part is lightweight scripting. It is very much about experience with the tools. One can easily learn that on the job.\n\nI get this is the DevOps sub and we're circlejerking a bit. Or maybe you have different inplementations of the paradigm which has actual quality product/business coding too. \n\nIn my experience it is a hands-on Ops-heavy and scripting dev, ticket crunching, departement / group. Again, literally 0 reason to get into that field indirectly. And the idea of a senior developer coming into it, always a bit wonky.",
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"body": "You are correct. But that was our curriculum in university. Maybe that is why I did bad. There used to be 7 subjects/semester with labs of around 4 of them. 11 subjects.",
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"author": "Zenin",
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"body": "I've only been doing this professionally for likely longer than you've been alive, but I'm sure you're right that experience doesn't matter.",
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"body": "I can totally see why some people would see it that way. I have filled a few roles that were like that. But I have also filled roles that leveraged higher level Dev skills for automating things. Like internal libraries for IAC tooling to ensure compliance with certain things, very involved and integrated automation that linked together multiple tools and systems, full blown custom internal tooling to close gaps in business needs, etc \nDifferent places do DevOps differently I guess.\n\nI was a SysAdmin before moving over to DevOps so it was a wild ride having to cram, python, Java, node, typescript, Golang, .net core and that was just my first DevOps role. I can't imagine having to learn the systems side of thing at the same time.",
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"body": "Tech is one of those things, that in my opinion, requires outside learning. It's not one of those things that you can just learn in a book and then know how to do in the real world, at least not well. If you want to go into basic IT support, it definitely doesn't need outside learning but if you want to go higher than that, it does.",
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"body": "I agree that experience matters greatly. You wrongly suggest that one needs to go into the field indirectly, as if you should follow the way DevOps (the second version) came to be.\n\nLet's not kid ourselves and face the fact that it is mostly glue scripting and setting up an array of tools, etc.\n\nThe notion that you need to be senior on the dev or ops side to even enter the field is simply absurd. \n\nYou can learn stuff on the job itself.",
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"body": "Yeah. Your story kind of sobers me up. It leads to the boring 'it depends'. I do think we all agree on that 't-shaped' (ugh) profile, a preference for experience. And there being much domain-specific knowledge involved. \n\nIn some orgs you can start in DevOps, in some it's a bit much. Maybe it is linked to the maturity level. Immature versus highly mature, leading to ops versus dev dominance with less complexity involved due to domain-crossing. Obviously a bit of a stupid generalization but it examplifies that the overal scope of work is undefined and varied too.",
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"body": "To clarify i mean outside learning as hobbies, self projects, home automation, personal tools, etc.",
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"body": "Please suggest something. I have prepared a plan already. I am looking to refine it. Basically next 70 days, I will invest studying these subjects important concepts. Instead of theory, I will go for DDIA books etc.",
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"body": "It's going to take me far longer to write a spec up to hand to a junior to script all that glue correctly than it'd take me to just write it myself.\n\nAnd that was a truism before AI entered the room.\n\nAgain, that \"glue scripting\" requires that you know what you're gluing together, why, and what details matter, including tertiary stakeholders. You can't be effective at toolsmithing to support developers, operations, and other stakeholders in the SDLC...when you don't solidly grok any of those disciplines. \n \nAt that point your net-value to the org is negative. That's not employment, that's charity. We call those people interns, not coworkers.\n\nUltimately the professional discipline of DevOps is the automated application of experience. It is the codification of sage wisdom. So it doesn't matter how good you are at automating, if you lack the experience you've got nothing *to* automate. You might as well be a great typist; no one cares how well you can type if you've got nothing to write.",
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"body": "Yeah I worked at a consulting firm for a while. So filled many different roles at different companies. There is a very broad range in maturity and also just a broad concept of what DevOps is. Some think it's just glorified SysAdmins in the cloud, others thing the cloud means you don't need systems people so it's just Devs throwing together IAC to get the app deployed. \n\nOthers have a really strong DevOps culture/understanding and you get to do some awesome advanced work.",
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"body": "Hm. Yeah fair points. I think the truth lies in the middle. And that middle is close to your position, as I was being a bit stubborn on negating the 'one needs to be senior, do X or Y first' part.\n\nBeing solid in one aspect is highly preferable and often a requirement to start. Experience is very much preferred. I do think the DevOps roles can be so varied, there are orgs that allow starters and that is something to look out for.",
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1noee2p
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🚀 Introducing: GitHub Workflow Dashboard
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Hey everyone! 👋
I'm excited to share my latest project, the **GitHub Workflow Dashboard**, designed to help you **monitor, filter, and visualize your GitHub Actions runs** with a clean web interface.
**What is it?**
* A simple, configurable dashboard that connects with your GitHub account using a Personal Access Token.
* Instantly see the status of your workflow runs across selected repositories.
* Filter, search, and sort workflows by repo, status, and run history.
* No complex setup—just drop in your token, select repos, and you’re up and running!
**Key Features:**
* **Live run status:** View your most recent Actions runs and get instant feedback on failures or successes.
* **Repo filtering:** Focus on the repositories and workflows that matter most to you.
* **Lightweight & open source:** Runs locally; no 3rd-party servers or analytics.
* **Responsive UI:** Perfect for desktops, tablets, and mobile devices.
**Why did I build this?**
As someone who manages multiple projects and Actions pipelines, I needed a way to quickly check the “health” of all my repos without poking through each repo’s Actions tab. If you find GitHub's default UI a bit tedious for this, this project might help!
**How to try it:**
1. Visit the repo: [github-workflow-dashboard](https://github.com/cheney-yan-ifl/github-workflow-dashboard)
2. Grab your GitHub Personal Access Token (with `repo` access)
3. Run the app (see the README for install instructions)
4. Configure your dashboard and start tracking your workflows!
**Feedback & Contributions**
I’d love feedback, issue reports, and PRs from the community. Let me know if there are features or integrations you’d like to see!
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"body": "I'll take a look! This addresses a major pain point that I have at my current work as well: GitHub really does not provide you with a good overview of all your workflows across dozens of repositories, and I have not managed to find any good open source solutions so far. Very interested :)",
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"body": "This is cool as im not a big fan of GA UI. Do you have a live demo? Also, which license is it under?",
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"body": "Nice works man, ill try it later, my current setup to monitor workflows is just a bunch of scripts that pull from github api, and load it on excels.",
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"body": "Here's my honest feedback after giving it a shot:\n\n1. For some reason, not all of my workflows are loaded properly. I'm loading from five repositories, but for some reasons not all workflows show up. \n\n2. I wish there was a way to select only specific workflows from repositories. I have an average of six workflows for each repository, and I mainly care about deployment workflows and dependency checks.\n\n3. More filters would be nice. I've added a workflow name filter, will raise a PR later.",
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1noe636
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I want to do a devops apprenticeship
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Hello All, I am a Java developer with 4 years of experience but I want to move into devops, I know the tools, the commands and the concepts. But I am not getting any opportunity to apply my knowledge also creating a personal project is expensive because AWS is a paid service( if you can suggest me how to create a personal project then it will be great as well) also I want to learn about the day to day task and the troubleshooting skills. So, if anyone is interested in having a apprentice. I will be happy to join.
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"body": "Use AWS free tier (even if you need to make a new account to do so). I believe you can usually get credits for educational use too (they might not do that anymore tho not sure).\n\nJust do some self learning and then start to apply to junior devop positions",
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"body": "Thanks, I will work on your inputs",
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1nobwn0
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Best self-managed Kubernetes distro on AWS
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Hello fellas, I started working some months ago in a company that is full AWS, but that has seen many generations of Engineer pass and go, everyone started something and did not finish it. Now I took the quest to organise infra in a better way and consolidating the different generations of Terraform and ArgoCD laying around.
We are currently using EKS and we are facing a cost management issue, I am trying to tackle it optimizing the resources allocated to the different deployments and cronjobs, leveraging node groups and the usual stuff.
But I would really love to move away from EKS, it is expensive and, IMHO, really complicated to manage. I can see the point of using it when you have few mid level Engineers, but as I wish to raise the level of the team, that is not going to be an issue.
I already worked with different K8S distro on AWS: rancher, rke2, k3s, but I need something that "just works", with not much hassle. One of the "strong points" (if we can say so) that the company has in favour of EKS is that it is easy to upgrade (that's not true, it is easy to upgrade the control plane and the managed nodes, but then you have to remember to upgrade all the addons and the helm charts you deployed, and they, basically, didn't know about it */me facepalm*).
I created, some time ago, a whole flow to use RKE2: packer to create the AMIs, terraform+ansible to run the upgrades, but it was still a bit fragile and an upgrade would require some days for each cluster.
Now I am looking at `talos`, although I did not manage to make it work as I wish on my home lab, in the past I took a look to `kubespray` and `kubeadm`.
In your opinion, what is the best option to bring up a K8S cluster on AWS, using ASGs for on demand instances and karpenter for spot, that is easy to upgrade?
EDIT: why is everywhere scared of managing Kubernetes? Why everything thinks that it takes many human resources? If you set it up correctly once, then it keeps working with no big issues. Each time I had problems was because I DID something wrong.
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"author": "nooneinparticular246",
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"body": "How will switching away from EKS help with costs? Is the control plane really your biggest cost saving opportunity? How many are you running? \n\nAlso, assuming that you’ll eventually hand this infra over to another engineer to own, is it really worth adding the risks/complexity of a self hosted k8s? \n\nIf EKS gets broken you can at least phone AWS support as a last resort.",
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"body": "If you think EKS is complicated to manage, then you are going to have a bad time anywhere else.\n\nReading through your post, I would say you need to dig into some stuff.\n\nYou say cost, but the eks overhead cost is minimal. Did you design your node setup to be cost efficient?\n\nYou complain that EKS is hard to upgrade. But note that it's hard to upgrade all the stuff IN your cluster. That's literally how Kubernetes works!\n\nI'd probably get some more Kubernetes and aws experience before making any rash decisions. Although what you are looking for is probably something along the lines of ECS or Fargate.",
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"body": "As for ASG vs karpenter, go with karpenter. Depending on how large your ASGs are, you can save quite a bit of money by not using them. You can also save money by having karpenter pick nodes that are cheaper to run than what you may pick. Karpenter will also keep nodes/pods in the same AZ when it cycles nodes.",
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"body": "You complain about having a small team but insist on abandoning managed Kubernetes and roll your own. Are you really thinking this through or do you not really understand what you're getting into? I think it's the latter.",
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"body": "How big is the app? Can it be ported to ECS to save cost? Moving to ECS would save control plane cost and of all the driver containers that have to run on all nodes, no upgrade headache. ECS is much simpler than EKS and can easily handle a big application.",
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"body": "What's your team size and node size? \nI had made an evaluation self-managed operation cost is not fit small operation team. \nBut if your case is large size node. self-managed would be great. \nPersonally I would use like flatcar or taloslinux",
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"body": "TL;DR it won't",
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"body": "You have your points, but I always had an hard time with EKS, while setting up kubernetes clusters running on RKE2 on EC2 instances has always been flawless.\n\nFor sure a big part of my disappointment comes from the fact that I inherited an infrastructure that has been setup (badly) by someone else.\n\nBut still EKS, like several other AWS managed services, does not give me enough confidence, as most of the core stuff is hidden.",
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"body": "Thanks for the shoutout (I'm from vCluster.) In vCluster Platform, we just released Auto Nodes (https://www.vcluster.com/docs/vcluster/next/configure/vcluster-yaml/private-nodes/auto-nodes), which uses Karpenter to do the thing you were talking about. A combination of things would probably help, like quotas and teaching your users how to reduce workload sizes. We help out with rightsizing and creating VMs based on a set of different options, which might be useful. There are other features that help scale down workloads when they aren't being used. You could look into options like Knative to scale to zero based on usage too for production workloads.",
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"body": ">Similarly overly large pod resource requests can often lead to over provisioning of your VMs\n\nThat's one of the problems I am working on, indeed.\n\nI already tamed the cloud controller when using RKE2 on EC2 and I had quite good results with load balancers and storage.\n\nAbout LBs, I am not that happy with dynamic creation of target groups and such, I prefer to create an NLB, add target groups for the worker nodes and have everything bluntly forwarded to the ingress controller.",
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"body": "I have always used both ASGs AND karpenter. I need some stable nodes, managed by ASGs, to run core components, while I can use karpenter provided nodes for the \"normal\" workloads",
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"body": "I have been managing kubernetes clusterS, of varying sizes, for the last 5 years, I have my set of tools (ansible, python, shell) and my bag of expertise.\nAnd, to be honest, I find much more time consuming managing EKS than a self-managed kubernetes.\nThis morning, all of a sudden, one cluster was unable to mount volumes because the aws-ebs-csi addon got corrupted somehow.\n\nFor sure the base I am starting from is not ideal, I did not set up those clusters, but I would still prefer to move away from addons, VPC CNI, IAM roles, bad designed authentication and all that crap.",
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"body": "ECS is not an option, I would setup a fleet of docker swarm nodes instead of using that other pile of badly assembled parts that is ECS.",
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"body": "That is not an issue, I can manage a fleet of k8s by myself, with the right tools.\nI will take a look at flatcar, thanks",
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"author": "AkelGe-1970",
"awards": 0,
"body": "> If EKS gets broken you can at least phone AWS support as a last resort.\n\nLOL",
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"id": "nfrdyc4",
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"post_id": "1nobwn0",
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"author": "AkelGe-1970",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Well, in my personal experience a self managed Kubernetes cluster is less expensive (as TCO) than a self managed one",
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"id": "nfrf234",
"is_submitter": true,
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"post_id": "1nobwn0",
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"author": "GrandJunctionMarmots",
"awards": 0,
"body": "\"As most of the core stuff is hidden\". THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT!\n\nYou are literally saying you would rather manage your masters and etcd as an extra workload in addition to making the cluster run smoother.\n\nI've worked with people like you, always favoring complexity over function because they want knobs to twist for no reason. I hope you learn the error in your ways because people like you end up making complex infrastructure for no reason and driving people away. Yeah you got to be a hero by \"revamping\" the infrastructure but at the cost of your replacement probably going \"What the fuck\".",
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"body": "The only workgroups I would run , would be those that I’d assign karpenter to, otherwise karpenter nodes provide more than enough stability, even when running stateful sets that can’t really go down. \nPoint being, ASG is not a free service, karpenter will give you a better experience and save you money.",
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"author": "AkelGe-1970",
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"body": "Ok, maybe today I am not at my best, so I forget some pieces.\n\nYou don't know how I work, actually I am the one that wants to come up with stable things, hide the nitty gritty and have something easy to manage, I can prove it to you if you want ;)\n\nOn the other side all the automated stuff works fine until they don't, don't you agree?\n\nAll the times that I had to work on something that hides some of the details I always ended being bitten sooner or later.\n\nThat's why I am okay with the higher level of abstraction, but I want to know what is happening under the hood, so I can understand what is broken when something breaks.\n\nI must confess that with EKS I never had big problems of low level issues, to be honest.\n\nStill the burden of managing the control plane too is not that big, don't you agree?\nI mean, I never had big issues with rke2 or k3s, just some time you need to defrag etcd, but that also is quite rare.\n\nI don't want to be the hero, trust me, in 30 years of career I had my moments of glory.\nActually I want to be the one that comes up with something easy and stable, that is easy to pass to other people.",
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"body": "Yes, I think you are right. I am using karpenter only for spot instances, but for sure I can replace ASGs with karpenter and some on demand instance",
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"body": "Well, I reread you answer and that's what I am doing: having a small node group to run the core components, i.e. karpenter, prometheus, alertmanager, the stuff that needs to be up all the time.",
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"post_id": "1nobwn0",
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1nobne3
|
How do you manage ADO pull requests directly in VS Code?
|
Our team works with Azure DevOps Repos, and the constant context switching between the browser and VS Code for PR reviews is killing productivity. It feels clunky to review code in one UI while actually coding in another.
What would really help is being able to:
- Create new PRs right after pushing a branch
- List and checkout branches for review
- Block commits to restricted branches
- Approve/Reject/Request changes directly in-editor
- Add comments, reply, resolve threads
- Even make inline code suggestions with full IntelliSense and linter support
Basically, reviewing in VS Code itself instead of juggling tabs.
So my question is that Has anyone found a good way to handle PRs for Azure DevOps repos inside VS Code? Is there an extension, a script, or even a hacky workflow that makes this easier? Or is everyone just living with the browser workflow?
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Peace_Seeker_1319
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/r/devops/comments/1nobne3/how_do_you_manage_ado_pull_requests_directly_in/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1nobne3/how_do_you_manage_ado_pull_requests_directly_in/
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"author": "-username-----",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Nothing official for ADO. Visual studio 2019 has an extension. IntelliJ has a paid extension. Vs code has a broken and abandoned extension.",
"created_utc": 1758698385,
"id": "nfwqs1q",
"is_submitter": false,
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"post_id": "1nobne3",
"score": 2,
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"author": "JNikolaj",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Honestly one of the best thing about ADO is its PUllRequest overview - meanwhile I hate how GitHub PR legit requires a extension which is average compared to what ADO have",
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"author": "Peace_Seeker_1319",
"awards": 0,
"body": "I see",
"created_utc": 1758821359,
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"is_submitter": true,
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"post_id": "1nobne3",
"score": 1,
"stickied": false
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1no9o7b
|
Setting up fresh infra for my new freelancing work - is my strategy solid?
|
I’m setting up my new **software development freelancing "company"**, and I’m currently in the planning phase. Would love some input from people who’ve done this before.
# Current Setup
I have two domains + two VPS/root servers:
|Domain|Server|Nickname|Usage|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|||||
|[**myCompany.com**](http://mycompany.com/)|4c AMD EPYC 9645, 8 GB DDR5 ECC, 256 GB NVMe SSD, 1 IPv4)|BaseFort01|Admin / Control / Company Website|
|[**myCompany.cloud**](http://mycompany.cloud/)|8c AMD EPYC 9645, 16 GB DDR5 ECC, 512 GB NVMe SSD, 1 IPv4)|BaseCamp01|Client SaaS platform|
* I plan to add more **BaseForts** later (maybe 1 more, mainly for HA).
* For **BaseCamps**, I’ll map subdomains for each client app. Some clients might have multiple apps, so scaling strategy is a question for me. Current subdomain strategy looks like this - [app1.client1.mycompany.cloud](http://app1.client1.mycompany.cloud/), [app2.client1.mycompany.cloud](http://app2.client1.mycompany.cloud/), [app1.client2.mycompany.cloud](http://app1.client2.mycompany.cloud/) etc..
# Planned Approach
**1. BaseFort servers** → Admin/control plane, company website, HA setup later.
**2. BaseCamps** → Client SaaS apps. Scale to more as needed BaseCamp01, 02 etc...
Planning to use **Dokploy** on BaseFort and add BaseCamps using its **multiserver** feature.
# Questions
1. Does this sound like a reasonable starting strategy?
2. How would professionals approach this?
3. What all do I need to consider to use Dokploy?
Would really appreciate any pointers or criticism on my setup before I go too deep into it.
**PS.** I am in this predicament because I am building two projects right now.
One for a manufacturing company - custom ERP along with a team chat module.
One for a small hospital - custom HMS, specifically Patient onboarding and OPD prescription modules with some automations involved in generating those prescriptions.
I expect to work on these weird highly specific projects to the client needs a lot.
Also, I have ADHD so.... My brain won't let me get past the setup phase to building phase unless the setup phase is planned properly. No hate please.
I use AI for formatting and arranging my thoughts that's why it might seem AI generated but its not.
