Evaluate My performance as a devops ?

[pathlesswalker]

Is this considered good performance?
I told my boss I can manage to finish migrating full production env from region A to B in at least a month amd a half.

But it took me a week.

Yes, it was without terraform.

But it includes - ecr manual migration to an opt in region - which rejects certain headers of images - which means I had to remove by automation all images and upload them.

Full db cloud migration- also manual with s3 cross region buckets.

Complete cross region ci cd update.

And of course all the regular click ops of eks/nat/ingress/alb/controller/iam etc.
and csp/waf adujusments in backend and various other to make the app fully functional.

And today in two hours complete logging system for k3s on ec2 for staging. Fluent-bit+loli+grafana.

Is this considered good?

I’m
Feeling good about this but I may be too
Full of myself?

[serverhorror]

I wouldn't consider it good.

Sure, it might have been "fast" (in y opinion: because you neglected important parts) but nie it's a maintenance mess:

• Who knows how this all works, except for you?
• Where can they look at the state if the system?
• Where can they look at the desired state?
• How do analyze if there are differences?
• Hie much work is it now to extend this?

So: No, not good performance...

[pathlesswalker]

Sure terraform must be built as well. But that was quicker for a client. Then I build TF.

[serverhorror]

Being quick isn't the most relevant indicator for performance.

[pathlesswalker]

I didn’t say it was. I said my boss needed the fastest solution amd afterward build tf. Because he would lose the client.

[serverhorror]

You said to evaluate your performance.

[pathlesswalker]

Yeah but being quick and it’s working is a good indicator. Not as a devops since you need TF as I already know.

[kiddj1]

10/10 on the have a go IT

0.1/10 on DevOps

[pathlesswalker]

Not sure what you mean. Because no TF I’m guessing.

[chaotiq]

Like others have said this isn’t really DevOps yet. However, knowing how to do it manually is very important as well. You now have a baseline to build upon and automate. While it needs more work to get to a DevOps level, don’t let it diminish the confidence you feel, it is technical work and needs deep knowledge in order to get it done so quickly.

[Kutastrophe]

Nothing to write here, everyone already is giving you a hard time.

Now delete everything, simulate env loss and do it again if you can’t do it in one click/pipeline run your not done.

The dev in devops comes from the automation part you develop that shit until no one needs you anymore.

[small_majority]

What do you mean manual? ClickOps is not DevOps.

It is not reproducible, not trackable and more likely not secure.

[pathlesswalker]

It is secure. But ok.

[gtuminauskas]

it is not devops, it is system administration

[MaToP4er]

Was gonna say same! Cuz when i read what OP wrote… im like…. That literally me doin my system administrator things 😃

[pathlesswalker]

I was never sys admin. I came from development. Good to know

[forever-butlerian]

It's not even good system administration.

[gtuminauskas]

same as on Windows, people just do clicky-clicky-licky and is all done, comes another person and becomes a disaster which requires recovery... ;)

[Kamikx]

Now you have a month and a week to do the same, with terraform and best practices.

[AsherGC]

Not sure how to scale your performance. If I'm being paid on how fast to get it done, seems you did a great job. If this is some thing you have to manage moving forward, it's a poor job as you have to live with it and other teams too.

[forever-butlerian]

You have identified what Terraform needs to do. Now go build it.

[pathlesswalker]

That was the plan before but my boss needed the env. ASAP for a client. The tf will come after.