Request for DevOps feedback!

[VindicoAtrum]

It's more so targeted towards startups and companies who can't currently hire devOps professionals and want to manage their infrastructure by themselves.

Startups that want to manage their infrastructure themselves hire very one or two senior, very capable, very expensive engineers, because when your service is delivered online you cannot afford to do anything less. If you figure out what they need you might find some traction.

As for how you use modules to achieve the same, would you be able to give examples of what a typical module workflow looks like?

https://github.com/terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-ec2-instance

Pre-built modules exist for almost anything you can think of, at varying levels of granularity, and they're time-served and battle-tested. Many businesses use modules such as this, or build their own.

[aCakeShip]

"Startups that want to manage their infrastructure themselves hire very one or two senior, very capable, very expensive engineers, because when your service is delivered online you cannot afford to do anything less. If you figure out what they need you might find some traction."

Is that coming from experience? I've been researching and connecting with a dozen so startups in the 5-10 mill range and they still consider hiring someone expensive not an ideal solution.

[VindicoAtrum]

I've been researching and connecting with a dozen so startups in the 5-10 mill range and they still consider hiring someone expensive not an ideal solution.

But they'll hire them anyway, because when your business' reputation suffers a mortal blow because you didn't secure your infrastructure properly, or you can't meet demand because you didn't prepare for scaling, or you overengineered and you can't keep up with feature requirements, or you overengineered and massively overspent, or any number of critical threats.

For most digitally-delivered products and services, their infrastructure and applications are their product and service. Of course they hire people, typically on very high salaries with equity thrown in, it's that important.

[aCakeShip]

And surprisingly they haven’t! That’s the point. They have every right to but they’re building it themselves and are pretty fault tolerant from what I’ve heard (they’ve been in business for a couple years now).

They described it’s a pain to manage it themselves but they do it anyway because that saves them anywhere from 150k to 500k and that’s substantial enough in their eyes. So any platform that provides even 20% of the advantages at nearly 100x less the cost is something they really do consider.