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devbatshi
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/r/devops/comments/1no9o7b/setting_up_fresh_infra_for_my_new_freelancing/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1no9o7b/setting_up_fresh_infra_for_my_new_freelancing/
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2025-09-26T10:38:41.920115
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"author": "jack-dawed",
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"body": "This sounds way overkill/complicated. It sounds like you’re doing this for yourself. It’s fine if you want to use Dokploy for selfhosted learning, but as a pro, you must prioritize velocity and cost effectiveness. Owning infra for clients creates liability problems.\n\nAs a freelancer, you should work with what the client already has, eg AWS, GCP, Vercel. One of my clients is on Aptible because of HIPAA (healthtech). I’ve had 5 contracts this year.\n\nIf it’s a greenfield project, I almost always prefer Railway and prepare a migration plan to cloud later. This is usually very straightforward since Railway can use Docker images, and I usually setup Docker Compose for local dev which is easy to translate to Helm charts.\n\nIs this your full time job? Have you done freelancing/contracting/consulting before? If not, I highly suggest you join an agency first before starting your own.\n\nJust put stuff on Railway and static sites on Cloudflare Pages. You can make $200-300k per year if you know what you’re doing. You don’t want to waste time having to manage all this infra when you should be shipping and delivering value to your clients. I highly doubt any client would care that their stuff is self hosted on your setup.",
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"author": "Ok_Needleworker_5247",
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"body": "Self-hosting can be valuable for learning but might not be cost-effective long-term. For scaling client apps, have you considered containerization with Docker? It streamlines deployment and management. Also, Kubernetes (or k3s) on your VPS could offer a robust strategy for handling multiple apps efficiently. To integrate with Dokploy, check out [this article](https://dokploy.io/docs/getting-started) on setup. Since you're dealing with specific projects, leverage API-first designs for flexibility. With your setup, maintaining focus on scalability and security is key, especially given your projects' specialized nature.",
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"author": "theReasonablePotato",
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"body": "Stop thinking about this.\n\n\nFind clients, a portfolio item, get testimonials. Three RELEVANT testimonials supporting the portfolio item are usually enough.\n\n\nAbove 10 testimonials for a given item the benefit diminishes.\n\n\nTo keep it simple, just Dockerize what you do. You can deploy them anywhere.\n\n\nThe moment you see client start preferring one thing, start offering it as a default option.\n\n\nHappy hunting. :)",
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"author": "The_Career_Oracle",
"awards": 0,
"body": "I’m sure you’ve done your due diligence in regards to to legal, but if not pose your questions and I’m sure some Reddit lawyers will gladly check gpt for ya and get you situated",
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"id": "nfzd5hz",
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"author": "devbatshi",
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"body": "I am in this predicament because I am building two projects right now. \nOne for a manufacturing company - custom ERP along with a team chat module. \nOne for a small hospital - custom HMS, specifically Patient onboarding and OPD prescription modules with some automations involved in generating those prescriptions.\n\nI expect to work on these weird highly specific projects to the client needs a lot.\n\n \nI do like your railway and Cloudflare idea. I will look more into it. \n\nThanks for your response.",
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"is_submitter": true,
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"author": "zenware",
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"body": "True, I think their expectation or reality could be that doing it this way is a bit cheaper? I remember when I first did some freelancing 15+ years ago, most clients were cool, but one client in my first year didn’t pay me, and I had developed and deployed my work to servers they owned, so they got away with the goods. It was just small enough that it wasn’t worth pursuing in small claims and just big enough that I was scorned. — After that I always developed and demonstrated work on infrastructure that the customer didn’t have full control over, and delivered the final work after payment. Sometimes that meant literally on a server I was paying for and managing, but fairly often it meant Heroku (I guess railway is the modern version of that?)",
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"author": "xagarth",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Nothing wrong in self hosting if they like too.\nIt's just going to be a bit weird to selhost several apps this way, it's a bit raw.\nMight just want to put k3s on top of that infra for flexibility.",
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"id": "nfq7gxd",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfq49zq",
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"score": 1,
"stickied": false
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"author": "shashi_N",
"awards": 0,
"body": "I want to Join an Agency How can I join Tired with This Upwork proposals race by the way for Devops",
"created_utc": 1758610264,
"id": "nfq7gzu",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfq49zq",
"permalink": "/r/devops/comments/1no9o7b/setting_up_fresh_infra_for_my_new_freelancing/nfq7gzu/",
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"author": "jack-dawed",
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"body": "If you’re doing these projects solo, you should be wiring together open source solutions rather than making your own.\n\nFor ERPs, I’ve deployed Dolibarr and ERPNext for clients before. Railway might have a template you can use, but I haven’t checked yet. There’s probably something for HMS too.\n\nDont forget that if you are developing these custom solutions, if anything breaks, you have to fix it. Factor that in while picking up other contracts.",
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"author": "zenware",
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"body": "You can point your own domains at these too if you think that’s a nice way for clients to look at it, but most clients don’t care what the actual link says as long as they can view a demo of the work or whatever.\n\nAlthough it sounds like maybe you’re trying to set up the actual software “Basecamp”? Which I’ve never used, and maybe there’s a better forum for advice on that.",
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"author": "jack-dawed",
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"body": "Yeah nothing wrong with self hosting as a hobby. I have a Pi cluster with k3s and a Proxmox box running my homelab. It’s just not a good idea to mix your hobby with your professional life.",
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"id": "nfq82xn",
"is_submitter": false,
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"score": 7,
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"author": "jack-dawed",
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"body": "It is like applying to any software job, but there will be a stronger emphasis on client facing communication.\n\nHaving a really good portfolio helps. Hackathons are great ways to fill up your portfolio.",
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"id": "nfq89xx",
"is_submitter": false,
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"author": "devbatshi",
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"body": "Bang-on using erpnext with customizations. Dokploy offers a template for it already. Even the HMS will likely be using open source project. I was thinking of deving it using the frappe framework itself. they have released so many new features to their dev framework recently.",
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1no8n27
|
Stuck choosing between “too much responsibility” and “not enough growth”
|
I have two offers, and they feel completely different. I had a vague sense of this while preparing for the interviews. Although the title is the same, the actual work content and psychological pressure are very different.
At a startup, every conversation feels like a test to see if I can survive as the sole dev person. During my preparation, I constantly used leecode to review, practiced mock system design problems with beyz coding assistant, and even had gpt as my interview coach for mock interviews. cuz their information is very difficult to find online. Sure enough, they asked the same question: "If the cluster goes down and you're left alone, what would you do?"
At a large company, the atmosphere is different. Interviews focus on structured processes and teamwork. Even the interview question I found on the IQB interview question bank matched their question: "Tell me about a time you worked with a cross-functional team." Predictable, stable... but the opportunities for advancement seem slim.
So now I'm torn. Startups are unstable, but they can accelerate my learning process. Large companies won't suddenly collapse and go bankrupt. With mentors available, it can take years to master even a single part of devops. There's also the risk of layoffs. Any advice?
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CreditOk5063
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/r/devops/comments/1no8n27/stuck_choosing_between_too_much_responsibility/
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{
"author": "IIGrudge",
"awards": 0,
"body": "How early are you in your career. What's your tolerance for stress. If early I would lean more towards startup. If your tolerance for stress and responsibilities are low don't do startup. Don't worry about companies going bankrupt unless you're close to retirement.",
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"author": "majesticace4",
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"body": "Go for the startup. You’ll get 5 years worth of growth in 1 if you survive the chaos, and that kind of experience pays off way more long-term than playing it safe early on.",
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"id": "nfpyfb0",
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"post_id": "1no8n27",
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{
"author": "nooneinparticular246",
"awards": 0,
"body": "I don’t like the idea of being the sole person at a startup. I was that person and it almost ended me until I got a mentor. Try to ensure you have someone more senior to learn off—either as a colleague or another professional relationship. But yeah you’ll learn fast—whether you want to or not lol",
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"author": "Sad_Dust_9259",
"awards": 0,
"body": "If you want fast growth and pressure, go startup, if you want stability and mentorship, go big company, just pick what aligns with your current goals.",
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"id": "nfr5wny",
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"body": "Depending where you are in your career, I strongly sugest to go with a startup if you don't have wide variaty of expiriance. When you go in 1-2 startup projects you will see alot of chaos, but the learning curve compared to enterprice is no where near, I have people working on diff startups for the last 3 years, they gap people with 10 years exp in an enterprice.",
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"body": "I don't know if I agree with your thought process in a few areas:\n\n\"At a large company \\[...\\] opportunities for advancement seem slim\"\n\nYou are early career, large companies have pyramids and those pyramids are there so you can advance. People move up and so do you. Being early career gives you a lot of headroom unless you think you're being hired as the VP of engineering in which case your growth isn't in moving up the pyramid any more.\n\n\"Startups are unstable but they can accelerate my learning process\"\n\nI don't think this is wrong, but a few things stand out to me:\n\n* First you mention \"psychological pressure\" just from prepping for interviews. If you psyche yourself out with interview prep. How are you going to mentally survive at a start up where the pressure can be significant? Maybe it was just a flourish you added, but just ask yourself that question.\n* Then you are talking about learning progress: Startups can and often do have their own special way of doing things. \"We use exotic tech stack x\" or \"we built our own because we are smarter than everyone else\" I think that's not a bad mentality for a Startup: be scrappy, take risks, accelerate by leveraging the latest and greatest. But this doesn't always support great \"learning\" because you learn how your startup does it. My advice: check if they provide dedicated times to get certificates and that they pay for those certificates (and that time). Because big companies WANT their people certified, startups might care less.\n\nI don't want to say: don't go to a startup... but I feel like your reasoning doesn't fully follow, or maybe there is just some stuff that's missing in your argumentation. Personally, I would go with the startup if whatever they were doing was exciting enough. If I cared about quickly earning more money, in a more guaranteed manner: I'd go with the larger enterprise.\n\nIt's good though that you get to choose and get to think about this. And these are very different cultures so think about what suits you best. And it's OK to choose stability over adventure.",
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"body": "I’m early. Good point",
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Newbie Project
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Hello All,
I am rather early into my own DevOps journey. A coworker gifted me a Lenovo Thinkcentre M75q-1. I plan to upgrade the RAM to 32gb DDR4.
I would like to use it to get hands-on experience. I was curious what might be some good first projects to try that I could iterate off of and grow it into more complex projects?
Thanks for any and all suggestions.
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"author": "Next-Investigator897",
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"body": "What do you mean by project? If you an application for deployment, go with WordPress with db or any self hosted app with two tier.",
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"author": "Prestigious_Ad2610",
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"body": "Deploy app in Kind or other local kubernetes manually then try to automate it",
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"body": "You wanna run a server or what? Devops project???",
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"body": "Thanks for the Wordpress + db suggestion",
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"author": "Basic-Ship-3332",
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"body": "Apologies on the lack of clarity. I said/used “project” because I’ve seen things on LinkedIn or Udemy as “starter projects” to help people gain hands-on experience but I realize more people in this subreddit have real world experience and applications that they’ve built or maintained on a daily. So thought I might get more realistic suggestions here.",
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"author": "Basic-Ship-3332",
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"body": "Thank you, I appreciate the suggestion 🤘🏽",
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"author": "Baby-Ladybug",
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"body": "Create any basic iops multi app cluster with high iops, run cicd entirely. Basic.\n\nYou need an idea for project or asking what could be done with thinkcenter?",
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"body": "Ideally, looking for a project idea that I could use/incorporate the Thinkcentre with.",
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"author": "Baby-Ladybug",
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"body": "Dm me",
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"author": "psych0thinker",
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"body": "hi, can i also understand the same, i literally just set up my old thinkpad into an arch-homeserver but I'm curious on what to do next",
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"author": "Baby-Ladybug",
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"body": "Dm me 😅 I'm out of dms",
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1no58e6
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How would you handle copying prod databases to dev along with auth and other dependencies?
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Our devs are requesting the ability to clone pod databases to a dev db for debugging and testing. Current dev environment shares a db and keycloak tenant with staging. I’m not sure the best way to satisfy this request.
Basically they want to be able to clone aspects of prod to a new dev db. They’re also requesting a separate keycloak for dev too. Where it gets challenging is our various integrations like Google and Xero. I don’t know how this could work and I’m not even sure what questions to ask.
Anyone have any thoughts here?
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"author": "SeparatePotential490",
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"body": "Based on sensitivity of your data, cloning production directly into development is generally a bad idea; it risks leaking real production data into a non-prod environment and could trigger compliance issues.\n\nIf you absolutely had to move forward, the minimal approach would be:\n\n1. Create a snapshot of the production database.\n2. Run a sanitization step to mask or redact sensitive fields while preserving referential integrity within production.\n3. Load the sanitized data into the target development database.\n4. Reapply development configuration, ensuring the system treats this sanitized database strictly as a dev environment.\n5. Create data pipeline that would do the above on a schedule or on demand if needed.",
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"body": "I don't know in what industry you are but the short answer is you don't. It's a big security risk.\n\nDevs should instead ask to set up proper debugging tools or ways to gather information and logs so they can replicate the issue in dev on their own.",
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"body": "I'd never allow it.",
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"author": "MyMembo3739",
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"body": "Prod DBs with customer/user data should never be copied to dev or qa, or any other place that's not locked down. The only exception is if you obfuscate/scrub the data, essentially making it test data.",
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"body": "We do this monthly. First weekend of the month all DBs are cloned to each lower environment then scripts are run and mask any sensitive fields in the tables. Obviously certain tables that hold environment specific (i.e. integration configs, etc) values are excluded. Once the masking process is done, any in flight releases are reapplied.",
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"author": "cloudbloc",
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"body": "This is a compliance issue and shouldn’t be allowed, as others have mentioned. I’d double check if the devs are aware this could be a legal issue (GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2, etc.) and confirm whether it was approved by someone. In dev environments you should be creating mock or sanitized data instead.",
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"body": "Prod data never goes to lower environments. Unless you do some data obfuscation.",
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"body": "We do sanitized extracts from Prod. But in most cases they can just create a data generator. For tricky issues we normally have the support tools required to identify the issue in prod, recreate in dev with dummy data and work the fix through the normal release cycle. \n\nDev keycloak would be fine, should have one for keycloak upgrades anyways.",
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"body": "\"Lol, no.\"\n\nAlso, as primarily a dev myself, I'd add, \"You mean you can't recreate the dev database from your git repo? Loser.\"\n\nIn all seriousness, no. Because, with a database of any reasonable size, it's virtually impossible to answer the question, \"How do you know that you got it all?\" when it comes to scrubbing/deleting sensitive data. And even if you think you did, and you miraculously get to a well-documented, repeatable method, here's what's going to inevitably happen:\n\n1. A new feature introduces some new sensitive store that your now-suddenly-outdated process isn't aware of.\n2. Devs request a new rebuild. You happily oblige, because hey, you went to all of that trouble the first time and now it'll pay off, right?\n3. And now you have sensitive data in dev, and all of that trouble you went to was for nothing.",
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"body": "What they request is reasonable. But you need to be careful about how to handle it (especially if you work with strict legal regulations).\n\nEvery day (or week) have an automated process (very important the automated part) that does the following\n\n1. Gets a \"proper\" subset of prod data\n2. Anonymizes the data\n3. Removes/cleans non relevant stuff\n4. Save the result in a docker container, zip file, db dump whatever\n\nYou need to make sure that any data left is not sensitive and not identifiable in any way.\n\nThere are several existing tools for this. Just search \"<your db> anonymize\" tool\n\nThen any developer can take any of these snapshots and do whatever they want.\n\nAlternatively have a tool that does the opposite. Takes an empty db and fills it with random data that \"mimics\" production. Depending on your use case this might be a better approach.",
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"author": "DeathByFarts",
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"body": "This is how data leaks happen. \n\nYeah , no. \n\nOh and what company do you work for. I want to make sure I never use their services.\n\nThey have all of the info that created the db. I mean ... there is no reason for any of the data to move. Whats the goal , why are they asking for this. Figure a way to do what they need without copying anything from prod. Thats just stupid.",
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"author": "JodyBro",
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"body": "Yeah like others have said....fuck no.\n\nAlso worth it to ask what _exactly_ they're looking to test against? Most cases you want the dev dB schema to be ahead of prod and then staging should match prod.\n\nIf there's some specific data in prod that they need to test against then it's a good idea to establish a \"golden\" data set that you you instantiate your lower environments dB from with just mock data rather than live prod data.",
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"author": "xxDailyGrindxx",
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"body": "As others have stated, that's absolutely no reason you should be cloning customer data to non-prod - you could be violating customer agreements or data privacy laws, depending on which country the data resides in.\n\nIf monitoring and logging is insufficient, I believe the only exception to that rule would be if you were to anonymize(EDIT: /obfuscate/)scrub the data on its way to dev. Speaking from experience, doing so (I've done this at both the data and schema level) takes a lot of time and effort and I'm willing to bet that most employers are (EDIT: NOT) willing to spend the time, effort, and budget to build this in-house or to purchase a solution that does this (I have no idea what's even available these days).",
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"author": "IT_Grunt",
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"body": "Do you not have a QA team. QA needs to create test cases for the issues dev is trying to fix. Thus being able to replicate said issues in lower environments.",
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"body": "Already some great answers in here. I would also lean on the side of no as well.\n\nHow about another option though? If the concern is something like schema drift or lack of volume, or lack of data for unit tests, data can easily be created with something like Faker.\n\nSo you could copy an empty schema from staging/qa (so not messing with anything on prod) down into a new sandbox system (outside of your existing devops pipelines so those don’t break). And then you can load the empty schema with fake data and go to town. \n\nhttps://semaphore.io/community/tutorials/generating-fake-data-for-python-unit-tests-with-faker",
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"body": "Make a snapshot of prod dB, restore it in dev, then proceed to get fired",
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"body": "Confidentiality is an issue for almost every database outside of academia. It's fairly crucial to prevent prod information from leaving its security perimeter. We have some horror stories that are a bit too sensitive to post online.\n\nWhat we use is code that generates test databases with characteristics matching production. Sort of the \"Lorem Ipsum\" of data. The code generates test data with the same kinds of text encoding, field sizes, even codepoint frequency as production.",
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"author": "idstam_",
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"body": "If you are in Europe it is, probably, against GDPR. Check your local laws.",
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"author": "jasonhr13",
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"body": "I’ve done this successfully both on-demand and in a nightly manner. For my use-case the only sensitive data was user’s names, emails and addresses. We were on AWS, I would have a nightly job create a snapshot of prod, then a job would launch a new RDS instance, load that prod data, run a sanitizing script that anonymized data and deleted other data (while keeping schema), then would snapshot that new database and save it for devs to pull when needed (usually each morning). \n\nYes, it required upkeep, in that schema changes required updating the scripts, etc but it was part of my job to do so I had no issue managing it. \n\nWorked quite well for a team of 30-40 engineers over the course of a couple years.",
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"body": "Depends on what we mean by \"a dev db\". In my company \"dev\" would generally imply on their personal development machine. Any amount of prod data on an individual's dev machine, much less an entire copy of a db, is a big nono. \n\nIf a \"dev db\" is an instance (whether RDS, containerized, self managed whatever) running in an environment as strictly controlled as Prod (ie; access controls, networking is secure), it shouldn't be hard to take a snapshot and stand it up.",
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"body": "schema is fine but production data? no.",
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"body": "NO NO NO NO!",
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"body": "It's an absolute no-no.\n\nEspecially any live user data. If they need synced products or articles, you should build an api or export process for only those things. Never copy production for use in staging or development enviornment.",
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"author": "AdrianTeri",
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"body": "Tell them to generate fake data.\n\nThere are multiple tools to do so. It can even can done in-house(\"only built here\").",
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"body": "I wouldn’t. You should not be moving production data outside of your production environment at all.",
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"body": "You copy prod DB to staging, in dev environments they should work with seeders data",
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"body": "Since its especially easy now to make synthetic data with an LLM, there is no reason for it. It’s unsafe, expensive, and hides the broken process.",
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"body": "Errrrrr I wouldn't. If I had to, I'd delete/scramble any PII data and ask sensitive stuff like passwords.",
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"body": "In my previous org, we had lots of single-tenant client databases with their marketing data. The only way to test new changes or bug fixes was to clone a few clients into dev/staging and run the ETL pipeline on them to validate the changes. We had a cloning system that worked like this:\n\n1. Developers with the right IAM permissions could trigger a cloning Lambda function from the dev account, providing `client_id`, `destination_cluster`, and `custom_dev_name`.\n2. This would trigger an ECS task in the production account, which ran `pg_dump` on the database and uploaded the compressed file to an S3 bucket.\n3. Once the dump was uploaded to S3, another ECS task in the dev account would be triggered to run `pg_restore` on the destination cluster using the S3 file.\n4. The cloned database credentials were then stored in AWS Secrets Manager.”",
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"body": "This is one approach. \n\nAnother is to make a data schema from their prod database and then just use randomized/dummy test data scripts to populate it. \n\nThe above approach will find more edge cases (real names, strange symbols, unexpected lengths etc) but at the cost of using real data. \n\nDoing it with dummy data is safer (no prod data moves), but won't find as many issues. \n\nPersonally, I think moving prod data out of prod is a bad idea. It always ends in it getting seen by someone who shouldn't.",
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"body": "THis is always an useful practice. Especially because it allows Shift left in table updates and DB upgrades etc and gives more confidence to deployments/upgrades/backups etc. \n\nJust need to be rigourous and have audit/automation around the sanitization, especially in case of PII/PHI/ETC",
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"body": "Even ignoring the security aspect (which obviously is a major consideration here), copying prod data into lower envs risks things like testing a suspension process that fires off an email to the customer's actual email address telling them that their actual account was suspended. It risks actions being performed on real accounts of the back of non prod tests. \n\nThen, worse you have the data leakage and other security implications. If you want a real world case study, Google the Optus \"hack\" (Optus being a major Australian Telco, hack being the way they described it despite being wildly inaccurate). Unauthenticated api with customer data, publicly available via easily guessed routes, which iirc was an api left around after some testing then forgotten about. \n\nThere are very few situations where copying a db from prod to a lower env will not make me raise 1 eyebrow and question your technical abilities if I'm brutally honest.",
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"body": "I agree you should not copy prod to lower tiers. Even if data is not sensitive Dev is not guaranteed to be compatible with the prod schema. Hard disagree that logs is the only way to gather info to solve hard bugs. Some (read) access to execute SQL to figure out how data looks like is often need for troubleshooting devs. Well if no access is given the one with access (Ops guy) should be responsible to investigate.",
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"body": "That is the easy/lazy answer. It is best to find a balance between what devs need vs what is realistically possible.\n\nI would start by asking them if they really need prod data? Maybe they would be happy with a db that has placeholder data that \"looks like\" production instead?",
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"body": "LOL my first thought - you fucking what?!",
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"body": "I’ll expand in this. Allowing it now means it will demanded in the future. Future work will depend on it. At some point, the organization will need to pass HiTrust, PCI, or some other audits. You will have to stop cloning production data into dev environments, or put the entirety of dev into scope for these audits. The latter is the opposite of good practice.",
