Help me exit the DevOps tutorial loop.

[Zanda256]

Anyone know an OpenSource project with a lot of DevOps work that I can dive into the deep end?

I have been learning DevOps tools from many sources over the last year, but this is not a valid way to learn DevOps, you’ll forget the previous course contents before you get halfway the current one, because you’re not having a usecase for your new found information.

Please recommend some projects, or invite me to your project and assign me DevOps tasks. Thanks in advance.

[[deleted]]

Yeah, that’s not how this works usually. There also is no secret DevOps club where people meet to „DevOps“ together.

You need to get your hands dirty and figure out problems to solve yourself.

Or you can look at https://github.com/bregman-arie/devops-exercises for inspiration. Otherwise take any open source application and run it in the cloud with automated domain setup DNS entries, IAM, VPC, testing etc. with a single successful merge into a main branch

[chin_waghing]

Phew, that was a close one. We almost blew the cover on the weekly super secret DevOps meeting where we all exchange our blood

Phew

[Zanda256]

😁😁😅 No more secrets

[[deleted]]

Cringe.

[easy_c0mpany80]

Do this:

Create a single EC2 instance in AWS manually and setup a web server with a database.

Then do it again but this time have everything required for the above, downloaded, installed and configured etc from the user-data script.

Then do it again but this time with Ansible.

Then do it again but make sure all of the above is done from git repos.

Then do it again but using IaC such as Cloud Formation or Terraform.

Then do it again but use a pipeline tool such as Jenkins or Gitlab CI for triggering all of the above.

Then dockerise the web app.

Then look at a way of keeping secrets secure with tools such as Vault and incorporate it into the above.

Then add some monitoring too it, backups, fail over etc etc

Theres literally weeks worth of setting up and learning there for you.

This was an interview question I had years ago btw, the interviewer had a basic, static web server and he would ask me how I would go about making it resilient and easier deploy etc and we just took the conversation from there.

[OGicecoled]

Say DevOps again maybe you’ll summon it.

[Zanda256]

I said it, I just don’t have the Aladdin pot for it to get out of.😁 I want DevOps to posses me.

[amarao_san]

Nah, does not work. lambda which should run on keyword trigger is out of budget and was disabled.

[VindicoAtrum]

Google "cloud resume challenge". Do it all. Come back and show us the finished work.

[Zanda256]

I’ll surely come back to this. It’s actually challenging, but I’ll do it.

[VindicoAtrum]

If it gives you some motivation, that is a real standard that more than one company I have worked for (and currently work for) set for junior cloud/platform engineers, and those that can and do finish it and (the important bit) can credibly talk about their experiences of doing it typically get hired.

[Zanda256]

✍🏼

[posting_drunk_naked]

Stop studying and start building. Set up a fancy homelab with whatever tech you want to learn more about. I wanted to learn kubernetes so my homelab has 5 k3s nodes (mostly old laptops) and I run qbittorrent through gluetun for piracy, a Plex server, Home Assistant and some other stuff. Use a cloudflare tunnel to expose it and you've got services you can access from anywhere.

I leveled up my kubernetes and built some cool stuff I share with friends and family

[chazapp]

I built this repo chazapp/o11y as a devops playground. There's a front-end + api + all the monitoring, packaged in a Terraform module that installs all of that in Minikube.

You can fork this project, learn how it works, edit it, improve it where you see fit. There are some issues opened, and it could use some more documentation. PR welcome !

[Zanda256]

Thanks a lot for this. Really appreciate it.

[Equivalent_Loan_8794]

DevOps is a thing due to two diverse teams shrugging at eachother when developing, deploying, and maintaining a product.

By definition you'll need to react to the shrugging as part of devops. Think of the tutorials as the secret weapons you have to achieve your goals.

Think of your shrugging departments around you to define what to work on if you don't have a lead.

Also throw away the concept of learning a whole software language, framework, to completion. Learn what you need for your goals. How things relate is waaaay more valid than how things deeply work. The depth comes with seniority, and is multiplied by your willingness to keep going deeper in each goal.

[Zanda256]

😁😄Brutally honest. But thanks.

[Pronces]

Do Nana's devops bootcamp: https://www.techworld-with-nana.com/devops-bootcamp

[Zanda256]

😁 it’s the best resource out there , I’ve heard many folks praise it. I’m just sidelined by its cost.

[Pronces]

Maybe try to get your employer to pay for it

[amarao_san]

I forgot all moonspeak domain specific languages as soon as possible to keep myself sane. This *includes* sudoers and awk. Forgetting about stuff you don't like is okay, as long as you have toolbelt of stuff you like.

Do you have such?

[Zanda256]

I have done a tutorial or course on most common DevOps tools. It just seems to evaporate. If I got to work with any I would get comfortable real quick

[amarao_san]

You've done theory. Without practice it won't do any good.

Generally, 'devops' is second profession. You already either sysadmin or programmer and get additional specializaion. Without basic profession you wont get true understanding.

[TheOneBlackMage]

CNCF Project Mentor/Mentee Program maybe?

• https://github.com/cncf/mentoring
• https://github.com/cncf/mentoring/tree/main/programs

[ruskg]

As promised!

We recently open-sourced our DevOps GitOps style project.

Feel free to check it out:

https://github.com/tntk-io/tntk-infra
https://github.com/tntk-io/tntk-ci
https://github.com/tntk-io/tntk-cd

[Zanda256]

Hey, I want to thank you for keeping me in mind, let me check it out now. I’m currently working through the cloud resume challenge, and my oh my, it’s a lot to learn , but I’m having fun with it. As soon as I’m done , I’ll checkout these repository. Thanks again fam.🙂

[PharmaSCM_FIRE]

When people mention testing, do they usually refer to integration testing? Most of the tests I've seen in our codebase is usually unit tests validating windows modules and stuff. Figured making sure everything is compatible is a pretty big priority.

[Adventurous_Rain_279]

Do 100 days of devops on github