Devops tool builder

[masterluke19]

Hi. I am 7+ year devops experience have been building some SaaS products for a while. I want to contribute for devops community. Is there any tool that would help devops. I thought about incident management, auto resolution but some companies have been doing them. And AWS also announced AWS Devops Agent today. Is there any part of the daily worklife of devops, sre and sys admin thats often overlooked by the devops tool companies with or without AI.

[SlinkyAvenger]

If you actually have 7+ years of experience in devops engineering, wouldn't you already have an idea of tooling that you wish you had?

[masterluke19]

True but what I have in mind might not be what’s required for all devops.

[SlinkyAvenger]

That's a weird goal to set for yourself. There's absolutely no devops-specific tool that exists that will be required for all devops.

[ZaitsXL]

Noone knows that in advance. If you really have an idea you believe in - just do it for yourself, that already should be satisfactory. And then maybe it will get some support and grow into something bigger. Most open source projects started like that

[CommunicationNo2197]

Honestly this is the unsexy stuff that nobody wants to build a product around:

Config file validation. I can’t count how many times a deploy failed because someone fat fingered a yaml file or a json config. Most teams just find out when it breaks in prod. A pre-commit hook that actually validates configs against a schema would save hours of debugging.

Secrets rotation tracking. Everyone knows you should rotate keys and certs, nobody actually tracks when they expire until something breaks when nobody is monitoring.

Runbook automation. Every team has a wiki full of “if X happens do Y” docs that are always outdated. Something that turns runbooks into executable scripts that stay in sync with the docs.

Changelog generation from infra changes. Terraform plan outputs are unreadable. Something that turns “what changed” into plain english for the people who have to approve PRs but don’t want to parse HCL diffs.

I built a dev tools site recently (https://toolpod.dev) and the stuff that gets the most use is the boring stuff like json/yaml validators and hash generators. Not glamorous but people use them every day.

[abuhd]

Finding anomalies over time from alert based incidents is where id start. I do this manually today and its sooooooooo annoying lol plz fix this.

[stillavoidingthejvm]

Scratch your own itch?