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"body": "The problem is that the obfuscation mechanisms can only be maintained by the same devs. Plus, it's something that needs to be reviewed for any schema change, and we all know that's not going to happen.",
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"body": "How do you stay in sync if new columns are introduced with sensitive data?",
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"body": "The only sane path: don’t put raw prod in non-prod; give devs a masked/synthetic clone and split auth/integrations per env.\n\nData: run a repeatable pipeline (Airflow/dbt job or logical replication into a “masking” schema). Do deterministic tokenization for IDs to keep joins working, format-preserving masks for emails/phones, nuke free-text and rare columns, and seed edge cases with faker so cardinality and skew look real. Add column-level policies so anything missed is still blocked. Ship outbound email to MailHog.\n\nAuth: new Keycloak realm for dev. Export prod realm config, keep roles/groups, strip actual users, create a few fake users, new client IDs with dev redirect URIs, separate secrets per env.\n\nIntegrations: use a Google OAuth test project and Xero sandbox; if a provider lacks sandbox, gate external calls behind a flag and point at a mock service. Block egress from dev to prod endpoints at the network layer.\n\nVendor note: I’ve used [Tonic.ai](http://Tonic.ai) for masking logic and Redgate Data Masker on SQL Server; DreamFactory let us expose the masked DB via RBAC’d APIs so engineers debug without direct DB access.\n\nNet: build a reproducible masking pipeline and isolate auth/integrations to get realistic debugging without risking customer data.",
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"author": "mrbiggbrain",
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"body": "I would argue you should be fuzzing data in pre-prod anyways. You should be injecting possibly problematic types of data as a matter of normal testing and operations.\n\nUsernames with SQL, random characters, address is an HTML document, pipes, you name it. Plus long names, short names, three middle names... People should be rewarded for breaking it in dev.",
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"body": "I worked for a bank where real emails were in the test env. But they were scrambled against names. So the name was John Smith and the email was Burt.ward@mail.com Someone ran an email run in test. And the server had a valid auth for prod. So I send a few 1000 emails.",
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"body": "Like when our backup product sent me an email saying our Domain Controllers had started restoring, I have never scrambled so fast to try to stop a restore.\nTurns out the vendors dev were trying to replicate a fault. No restores happened, but the start notifications were being triggered",
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"body": "> Even ignoring the security aspect (which obviously is a major consideration here), copying prod data into lower envs risks things like testing a suspension process that fires off an email to the customer's actual email address telling them that their actual account was suspended. It risks actions being performed on real accounts of the back of non prod tests.\n\nAsk me how I know this...",
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"body": "I agree but if the prod schema isn’t compatible with the dev schema you have some other issues lol",
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"body": "My problem with seeding a database instead of using real data is that you'll never find all the edge cases your users ever found. Especially if you have an old website with data stretching back to the 90's.\n\nThat means your database will contain data you think it should contain, and not the data it has on production.\n\nThis can lead to problems, like a bug report \"the layout on this product-page is broken\". But as that product doesn't exist in development, they basically have to debug it on production.",
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"author": "kkapelon",
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"body": "There are entire projects used by teams that have an open mind and want to help their developers instead of just saying \"no\".\n\nQuick example [https://postgresql-anonymizer.readthedocs.io/en/stable/](https://postgresql-anonymizer.readthedocs.io/en/stable/)",
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"body": "Yep. That's why devs try to get prod data into other environments, it's easier. \n\nIf you HAVE to do it, just cover your ass with \"approval\" to do this from your boss. If your company has ANY compliance requirements (SOC, GDPR, etc), you'll want the audit leth that company leadership accepted the risk of copying prod data out of prod.",
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"body": "And it's a huge problem in legacy environments, especially when the developers didn't use typed columns and just made everything a varchar. You end up getting dates like the 80th of September and First names like \"The esteemed Royal Highness of the Republic of\" because input validation isn't a thing that people always do/have always done.",
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"body": "You hope for the best",
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"body": "Ideally, it has to be part of your workflow for schema migrations. And your team/org has to be realistic about whether you're going to put in the hours to maintain the scripts/tools that clone the data. If you're in a chaotic environment where the only thing management agrees to spend time on is cranking out the next feature, it's a bad idea to spin up something that needs ongoing babysitting.\n\nAs a bit of a failsafe, the cloning process is set up to only clone specified columns, and adding a new column requires a change to the configuration/setup. This way, at worst you get a \"Failed to clone prod to dev\" message if the new columns is \"NOT NULL\" or something.",
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"body": "I'm not disagreeing at all, completely. \n\nJust trying to offer the opposite perspective. \n\nUsually it's a hybrid of both that's needed.",
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"body": "Hope you didn't feel bad about it, something like that was inevitably going to happen.",
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"body": "Why? Dev might be a step ahead with various additions and changes from prod.",
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"author": "JimDabell",
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"body": "> My problem with seeding a database instead of using real data is that you'll never find all the edge cases your users ever found.\n\nIf you are actually experiencing bugs like this, then that’s a fine argument to make. But if you aren’t experiencing bugs like this, don’t try to solve problems you don’t have.",
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"body": "Agreed 100%\n\nJust saying that simply answering NO to your own devs without offering any alternatives or starting a discussion is not the best possible answer (especially since we are in the DevOps subreddit).",
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"body": "Honestly as a dev & security person this is mostly a symptom of bad tests & testing data. And i'll be the first one to say that i don't like making all ly tests, test cases, sample databases etc.\n\nBut if you have the tests and correct example data locally than as a dev it becomes pretty nice to develop with confidence.",
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"body": "In every case where I worked somewhere that we did this, it eventually leaked production data into those \"sanitized\" restores, generally multiple times, and occasionally to local systems.\n\nIn the cases where we built protected APIs and scripts to fast forward X years of production-like behavior into the development system, we never had those firedrills and we ended up using that same logic to easily stand up and throwaway test databases for multiple flavors of test automation, could easily set up local development databases with production-like data on demand, etc.",
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"body": "> you'll never find all the edge cases your users ever found.\n\nYou analyze the corpus, you write code to generate a dummy facsimile, and if there turn out to be mismatches, you fix them when you find them.",
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"body": "I only knew about it second hand after the fact",
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"body": "Yes but the devs can run migrations to get it up to the current version. If that isn’t easily done, then yeah you have some problems lol",
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"author": "Reverent",
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"body": "Most cyber frameworks say that if you use prod data in dev you must treat dev as prod.\n\nAre you in a position to allow that?",
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"body": "If you can expand on the approach to build protected APIs and scripts I would love to hear more.",
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"body": "Exactly, try getting SOC2 or ISO27001 with this capability in place. And obviously SWEs have full admin in their Dev environments so it's goodby to all of your sensitive data, whether they intend it or not doesn't matter. \n\nSo just no. Access copies of Prod data in Prod with restricted auditable temporary privilege.",
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"body": "Is it still prod data if I anonymize/sanitize it until it is not identifiable as the original data?",
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"body": "Sure!\n\n\nIn one system we added a new set of api routes that were only registered in non-production environments. They used a separate authentication scheme so we could call them from a scheduled job inside our environment or from a step in a build pipeline.\n\n\nThere were a few basic api endpoints, like adding a new customer (this is b2b, so a customer is a company and the data is partitioned to it), and user within the company, some roles, and a few notable domain data items. Another endpoint took what was effectively a batch array of actions to perform on their behalf with dates and mapped those actions to one or more internal domain calls (effectively the same internal calls that would be made when a user interacted with the frontend app, but instead of using a logged in user id from a cookie and now(), the automated process passed an overloaded user with the user id and date from the action, effectively doing the business logic back in time). This allowed us to generate scripts of company and user behavior and push them into a database (we had very complex domain and date logic that made this method effective despite the fact behavior we were also slamming a lot of load at it all at once). This system had a lot of complexity around dates, audit and event trails, data being locked into certain periods based on entry dates, etc so this method was selected to fit the needs we had.\n\n\n\n\nIn another system, we had different constraints that weren't so incredibly detailed even though some of the domain objects were still pretty deep. We created a set of templates, effectively serialized copies of key data objects, and then produced a long set of coded cases that would deserialize and overload properties in the data, then batch insert it into the database. This also had an internal api endpoint that was only routed in non-production environments which led us easily trigger a run of known use cases into the database limited only by the insert rate. We then also ran a few very large sets of scenarios into a couple fresh databases and backed those up to have a couple large ones we could easily restore. \n\n\nIn both cases, when wierd situations came up we would add them into either the action scripts or the list of use cases, so we slowly accumulated realistic data with all the edgewater we ran into in production over time. We also had database reset scripts that were used in between our e2e tests to purge user data out of test databases that we also could use in these deployed scenarios to clear a db before resending it from scratch, if needed. Both scenarios also made it easier to start new local databases up from scratch with realistic data whenever we needed, instead of starting new devs or new laptops with an empty db that would never accumulate a realistic amount of data on it's own.",
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"body": "Nobody actuallly suggested using prod data AS IS in a dev environment. The currently top voted answer suggests exactly what I said (anonymize and sanitize).",
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"body": "You’d need to prove that the data has been anonymized and sanitized. At that point, why do you need to copy a prod database and then modify 25 million records? Just generate 25 million fake records.",
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"body": "Wow that is very helpful, thank you!",
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"body": "Not all data is PII. \n\nFor example, we have a few million products in our database. Even if that leaks it is no problem as they are publicly available anyway",
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Kubernetes killed our simple deployment process
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Remember when you could just rsync files to a server? Now we have yaml files everywhere, different CLI tools, and deployments that break for no reason.
Used to ssh into a box and see whats wrong. Now when something breaks we gotta figure out which namespace, which pod, which container, then hope the logs actually made it somewhere we can find them.
Half our outages are kubectl apply conflicts or pods stuck in pending. Spent 2 weeks debugging why staging was slow and it was just resource limits set wrong.
Management thinks were "cloud native" but our deployment success rate went from 99% to like 60%. When stuff breaks we have no idea if its the app or some random controller we didnt know existed.
Starting to think we traded one simple problem for a bunch of complicated ones. Anyone else feel like k8s is overkill for most stuff?
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"body": "I hate when people say this, but this is actually a skill issue.",
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"body": "Your entire engineering team needs to up-skill on kubernetes or you need to pay someone with those skills. Secondly, Graylog + Prometheus + argocd can solve a majority of the problems you’re facing right now.",
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"body": "It can be great, but you can't just drop kubernetes in and expect things to be better. If you're running a simple three tier stack, it's overkill, but if you're running hundreds of pods or complex infra, it can be a god send.\n\n\nI will say if you're having failures like that, you should have brought in outside help to get your migration done, because my biggest concern would be all the other things that need to be done to manage k8s...",
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"author": "vekien",
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"body": "I’ll agree that K8S can be over complicated for a lot of use cases where something like ECS is perfectly fine, sometimes even just a server. But this reads like a major skill issue or that you’re not using the right set of tools, shouldn’t be an issue finding logs.",
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"author": "arkatron5000",
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"body": "We ended up using Upwind and it actually helped a lot finally could see what was actually happening in our clusters instead of playing kubectl detective all day. Still hate k8s complexity but at least I'm not completely blind when shit breaks anymore.",
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"body": "Remember when half the posts here didn't read exactly the same, with a few paragraphs of extremely vague complaints most likely generated by an LLM to generate some engagement or whatever?\n\nI swear I've read this post a few dozen times in the last months on this sub, different topics but same style.\n\nBut yeah if it's legit you're having these issues, observability is your answer. 2 weeks to find out your resource limits were wrong? Do you set these limits blindly without looking at metrics?",
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"body": "I’m putting money on “just rsync files to a server” being some absolutely god awful Jenkins solution where you’re actually installing the Jenkins agent on the remote server and doing some commands no one you work with even understands, but you are now under the impression that the unsupportable solution is better…\n\n…because the people you work with think they need to look at container logs post-deployment, on different namespaces across different pods, instead of just troubleshooting the actual container code.\n\nAs you said, the issue you just spent 2 weeks on was “resource limits set wrong.” Skill issue",
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"body": "It sounds like your team might benefit from focusing on better observability and monitoring tools. Since resource limits were an issue, investing in monitoring solutions with real-time metrics could help identify these bottlenecks faster. Also, revisiting whether k8s is the right fit for your scale might be worthwhile if complexity outweighs the benefits.",
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"body": "Based on what I just read, the Kubernetes complaints are not your problem, they are a symptom of several other problems.",
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"author": "kabrandon",
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"body": "The problem is not that Kubernetes is overkill for most stuff. The problem is that running Kubernetes is painful when you're a team of people with little to no experience running Kubernetes. Look up Chesterton's Fence, because you're currently talking about a fence like it serves no purpose, without understanding why it was built.",
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"body": "We use Rootly for k8s incidents. When something breaks it spins up a Slack channel with context about which pods/namespaces are affected. Has runbooks for common k8s problems",
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"body": "I also remember i386 and MS-DOS. What's your point?",
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"author": "ben_bliksem",
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"body": "> that break for no reason\n\nFix it. Stuff doesn't just \"break for no reason\". You cannot possibly think this is a tooling problem when thousands of outfits are doing thousands of releases daily/weekly without their tools and processes breaking for no reason.",
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"body": "Old man yells at cloud",
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"author": "gyanster",
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"body": "You are gonna love Argo cd",
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"body": "When you say \"kubectl conflicts\" that likely means you don't use gitops. I cannot imagine managing the beast reliably without it. The existence of complete desired state is something that gives me confidence in our solution. Now direct interfacing with cluster is only for debugging.\n\nBy the way \"just rsync your app\" looks as bad as kubectl apply. There is nothing repeatable about them - there is too much wiggle room - all those configurations which are likely expected to be there, handcrafted and forgotten.\n\nNot saying kubernetes is good for everything. It big, complex and good for driving big and complex environments. If you have small thing to run, its only advantage is its omnipresence.",
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"body": "My entire Kubernetes deployment process is a Dev making a single commit and every single Kubernetes error shows on Alertmanager dashboard for everyone to see, including all the details required to investigate. Where do you see complexity exactly? sounds like skill issues…",
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"body": "The barrier to entry for k8s is reasonably high. But it mostly works. The problem I see is that gathering simple information is unnecessary complicated. There is a lot of you just need to know stuff. Otherwise, simple things take longer than they should.\n\nAnd overall it just isn't very mature. You have things like karpenter that are unable to do certain things because they are more or less taped on top, not integrated.\n\nThat said, you need someone on the team with k8s experience. It can do a lot better than you describe.",
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"body": "soooo. youre blaming K8s for what sound like knowledge gaps, and human error? cool cool",
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"author": "H3rbert_K0rnfeld",
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"body": "Imagine building the Empire State Building without engineering. \n\nIt is 100% always a human that causes a well engineered system to break. From Titanic to Challenger a hu man broke it.",
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"body": "Kubernetes is not a silver bullet. There are reasons to adopt it but you need people to manage the clusters. If you don't have the folks who can run k8s then it is probably an overkill",
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"author": "lucifer605",
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"body": "Kubernetes is not a silver bullet. There are reasons to adopt it but you need people to manage the clusters. If you don't have the folks who can run k8s then it is probably an overkill",
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"body": "You just need more skills and experiences. Remember in early of your career, you learnt how to debug your sudden stopped webservices, crashed DB and unable to ssh into your Linux VM. Same principle applied here. Just give your team sometime, or hire someone with more skills and experience to mentor your team.",
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"body": "U need argocd",
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"body": "Kubernetes was inspired by a system made for & by Google. Kubernetes is incredible for Google-scale-like systems.\n\nIt makes those types of scales easier to handle at the cost of making very small deployments much harder. (Very small deployment being say <1000 CPUs.)\n\nIt is a situation where if the only tool one has is a hammer, the whole world should be Kubernetes when rsync and machines can be better for most deployments.",
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"body": "You’re definitely doing it wrong. You need to be proactive, not reactive\n\n- Setup gitops using flux or argo\n\n- Your cluster logs and events should be ingested to a logging backend. Grafana Loki with Promtail or Alloy.\n\n- Setup kube-prometheus-stack and configure alertmanager",
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"body": "Our team built then open sourced https://canine.sh for exactly this reason. Moved off heroku to Kubernetes and needed something to centralize operations. ",
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"author": "Mephiz",
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"body": "so a few things:\n\nI love k9s. There are other tools but this is always my first install.\n\nSecondly, loving kail. This is my second install. (There are probably better / others but this works great)\n\nGithub: man if you aren't storing your deployment yaml files in github you are seriously doing something wrong. Deployment files are code and should be treated as such.\n\nNaming convention: stop letting developers name jack. Come up with a convention and stick to it. Namespaces help with this. If you're struggling with namespaces you have a shit naming convention.",
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"author": "PolyPill",
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"body": "To add what you need to do. Sit down and get organized. You’re clearly not. Don’t have random yaml files be your deployment definition. Create templates that fit each of your use cases in helm or kustomize. Then just the base minimum of settings are with each service. That will keep your shit from conflicting.\n\nMake your name spaces make sense. You shouldn’t have to think about what is where, it should be logical and intuitive. \n\nUse automated deployment tools. If someone is touching anything but clicking a button then you’re doing it wrong. We have release pipelines that deploy after the release is built.\n\nThe fact you didn’t have central logging before you even started is a huge red flag here. Kubernetes didn’t do that to you. OpenTelemetry is pretty much the standard for that.\n\nSkill your entire team up or hire someone who has the skills. It’s always the archer not the arrow.",
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"author": "HiddenStoat",
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"body": "K8s is ridiculous overkill for running a single application on a single server.\n\n\nK8s is critical for running hundreds of services on multiple QA, Staging and Production environments, including DR versions.\n\n\nAnd most developers live somewhere between those 2 extremes. Somewhere there is a point where the costs of k8s is outweighed by the advantages it brings. \n\n\nHowever, in this case, it very much sounds like you don't know your tools, to be brutally honest.",
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"author": "im-a-smith",
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"body": "DevOps is just 1000 bash scripts in a trench coat ",
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"author": "mjbmitch",
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"body": "ChatGPT",
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"author": "tasrie_amjad",
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"body": "All you need now is to learn basics of kubernetes there are may courses around. Infact kubernetes makes life easy as many many things are automated and taken care with just simple yaml.\nIf you need extra helping hand to streamline your k8s do reach out to me",
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"body": "I just push merge and it goes to production in a bit. \n\nNone of these problems on k8s. My infra team handles this, keeps it all in git for terra form, has a bunch of templates for types of stuff we use. I fill out some values and merge it in my repo. Automation does the rest.",
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"author": "TopSwagCode",
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"body": "All what you list is kinda true, but not. It's all nice and easy when deploying to a single server, checking state and logs of that single server / service.\n\nBut now when we are talking about 100+ services, you have to think entirely different and so should your code also change. You need to think observability, metrics, traces. So if your code doesn't log the right things, you are going to be screwed.\n\nBottomline this has nothing to do with kubernetes, but rather a scaling issue. Every industry has been thorugh similar issues at different points in time. The process and tools building something smalescale, is not the same as building something large scale.\n\nThe problem I have seen several times, is when smale scale projects pretend to be large scale and use those tools, having all of the negatives of working with them, but none of the benefits.",
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"author": "geilt",
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"body": "ECS is amazing. Push to master, trigger Code pipeline to seamless redeploys of services. Terraform to add new services from a repo with variables in yaml files. Works amazingly once you figure it out. Tuning autoscale takes a bit more time and fiddling. Best part is not having to mange the cluster or servers. I hear EKS can do similar.",
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"body": "You sound like DHH and his recent Merchants of Complexity nonsense.\n\nBy what metric do you consider “just rsync file to a server” a successful deployment? The fact that nothing told you something is busted doesn’t mean something isn’t busted. \n\nCI/CD is invaluable. If you aren’t implementing it properly, that’s on you, and I would suggest bringing in some expertise.",
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"author": "tradiopen",
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"body": "Yeah! Try kamal and see if it’s a better fit.",
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"author": "serpix",
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"body": "We stopped sshing into a box somewhere around 2010.",
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"author": "krusty_93",
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"body": "Why sticking to k8s if you’re on public cloud? There isn’t a right or wrong answer, but ask yourself: what do you expect from this technology? What issue does it solve? You may understand it’s not what you’re looking for",
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"author": "---why-so-serious---",
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"body": "Time passes. Things change.",
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"author": "Driky",
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"body": "Sounds like a team that switched to K8s without the skill required.\n\nNot trying to be mean but many many teams use K8s for deployment and do not suffer from your problems. \n\nIt might be a good idea to hire someone with a high level of expertise that will be able to fix your problems but also train the rest of the team.\nOr pay for a GOOD training on the subject.",
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"author": "nekokattt",
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"body": "> Half our outages\n\nPractise immutable deployments then..?",
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"body": "I don't know... But I have done various CI/CD's to K8S, which do:\n\n\\- scans (SAST) \n\\- tests (specific for eco-system) \n\\- pre-build \n\\- pre-manifests and dry run \n\\- build (the container image) \n\\- push the image to the registry \n\\- apply the manifest with a new image sha/version and restart the statefulset/deployment \n\\- watch for any problems and rollback if necessary.\n\nNever got a problem, while testing everything on development instance before going to production later on.\n\nWith K8S native functionality like rollback and events and other things, deployment of an app and watching if something bad happens during the deployment is a blessing, compared to the old VM style in my opinion.",
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"author": "searing7",
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"body": "skill issue",
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"body": "Your team's skills and lack of processes is the problem.",
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"body": "I mean, it doesn't sound like yall are remotely big enough to need k8s just stick a single or double box/vm setup and be happy with it",
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"author": "FigureFar9699",
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"body": "Totally get this. Kubernetes solves big-scale problems, but for small/medium apps it can feel like using a chainsaw to cut butter, tons of YAML, moving parts, and hidden failure points. If your team spends more time fighting the cluster than shipping code, it’s worth reconsidering if a simpler setup (VMs, Docker Compose, managed PaaS) might fit better.",
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"body": "No, modern k8s is fast and relatively easy to learn. You don't have to use every feature to get value from k8s. It's sounds like the whole team needs to increase their skills.\n\nAbout a decade ago, I was building Kubernetes on simple EC2 instances before operators and deep AWS integration.\n\nHistorically speaking, you have it easy.",
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"author": "dhrill21",
