I watched a couple of introductory videos to CI/CD pipeline design from "Devops Journey". He described the process of creating a CI/CD pipeline first, and then moved on to a "Deployment Pipeline (+GitOps)". The CI/CD pipeline appeared to produce some artifact; so is this not just a CI pipeline and the Deployment Pipeline is the CD, which is triggered on a successful artifact. video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ9f7w4AxtU submitted by /u/gilliam6 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

As title say, anyone has clues? submitted by /u/Naive_Role2395 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

We are planning an automation to deploy and configure a product through IaC and some scripting. I'm thinking how to break up Infra into different state files, simplest option being Infrastructure and Kubernetes cluster level declaration, and more complex being Base Infra, Networking, App Infra, Database Infra and app configuration. I don't want to overengineer this thing, but I also want to decouple it's components to avoid a gigantic state file working as a bottleneck and a single point of failure. Are there any patterns for this? How do I know when enough separation of concerns is enough? I ..read more

What resources would you suggest for hosting self hosted runners for CI/CD workflows other than the free instance of Oracle. I do want to use an instance but I don't have the budget to spring up lots of VMs (I definitely will in the future as I scale up). So in the meantime, if you have any resources in mind, do let me know! The best I found was from Hetzner. submitted by /u/Trainee_Ninja [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Quick background: I have 15+ of experience but most of those years have been working on my own. I didn't have to answer to anyone, I just did things I felt make sense. So even if I have a lot experience technically I don't have much experience with dealing with people. For the last 3 years I have been in a huge company as a consultant and have been fairly successful in a platform team. Recently I got asked a question from a dev-team if we had the capability to do "x" in our solution. And I answered no we don't, and that would be too much work to do right now. I honestly expected a follow up q ..read more

Hello, I'm a junior devops from Argentina. I've been working as a SRE/Devops for like a year as my first IT job, which has been a challenge. I work for a state company, so it's a shitshow as you can imagine. I have to create a database replication using docker and MySQL. The idea is having two DB, each running in differents servers, for load balancing a wordpress page. The master as a write/read and the slave as a read only. But for the love of god, I can't do it. The containers dont communicate with each other, the master works fine, but the slave is useless. Any ideas of what can I do? Than ..read more

So I am running into a particular scenario where I need some suggestions on how to put a strategy on managing multiple repositories. Imagine a SaaS product (Alpha) developed and managed by a vendor X, which is purchased by a client Y. Y now needs to have a different version of product Alpha with their customizations and product roadmap, naming SaaS as Gamma. Y has received the source code from X and hosted it in their git infra, managed by Y's internal IT. Now comes the tricky part, at least for me. Y is in a contract with X for getting support on bug fixes on existing features and also inher ..read more

Anyone have any recommendations on how to make DevOps/development work less consuming? I currently work as a staff level engineer and do some dev work for some interesting OSS projects on my spare time. Recently after taking a 2w vacation I realize how much of my life has really been consumed by just dev work instead of doing other things that I want like hiking etc. Sometimes it’s just a bug or something I’m too focused on and end up spending a lot of time on, or some new feature that I’m building… Anyone else have this issue or have any advice about it? Edit for clarification: This doesn’t ..read more

So, previously I've used Terraform to manage Kubernetes manifests. So long as k8s resources and infra were kept in separate projects, it worked pretty well. If I had them in the same project it produced a lot of cycle errors that were not fun to deal with. Using TF for this stuff has some nice advantages, in particular being able to use outputs from infra resources and TF's variable system to manage per-environment differences between manifests. Also, generally having everything managed in the same place is good, and it makes the who CI workflow a bit more straightforward. Plus, it is easy to ..read more

I've been a DBA for at least six years, over ten years of Experience. was always a proponent of automation of toil and observability. Started working with cloud and eventually was able to transition into some Devopsy type roles, but only in consulting so very short term projects that haven't allowed me to build mastery. I need a CV review because I am finding it difficult to find work now. Constant rejections, with a few screening calls for K8 roles dealing with custom DB operators (Strong Golang + K8 experience), the only roles where my DBA experience was somehow valued, but alas my Golang a ..read more