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"body": "Yeah, I see sooo many overly complicated solution which are supposedly done according to best practices. \nA lot of people are very often using some tool only to be able to put in CV that they worked in it, but it is far from needed for task required. \nThough there is something about self preservation I think also. If we make it soo fkn complicated, we will be harder to replace. Though as 50 year old, I am growing tired of new flashy thing which just make the code run as its for ever been, \nSo I think yes, it is creating more problems than it solves. \nBut what can I do, that's the actual business model of my agency, if we do it in a simple straight forward way that just works we won't get paid milions per projects and some will lose job\n\nSo I guess, need to play along, and just go out there and add couple of jobs in your pipeline, or if god forbid you don't have one, go and deploy one for literally everything you can imagine. Do a spell check of code comments as a pipeline task \n \nDoh, I can't wait to retire, it got so fkn stupid to work for this cloud agile shit",
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"author": "Wonderful_Guitar2178",
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"body": "Use Tags",
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"author": "Challseus",
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"body": "I'll never forget it... It was like 10 years, I was on the content platform team, downstream from us was the \"api\" team, and they had this job that they owned for some reason that was basically a Java ETL from MSSQL -> Mongo/Elastic. Whenever things went wrong, I knew where to go. I hated Jenkins, but I could find the logs.\n\nOnce they put it into kube, the logs went into the void, and no one on their team was able to ever find them again.",
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"author": "GotWoods",
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"body": "Get off my lawn!",
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"body": "That’s the reason for dev environmental we shifted to docker and for CI/CD i use GitHub actions and the job runs on self hosted runners. We use golang for backend development and it can be converted to binary so single binary contains all dependencies that needs to run and i just mount this binary in base alpine container and do restart that’s it and Boom it took 30secs to deploy to dev. Previously the dev was on K8s + ArgoCD + helm + Building containers everytime. We saved our lot of time and developer can see the changes in 30secs. This was a huge boost in collaboration between teams. Also the troubleshooting part from application side is much more convenient now so developers can focus on what is important.",
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"author": "Actuw",
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"body": "Skill issue 100%",
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"body": "Yep. Our team went from no k8s to building and maintaining the platform that’s used across our company. \n\nWhen stuff broke early on only a couple of people could usually figure it out. But now that most everybody has leveled up it’s sooo much better. And beyond just fixing things, the more experience you gain the better design choices you make and avoid missteps.",
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"author": "unitegondwanaland",
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"body": "1000% this is all coming from inexperience.",
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"body": "I agree. First time i worked at a place that used k8s i had a similar opinion. It was a skill issue, and after getting with the times and working through the certifications - my opinion is vastly different now. It was based entirely from my dated development experiences.",
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"body": "yes\n\nThe startup that I consulted for 3yrs was a mess before the I came in \n\nThe buggers wrote code where there were spikes in cpu, mem load on single monolith whenever some launched a scan job so I asked them to move to kubernetes jobs instead - things went from the app breaking 6-8 times each day (half the time it was down) to like once in months. I use node selectors and affinity rules to isolate problematic work loads and spikes away from the core apps \n\n...because I have no control over the code written\n\nkubernetes wasn't the problem\n\nIt was the code written by inexperienced developers\n\nas far ops's complaint are concerned, except for yaml being a mess of mark up language \n\n...the other stuff is just skill issue\n\nwe had a helm chart, sync to cluster via argocd, we made sure all changes were in code, on github, argo never ran into problems like the ones he mentioned, namespace are great for isolation \n\nwe kept it simple and declarative instead of going too overboard with yaml\n\nyaml has 9-63 ways of within multiple line string \n\nwe kept that number down to one or two\n\nwe made sure all of us followed the same convention\n\nIt didn't break for 3 yrs",
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"body": "Was thinking exactly the same.",
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"author": "Undeadtaker",
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"body": "absolutely",
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"author": "LeStk",
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"body": "Agreed. If we were to avoid saying the skill issue line, I guess we could say that it's a culture issue, pet vs cattle and stuff.\n\nI suppose the team is indeed skilled but you just can't manage clusters the way you managed two web servers.",
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"author": "ravigehlot",
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"body": "Totally.",
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"author": "DesperateAdvantage76",
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"body": "That's true of everything that's more complex and difficult...",
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"author": "padawan-6",
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"body": "I hated that this is something that entered my mind as well, but it really is. This is something that can be solved in a few weeks tops just by reading the docs and doing a few labs.",
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"author": "charlyAtWork2",
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"body": "Or the GUY who decided to switch to K8s at the first place. \nAll cloud applications don't need to be on K8s.",
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"author": "sublimegeek",
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"body": "+1 for GitOps",
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"author": "vekien",
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"body": "Even those can have problems of their own and you just end up laying solution on top of solution… I agree on the sentiment though!",
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"author": "The_Career_Oracle",
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"body": "I’d save the energy, they strike me as the type of people that like to rush in and save the day, but not actually put time into fixing or improving their skills. This inertia is what helps keep them employed.",
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"author": "nomadProgrammer",
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"body": "It seems like op doesn't even know about k9s or lens. Definitely newb to k8s",
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"author": "zerocoldx911",
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"body": "Wanted Kubernetes box without the toil",
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"author": "FluidIdea",
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"body": "ECS - lots of terraform bloat and vendor lock in.\n\nDocker - custom scripts, some manual work. \n\nMight as well do kubernetes.",
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"author": "Subject_Bill6556",
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"body": "Just curious why you use helm to deploy your apps instead of something more simple like kubectl apply -f",
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"author": "volkovolkov",
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"body": "All of op's comments on threads are in lower case with little punctuation. The posts he makes have full punctuation and proper capitalization.",
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"author": "ub3rh4x0rz",
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"body": "This on both counts. I expect to hear about how OP created a 10M ARR B2B business when encountering such obvious LLM slop\n\nOP - set up LGTM stack using grafana cloud, it is free or cheap for you, and it will help you learn k8s faster to actually see what is going on. Then you can operate LGTM stack yourself if you want later on. Oh also learn k9s it is a game changer vs merely using kubectl",
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"author": "Low-Opening25",
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"body": "“investing” is a big word here, installing prometheus-stack helm chart that bundles everything together and setting it up literally takes less than a day.",
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"author": "H3rbert_K0rnfeld",
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"body": "How much you wanna bet OP's shop regulated/secured themselves away from being able to use fancy tools?",
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"author": "glotzerhotze",
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"body": "This right here. People should remember „the hard way“ and at least look at it once to understand the „magic“ modern tooling is giving them.",
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"author": "beeeeeeeeks",
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"body": "Preach it, brother!!!",
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"author": "WholeDifferent7611",
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"body": "You’re spot on: simplifying the stack is usually the fastest way to get deployment time and sanity back.\n\nA few things that worked for us:\n\n\\- Dev/staging with Docker Compose; prod on [Fly.io](http://Fly.io) or ECS Fargate only when we actually need autoscaling.\n\n\\- Keep the Go single-binary pattern; for Node/Python, use BuildKit cache mounts, multi-stage builds, and docker compose watch for sub-5s reloads.\n\n\\- CI: GitHub Actions with self-hosted runners, actions/cache for modules, and BuildKit cache-to/cache-from to avoid rebuilds.\n\n\\- Observability: send container logs via Fluent Bit to Loki; add /healthz and /ready endpoints; simple uptime and error-rate alerts beat chasing pods.\n\n\\- Rollbacks: immutable image tags, keep the last three versions, one script to switch symlink or service file and restart.\n\n\\- Config/secrets: SOPS + age or Doppler so you don’t end up with ten YAMLs per env.\n\nBetween [Fly.io](http://Fly.io) for small services and GitHub Actions for CI, I’ve used DreamFactory to auto-generate REST APIs from Postgres and Mongo so we skipped writing glue services and kept deploys simple.\n\nKeep it lean and focus on faster feedback loops, and reliability usually follows.",
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"author": "mistaekNot",
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"body": "why can’t you just run your go app directly for dev? what’s the point of docker in this case?",
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"author": "Low-Opening25",
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"body": "Another skill issue example. We use GH Actions with ArgoCD and deployments to dev are instant and automatic after PR is merged, our system also creates ephemeral preview environments each time PR is opened so a dev can fully test the app in the dev cluster from his feature branch without interfering with anything. deployments take “30 seconds” or less. Took 3 months for 1 competent DevOps to build it from scratch.",
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"author": "gowithflow192",
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"body": "That's part of the problem. Your talent bill goes up too.",
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"author": "TangoWild88",
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"body": "I mean, it could also be a training issue as well. \n\n\nIts a different mindset and a different toolset, and if you don't get good training, it can be a difficult transition, regardless of skills and experience. ",
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"author": "spreadred",
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"body": "The truth nobody wants to say/hear. Just like microservices and AI, no solution is one-size-fits-all, especially in an Enterprise, as opposed to a startup that has no history, legacy tech, or culture.",
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"author": "k8s-problem-solved",
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"body": "I need to get into it, but my head is in a push model. Build container, push to registry. Next thing gets container, deploys to cluster. Pipeline orchestrates. \n\nNeed to break that thought process!",
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"author": "Proper-Ape",
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"body": "It's so underutilized, had a Kubernetes setup at a previous company. The team managing it was reallocated to a new project without notification. Everything broke the day after.\n\n\nI asked how they deploy because a few core services were down. They said \"Oh, yeah, Mike always ran the deploy scripts\".\n\n\nI looked at the scripts, everything was hardcoded with paths from Mike's filesystem. Half the scripts were missing from the repo.\n\n\nThis was a big company, but even bigger incompetence. I asked them why they hadn't moved to GitOps and they said they had higher priority tasks always.\n\n\nOf course they did, they had fires to put out every day.",
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"author": "vekien",
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"body": "Terraform is hardly bloaty if you do it right with modules, but you can use anything else: CDK, Pulumi. At my last place our terraform services were 1 file with 100 lines at most, way less than K8S manifests.\n\nVendor lockin is hardly an excuse these days, companies don’t just switch provider at a whim and everything boils down to docker. You can move from ECS to any provider quite easily, I’ve moved stuff to GCP with very little effort, setup your clusters and repoint your CI and you’re good.",
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"body": "yeah, all these simple frameworks seems simple, until you hit your first scale obstacle and solution mostly tends to end up with heavy bespoke layers of scripting to make things go, at that point you can just as well go for Kubernetes and at least end up with something universally maintainable",
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"author": "return_of_valensky",
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"body": "Idk we use ecs and it's just a buildspec.yml with code build/pipeline when we commit new code it builds new containers and gracefully replaces the tasks. Hasn't crashed in years.",
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"author": "Junior_Enthusiasm_38",
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"body": "You’re not here to judge to give opinions if you have something better than saying skill issue.",
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"author": "Low-Opening25",
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"body": "yes and no.\n\nif you have sizeable estate, K8s makes it much easier to manage scale == less DevOps required to manage.\n\nfor small projects, you don’t need to know about every Kubernetes feature and the basics are not much harder than docker-compose and you get all high-availability and traffic management capabilities out of the box with zero setup.",
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"author": "MueR",
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"body": "Take a look at the argo suite (workflows, events, rollouts). It does our CI/CD.",
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"body": "Build container > update json file with tag name > commit triggers Argo to update the cluster and monitor for health checks\n\n\nDone?",
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"author": "FluidIdea",
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"body": "Totally valid point. If you are comfortable using someone's modules, or public modules. Works for many people.\n\nI tend to write my own modules. For a simple deployment I did I had to write lots of terraform - ECS related from scratch, EFS mounts, a way to deliver file to EFS because my app did not support s3, a EC2 instance to check few things in mysql and EFS. etc. and when I was about to hand it over to my colleagues I changed my mind and abandoned. Shame as it looked promising. I think ECS is a middle ground between Lambda and k8s IMHO.",
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"author": "Subject_Bill6556",
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"body": "I’m aware of what it is, I’m more curious as to why add the extra complexity layer. For instance your helm chart has versions. What defines a version increase? A newly built docker image for the app? A change to resources for the app container? Both?",
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"author": "Low-Opening25",
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"body": "it’s not me who failed at Kubernetes",
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"body": "Very much! It's just a different way of thinking about things.",
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"body": "I write my own modules, I don’t understand how any of what you said is a lot of terraform compared to what you’d have to do for the same in K8S.\n\nIf you’re comparing both same same, to do that in K8S you also need a bunch of infra deployment setup and then your manifest can be small applications, much like a terraform service file.\n\nTo me, it sounds like you had one go at terraform, didn’t understand how to organise it, which has formulated your opinion on Terraform.\n\nI’ve used terraform for almost a decade and it’s often less code than manifests. I would still never choose it again as I don’t like terraform these days but for different reasons.\n\nYou could say it’s a middle ground, I agree, but I wouldn’t include lambda, that’s a very different tool for a different use case imo. ECS is just a simplified orchestration where a lot of the grit is handled by AWS and has limited flexibility compared to the plethora of K8S libraries available.",
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"body": "Me neither I just choose simplicity for dev. Let me know if you have something better to say.",
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"body": "The second that person said \"middle ground between Lambda and K8s\" you just know they have absolutely no idea what they're talking about, lol.",
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1no0amj
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SMS provider for system alerts + OTPs
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I manage system notifications and OTP delivery for my company. Twilio has been our go-to, but latency and support have been issues. Looking for an alternative that gives fast delivery, solid logs, and predictable uptime.
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EducationalPen7741
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/r/devops/comments/1no0amj/sms_provider_for_system_alerts_otps/
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"body": "If you only need basic SMS notifications. SNS is sufficient.\nIf you need global OTP/verification codes, detailed logs, and guaranteed SLA. Amazon Pinpoint is recommended.",
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"body": "[notificationapi.com](https://www.notificationapi.com)'s support is instant, also comes with logs out of the box.\n\nPinpoint (now End User Messaging) is alright but no logs and takes forever to be verified/approved.\n\n[](http://notificationapi.com)",
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"body": "I switched from Twilio to Signalhouse.io for system alerts and OTPs, and it’s been a solid choice. Messages deliver instantly, and the logs are actually useful they show error codes and timestamps, which makes troubleshooting way easier. The Tier-2 routing also seems to help a lot with latency. Overall, it just feels like a tool built for teams that need reliable messaging without wasting time on setup.",
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1nnxn3n
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Solo project making my head swim. What’s everybody working on?
|
I’d say I’m well in the weeds at this point. Got a backend VM running a Linux ISO and docker, frontend Electron app and client (browser) that all works immaculately in dev. My fun started when I tried to hoist it all centrally using Cloudflare and proxy the VM to the internet with cloudflared. Packer kept exploding so I’m just using vagrant to spare myself that headache for now.
Recently implemented OpenBao to try to get a CIDC and KMS going for a central auth. On top of CI/CD, of course. OpenBao persists locally on the VM and checks centrally, in theory, but keeps exploding at the moment. Separate repo made to manage those secrets. Now I’m working on a separate repo to manage all of this mess to just try and keep myself sane, while also managing the cert.pem and log distribution and health/telemetry.
I’ll figure it out but the whole “thinking” thing is giving me a mental blowout. What’s everyone else working on?
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JayJeds
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"author": "spicypixel",
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"body": "Isn’t feeling pretty drained by constantly having to learn new stuff because every problem is novel to you the best part of this career?",
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"body": "I'm currently working on (Big Breath) a Github actions self-hosted runner cloud VM autoscaler called [Nimbus Run](https://github.com/bourgeoisie-hacker/nimbus-run). My Blurb\n\n>Nimbus Run is a VM-first autoscaler for GitHub self-hosted runners (AWS/GCP) that scales to zero, handles bursty CI, and works great for GPU/privileged jobs—no Kubernetes required.\n\nI feel you on the project making your head swim. I went through 2 to 3 major refactors til I settled on what it is now. I had this originally had this project as 3 different microservices that you'd deploy via docker compose or helm with Kafka as a message broker but, that was needlessly complicated. Currently it's stable and I should be releasing v1 soon but I'm writing a bunch of tests, more documentation, and making a video for each cloud on how to set it up and use it.\n\nI've probably invest 200+ hours over the last 2 months working on it. Its been a blast!",
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"body": "> \"keeps exploding\"\n\nthe explosion can probably be defined better, and the problem solved that way.\n\npacker doesn't explode in my pipelines, neither does Vault, and as a mine canari I would know.",
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"body": "python sdk, cloud objects, nested loops and json",
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"author": "Low-Opening25",
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"body": "I am building GitOps driven analytics platform on Kubernetes in GCP for a small lender.",
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"body": "Absolutely it is. Always something new to learn and good times to be had somewhere in the dumpster fire. Fortunately I’m not digging through a monolith, but I wish it wouldn’t sink like a boat made of Swiss cheese",
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"body": "I would not say novel exactly, eventually you feel like well versed survival expert ready for anything that comes his way, however unexpected.",
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"author": "JayJeds",
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"body": "Now that sounds interesting! I’m going to have to keep tabs on that. \n\nYes the endless refactoring and trying to tie everything together is a nightmare! I enjoy being able to conceptualize, but right now thinking about it gives me a migraine. I’ve lost track of how many hours I’ve invested over the past few months. Somehow still having a blast though!",
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"body": "Hmmmm… what advantage does it provide over github-arc runners on Kubernetes? esp. considering things like Autopilot mode exists for GKE. You can build GKE and deploy ARC in literally 10 minutes.",
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"author": "JayJeds",
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"body": "Onprem— I’m paying for it too. Ive been real envious of those stable VM Images that don’t explode. The kicker is a lot of the design is built around being LAN resilient, so I have to have some kind of internal fallback if the internet tanks. The irony is vagrant functions just fine over LAN (in a dev seeded env, OpenBao is still in pieces). I haven’t been able to convince it that the internet exists yet and packer makes me work for it",
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"body": "Fortunately I got Vault to boot fine last night, though I still have plenty of configurations stapling to other repos to do. It’s been a little bit since I’ve worked on the packer portion, I’ve been sticking to vagrant for the dev work. When I was working on it I was having issues with the Ubuntu image not being considered valid, and trying to navigate through GRUB just glitched out.\n\nThe GRUB menu glitch is hard to explain without a screenshot, but whenever I would go to the command line it wasn’t much of a command line. It would scatter gibberish characters across the screen, with any commands typed overwriting anywhere across the garbled mess. Verified the install, nuked everything and reinstalled a few times. Eventually decided to give packer some air",
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"body": "The advantage is that instead of the runners running in pods they run on ephemeral VMs instead.\n\nSome workloads may require GPU or privileged jobs. Those are going to work consistently on a VM instead of a container running on k8s. My use case was that for whatever reason when I was building my image inside of a container it crashed my GKE node every other time and It was unbearable slow to build the container.\n\nHow most companies solve this is just leaving VMs running waiting for workloads, that’s a waste of money. Nimbus Run scales on demand.\n\nTo Setup up and run Nimbus Run takes minutes to get started. I’ve recorded and am editing a video on how to set up Nimbus Run. It’s roughly 5 minutes to set it up from zero to running.\n\nYou can run Nimbus Run as a Jar file, with docker compose, or with a helm chart. \n\nIf you are genuine curious about it or think this can help you or your company I’m willing to give a demo.",
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"author": "Le_Vagabond",
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"body": "Are you sure your on premise environment isn't built on top of an Indian cemetery?",
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"body": "You know the best part is that I can’t answer that! This is a home project, house build 3 years ago on old farm land, in an area previously named by Indians. We’ve got a historical estate built by their tribe about 2 miles away. Very well could be some delayed revenge!",
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1nnwz80
|
Azure CDN (Classic) deprecation
|
Had anyone else had just the worst experience with the CDN (Classic) migration?
To combat this migration, I had to update our ARM templates to deploy three different use cases tied to routing. First, a migrated custom domain, second a new CDN Custom domain and third, a CDN just using endpoints. I successfully did this and tested 20 different test cases before 08/15. I was blocked from Microsoft from using the built-in migration tool so we had to migrate after the cut off of new custom domain and CDN deployments.
Now that I've migrated our development environments, im facing a plethora of issues, inability to redeployment a custom domain, the profile itself (because it already exists or is in a region as opposed to global), and finally configuring routes.
The documentation seems so incomplete and support engineers don't seem capable of assisting with issues.
I'm using ARM templates because that's what works, but on the side, rebuilding everything with Terraform.
This whole thing has been a PIT, and I've finally been able to getbuy-inn from management to accept downtime so we can redeploy the profiles with new custom domains. It's been such a struggle. I can't wait to be done with this.
Side Note: I keep receiving recruiter emails, specifically to work in the Azure Front Door department within the Networking team. How bad did they plan this?
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1,758,571,425 |
ChiefSmoo
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/r/devops/comments/1nnwz80/azure_cdn_classic_deprecation/
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"body": "We sure did. Process is hot garbage and makes a mess of everything. We ended up scripting out the whole config, deleting a section and recreating it brick by brick.",
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1nnvgkp
|
🚀 Built a Multi-Container Todo App with Docker, Terraform, Ansible & GitHub Actions
|
Hey folks, I just finished a project from [roadmap.sh](https://roadmap.sh/projects/multi-container-service),
🐳 **Stack & Tools**
* Node.js + Express API
* MongoDB (Mongoose ODM)
* Docker & Docker Compose
* Terraform (provisioned VM on Google Cloud)
* Ansible (server setup + deployment)
* GitHub Actions (CI/CD pipeline)
📌 **What it does**
A simple unauthenticated **Todo API** with CRUD:
* `GET /todos` → list all
* `POST /todos` → create
* `GET /todos/:id` → read one
* `PUT /todos/:id` → update
* `DELETE /todos/:id` → delete
Todos are stored in MongoDB with persistent volumes.
🏗 **How I built it**
1. Started local with **Docker Compose** (API + MongoDB containers).
2. Used **Terraform** to spin up a VM on Google Cloud.
3. Automated setup with **Ansible** (Docker, Docker Compose, running containers).
4. Setup **CI/CD with GitHub Actions** → on push, build & push Docker image, redeploy via Ansible.
5. App accessible through the **external IP** of the VM in the browser.
✅ **Key takeaways**
* Learned how to connect multi-container apps with Docker Compose.
* Got comfortable with Terraform for infra provisioning.
* Automated repetitive tasks with Ansible.
* Built a working CI/CD pipeline from GitHub to cloud.
💡 **Next step / Bonus**
Planning to add **Nginx reverse proxy** \+ a custom domain instead of raw IP.
repo :https://github.com/yanou16/Multi-Container-Application
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Professional-Pie6704
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/r/devops/comments/1nnvgkp/built_a_multicontainer_todo_app_with_docker/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1nnvgkp/built_a_multicontainer_todo_app_with_docker/
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"body": "You might want to clean up your readme. It has some ChatGPT artifacts like \"<file before editing>\" and two implementation/project structure sections. It undermines what you've accomplished here.",
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"author": "Professional-Pie6704",
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"body": "repo link [https://github.com/yanou16/Multi-Container-Application](https://github.com/yanou16/Multi-Container-Application)",
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"body": "Architecture diagram of ci cd on LinkedIn ,https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rayane-louzazna-b7752b224_devops-docker-terraform-activity-7375972112936673280-ZBMT?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAADhRrssBrf7xaY9s2jM0h25W1WGD2aaHYNA",
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"body": "Why linkedin?",
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"body": "I can't share the picture here ; so I put the the architecture in LinkedIn post and the readme file on the repo",
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Shifting from Sofware Developer to DevOps Engineer
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Hey everyone!
Software developer here, due to shitty market for software devs, yes I have been 8+ years in industry and getting sick of that shit, storming from one interview to another, playing HR nonsense with Angular, React and Vue buzzwords and getting rejected time after time I decided to cut that crap and pickup more man work, of course I am looking at my Linux shell and machines so DevOPS is the next I am hoping next.
So DevOps fellows, how you are hanging with current tech crysis, are you still getting contraacts and nice projects, is demand still high with no problems due AI hype etc.
Thanks in advance and stay strong.
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"author": "queenOfGhis",
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"body": "What is man work?",
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"author": "myka-likes-it",
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"body": "> man work\n\n\nFunny, because there are more women in DevOps than men, where I work.",
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"author": "evergreen-spacecat",
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"body": "There is job to be done but the major hype curve around DevOps has settled. At some point some years ago, you go a top tier job if you knew just a little AWS or could spell Kubernetes. Now, knowing cloud infra, kubernetes and CI pipelines is a bare minimum starting point. The buzzword puzzle is not any less so on the DevOps side either.\n\nA lot of the AI hype is directed to a few big SaaS services. Not a lot of companies host and train their own models and those that do require only a small team of highly skilled engineers.",
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"author": "freethenipple23",
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"body": "Dude. ",
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"author": "8ersgonna8",
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"body": "I made the switch from developer a few years ago as well. My thinking is that someone has to keep the lights on even if AI can generate the code. I noticed that the developers lose interest when it comes to operational stuff. We usually supply terraform modules and Atlantis. But developer platforms seem to be a thing as well.",
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"author": "karn09",
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"body": "I made this shift many years ago. My dev skills have stagnated a bit, so I find myself needing to be very proactive there. The interviews are mostly the same as dev: shuffle through leetcode medium/hard, but also talk about cloud infra.",
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"author": "akornato",
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"body": "The demand is solid because DevOps sits at that critical intersection where business operations meet technology, and that's not going away anytime soon. Your 8+ years of development experience actually gives you a huge advantage since you understand the application side that many infrastructure-focused DevOps folks struggle with.\n\nThat said, the transition isn't going to be a magic bullet for interview hell. You'll still face the same corporate nonsense, just with different buzzwords like Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS instead of React and Angular. The good news is that DevOps interviews tend to focus more on practical problem-solving and less on algorithmic puzzles, which many developers find refreshing. Start building some cloud projects and automation scripts to show you can walk the walk, not just talk about it. I'm on the team that built [AI for interview prep](http://interviews.chat), and we've seen a lot of developers successfully pivot to DevOps by using it to practice explaining their transferable skills and handling those tricky \"why are you switching\" questions that always come up in career transition interviews.",
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"author": "Connect_Detail98",
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"body": "Don't",
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"author": "CupFine8373",
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"body": "it is Ogre",
"created_utc": 1758568094,
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"author": "zeal_swan",
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"body": "i am devops, i want to pickup datascience or security",
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"author": "Affectionate-Bit6525",
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"body": "You’re probably better off looking into SRE these days.",
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"author": "Severe_Effective8408",
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"body": "devops, security, linux machines, infrastcutre, bare metal servers, everything but frontend",
"created_utc": 1758573937,
"id": "nfnvsos",
"is_submitter": true,
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"post_id": "1nnuk8h",
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"author": "Severe_Effective8408",
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"body": "Agree, but still see less supply with skilled devops engineers. Also bigger pay for example I have been browsing jobs for Germany, on average DevOps gets around 75-95K which is excellent, also average DevOPS position get 25 applicant on Linkedin, while some shitty frontend has 500 applicants. The worst thing they are releasing frameworks every few months (just terrible engineering) and you do not move infrastructure every few months, Jenkins is old as my grandma and it's still there.",
"created_utc": 1758567672,
"id": "nfnck7n",
"is_submitter": true,
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"author": "Severe_Effective8408",
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"body": "Ok, ok. What is leetcode interview for DevOps engineer, as long as they do not ask you bullshit questions about fizz buzz, timespace complexity or inverting binary tree it seems related to the job you will actually do on the project.",
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"author": "Severe_Effective8408",
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"body": "I would go for security, data science seems bruh",
"created_utc": 1758567332,
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"author": "aktentasche",
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"body": "Sounds like more on call bs",
"created_utc": 1758571428,
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"author": "Severe_Effective8408",
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"body": "What does it takes to get there? How much is that different than DevOps actually?",
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"author": "queenOfGhis",
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"body": "Are you serious? I wasn't aware we needed 19th century diversity hires like you.\nSincerely, a woman in DevOps.",
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"id": "nfnz1mm",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfnvsos",
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"author": "eshkrab",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Are you not just being facetious? 🤦\nHoly hell.",
"created_utc": 1758576113,
"id": "nfo2bg2",
"is_submitter": false,
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"author": "LittleRoundFox",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Bwahahahahahahaha…\n\nOh wait - you're serious, aren't you?\n\nBwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha",
"created_utc": 1758659745,
"id": "nftzdfy",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfnvsos",
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"author": "Florence1027",
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"body": "The people in charge of that where I've worked were 90% women. Hell, my mom has been a sysadmin since the 80s. I've honestly seen more men in software development than women. Calling this \"man work\" is weird lol just say you want to work in \"everything but frontend\"",
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"id": "nfthy4h",
"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfnvsos",
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"author": "evergreen-spacecat",
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"body": "Sure there are jobs for skilled and experienced engineers. No longer an easy position to fill without experience these days. On the other hand, I work as part React dev, part DevOps. Knowing cloud/kubernetes has landed me a few frontend jobs. I tell them I can set up deployments, then code react while supporting the infrastructure a few hours a week. Seem to work in small businesses",
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"author": "gamingwithDoug100",
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"body": "It is leetcode(round 1) + N/w + k8s + docker + Ci/CD (loop) + Director of Engg",
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"author": "karn09",
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"body": "Pretty much some bs question. I've gotten 2-pointer style problems, knapsack optimization, sliding window. Of course needing to talk about time space complexity. It's usually the first round, and phrased in a way that makes it seem like they are building Google scale infra dealing with load balancers etc (they are not). No idea how these problems are relevant most of the time, but it is what it is.",
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"awards": 0,
"body": "+1",
"created_utc": 1758573347,
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"author": "CompetitiveBee808",
"awards": 0,
"body": "whenever I heard SRE I think \"oncall\"",
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"is_submitter": false,
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"author": "MajorComrade",
"awards": 0,
"body": "As a man, TIL after 13 YoE I’ve been doing Woman Work this whole time /s\n\nStarting to see why OP is having difficulty landing his next gig. What an absurd thing to believe, let alone say",
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"body": "I can't imagine why this guy is having a hard time getting hired. \n \\- Another woman in devops.",
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"author": "karn09",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Exactly this most of the time.",
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"author": "LittleRoundFox",
"awards": 0,
"body": "I misread that as \"...getting laid\" and tbf, he's probably struggling with that, too",
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"author": "bigfatmouseratfan",
"awards": 0,
"body": "hey, just say you're gay in your next interview and you're 100% going to be hired! no need to switch to devops. unless... are the gays BETTER software engineers than you?! :O",
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"author": "coincidenx",
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"body": "starting to seem like the first step on your new employment journey needs to be stop framing yourself as a victim. everyone here can tell why you haven’t been hired",
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"body": "I’m not gay or trans either, I have “manly hobbies” like hunting and martial arts…\n\nYou may find more ideal employment by recalibrating your perspective. We’re all humans after all.",
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"body": "Wow, you have no idea how the world works.",
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"author": "xxDailyGrindxx",
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"body": "As a hetero male, from his comments alone, I would absolutely hate to work with this guy...\n\nI can imagine him constantly complaining about every marginalized group, and blaming others for his failures, rather than working to improve things...",
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Octofer: a Rust framework for building GitHub Apss/Bots with ease!
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Hi all,
In the last few months I’ve been working on Octofer, a framework for building GitHub Apps in Rust.
It’s inspired by Probot and uses octocrab under the hood.
Right now, it supports common events (issues, PRs, comments, etc.), typed payloads, and simple config via env vars. It’s still under active development, so feedback and contributions are very welcome!
It makes building bots/apps really easy, allowing you to introduce features and automation in little time.
Would love to hear what you think and what features you’d like to see!
P.S. its a simple project but I really enjoyed the process of building it!
https://github.com/AbelHristodor/octofer
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"author": "TheDevDex",
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"body": "Very cool! Solid auth/webhook verification examples and maybe some templates for common workflows (triage, labeling, merge automation) next?",
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"id": "nfn3skc",
"is_submitter": false,
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"post_id": "1nntlof",
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"author": "abel_hristodor",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Great ideas! I’ll add them to the roadmap for sure! :)",
"created_utc": 1758566022,
"id": "nfn7agu",
"is_submitter": true,
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"score": 1,
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"author": "abel_hristodor",
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"body": "I have built this bot, if anyone wants to see a real example: https://github.com/AbelHristodor/frezze",
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1nnt2os
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How do startups (and big companies) handle dependency/security updates?
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Hey folks,
I’m sort of new to full stack development and running into some confusion with handling dependencies at my SaaS startup. Right now I’ve got Dependabot set up, and I usually merge updates every couple of weeks. But I’m not sure if this is really best practice.
Couple of questions I’d love advice on:
• How do startups typically manage dependency updates and security risks? Do you just patch as they come in, or batch them on a schedule?
• How do larger enterprises do this at scale? I imagine they have dedicated teams or processes, but I’d love to understand what’s realistic as a smaller company.
• What do you do when a dependency has a security vulnerability but updating it breaks other packages that rely on the older version? Do you pin it and accept the risk, fork it, patch it, or something else?
I feel like I’m either over-updating (lots of noise and breakage) or under-updating (leaving security holes open). Curious to hear how others approach this balance.
Thanks!
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"body": "How do startups typically manage dependency updates and security risks? Do you just patch as they come in, or batch them on a schedule?\n\nVulnerability management is a game of prioritisation. Fixing everything is a waste of time because the majority of vulnerabilities don’t get exploited. \n\nFrom my experience, we’ve had better results by using EPSS rather than CVSS. Patches are applied within a timescale (example: criticals are patched within 24 hours) and anything that will introduce a breaking change or cause downtime will have an emergency maintenance window. \n\nSRE update our infrastructure in general twice a year and so these will include general patches that don’t meet our EPSS thresholds\n\n\nHow do larger enterprises do this at scale? I imagine they have dedicated teams or processes, but I’d love to understand what’s realistic as a smaller company.\n\nYes, large companies have multiple security teams handling specific areas (vuln management, threat detection, IAM, etc)\n\nSmaller companies often have a higher tolerance for risk so only the really bad vulnerabilities get patched. You can purchase tools that help build a more detailed picture compared to just using a severity rating.\n\n\nWhat do you do when a dependency has a security vulnerability but updating it breaks other packages that rely on the older version? Do you pin it and accept the risk, fork it, patch it, or something else?\n\nIn this scenario, the risk of the vulnerability needs to be taken into account, specifically how likely is it to be exploited and what is the impact of it being exploited. Not exposing applications to the internet help reduce the likelihood. Implementing good RBAC and threat detection help reduce the impact. This is the sort of weighing-up needed, especially in smaller organisations where there isn’t the capacity to handle constant updates, testing and roll backs.\n\nIt’s important to document the risk and why it was accepted if applicable. Not only from a compliance point of view (example ISO27001) but also to cover your own arse if it goes tits up in the future",
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"body": "- Work hard to keep the amount of dependencies to a strict minimum\n- When selecting dependencies ensure they are used alot, well maintained and have some level of documentation\n- Patch a.s.a.p.\n- Update a.s.a.p.\n- agressive scanning for CVE notices\n- pipelines should fail if any deps have warnings",
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"body": "With a good test coverage, you can automerge a lot of dependencies. With a good production deployment flow you can rollback automatically the few upgrades that didn't raise issues in tests but do create issues at runtime (ideally this happens before Prod).\n\nIn practice, we blindly merge ~95% of Renovate MRs (probably half are even auto merged) and the remaining we know by experience that we should not trust them and do additional testing.\n\nWe merge Renovate MRs on a daily-to-weekly basis or whenever we make a development on a project. And release/ship as often as possible.",
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"body": "I worked at a Series E startup and spent like a whole month cleaning up deprecated versions.\n\nMost teams ignore Dependabot.\n\nOnce in a while the SRE/Security team will send out a massive Google Sheet containing every repo/service and a list of dependencies that need to be upgraded along with the priority/severity. Each team will nominate an engineer to open PRs to services they touch. Some teams don’t have capacity so another team will help out.\n\nI also worked at pre-seed/pre-Series A startups and we don’t give a shit until the SOC 2 guys come knocking. We cannot afford a major version bump breaking important services. If we have capacity, then we’ll try to set up some CI that alerts us for major vulns, but feature velocity and PMF is more important. Tech debt accumulates much faster at an early stage startup. The goal at a small startup is to avoid unnecessary work so you can ship faster.",
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"body": "Large company I worked for security scans were part of release so any Critical vulnerabilities get flagged before release and require remediation.\n\n\nIf the remediation is complicated and the change we want to make is important, we are granted a waiver to release, but have to follow up with remediation. \n\n\nInternally we have a framework that all teams use which standardizes versions of common libraries. It is essentially an extension of Spring Boot with starters set up for all our internal infrastructure. For most vulnerabilities we just need to upgrade that base framework across the org. \n\n\nWe also had dependabot but like you mention about compatibility, it can be challenging to have a bunch of teams juggling their own versions, which does happen. Dependabot is a good tool, but nice to have the core framework where fixes can be applied globally by a team that is required to take compatibility into account.",
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"body": "We have sysdig scans in the build pipelines that do not allow images to be signed and published if it doesn't pass + renovate to keep dependencies updated (auto merge minor and patch updates as much as possible).\n\nSo daily updates and scans.",
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"body": "We use nexus IQ to highlight severity. We try to push most updates into the next release. So 2-4 weeks. If it's a breaking change we would probably investigate what the actual cve is and see if it's a vulnerability for our use case. If it's not then it can go in the dev backlog if it is then it's gotta be fixed. \n\nDependabot is great for keeping things up to date. We leave that in as a thing for teams to fit in as needed.",
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"body": "why don't you look into nix? might be worth a shot",
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"body": "Thanks for the detailed response !",
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"body": "Thanks!",
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"author": "Friendly_Scale_7239",
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"body": "Thanks !",
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"author": "Friendly_Scale_7239",
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"body": "Thanks!",
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"body": "Thanks!",
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"body": "Do you feel that you have sort of a lurking pressure or thought that maybe you missed something or there is a hole somewhere that can be exploited. Like I’m doing B2B SaaS dealing with company data and I always feel stressed or unsure that there is someone trying to like hack the app or breach it even though that’s probably not true.",
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"body": ">Thanks!\n\nYou're welcome!",
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"body": "We run external scans all the time and do a pen test twice a year. Keeps our security guy very very busy but it's worth knowing you don't have some major hole",
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"body": "Ok thanks !",
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1nns9am
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What is the best course in devops to switch a company?
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Pls pls 🥺🙏🏻
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"author": "spicypixel",
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"body": "Be employable?",
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"body": "Yess",
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1nnqtq3
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From coding guidelines in docs to automated enforcement: Spotless + Checkstyle as a step toward CI/CD
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When I joined a new company, I inherited a large Spring Boot monolith with 15 developers. Coding guidelines existed but only in docs.
Reviews were filled with nitpicks, formatting wars, and “your IDE vs my IDE” debates.
I was tasked to first enforce coding guidelines before moving on to CI/CD. I ended up using:
* **Spotless** for formatting (auto-applied at compile)
* **Checkstyle** for rules (line length, Javadoc, imports, etc.)
* **Optional pre-commit hooks** for faster feedback across Mac & Windows
This article is my write-up of that journey sharing configs, lessons, and common gotchas for mixed-OS teams.
Link -> [https://medium.com/stackademic/how-i-enforced-coding-guidelines-on-a-15-dev-spring-boot-monolith-using-spotless-checkstyle-and-d8ca49caca2c?sk=7eefeaf915171e931dbe2ed25363526b](https://medium.com/stackademic/how-i-enforced-coding-guidelines-on-a-15-dev-spring-boot-monolith-using-spotless-checkstyle-and-d8ca49caca2c?sk=7eefeaf915171e931dbe2ed25363526b)
Would love feedback on how do you enforce guidelines in your teams?
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"author": "agent766",
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"body": "The actual hard part is getting the team to agree on a ruleset.",
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"author": "sshetty03",
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"body": "I have managed to workaround. I just start with \"let's go with this and then change it as we go along and as needed\". This way, I get started and unless something sticks out like a sore thumb, no devs come back to adding any additional rulesets. They just adjust.",
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1nnooay
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Advice desired... A million unmerged branches!
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Okay, not a million. But a lot. In short, the situation is that I've been asked to take a look at the pipeline for our repos and streamline our processes and procedures, as well as put boundaries in place.
It seems that many, many people have not been merging their branches, and a lot of that code is in use right now. Can anyone offer good advice on how to handle reconciling all these branches and some good boundaries and processes to prevent that in the future?
I'd really appreciate any insight anyone has that's been through this before!
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"author": "twistdafterdark",
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"body": "How are they in use but not merged?",
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"author": "pbecotte",
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"body": "We wrote a script to iterate through the branches and delete them based on heuristic (all changes merged, no commits over three months, stuff like that).\n\nBut the \"code is in use but not merged\" part scares me :)",
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"author": "federiconafria",
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"body": "Stop the leak before mopping the floor. \n\nMake it impossible to deploy code that is not merged before cleaning up the branches. The branches are not the issue, not knowing what is deployed is.",
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"body": "If I understand you correctly, these kind of situations are not easily solvable. If your team has shipped to prod code that's not in the - let's say - trunk branch (how?!), there is no way to reliably get it back on track via the source code itself.\n\nI'll take the JVM as an example, as that's where I work most of my time. What I'd do is diff the prod JARs and the trunk JARs' class files, and then put the missing stuff back. It won't match exactly the original code, but it's going to be close enough, and reviewable.",
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"body": "Set up a part of their ci/cd flow that forces a PR back to main/master when theyre done with it. I had a past job which used long living branches instead of git tags. Youll likely need to work with the dev teams per repo. Id recommend running a report on all your repos, then filter on ones with many branches, chop that up into repos which havent been commited to in year(s)? and then blast the dev folks with the attached report. Deleting a branch without merging it into a branch generally requires extra perms so a base dev may not be able to. Branch policies are also a good look into here.",
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"body": "Monorepo?\n\nDo the build artifacts have any version numbers that can be pulled from the binaries themselves?\n\nMy team is in a similar problem with 240 branches of unknown fate. The root problem here is that we only merge to main after the code is in production and no code review, and sometimes devs forget to merge into main.\n\nWithout management buy in or the possibility to accept risk with redeploying from main and seeing if anything breaks, it's hard to clean up.",
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"body": "There's an option in Gitlab to delete the source branch when merging, but that's not activated by default, so I'm guessing those branches are just leftovers and have been merged a long time ago",
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"author": "SilentLennie",
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"body": "Please do something like: deploy from a branch like main to prod env. and only allow merge requests on that branch. So nobody can directly submit to main and nobody can deploy without going through the process.",
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"author": "Leucippus1",
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"body": "I get a little weird when anyone says 'branching' for this reason. If your branch can last more than a day you are setting yourself up for annoyance and irritation.",
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"author": "CanadianPropagandist",
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"body": "You may need to audit these branches with the devteam. I'd interface with the head of eng, let them know the situation and start a cleanup. And then make sure they use proper PR procedures going forward.\n\nI'm not sure what your scheme is for git management but take a look at implementing something like Gitflow or GitHub Flow.",
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"author": "edmund_blackadder",
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"body": "Which branch are you shipping to prod from?\nOnly main gets deployed to prod. If it’s not merged to main it never gets deployed. It’s not complicated ",
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"author": "BP8270",
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"body": "IaC and running multiple branches sounds like they should fork their branches to new repos.",
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"author": "crash90",
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"body": "This is more of an organizational problem than an technical problem.\n\nIf I understand correctly people are deploying unmerged code into production. This is the actual source of your problem rather than too many branches.\n\nStep one is to gather stakeholders who can hold the relevant devs to standards. Then agree on a process for what future deploys look like, complete with an expectation of how people will be checking out code and shipping (ideally with short lived branches that quickly get merged back into master.)\n\nDevs imo should not have the ability to deploy like this outside of the normal CI/CD process. You want to give devs as much freedom as you reasonably can, but letting them deploy directly like this leads to security issues too, not just a big pile of spaghetti in your repo. How do they have creds to deploy? No human should know what those creds are, they should be in vault or something similar that that the CI/CD system accesses to deploy. Devs right now probably just have passwords saved locally (perhaps even in plaintext.)\n\nIdeally you want to be in a situation where the repo itself is the source of truth, and deploying from the dev's perspective is the same thing as merging to master. (GitOps)\n\nOnce you have the organizational buy in from the stakeholders you want to work with devs to design and explain the new process. Create a drop dead date where services will be redeployed from master and work with teams as needed for exceptions.\n\nOnce you're ready to start actually merging the code back I would recommend strategic use of of git rebase rather than merge. Would suggest reading the docs and watching a few youtube videos to get comfortable with the workflow there.\n\nThis sounds like a long and challenging project. Good luck!",
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"author": "bourgeoisie_whacker",
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"body": "Burn it with fire?",
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"author": "nestersan",
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"body": "If we engineerss DevOped like devs DevOped.....\n\nSheesh",
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"score": 2,
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"author": "tecedu",
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"body": "Going through something similarish now, my solution was scream test them. Any branch that doesnt have code committed in the past 8 weeks and not part of a PR are gone, good chance if the devs were working they had it locally and push again.\n\nSecond, branch off main and get dev branch, start creating PRs and merging them together. Tell developers to branch off dev if they want to work again, do not make the problem worse. You will have non working code and things will be lost but thats okay.\nOnce you have merged all the other branches into dev, get it merged into main.\n\nAs for how to not make it happen in the future, just merge PRs into one common place, even when they are not going into prod. We do it via a dedicated timeslot once a week. Never be afraid to scream test out things.",
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"author": "BoBoBearDev",
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"body": "I personally just delete everything that didn't have a commit for a whole year. Unless it has special prefix, pretty sure it is not used.\n\n\nBtw, it doesn't really help much to delete them. The performance gain is marginal. If you have a massive data in the main branch history, the clone will download the compressed diffs. Even if you delete the file, it is part of the branch history and slow as hell. You need some special cli flags to clone by excluding the branch history.",
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"author": "Heavy-Report9931",
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"body": "wrote my own library for this. filters based on whatever you want l. was a fun project",
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"author": "Ariquitaun",
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"body": "You need to add automation to mark non-protected branches for deletion after a couple of weeks, communicate it, give a grace period where they get deleted at 6 weeks then 4 then 2 and make sure there are no exceptions.\n\n\"A lot of that code is in use\" just makes me shudder.",
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"author": "Happy_Breakfast7965",
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"body": "Switch to trunk-based development. Start merging branches and removing them. \n\nIgnore irrelevant branches that are abandoned.\n\nMake `main` branch the only way to deploy/release stuff.",
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"author": "Adorable-Strangerx",
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"body": "Remove all of them, if people are working on them they will have local copy.",
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"author": "Exciting-Nobody-1465",
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"body": "What's the actual problem? ",
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"author": "MichaelJ1972",
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"body": "Asking the important questions. But not sure I want to hear the answer.",
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"author": "RebootMePlease",
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"body": "Same way that old Git server Dev okayed to turn off 5 years ago is suddenly a prod needed asset ;)",
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"author": "Team503",
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"body": "I honestly do not yet know, I'm still digging through trying to figure out how this nightmare was set up. I promise to update the post when I find out!",
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"author": "McBun2023",
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"body": "at work we can build a snapshot build from any branches. And nothing stop anyone to put that snapshot anywhere they want ¯\\\\\\_(ツ)\\_/¯",
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"author": "nooneinparticular246",
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"body": "I’ve written similar. You can try to merge dev into the branch and if it merges cleanly, diff with dev, and if there’s no diff you delete the branch.",
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"author": "nullpotato",
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"body": "Have done the same but having the build agent just delete the local copy of the repo and clone it periodically is much simpler if you can do that.",
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"author": "Team503",
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"body": "Scares the hell out of me too!",
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"author": "evergreen-spacecat",
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"body": "In my world, only main and tags can be deployed. Ever",
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"author": "Team503",
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"body": "Good point, thanks!",
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"author": "Team503",
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"body": "Also great advice, thanks!",
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"author": "Team503",
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"body": "This is great advice, thank you!",
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"author": "anonymousmonkey339",
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"body": "That sounds like a nightmare",
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"author": "evergreen-spacecat",
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"body": "Self harm. At some point you need to tell management you can no longer deploy since you are not sure what will happen unless this mess is fixed. Then fix",
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"author": "Team503",
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"body": "In this case, yes, a monorepo. It's more IaC than it is programming in this case.",
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"author": "SilentLennie",
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"body": "Please do something like: deploy from a branch like main to prod env. and only allow merge requests on that branch. So nobody can directly submit to main and nobody can deploy without going through the process.",
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"author": "Team503",
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"body": "Worth looking into. Thanks!",
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"body": "Oh, I agree - I come from a whole different part of this very large company, I've never seen this pipeline before and that's how I got dragged into it - I finished my code, submitted my PR, and it just sat there. Following up on it meant finding out that it wasn't unusual, there was a *massive* mess, and of course, I was voluntold to handle it.",
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"author": "Ok_Tax4407",
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"body": "Downvotwd for suggesting to use GitFlow In 2025. Don't. Just don't.",
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"author": "evergreen-spacecat",
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"body": "Gitflow is an enabler for this kind of mess. Never use it in any way, shape or form",
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"author": "Team503",
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"body": "Yeah, that sounds about right. Thanks!",
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"body": "I'm just getting to look at the config here, but what I can tell you is that said code IS deployed and in production, but is NOT merged. I'll update the post when I have more information tomorrow.",
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"author": "Team503",
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"body": "That might be a possibility, though it's unlikely in my environment for political (stupid) reasons.",
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"author": "Team503",
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"body": "This is a great overview, I appreciate it!",
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"author": "Team503",
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"body": "Me too, my friend, me too.",
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"body": "There are a ton of branches whose code are in production that are not merged to main. The concern is long run that it will be unsustainable code and eventually run into an irreconcilable conflict.",
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"author": "rylab",
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"body": "Squash merges will make it look like the incoming branch wasn't actually merged, maybe they're doing that? See if there's a commit to the main branch right around the last commit of any of the unmerged branches with the same changes.",
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"author": "Haunting_Meal296",
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"body": "Could you please elaborate?",
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"body": "If the branches have been squash-merged, that can still be detected. Here's a script I use to prune squashed branches:\n\n #!/bin/bash\n \n DELETE_MODE=false\n if [ \"$1\" = \"--delete\" ]; then\n DELETE_MODE=true\n fi\n \n # Check for merged branches that can be safely deleted\n git checkout -q main && \\\n git for-each-ref refs/heads/ \"--format=%(refname:short)\" | \\\n while read branch; do\n mergeBase=$(git merge-base main $branch) && \\\n [[ $(git cherry main $(git commit-tree $(git rev-parse \"$branch^{tree}\") -p $mergeBase -m _)) == \"-\"* ]] && \\\n if [ \"$DELETE_MODE\" = true ]; then\n git branch -D $branch\n git fetch --prune\n else\n echo \"$branch is merged and can be deleted\"\n fi\n done\n\n\nIt will only actually delete branches if you add the parameter \"--delete\" when running it, otherwise it will print a list of squash-merged branches.\n\n\nThe other item I'd ask is \"How is code in unmerged branches being run?\" since you said that was happening. If there are staging deployments with unmerged branches, are those used for production or testing? Can you figure out what branches are running by examining the deployments? Any way to figure out which of those deployments have actually been used recently, maybe by examining logs?\n\nDevops, especially after a transition frequently calls for extracting information from what's running/configured in order to figure out how to clean it up, so this not a unique problem by any means.",
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"body": "Are you sure the branches weren’t merged and just never cleaned up?",
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"body": "Going in another direction, in the eyes ultimately it's the developers job to decide if an operation which deleted information should happen.\n\nThis means it's the developers responsibility to delete dead branches, it shouldn't be yours, because then you are liable for \"but wait, I was saving that!!!\" Reactions.\n\nInstead, for each branch, try to find out who pushed the branch, and send an email to that developer for each branch saying the branch name and project name. For example, if your company uses namespaces for each developer in git, then it should be easy. If there are no namespaces, then this is a great opportunity to push for that, combined with disallowing high level people from pushing outside of their namespace.\n\nThen after like 3 months of those emails, sent once a week, send a final very scary sounding \"you have a branch which will be deleted\" email, wait 3 days, and start deleting them but put them under a new branch name. After 2 weeks, delete that branch.\n\nUnderstandbly there are instances where such branches should persist for odd reasons outside of your control, then those should either be outside the developer git namespace or have a git signed tag attachmed to them, with the tag embedding why this branch is an exception (and the name of who signed off on this).\n\nAnd make sure you have buy in from as high up in the company as you can get, to shield you in case something gnarly happens.",
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"body": "How did you get to the conclusion they are in use? Does each branch trigger a build and creates a new environment? If not, I can’t see how this is a problem to remove them",
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"body": "That's a great suggestion, might at least clean up SOME of the mess.",
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"body": "I generally setup build agents to be ephemeral, so this wouldn't be an issue there.\n\nIt has caused problems with something like jenkins doing api scans to look for new commits to build, having thousands of branches can make that process super slow (or fail completely with api rate limits)",
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"body": "Folks deploy PR branches to shared envs here and it drives me ape shit.",
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"body": "as it should be. where did the good old configuration management go!",
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"body": "All day nightmare, with my eyes wide open. All the devs spend so much of their time fighting fires, and the manager is afraid to change anything because \"code keeps falling out\"\n\nI've been implementing CICD for the development pattern (devs work in feature branch, branch deploys one component, after prod release gets reviewed and merged) but implementing a better branching strategy will require us to redeploy each piece using CICD from main branch, to bring main in sync with production, which is too much risk.\n\nFrozen caveman mentality from the manager. He's been working this way for 20 years so why change now...",
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"author": "CanadianPropagandist",
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"body": "Feel free to share your knowledge.",
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"body": "I'm not a fan of following Git Flow blindly but it would be an 100x improvement over some of the non-processes I've seeing described here.",
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"author": "edmund_blackadder",
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"body": "Your deployment pipelines should only ever deploy to prod from main. Unless you are deploying manually?",
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"body": "Care to elaborate about the current process? How does code from a branch arrive in production? What type of product is it? What's in these branches?",
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"author": "donjulioanejo",
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"body": "We just have \"automatically delete merged branches\" set.",
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"body": "I feel seen. We used squash merges at my last job, and every few months, I'd go through and delete my merged branches on the server. I'm not sure if anyone else did that.",
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"body": "This is why I dislike squashed merges. They delete history. They make it impossible to look back at the repo and tell what happened. Was this branch merged? Should I delete it or it holds some super useful work that will become relevant months later? No way to tell.\n\nThey encourage devs to push mindless commits since even if they made well-structured commits they get lost in the squash. They also make it impossible to go cherry-pick something useful from history. So much git functionality lost because of them.",
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"body": "It's a classic in devops land. Developers and even their VPs tell you you can offline a server or in this case a source control server. Leadership told devs to get everything. Devs have no idea what's in scope to pull, they pull a few active projects and okay a shut off. Wait a year or two and someone asks panicked if you still have an old backup for them or not because some one off app was on that old server and they. Never moved it and have no uncompiled code for it",
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"body": "Super useful, thanks! And I'm trying to get to it, but this is far from my primary role, and my day is rather full right now so I haven't even had a chance to glance.",
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"body": "Sadly, yes.",
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"body": "That's a really good point!",
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"body": "Because it's mostly IaC and the branches that create environments have corresponding environments in production.\n\nTrust me, it's in use.",
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"body": "That would be ideal, I just mention it because based on OPs post it is unlikely they have an ideal agent based system.",
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"body": "persistent build agents seem like a bunch of headaches waiting to happen. I'd love to know a good reason one would want persistent build agents at scale",
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"body": "why why why?",
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"author": "Le_Vagabond",
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"body": "That \"after prod release\" should be \"before prod\"...",
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"author": "Zephilinox",
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"body": "I'm not them, but let me share mine\n\nGitFlow is great if you need it, and it sucks if you don't. if you're working on a modern application or typical web stacks where you don't have to maintain multiple versions, then you should not be using it\n\nGitFlow is designed for old-school, classic desktop apps, where multiple major and minor versions might need to be supported, specialised releases for certain customers, internal research, etc.\n\nanyone advising one approach over any other without considering the use case means they either they used the wrong approach and got burnt from it, or they're parroting information they don't understand",
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"body": "It's IaC so far as I've seen, though there remains a LOT for me to search through. I have no idea how, so far, but as soon as I find out I promise to update the original post.",
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"body": "That won't clean up the local copies of those branches on other machines that didn't do the delete though",
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"author": "rylab",
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"body": "Yeah, if it's branches that have been squash merged, this is the answer. Get devs on board with deleting them after squashing.",
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"body": "But when that history tend to be commits like \"fix typo\", \"fix\", \"pleasework\", I prefer to have squash on by default. \nCompetent developers will know when to turn squash off so the sane default is on.",
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"body": "Ouch.",
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"body": "Lack of confidence in testing pre merge. Bunch of noobs that can’t write tests.",
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"body": "No no no, we do pull requests after it has been in prod for some amount of time. If the PR happens after it's been in prod, there's no need for a code review because it's already production ready code.\n\nI wish I was joking",
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"body": "And no GitFlow is not `great' for anything, not even multiple versions in the wild. For making software you will want continuous integration aka trunk based, instead of deferred integration. Anyone in devops world should know these facts in 2025.",
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"body": "Dora.dev/research",
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"body": "> GitFlow is designed for old-school, classic desktop apps, where multiple major and minor versions might need to be supported, specialised releases for certain customers, internal research, etc.\n\nAnd you don't have multiple versions for online apps? Prod and dev and testing is all one version, always? You never have to try out complex features that can't be done with feature flags?\n\nI'm not advocating for Git Flow specifically (mostly because it's an example, it shouldn't be followed blindly and to the letter), but to claim online apps don't have multiple versions is strange.",
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"body": "Why is that an issue, though? Each dev's local repos are their own responsibility.",
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"body": "People who write useless commit messages will do that with or without squash. It's an orthogonal problem.",
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"body": "It isn't for devs but can cause problems for build pipelines. If someone deletes a remote branch and the name gets reused but you never cleaned the old one up for example.",
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"body": "I agree, but they also tend to not bother changing anything on merge requests so my point was that defaulting to squash (and delete branch) leads to the least pain.",
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"body": "How is your pipeline setup that this could cause an issue?",
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"body": "Why would this be a problem, though? Your builds agents should be using a clean clone each time. Unless you're running Jenkins with persistent agents or something. And even then it's an easy fix to just clean git cache on each checkout.",
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"body": "builds should be done from a fresh checkout in a clean environment ie container on CI, if this is an issue you have bigger problems",
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"body": "The runner will only have remote branches and would never run into such an issue …",
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"body": "You should implement a naming strategy in your company. Most of the include the ticket number so you'll have something like \"feature/123/pipelines\\_fixes\".\n\nIf you're in situation where names getting reused is an issue then you're doing something very, very wrong. There are rare cases when someone starts work on a ticket and then someone else starts work on it from scratch but people should be able to handle that.\n\nBesides, if your builds run like you say then it will break when a dev decides to squash their branch before a PR.",
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"body": "you are getting absolutely roasted in these replies",
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"body": "You can still get very useful metadata from branch history, like who worked on what code and when, it's not just about commit messages.\n\nAnd anyway why would you let bad commit messages dictate your merge policy.",
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"body": "For feature branches, who and when tend to not change much and likely wont matter opposed to when the commit that broke X was merged. \n \nIt does sound like you are in a better shop than me, so you got that going for you and in an ideal world where all developers are perfectly spherical, we could expect to have a good clean meaning full history and possibly rebasing being done prior to a merge request. \n \nBut the reality of my context, is just not that clean so I am more for leaning towards missing a bit of the signal while greatly reducing the noise.",
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1nno2o8
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Secure Server Access with Teleport
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I just published a guide on how to set up Teleport using Docker on EC2 to provide secure server access across Linux, Windows, Kubernetes, and cloud resources.
I made this because I was tired of dealing with shared SSH keys, forgotten credentials, and messy audit trails. If you’re managing multiple servers, clusters or DBs, this might save you painful hours (and headaches).
Read it here: [https://medium.com/@prateekjain.dev/secure-server-access-with-teleport-cf9e55bfb977?sk=aca19937704b4fafcfffd952caa1fc01](https://medium.com/@prateekjain.dev/secure-server-access-with-teleport-cf9e55bfb977?sk=aca19937704b4fafcfffd952caa1fc01)
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1nnnck5
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Integrating AI tools into existing pipelines?
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More and more AI investments seem to be ending up as shelfware. Anyone else noticing this? If you’re on the hook for making these tools work together, how are you tackling interoperability and automation between them? Curious what’s worked (or not) in your pipelines.
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nordic_lion
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"author": "Difficult-Ad-3938",
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"body": "It’s simple - they don’t solve any problems except the ones that they themselves create. In reality, we didn’t have any issues that require AI to solve them, not in this field at least. Given that most of the tooling is an external black box, no surprise it ends up on a shelf",
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"body": "Yeah tbh in DevOps, the automation piece, which is the biggest piece, is exactly what AI is averse to. Things need to be static and repeatable which AI is inherently opposite of in a workflow.\n\nI see the value in tools like copilot/claude code, and sometimes things like AI PR reviewers such as using non interactive mode with Claude code and a Claude.md to ensure the code follows simple standards that a linter may not be suited for.\n\nBut for the actual automation piece? And performing real actions? It’s entirely opposite of a DevOps philosophy",
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"body": "Yep, the problem is, the whole code and pipelines thing follows strict rules of programming languages and DSLs, so you can use strict tools to get idempotent (somewhat) results. AI may be nice to have from time to time, but definitely not required, something that a million of AI startups still try to dispute",
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"body": "Yeah, tbh I like having a Claude.md and a github MCP server to reference templates for pipelines so it can build out a decent chunk of the scaffolding and tool integrations like linting and coverage checks so I don’t have to render a template and modify it constantly, but as far as AI goes in actual pipeline runs that make changes, I use 0. It’s not static and predictable and that’s what automation requires first and foremost is a static, predictable, idempotent config. \n\nIt’s an assistive tool in building these things initially, not a tool that should have active usage for deploying them",
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"body": "This seems to be a common takeaway with pretty much everything AI right now, helpful to use when you have an initial blank page in front of you, but then increasingly less valuable as you move beyond a first draft and into the real world… ",
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"body": "I will say having some MCP servers for Claude code is a huge help anywhere during your dev process to provide context, and a good Claude.md . Having a github MCP server and/or a JIRA one to analyze issues to ensure you’re tackling things or have it break up the work in multiple tasks and checking potentially other repos for standards and stuff is a huge huge help instead of doing all the digging yourself.\n\nAgain it’s mostly reads to gather data faster than you would opening 15 tabs yourself which is a huge velocity boost.\n\nJust like any other tool it’s just gotta be utilized in a thought based effective way instead of just putting it everywhere to solve created non existent problems 🤷♂️",
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"author": "nordic_lion",
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"body": "Haha, well stated - avoiding solving non-existent problems feels like a baseline to keep forefront at all times",
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"author": "Dangle76",
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"body": "That’s a huge thing I feel like in developer experience focused roles. The DevX orgs seem to create problems to solve instead of working alongside the developers to understand the problems they face.\n\nIt’s not everyone but from my experience that’s a big theme",
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1nnlu3o
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Start-up with 120,000 USD unused OpenAI credits, what to do with them?
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We are a tech start-up that received 120,000 USD Azure OpenAI credits, which is way more than we need. Any idea how to monetize these?
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reben002
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2025-09-26T10:39:03.912752
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"author": "betaphreak",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Set up a bot farm and serve political ads in the low millions budget.",
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"id": "nfleha3",
"is_submitter": false,
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"score": 5,
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"author": "dbxp",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Ask chatGPT?",
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"id": "nflc25y",
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"score": 5,
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"author": "Ok-Data9207",
"awards": 0,
"body": "You cannot transfer your azure credits",
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"is_submitter": false,
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"score": 1,
"stickied": false
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"author": "ohyeathatsright",
"awards": 0,
"body": "First confirm if they are transferable.",
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"post_id": "1nnlu3o",
"score": 1,
"stickied": false
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1nnkpfo
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DevOps folks in India: Do you really have to sacrifice sleep and work life balance for career growth?
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I need some real talk from people already in DevOps. I currently work as a server & network analyst with 3 years of experience, but I’m looking to transition into DevOps.
Here’s my worry: in my current company, rotational shifts and night shifts are draining me.
When I look at DevOps openings, I often notice irregular or rotational shift requirements and I don’t want to jump from one fire into another.
So I need your help:
1) How common are rotational/night shifts in DevOps roles in India?
2) Are they unavoidable, or can I aim for companies/teams where DevOps mostly works general shift?
3) For those of you already in shifts, how do you manage it and what’s your plan to eventually get out?
Any advice, personal stories, or even harsh truths are welcome 🙏
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2025-09-26T10:39:05.081240
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"author": "o5mfiHTNsH748KVq",
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"body": "I’m not in India, but as an American, I feel bad for Indian colleagues because it really does seem as if people\nin India sacrifice a lot of personal time for western gigs.\n\nI personally demanded that my teams in India were off-limits outside of 9-5 IST unless there was an incident and that caused a *lot* of drama with my superiors. They expect that you all join meetings that are quite late for you.",
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"body": "Hi , honestly there is no clear answer to this , depends on which comapny/project you join ,also depends on client as well.\n\nFor europe clients since time zone is not much difference so mostly you will generally work in 9 to 6 shift or at thr max 1 to 10 afternoon shift.But again if project requirement is there you migth need to be available for nigth shift mostly it is on rotational basis weekly .\n\nFor US clients chances are higher because of timezone but as I said depends totally on project you are working also your role.\n\nWould suggest take cloud engineer or devops role mostly involving infrastructure development, CI /CD ,docker, kubernetes instead of SRE roles as in SRE chances are slightly higher that you migth have to work on shift.\n\nBut if you work in service based you have to do the work or project which is allocated and no one can tell what migth be requirement in future as well.\n\nHonestly, switching into devops is harder in current scenario , there are too many things which are expected in interview also there are many tools so if you get into one don't miss out on it ,but yes while applying don't apply to support monitoring if you don't want shift",
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"author": "Stranjer",
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"body": "Our Pune team works a bit later in their day to overlap with the US team some, but im told they come in a little later. I want to say they work to 6/7PM IST, but Im not sure cause I keep seeing some online doing stuff at midnight IST even though we tell them to go home.\n\nOur on-call rotation has days split between Pune team and US team, and its like 6:30-6:30 IST for the uncall engineer.",
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"body": "Our team was Devops and SRE rolled into one. \n\nOncall shift of 12 hours, for 7 days, every month. As a senior member had to jump in during a LSE even when not on call. These were the events that were remembered. And the regular Devops duties that included Ops duties. Most people in my team loved the job and we had good teamwork That helped reduce the stress. \n\nEven after all this most my team was made redundant during a recent RIF. \n\nNow searching for a job. Haha.",
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"author": "bnup420",
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"body": "Devops folks offshore need to calm down a little bit. Working irregular hours to match your “CLIENT” requirements. If your counterparts value work life balance it’s because it’s Necessity not Luxury. Yeah it may impress your local boss to work hard and irregular hours but it takes toll on you. Everyone works hard but there is a limit you have to set for yourself. Don’t drain yourself!! Based on experience of my colleagues who work 5 am in the mornings to show they work hard.",
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"body": "I am based in EU and a Senior DevOps in a US company. What I can tell is that we have a daily which is everyday 6 PM my time and 10 PM for the India team. When I go to bed they still work, meaning its well over 2-3 AM. For sure I have a fealing that the same people are avilable not 24/7 but lets say 16-18 hours a day.",
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"author": "codax30",
"awards": 0,
"body": "😞",
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"author": "The_Career_Oracle",
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"body": "Who gives a flying shit. They’re working multiple jobs at the same time remote and Americans are RTO’d for collaboration and shunned for taking a second job outside their first jobs normal working hours. Then they come over on H1Bs, then continue to screw Americans by helping get their own people jobs. Don’t get me started on the credential stuffing and malicious practices of brain dumping certs and encouragement within their collectives to do so.",
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"author": "extraandre",
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"body": "Same in my team. The Indian colleagues work quite late even when we tell them that they don't need to",
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"author": "sane_scene",
"awards": 0,
"body": "I am a MERN dev and I am interested in devops. I have 2 yoe. Any advice or tips for me ?",
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"is_submitter": false,
"parent_id": "nfpbgiy",
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"author": "hapuchu",
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"body": "There are bunch of \"DevOps Roadmaps\", they can be a good starting point.\n\nExpectation, at least initially, is that we need to know everything ... which is impossible. But then interviews are structured that way, so need to know and learn as much as we can.\n\nIf you are doing a switch from Dev to DevOps/SRE then it is better to switch teams within you company and get some experience before looking outside the company.\n\nPersonally I believe it is impossible to be an expert in everything ... so after few years you need to carve your niche in some specific aspect of PlatformEngineering/DevOps/SRE.",
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"body": "Intresting, why do u want to switch from a developer role to devops? (especially which has a pain point of having to do shifts and on calls?)",
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"body": "Understood. Thanks a ton. \n\nActually no we don't have any DevOps team because all CI CD and deployment is handled by our senior devs who are backend engineers.\n\nI will follow the roadmap. Thanks again.",
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"body": "I am just tired of the updated tech stacks and demand in the JavaScript eco system and also machine coding rounds. \n\nSo I am thinking of devops nowadays.",
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1nnkh3u
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junior devops engineer thinking of quiting
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hello guys as per the title i have been working as devops engineer for the past 1.5 year i started with the company as a traine didnt no much about devops back then gradtuated with a focus on networking
so my dev side is really weak, my training was about 2 months it was like an overview of all tools we use but i never got to learn the basics right because i was thrown to a client in the third month and everything we do basicly is use already built templetes to deploy our services like eks and all infra so my job was basiclly to modify the variables in the template and deploy it thats it i felt something was wrong and that i am not learning that much at work so i stayied at the job and started going to cafe every day after work to learn on my own i have been doing that on my own for the last couple of months but i feel the progress is not good enough for me to get out of this company fast enough and i am racking expirenece in my profile as a number not as knowlege , so i have been thinking of quitting before my profile says i have 2YOE and i barley have one in reality , so i can learn on my own and apply again for another job when i am ready in a couple of months what do you think guys and advie will really help.
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Envy_mk
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/r/devops/comments/1nnkh3u/junior_devops_engineer_thinking_of_quiting/
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"author": "RustOnTheEdge",
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"body": "Holy shit all that on a single sentence.",
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"author": "eazolan",
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"body": "You know, just because there is free coffee, doesn't mean you have to drink all of it.",
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"body": "Don’t quit, ask your manager for a project, Maybe some low priority internal tooling. Or look for a business need within the org and build a case study as to why it should be built/implemented then ask to lead the implementation. This will let them give you story points towards the project and then you can learn more. \n\nExample you might look at some data in your seim were development deployments can be sped up\nIf you implement a new type of ci pipeline workflow.",
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"author": "dhrill21",
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"body": "Quitting will not make you learn faster, it will only make you poor faster. \nLearn what exactly. I am 50 years old and whenever I have to do something I have to learn again. \nThings change, knowledge of tools is overvalued, though you need to have some foundational knowledge which you should have as you graduated. \nI learned so many tools and software solutions which are completely irrelevant today. So I don't even bother learning to be ready, I am ready to learn by doing when I get a project need to solve.\n\nAnd to get a project to complete you need a job, as self invented learning \"projects\" are not really best to learn.",
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"author": "tacticalrd",
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"body": "Do small personal projects from scratch on weekends. They don't have to be complex multi service projects",
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"body": "Ok let me ask the obvious one first, then we'll move past it:\n\nAre you communicating like this at work? (no caps, no real sentences) If so, you're not going to like this, but it's massively limiting you. Like it or not, no one is going to let you lead a client facing engineering role because you can't send that to clients, and if my docs that were given to the next person are in this format, they're very hard to read. You need to demonstrate you can meet expectations on communications.\n\nYou probably won't believe this right now, but the most important skill in IT is communication. \"Can I put my ideas in that persons head exactly as they should be with minimal fuss\"\n\nLeaving to do your own stuff is fine, but there should be things a company can give you - mentoring/training schedule/budget/client experience that you can't get at home. Make sure you're not overlooking them. \n\nLet's move on to something more practical - \n\nFrom what you've said, you're limited in what the company will let you do, so you're studying on your own, that's great, seriously, be proud of that. From the looks of it you want more of a challenge and to move up?\n\nFirst main question - Ask yourself - what do your company know about your desire for more of a challenge? Have you told someone you want more? Or do you look like someone who's executing competently and then out the door every night to spend the night in a coffee shop doing something they don't see?\n\nIn terms of main goals, I'd suggest the following:\n\n1. Show competence on your day to day (sounds like you're doing this already - that's great)\n\n2. Make sure you've got a training plan/schedule agreed with management or a senior. \n\nYou're already doing the training, make sure you're recognised for it. Things you're doing outside of this aren't really visible. (Go show your talent!!)\n\n3. If you want more time on more senior things, ask for them. Ask to shadow, ask to be in client meetings. Show them you've got the skillset to do these things. Do NOT try to lead your client meetings, be there, be visible, ask questions if need be, or save them up for your seniors afterwards. The only real fear any senior has over bringing a junior is that they'll run their mouth off and cause problems for the project, questions are always welcome, just be careful of who hears them.\n\n4. Get a list of things you do/don't understand on current setups. Got any ideas for improvements? Great, show you know your stuff. This is also a communications test, are you going to waltz in, tell everyone they're wrong or are you going to convince? One of these is needed in a senior role, one will limit you forever.\n\n5. Are there other people at your level? Are you helping train them? Look for opportunities to become to go to person for X, because it demonstrates without a doubt that you're the person. This is a tough line, because if you only do that one thing, you'll get pigeon holed.",
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"author": "3loodhound",
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"body": "I’m sorry for you, or congratulations",
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"author": "CaseClosedEmail",
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"body": "I imagined that he said all that in one breath",
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"body": "he is a devops, what you have expected, he barely talks to his colleagues, but when he is do, everybody listens",
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"author": "Envy_mk",
"awards": 0,
"body": "can you remove your comment for some reason people forgot the context of the question and started upvoting you.",
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"body": "i dont understand",
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"author": "Envy_mk",
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"body": "will i didnt have it when i graduated but i am learning now as i move on.",
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"body": "yeah my english might need some improvment but its not as bad as i made it sound in the post.\n\nmy real problem is in the company it self they throw you early into prod enviroments without any real guidences and they only care that the work is done, dont care if you do it through ai or copying and pasting templates without understanding whats happeaning. \n \nas for mentorship part from the seniors we dont really have any on site all of the seniors are out sourced \nso you can barley get to talk with them and when ever they solve something or want to do something they dont let me shadow them so i am barely learning anything from them.",
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"author": "Happy_Breakfast7965",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Context of the question is not comprehedable because OP haven't put enough efforts.",
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"author": "eazolan",
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"body": "You write like someone who is on excessively large doses of caffeine.",
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"author": "Envy_mk",
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"body": "fair enough i was in a bad mood also english isnt my main language so chill guys.",
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1nnj5sh
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Building Platforms with Kaspar on GCP using Terraform, Port, Humanitec, Datadog and friends
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Hey guys, I've started a video series called "Building Platforms with Kaspar" where I build actual Internal Developer Platforms I've seen set up at enterprise scale and demo/analyse them. I'm starting with one based on GCP, Port, Terraform, Datadog, Humanitec and other tools.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga1Zm9nXehE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga1Zm9nXehE)
Disclaimer: I work for Humanitec, I've tried to keep it neutral and I'll invite anybody who has built platforms with different tech to showcase their stuff on my channel and come on the show. If this isn't meeting guidelines here I apologise and feel free to remove. However I do think showing these end to end chains is valuable to everybody.
Cheers
Kaspar
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kvgru
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/r/devops/comments/1nnj5sh/building_platforms_with_kaspar_on_gcp_using/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1nnj5sh/building_platforms_with_kaspar_on_gcp_using/
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1nnhr8c
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How to handle this dedicated vm scenario ?
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Pipeline runs and fails because it doesn't have the required tools installed in the agent
All agents are ephemeral - fire and forget
So I need a statefull dedicated agent which has these required tools installed in it
Required tools = Unity software
Is it good idea to get a dedicated vm and have these tools installed so that I can use that ?
Want to hear from experts if there's something I got be careful about
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snow_coffee
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/r/devops/comments/1nnhr8c/how_to_handle_this_dedicated_vm_scenario/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1nnhr8c/how_to_handle_this_dedicated_vm_scenario/
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"author": "Happy_Breakfast7965",
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"body": "Don't do stateful build agents.\n\nEither install everything every time (suboptimal).\nOr use Docker images for your build agents. \n\nYou can create a custom Docker image to have everything prepared.",
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"author": "footsie",
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"body": "https://game.ci/docs/docker/docker-images/",
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"author": "DevOps_Sar",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Use a dedicated VM if you must, but better preactice is to bake unity into a custom agent image or container",
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1nnhm5o
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Docker projects for beginners
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#
I have recently been hired in a tech company as an intern and I have spent the past half month reading tutorials about docker. In your opinion what are some good projects in order to learn those technologies? I have done some exercises in KodeKloud but the fact that the answer is implied in the text and not always hidden behind a button makes me think that I don't actually solve the problem myself.
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One-Cookie-1752
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/r/devops/comments/1nnhm5o/docker_projects_for_beginners/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1nnhm5o/docker_projects_for_beginners/
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"author": "DevOps_Sar",
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"body": "Hello world app in Docker\n\nrun NextClour, wordpress, or jellyfin in Docker, self host something!! \n\nBuild a custome image! \n\nstart small, then move to Docker Compose and later K8s! You've got this!",
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"author": "Unusual_Money_7678",
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"body": "hey, totally get where you're coming from. Tutorials are great for getting the concepts, but you don't really learn until you break something and have to figure out why it's not working on your own lol.\n\n\n\nThe best way to learn is to just start building. Here are a few project ideas that build on each other in complexity:\n\n\n\n1. Dockerize an existing simple app. Take a simple \"hello world\" web app you've written in a language you know (Node.js, Python Flask, etc.) and write a Dockerfile for it. Just getting it to build and run in a container is a huge first step.\n\n2. Add a database. Once you have the app running, try to add a database like Postgres or Redis. This will force you to learn Docker Compose and how to get containers to talk to each other over a network. This is probably the most common real-world use case you'll run into.\n\n3. Build a multi-service app. Create a simple full-stack application, like a to-do list or a basic blog. Have a separate container for your frontend (like a React app served with Nginx), your backend API, and your database. This teaches you how to manage a more complex setup with volumes for persistent data and environment variables for configuration.\n\n\n\nThe key is to start with something you already understand and just focus on the Docker part. Trying to learn a new framework and Docker at the same time is a recipe for frustration. Good luck",
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"post_id": "1nnhm5o",
"score": 2,
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"author": "Murky-Sector",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Make a scalable, generic processing pipeline. Feed the system specific jobs using queues to make scaling up/down easy.\n\nIt should be generic so you can templatize the job types, ie create a template for video transcoding, another for speech to text processing, etc.",
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"author": "GolemancerVekk",
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"body": "Already got some good suggestions here. To which I will add having a look at the apps that keep being mentioned in /r/selfhosted, visiting their repos, and having a look at their Dockerfile and [docker-]compose.yaml.\n\nYou can also browse Docker's image Hub and sort for the most popular images and find their home repo from there.\n\nSome suggestions: nginx, php, fpm, popular databases like postgres/mysql/mongo/influx, jellyfin, immich, tailscale, samba etc.\n\nPopular projects don't always take the best approaches or use best practices, but they do cover a lot of scenarios and often employ interesting tricks you can learn from.\n\nI'd also suggest beefing up on some networking basics and Linux basics because Docker makes extensive use of them and frankly I don't see how you can learn it without them.",
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1nnhcn6
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Migrate mongoDB data from AWS to Azure - need your advice!
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Hi, I'm planning to migrate the data from AWS mongoDB to Azure. It's a custom mongodb that is configured under 4 linux vms. Can anyone please share their experiences / suggestions / challenges , so I can have a starting point? I don't have connection between aws vm and azure vms, what type of connection should i configure to transfer sensitive data between the them?
Linux Centos 7.9
MongoDB shell version: 3.2.10
DB size: 100GB of data
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"author": "serverhorror",
"awards": 0,
"body": "In the simplest case, you just have to run backup/restore procedures with the new azure cluster as your target",
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"id": "nfkng0k",
"is_submitter": false,
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"post_id": "1nnhcn6",
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"author": "Rare_Significance_63",
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"body": "+1. simply download Mongo DB Compass(it's free), then backup from the old and restore to the new",
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"id": "nflan78",
"is_submitter": false,
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"post_id": "1nnhcn6",
"score": 1,
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1nnh086
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DevOps doesn’t have to be endless YAML pain
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Here are 8 common DevOps problems and how GoLand can help solve them:
[https://blog.jetbrains.com/go/2025/09/17/8-common-devops-problems-and-how-to-solve-them-with-goland/](https://blog.jetbrains.com/go/2025/09/17/8-common-devops-problems-and-how-to-solve-them-with-goland/)
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anprots_
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/r/devops/comments/1nnh086/devops_doesnt_have_to_be_endless_yaml_pain/
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2025-09-26T10:39:11.886213
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"body": "Goland is a great IDE, but the article lists solutions to problems that don’t exist.",
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"body": "I don't have much opinion on these problems. But they don't seem to be relevant to YAML.\n\nAlso, I don't have problems with YAML. I'm curious, why is everybody suffering?",
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"body": "Hey, curious what parts of the blog post didn’t feel real to you. \nAnd what challenges are real for you right now - how do you usually deal with them?",
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"body": "All these things are either already solved, or are mostly anti-patterns. We already have multiple graphical clients for K8S, - Lens, Headlamp, K9S. We also already have all CLI tools ready. We switch contexts with either tool like kubectx or in said graphical clients. And we already have all those integrations all together in vscode.\n\nWe don’t deploy things via kubectl apply, we have pipelines and GITOps tools for that.\n\nWe don’t keep multiple port forwards, there are very specific niche cases for this.\n\nAs for the rest, logs are being checked in the log collector destination, errors are checked in monitoring. We don’t edit secrets manually, we use secret storages and operators to retrieve them. If anything manual is required, we already have clients, as mentioned above.\n\nSo, all these things are nice to have, but those pain points, if they ever were such, are already solved. And the processes described are rather used by juniors playing around with K8S, it’s not how real production changes are made/observed",
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1nngzgl
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How do you integrate compliance checks into your CI/CD pipeline?
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Trying to shift compliance left. We want to automate evidence gathering for certain controls (e.g., ensuring a cloud config is compliant at deploy time). Does anyone hook their GRC or compliance tool into their pipeline? What tools are even API-friendly enough for this
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Tad_Astec
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/r/devops/comments/1nngzgl/how_do_you_integrate_compliance_checks_into_your/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1nngzgl/how_do_you_integrate_compliance_checks_into_your/
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2025-09-26T10:39:13.039156
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"author": "DevOps_Sar",
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"body": "Enforce lightweight checks in the pipelin. That way you'll fail fast, then, push heavier compliance scans into nightly or post-deploy jobs. compliance scans like full cloud posture, audi trails!",
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"body": "Most GRC tools are garbage for API integration. they're built for compliance teams clicking through web UIs, not engineers automating pipelines.\n\nPolicy-as-code - Use OPA/Gatekeeper for k8s, or Conftest for general config validation. Write your compliance rules as code, run them in CI. Gets you evidence automatically.\n\nInfrastructure scanners - Checkov, tfsec, terrascan all have JSON outputs you can parse. Most support custom rules for your specific controls.\n\nFor runtime evidence - This is where it gets tricky. You need something that can intercept and log actual access/changes with compliance context.\n\n\\- Teleport for SSH/DB access logging\n\n\\- Boundary for infrastructure access with session recording\n\n\\- hoop or StrongDM for broader access management",
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"author": "Flashy-Rip-8816",
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"body": "I've been using zengrc for about a year now. It's good for what it is a straightforward GRC software platform. It's less customizable but way easier to get running for common frameworks.",
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"body": "That's a good way to look at it. I'll consider that",
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"author": "Tad_Astec",
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"body": "Thanks mate, let me look into this",
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1nnfhfx
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How do you juggle multiple API versions in testing?
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I’m running into headaches when dealing with multiple API versions across environments (staging vs production vs legacy). Some tools now let you import/export data by version and even configure different security schemes.
Do most teams here handle versioning in their gateway setup, or directly inside their testing/debugging tool?
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2025-09-26T10:39:14.152645
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"author": "etherealflaim",
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"body": "Make before break. Deploying an incompatible new version? Keep serving the old one until clients are migrated.\n\nDon't break if you don't have to. Design for forward compatibility. (Protobuf is imperfect but is a great tool for this.)\n\nAlways include version numbers in API paths.\n\nMonitor version usage on the server and library versions on the client.\n\nDon't do \"beta\" API versions. You'll get stuck with them. Design your v1 from the start and focus on flexibility and forward compatibility so you don't need a v2.",
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"body": "`/api/<version>/` would be the way it is normally done.",
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"body": "I’ve been experimenting with tools that let you switch API versions inside the same workspace. Apidog, for example, lets you import/export by version and even merge security schemes, which makes staging vs prod testing way smoother. Cuts down on the duplication a lot.",
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"body": "At my company, we solve this at the gateway level. Basically, every version gets its own route prefix (/v1/, /v2/ etc.), and then we just maintain compatibility contracts in code reviews",
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"body": "I think we are missing a lot of context here. \n\nWhat do you mean by multiple API versions? In what context? Is your app consuming different API versions based off environment? Is different versions of your app being consumed dependent on environment? How are you currently juggling it? What platform are you on?\n\nA short list of questions but with enough context somebody here will have the exact right answer for you.",
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"body": "Always support the old version until everything is migrated to the new one, then let the client pick which one to use. ",
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"body": "Both...I guess? What kind of versioning do you mean? Generally speaking most modern orgs I've had my eyes on have some sort of GitOps for APIs, I think some places even call it APIOps. Essentially you have a reconciling push-workflow that triggers on commits and that publishes new versions, and moving through the organiations specific git release flow, eventually it opens up to more user groups and eventually goes GA. A lot of that is baked into the pipeline, but with a lot of help from the API platform tool (Apigee et. al.).",
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"author": "chuch1234",
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"body": "Can you give us a more concrete example of a single specific headache?",
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"body": "I'm a little bit confused. What kind of headaches? Are you asking about how we are versioning APIs, or how we're testing multiple versions of the same API (simultaneously), or something else?\n\n\\> Some tools now let you import/export data by version\n\nThis bit seems to refer to API clients/tooling. Someone mentioned apidog. Another example is [Voiden](https://voiden.md/), it has an in-app terminal so you can branch to a version/release.\n\nA general rule of thumb is to version APIs, and to separately test each API version, but that feels like a no-brainer, so you might be asking something more specific here.",
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"author": "ElMoselYEE",
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"body": "There's a cool tool called Pact that supports a flow that allows the consumers or producers to verify a change is compatible before releasing. It basically invokes the dependencies with your new change and the dependency verifies that all relevant tests are still passing. Check it out, it can get as basic or advanced in the testing as you want.",
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"author": "bourgeoisie_whacker",
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"body": "I agree but we are lacking detail from OP. What does he mean by dealing with multiple API versions?",
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1nnddtx
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What’s been your experience with rancher?
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approaching77
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/r/devops/comments/1nnddtx/whats_been_your_experience_with_rancher/
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/r/kubernetes/comments/1nnddlt/whats_been_your_experience_with_rancher/
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2025-09-26T10:39:15.294368
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"author": "just-porno-only",
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"body": "If not for RBAC I would avoid it.",
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"body": "It’s annoying to uninstall and generally overly complicated for my use case (just web dashboard to let devs less familiar with k8s see resources w/o kubectl). \n\nObviously this is far from the only point of rancher and it does a whole lot more useful stuff. :)",
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"author": "vineetchirania",
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"body": "Honestly I had mixed feelings. When we first started using Rancher it was amazing to spin up dev clusters or take a look at workloads without setting up a bunch of access rules. The centralized management was a lifesaver for keeping track of what was running where. Over time though it felt like it became another thing to upgrade and babysit especially when we scaled up. There were days when pods just vanished from the UI but were still there in kubectl. Rancher was helpful for demoing stuff to product managers but once the team got more comfortable with raw k8s it became more overhead than help.",
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"author": "complead",
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"body": "If you're finding Rancher's management overhead too high as you scale, you might explore open-source alternatives like K9s for more streamlined k8s interaction. It could offer similar visibility with less complexity. Checking out [this article](https://blog.35d.com) on integrating k8s tools may provide some useful insights too. Have you tried any lightweight alternatives?",
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"body": "Its terrible for me. but maybe its because we use docker installation for rancher manager. common issues are : \n\n1. sometime restore does not work\n2. a lot of issue when upgrading\n3. creating cluster or adding new node stuck somewhere .\n\nSo we plan to just not using rancher anymore and handle it from RKE2 directly. Hopefully, its become less headache.",
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"body": "Lets just say it still has a lot of issues emulating amd64 on arm machines using rosetta.\n\nOrbstack works flowlessly, while ranchers can throw segmentation faults.",
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1nn3u4x
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I built a lightweight Go-based CI/CD tool for hacking on projects without setting up tons of infra
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Hi All,
I’ve been experimenting with a simple problem, I wanted to use Claude Code to generate code from GitHub issues, and then quickly deploy those changes from a PR on my laptop so I could view them remotely — even when I’m away, by tunneling in over Tailscale.
Instead of setting up a full CI/CD stack with runners, servers, and cloud infra, I wrote a small tool in Go: [**gocd**](https://github.com/simonjcarr/gocd).
The idea
* No heavy infrastructure setup required
* Run it directly on your dev machine (or anywhere)
* Hook into GitHub issues + PRs to automate builds/deploys
* Great for solo devs or small experiments where spinning up GitHub Actions / Jenkins / GitLab CI feels like overkill
For me, it’s been a way to keep iterating quickly on side projects without dragging in too much tooling. But I’d love to hear from others:
* Would something like this be useful in your dev setup?
* What features would make it more valuable?
* Are there pain points in your current CI/CD workflows that a lightweight approach could help with?
Repo: [https://github.com/simonjcarr/gocd](https://github.com/simonjcarr/gocd)
Would really appreciate any feedback or ideas — I want to evolve this into something genuinely useful for folks who don’t need (or want) a huge CI/CD system just to test and deploy their work.
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"body": "I’m dense - where are you deploying to exactly",
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"author": "corship",
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"body": "Ah yes ai slop recreating tools that already exist. Nice.",
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"author": "nonades",
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"body": "Why use this when nektos/act exists and is an easy onramp to GitHub Actions?",
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"author": "Rare_Significance_63",
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"body": "so you have reinvented the wheel?",
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"body": "It deploys to any folder the user has access to on the host. The docs give more information but it's a simple command like\n\nspdeploy repo add --repo <your github repo> --branch <your branch> --path <path to deploy to>\n\nIf you put a file called [spdeploy.sh](http://spdeploy.sh) / spdeploy.bat in the root of your repo, the tool will read that file and run the script after pulling the changes. You could use it to rebuild and restart a container.",
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"body": "Simplicity. SPDeploy is local only. You don’t have to have complex GitHub actions, but it doesn’t stop you from using them. You can use it as well as. \nAll you do is download the binary and run\n\nspdeploy repo add —repo <your repo url> —branch <your branch> —path <path to deploy to>\n\nEvery time your branch updates the new code is pulled and if you include a spdeploy.sh in your project it will the script after pulling the code. That might include some docker commands to build a container and restart a docker compose stack.\n\nSo in short simplicity.",
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"author": "corship",
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"body": "You see\n\n\nusing ai to create something new and innovative - yes please.\n\n\nUsing AI to regenerate something that already exists with more emojis - no thank you.",
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"body": "There are those who can outperform AI in terms of long term productivity by every criteria that matters. They are the ones good employers want and they will be your boss, at which point you’ll need to be honest with _yourself_ and realise vibe coding is absolutely a trap.",
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"body": "Hey bud, if I were you, I would not even engage with this debate about AI vs. not AI. Take it from me, I’ve debated endlessly with the haters. It does not matter, keep doing what you are doing. People are scared of change and they don’t get that the AI generated code came from somewhere. So to those simpletons that don’t get it I say “Sure, ride your donkey from here to England, I would rather take an airplane.”",
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"author": "simonjcarr",
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"body": "Why are you wasting your life telling everyone that you’re not going to use something. Just don’t use it and move on! The title was very clear so you new you wouldn’t be interested before you read the post.\n\nAre you genuinely upset or a troll?",
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What’s your go-to deployment setup these days?
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I’m curious how different teams are handling deployments right now. Some folks are all-in on GitOps with ArgoCD or Flux, others keep it simple with Helm charts, plain manifests, or even homegrown scripts.
What’s working best for you? And what trade-offs have you run into (simplicity, speed, control, security, etc.)?
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"body": "GitOps is a basic requirement for me. If you want it simple, spin up a docker compose file using a CI pipeline, if you need more power use ArgoCD or Flux.\n\nA Gitops repo automatically documents deployments to the whole team (no hidden commands that need to be run anywhere) you also get an automatic audit log with easy rollbacks and you can use the same merge request workflow the team is already used to for quality control and to share knowledge.\n\nAlso, I use plain manifests where possible, Kustomize where that’s not enough and Helm if I need even more templating power, although I have to say I am not really happy with any of these templating solutions. Maybe I give jsonnet a try in the future.",
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"body": "I'm testing out AWS CDK for deployments. It integrates well with existing AWS services and allows for more flexible infra management using real code instead of YAML. You get the benefit of leveraging familiar programming languages. Anyone else exploring CDK or have trade-offs to share?",
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"body": "Gitlab-CI builds an image when it's in ECS, or builds a code artifact when it's EC2. It doesn't ssh to anything.\n\nFor containers we just create a new container and publish to ECR then ECS gets the newest tagged one. For EC2 we use AWS CodeDeploy and there is a step in the CI where only senior people can click to deploy to production.\n\nBoth ECS and EC2 have their faults, but we manage.\n\nI kind of like code artifacts we store to S3 and deploy with AWS CodeDeploy more because of QA and security reasons. We can better control what else is on an instance and only deploy code to it and not the entire OS. We can build an image with Packer and know exactly what's in it, then deploy their PHP or Node stuff on top of it.\n\nOur devs just want to push out a new container every time because that's what they do in their dev environment, but they don't have to be on-call for it. \n\nIf I had my say we'd get rid of containers and go with EC2 which I know is antiquated. But, being on call for it one week of the month is a huge reason why. \n\nMy DevOps team has read-only Friday afternoon because I care about them, but our devs keep pushing code past 5PM on a Friday, and with containers that could possibly mean an entirely new version of Linux.",
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"body": "Its a mess no matter what you choose. Great market to disturb",
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"body": "Reading your post it sounds like argocd is a replacement for helm, which should not be. Those are two different things",
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"body": "flux is the only sane way to do helm stuff with gitops.\n\nnot automating deployments right from the start will come to bite you down the road.\n\nautomating with home-grown scripts won‘t scale beyond a certain point",
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"body": "This heavily depends on what we’re deploying, and who the audience/user is \n\nLike something that’s not a super hot path / all-customer facing thing that we are okay with CSR? GitHub actions on merge to main -> validate and build -> deploy artifact to dev (ie copy to an s3 bucket with cloud front, etc in front of it) -> run some automated tests -> pass? Deploy to QA -> run automated tests, await approval -> deploy artifact to prod. Less ceremony if it’s a lambda or something that’s primarily used by devs, or similar. Way more complicated and more ceremony for our core product.",
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"body": "Buildkite makes a new image, `kustomize edit set image` to insert that back into the overrides, push that back to the repo, Argo-CD to pick up that change and push it out.",
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"body": "at the moment: separate gitops repo. kustomize/helm combo, argocd for delivery.",
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"body": "I use Flux for my home bare metal cluster and Argo for my work stuff running in EKS. They’re powerful tools that save you a lot of time once you’ve mastered them, but the learning curve is steep and you’ll make plenty of mistakes along the way.",
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"body": "Doing Kubernetes with Gitops (argo/flux) is the simple path. Setup is very straight forward and with Argocd, you get a nice UI the devs can access to check status, restart jobs/deployments and most day to day things - without learning kubectl etc",
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"body": "current setup: code in GitHub, apps hosted in Azure Cloud.\n\nI have GitHub Actions for PR quality checks: codeql, sonarqube, custom versioning system, then in azure pipeline i keep the CI: build containers, CD: deploy container, QA auto tests for post deployment checks.",
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"body": "Azure devops, visual studio code, Claude and copilot - following standard devops best practice, yaml, bicep, arm and json. Some infra testing scripts e.g Polly. Blue green deployments",
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"body": "What’s a remote dispatch ? We usually just change the version with yq and commit it back",
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"body": "I am heavily using AWS CDK. It is a great way to add abstraction to your IaC, making it easy to provide super-rich infrastructure with a simple interface. It keeps code maintainable.\n\nCDK uses CloudFormation underneath, which is not the greatest state management engine. But it far outweighs the",
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"body": "I meant just helm by itself, without having argo as part of the process, sorry for not being clear",
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"body": "The homegrown scripts is where we're feeling the pain. The move to ArgoCD is in progress but it's slow. ",
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"author": "Broad_Palpitation_95",
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"body": "In addition, using tight cicd triggers, trunk based development, a dev env nuke pipeline that deletes everything overnight",
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"body": "It’s a way to trigger another repository workflow. We have a central helm chart repository for all of our helm charts. The central repo workflow updates the helm chart image tag.",
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"body": "Config Drift is the literal term for it. Nailed it lol. \n\nBut yeah, that’s the crux of it. You write a script that works like a charm, cool. It even handles both dev and prod envs, cooler. \n\nBut then *anything* changes in your cloud infra, you switch clouds, or add a third environment. \nAll changes become an eng effort to patch your deploy script. In bash, no less - as great and lean as bash is, it doesn’t lend well to test/debug. \n\nRegardless, the script got patched. Yay! \nBut there’s a bug that deployed to a non-existent environment. Back to the patch ticket. \n\nLesson learned. Only change infra if absolutely necessary to avoid dealing with the release script. \n\nThis works, mostly- don’t change anything and you won’t have to change anything. \nFast forward some years, and now you have that guy from a post a couple days ago who ran an old go-to script that - surprise - has a bug in it that erased prod environment entirely. \nDusty code is *the most* dangerous code. \n\nSo… this release script does its job well in a very narrow scope, but it’s nothing but trouble outside of a strictly defined use case. \n\nThe kicker: The underlying tools - helm, kustomize, whatever - have accommodated all these changes just fine. 100% of the risk/pain was because it’s orchestrated by a bash script. \n\nDouble-kicker: In release management tooling (the thing that was passed on for the script), all these changes that were an uphill fight with the script are dead-simple config key changes.",
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"body": "We do this too, but charts and values are separate repos per Argo's best practices. a third repo contains just image tag versions. The image tags repo has thousands of commits from cicd bumping the tags, keeping the charts and values repos' commit history clutter-free",
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"author": "generic-d-engineer",
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"body": "Excellent write up. Thanks for taking the time to put this all together. I’ve seen the exact scenario you laid out so many times.\n\n> Dusty code is the most dangerous code\n\n100% !\n\nGonna do some more investigation into our process and see what we can do to improve. Thanks again for your time.",
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"body": "That actually makes a lot of sense. We only have the one repo. Each helm chart we have has a settings for dev/prod environments. We have an overrides file that gets updated by the automated workflow.",
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"body": "Just a little sidebar: \nBash is love, bash is life. \nBut bash is turtles all the way down wrt the unix philosophy of “do one thing and do it well” \n\nI’m amped when bash is a legit solution to something, but I always have to check that “do one thing” part and try to consider scale and change over time. \n\nBash will want to “do. one. thing.” - forever. \nIf that’s good, awesome!",
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1nmrlq4
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AI in SRE
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PSA: Consider EBS snapshots over Jenkins backup plugins [Discussion][AWS]
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**TL;DR:** Moved from ThinBackup plugin to EBS snapshots + Lambda automation. Faster recovery, lower maintenance overhead, \~$2/month. CloudFormation template available.
**The Plugin Backup Challenge**
Many Jenkins setups I've encountered follow this pattern:
* ThinBackup or similar plugin installed
* Scheduled backups to local storage
* Backup monitoring often neglected
* Recovery procedures untested
Common issues with this approach:
* **Dependency on the host system** \- local backups don't help if the instance fails
* **Incomplete system state** \- captures Jenkins config but misses OS-level dependencies
* **Plugin maintenance overhead** \- updates occasionally break backup workflows
* **Recovery complexity** \- restoring from file-based backups requires multiple manual steps
**Infrastructure-Level Alternative**
Since Jenkins typically runs on EC2 with EBS storage, why not leverage EBS snapshots for complete system backup?
**Implementation Overview** Created a CloudFormation stack that:
* Lambda function discovers EBS volumes attached to Jenkins instance
* Creates daily snapshots with retention policy
* Tags snapshots appropriately for cost tracking
* Sends notifications on success/failure
* Includes cleanup automation
**Cost Comparison** Plugin approach: Time spent on maintenance + storage costs EBS approach: \~$1-3/month for incremental snapshots + minimal setup time
**Recovery Experience** Had to test this recently when a system update caused issues. Process was:
1. Identify appropriate snapshot (2 minutes)
2. Launch new instance from snapshot (5 minutes)
3. Update DNS/load balancer (1 minute)
4. Verify Jenkins functionality (2 minutes)
Total: \~10 minutes to fully operational state with complete history intact.
**Why This Approach Works**
* **Complete system recovery**: OS, installed packages, Jenkins state, everything
* **Point-in-time consistency**: EBS snapshots are atomic
* **AWS-native solution**: Uses proven infrastructure services
* **Low maintenance**: Automated with proper error handling
* **Scalable**: Easy to extend for cross-region disaster recovery
**Implementation Details** The solution handles:
* Multi-volume instances automatically
* Configurable retention policies
* IAM roles with minimal required permissions
* CloudWatch metrics for monitoring
* Optional cross-region replication
**Implementation (GitHub):** [**https://github.com/HeinanCA/automatic-jenkinser**](https://github.com/HeinanCA/automatic-jenkinser)
**Discussion Points**
* How are others handling Jenkins backup/recovery?
* Any experience with infrastructure-layer vs application-layer backup approaches?
* What other services might benefit from this pattern?
**Note:** This pattern applies beyond Jenkins - any service running on EBS can use similar approaches (GitLab, databases, application servers, etc.).
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Dense_Bad_8897
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"body": "This is a really solid approach and honestly something more teams should consider. I've seen way too many Jenkins setups where the backup strategy is basically \"hope nothing breaks\" or they're running some plugin that hasn't been properly tested for recovery. The infrastructure-level backup makes so much sense here because you're capturing the entire system state, not just the Jenkins configs.\n\nWhat I find interesting is how this connects to a broader pattern I've been thinking about - we keep adding layers of complexity when simpler, more fundamental approaches often work better. Your EBS snapshot solution is elegant because it leverages what AWS already does well instead of trying to reinvent backup at the application layer. It's similar to what we're doing with Omnigres where instead of managing separate services for web servers, job queues, and databases, we let Postgres handle it all natively. Sometimes the best solution is to work with your platform's strengths rather than around them.",
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"body": "ai slop",
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"body": "Could you also just use lifecycle manager and avoid the extra compute cost of lambda?\n\nAt my company we have a set of tags that we apply depending on the backup frequency and retention we want, and the lifecycle manager does the rest.\n\n[https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ebs/latest/userguide/snapshot-ami-policy.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ebs/latest/userguide/snapshot-ami-policy.html)",
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"author": "amarao_san",
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"body": "Why do you need to backup jenkins? If it fails, just run your well-written and fully tested automated system to deploy jenkins and all job configurations.\n\nDo you have it? If not, you just declare that your jenkins setup is snowflake and a pet, and it require enterprise grade care instead of a good cloud cattle-style approach.\n\nIs it r/old_legacy_software or r/devops?",
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"author": "Dense_Bad_8897",
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"body": "What are you? 5 years old? Your mother didn't teach you that if you don't have anything nice to say - don't say it at all?",
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"body": "Maybe I'm missing something - but how do you use Lifecycle Manager to trigger the actual backup?",
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"author": "Dense_Bad_8897",
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"body": "Generally speaking - you are right, managing using infrastructure as a code is a better approach, but sometimes, due to regulation, and other old stuff, you can't. In the case I published, the company simply couldn't afford such a change, and they needed a full backup of their instance, so that's the solution I found. Are there better solutions? Sure there are. But given the circumstances, this is the best that would fit them.",
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"author": "Phenergan_boy",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Your mom never teaches you to not plagiarize and claim it as your own work?",
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"author": "NZObiwan",
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"body": "The link I put in is the docs on how to do it. Part of setting it up is setting the frequency for how often it should run.",
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"author": "amarao_san",
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"body": "I kindly disagree that there is anything in regulations, preventing use of modern practices (gitops, iaac) for CI a server.\n\nYour reasons is just the usual 'poorly managed pet' arguments.\n\nI can accept them for a database, but not for the jenkins.",
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"author": "Dense_Bad_8897",
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"body": "You have some nerve to say I plagiarize. This is \\*entirely\\* my own work - and you're nothing but a horrible person. \nWhile you do nothing but insult people - I actually do something useful and try to give back to the community, Shame on you.",
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"author": "Dense_Bad_8897",
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"body": "As I said, we don't talk regulations, we talk budget. If the company couldn't afford such a change (money, complexity..), then it couldn't, and I as a consultant can't do anything about it apart from finding a solution to their immediate issue (Jenkins backups) which is why I wrote this post. To tell others of a solution I found to a specific problem.",
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1nmn3mw
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Need Guidance/Advice in Fake internship (Please Help, Don't ignore)
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Hi Everyone,
I hope you all are doing well. I just completed my 2 projects of Devops also completed course and get certification.
As we all know, getting entry into devops is hard, so i am thinking to show **fake internship** (I know its wrong, but sometime we need to take decision) could you please help, what can i mention in my resume about internship?
Please don't ignore
your suggestions will really help me!!
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ankitjindal9404
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"author": "Sufficient-Past-9722",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Sorry but even with a real internship under your belt, you lack the integrity to be trusted with a company's systems. Period.",
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"author": "franktheworm",
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"body": "Experience. Keep that word in mind, it'll come up a bit in this reply. \n\nWhat does an internship give you? Experience. \n\nWhat is a prerequisite for devops? Experience. \n\nSo that means an internship is a prerequisite for a career in devops, right? Wrong. Experience is, an internship is one of many ways of getting it. \n\nWhat is one common trait of all solid devops engineers, SREs, platform engineers etc? Broad experience. People who go far in devops are the ones who live and breathe technology and put in the (at times significant) effort to get to where they want to be. \n\nDevops is not an entry level role. It's generally where you go once you've gained some experience in infra, dev, etc. It's not a role that you start your career in typically. \n\nSo, with all that in mind, does your approach fit the above? Do you think that trying to cut corners and just lie your way into an experience based career is a smart move?",
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"post_id": "1nmn3mw",
"score": 3,
"stickied": false
},
{
"author": "Skill-Additional",
"awards": 0,
"body": "Lying on your resume? Never heard of that. I would not lie but you can embellish. Do you know someone who can endorse you? Someone with a limited company or business that you can do projects and will say that you were an intern? Why not just get an internship?",
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"id": "nfe2ad6",
"is_submitter": false,
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"author": "ucffool",
"awards": 0,
"body": "> I followed steps, but its not enough, so want to lie\n\nI mean, you do you I guess. I know how tough the job market is firsthand, but this is not the way.",
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"author": "StrikeWeird4218",
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"body": "Which all tools you used for your projects and how you hosted it?",
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"author": "tastuwa",
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"body": "Lol 😂 wtf",
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1nmei60
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What are some things that are extremely useful that can be done with minimal effort?
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What are some things that are extremely useful that can be done with minimal effort? I am trying to see if there are things I can do to help my team work faster and more efficiently.
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"body": "Manufacture a scandal.",
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"body": "If it only required minimal effort to be extremely useful, DevOps engineers wouldn't enjoy half the salaries we've learned to expect. ;)",
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"author": "Jonteponte71",
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"body": "Rotate support within the team during bussiness hours. Depending on how large your team is, the rest of the team can work in peace most of the time🤷♂️",
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"body": "Automated reminders. Instead of chasing people, use calendar invites or lightweight task tools that ping them automatically. It's minimal effort but cuts down on back-and-forth",
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"body": "We write any errors during build / deploy to the PR. This means devs don't have an excuse trying to debug the action workflow.",
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"author": "MulberryExisting5007",
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"body": "But, like as a last resort, only after you’ve tried everything else you can think of, right? RIGHT? /s",
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"author": "BogdanPradatu",
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"body": "It's nice, but I wish it would have some kind of enforcement. Block PRs without minimum number of approvals from codeowners group.",
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"author": "Relevant23",
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"body": "You can do that with rulesets if you’re using GitHub.",
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"author": "_ttnk_",
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"body": "We have that in place in our Gitlab. At least 2 owners have to approve an MR, before it can get merged. \nMain branch is unprotected, though 😂",
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"body": "We have that as well in bitbucket, but we are using script runner with a custom script.",
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1nmdcvu
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Beginner with observability: Alloy + Loki, stdout vs files, structured logs? (MVP)
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I answered in a comment about struggling with Alloy -> Loki setup, and while doing so I developed some good questions that might also be helpful for others who are just starting out. That comment didn’t get many answers, so I’m making this post to give it better visibility.
**Context:** I’ve never worked with observability before, and I’ve realized it’s been very hard to assess whether AI answers are true or hallucinations. There are so many observability tools, every developer has their own preference, and most Reddit discussions I’ve found focus on self-hosted setups. So I’d really appreciate your input, and I’m sure it could help others too.
**My current mental model for observability in an MVP:**
1. **Collector + logs as a starting point**: Having basic observability in place will help me debug and iterate much faster, as long as log structures are well defined (right now I’m still manually debugging workflow issues).
2. **Stack choice**: For quick deployment, the best option seems to be Collector + logs = Grafana Cloud Alloy + Loki + Prometheus. Long term, the plan would be moving to full Grafana Cloud LGTM.
3. **Log implementation in code:** Observability in the workflow code (backend/app folders) should be minimal, ideally ~10% of code and mostly one-liners. This part has been frustrating with AI because when I ask about structured logs, it tends to bloat my workflow code with too many log calls, which feels like “contaminating” the files rather than creating elegant logs. For example, it suggested adding this log function inside `app/main.py`:
```
.middleware("http")
async def log_requests(request: Request, call_next):
request_id = str(uuid.uuid4())
start = time.perf_counter()
bind_contextvars(http_request_id=request_id)
log = structlog.get_logger("http").bind(
method=request.method,
path=str(request.url.path),
client_ip=request.client.host if request.client else None,
)
log.info("http.request.started")
try:
response = await call_next(request)
except Exception:
log.exception("http.request.failed")
clear_contextvars()
raise
duration_ms = (time.perf_counter() - start) * 1000
log.info(
"http.request.completed",
status_code=response.status_code,
duration_ms=round(duration_ms, 2),
content_length=response.headers.get("content-length"),
)
clear_contextvars()
return response
```
4. **What’s the best practice for collecting logs?** My initial thought was that it’s better to collect them directly from the standard console/stdout/stderr and send them to Loki. If the server fails, the collector might miss saving logs to a file (and storing all logs in a file only to forward them to Loki doesn’t feel like a good practice). The same concern applies to the API-based collection approach: if the API fails but the server keeps running, the logs would still be lost. Collecting directly from the console/stdout/stderr feels like the most reliable and efficient way. Where am I wrong here? (Because if I’m right, shouldn’t Alloy support standard console/stdout/stderr collection?)
5. **Do you know of any repo that implements structured logging following best practices?** I already built a good strategy for defining the log structure for my workflow (thanks to some [useful Reddit posts](https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/143tray/what_are_some_standards_when_it_comes_to_logging/), [1](https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/192hcle/what_are_some_common_misuses_of_application/), [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/1b0sfv0/best_coding_practices_where_should_i_place_the/)), but seeing a reference repo would help a lot.
Thank you!
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conlake
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/r/devops/comments/1nmdcvu/beginner_with_observability_alloy_loki_stdout_vs/
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"author": "s5n_n5n",
"awards": 0,
"body": "If you are logging \"request started\" and \"request completed\" you might want to use tracing instead: [https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/signals/traces/](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/signals/traces/)",
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"author": "ifiwasrealsmall",
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"body": "I have just have two otel collectors in my cluster, one is a daemonset that scrapes logs and metrics, and forwards to the collector configured as a deployment that forwards everything to the grafana cloud otel endpoint. My cluster applications also send data to the collector in the cluster, which gets forwarded. All applications just log to stdout which get picked up by the daemonset.\n\nPretty much just this, I don’t think I deviated much other than setting up the forwarding: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/platforms/kubernetes/getting-started/\n\nI looked at alloy when deciding on observability but this seems so much simpler and lighter",
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"author": "java_bad_asm_good",
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"body": "I would say it depends on the rest of your stack. My primary experience with logging is in the context of Kubernetes. The general idea is usually the same: You have a collector that reads logs (at home, this is fluent-bit; at my workplace, a proprietary log collector for Splunk) that collects container logs residing at /var/log/…. These are pushed to your log aggregator of choice (Loki/Splunk). \n\nI have a repository for my multi-node Homelab that runs with FluxCD. I believe the monitoring stack is relatively close to best practice; you can find a fluent-bit config that pushes logs to a Grafana Cloud Loki instance. I’m hosting my own Prometheus instance because I reached the 10k metric limit of Grafana Cloud way too quickly and frankly I have better things to do with my life than invest hours into investigating metric cardinality for my tiny Kubernetes cluster. You can find an Alloy setup that includes metrics if you go through the alloy/ git history though. \n\nLink: https://github.com/twaslowski/homelab/tree/main/infrastructure/homelab/controllers/monitoring\n\nOf course, it should be noted that collecting logs with the official Grafana Log collector is probably the better move; I stuck with fluent-bit because I already had it set up and did not care to move to another software. It's battle-tested and log aggregator agnostic, so I figured I'd stick with it.",
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"post_id": "1nmdcvu",
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"author": "java_bad_asm_good",
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"body": "I will concede that my Prometheus setup is a bit sketchy, specifically the Thanos config. This is again something that I eventually kind of gave up on because the benefits just were not worth the time invested. ",
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