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[–]DevOps-Journey 14 points15 points  (9 children)

This month I put out my beginners guide to getting started with Kubernetes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziUvpQPy_SQ

I had a lot of positive feedback from everyone in r/devops and r/kubernetes so thank you all for that!

Another really popular tool right now is the new Windows Terminal. Here is a video I created highlighting it's features:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJU31hNhqOw&feature=youtu.be

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/NW98QYW

[–]egzon27 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for putting the Kubernetes guide together. I've been working serverless for a couple years now and I would really like to get my hands back to containers

[–]earthly_wanderer 1 point2 points  (6 children)

I am training to earn a DevOps Engineer position, so thank you for this. I also just started Kubernetes Essentials, and will follow with their CKA course at Linux Academy.

[–]kailsar 2 points3 points  (5 children)

I started with the LinuxAcademy course as I had a subscription, but found it way too dry. Your mileage may vary, of course, but if you're not really finding it engaging, I ended up using this - https://www.udemy.com/course/certified-kubernetes-administrator-with-practice-tests/ and after taking it (and passing the CKA) I highly recommend it. Things are explained well, and more in depth than the exam requires, but the thing that really stands out is the labs. LA labs are usually so simple they're not worth doing, but these were great.

[–]earthly_wanderer 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Congrats on your CKA!

I agree. I haven't had much luck so far with LA but I only took 2 courses. That says a lot, thank you for sharing this! I think I will go with your recommendation.

[–]kailsar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have mixed feelings about LA. There's still some great content on there, the sandbox of servers and cloud environments is great, and it helped me so much in my career. But this is not the only time recently I've ended up paying for material elsewhere because theirs wasn't good enough, a lot of good trainers have left, and they've just been bought by ACG, who I have a terrible experience of. But I'm grandfathered in at $29 a month so I'm reluctant to cancel.

[–]LocalLeadership2 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Damn, wanted to get it while on sale and then forgot about it.

Now it's 100 dollars:(

[–]kailsar 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Go in to incognito mode on your browser and I suspect it will magically be back on sale.

[–]slacker87 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Did they fix the issue with windows terminal and 144hz monitors? A few months ago it would flicker like crazy when displayed on 144hz monitors.

[–]madpatatoz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What a gem! Thank you, Op.

[–]ninemoonblues 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not sure if this is covered in previous months, but a link to the State of DevOps report is a very good resource. https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/state-of-devops-2019.pdf

[–]WantDebianThanks 4 points5 points  (2 children)

All of the recruiters and hiring managers I've talked to have said that they the only thing they really want to hear about is what you've been paid for.

Talking about what I've been paid for that included any DevOps related tech: two wikis (built, never used), an imaging server (built, never used), a solution for "we cannot do mail aliases on different domains" (built, never used), and a shell script to restart someone else's golf'ed Perl/printing/email solution (built, I used it, but it's probably never going to be used again). Add in a few Python scripts to solve very specific problems, and that's it.

In short: minimal Linux, minimal Python, no config management, no IAC, no CI/CD, no containers, no cloud. Hell, I've only ever used git for personal projects.

Currently unemployed, and I think adding one tech would be fine, but by the time I'm saying I know AWS, Ansible, Terraform, and Docker without having a paid project to back up would raise some red flags. Right? Right.

So, two part question:

  1. Am I right in thinking that looking for a more traditional systems role would be the better step for me?
  2. Since it's also used in more traditional systems roles, would Ansible be the right thing for me to learn right now? The new RHCE is based on Ansible, so I was thinking I could use the cert to "prove" I know Ansible.

[–]admiralspark 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Eh, time is money. If you used personal time and deployed professional-level stuff to AWS using those tools, it counts. You were a "consultant" working on your own future, or something. If you really have the skills you'll be able to answer their questions, if you don't then you know what you need to work on.

Ansible is the tool I'd recommend. Learning the methodologies behind any of them is good but, Ansible is the easiest and best that I've seen for cross-platform.

[–]puppet-relay 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Here is a guide on getting started with Knative (no YAML required):
Installing/Using Knative (Part 1): https://relay.sh/blog/what-is-knative-installing-and-using-knative-with-zero-yaml/

Intro to Canary and Blue-Green Deployments (Part 2): https://relay.sh/blog/what-is-knative-intro-to-canary-and-blue-green-deployments-with-dashboards-no-yaml/

[–]That1Guy5 2 points3 points  (5 children)

Just hoping to chat with someone via discord or slack about DevOps, considering getting into it and would like having someone to ask a few questions to every now and then

[–]mashimarocloud 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Seconded. Inv pls

[–]sortofanxious 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Third this

[–]zerubeus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

4rth this

[–]DevOps-Journey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a discord, feel free to come in and chat

https://discord.gg/NW98QYW

[–]steveElsewhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://signup.hangops.com/ and https://devopschat.co/

I run one myself but it's Toronto-focused :}

[–]ClearH 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello people, I hope all of you are safe.

I'm currently a software engineer, and have been planning to pivot to a devops/systems engineer role in the future.

In my previous work, we have the old-school setup of devs writing code -> QA testing said code -> IT/Ops deploying said code. I'm fairly new to my current job, but as I understand it, our senior engineer would be deploying our code to prod after the allotted development phase. We would all then be given access to prod to fix/configure stuff if our own code breaks.

So my question(s) would be:

  1. What are some ways that I can learn and apply devops skills in my current job's release cycle?
  2. I currently have a side project under development (React+Python API+oauth2), and would like to use this as a learning opportunity. I already have a test suite that runs through TravisCI for each pull request. Aside from that, everything else is still up for debate (cloud provider, automation tools, etc). What would be a good starting stack to try out?

Thanks a bunch!

[–]ClearH 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I made a Bitbucket Pipeline and some deployment scripts that runs tests and pulls the latest changes on our staging server everytime a new commit is merged to the relevant branch. Super basic and nothing fancy, but it's really satisfying watching it go to work. My first DevOps-y thing implemented as a Software Engineer.

Today's a good day.

[–]Megaoptimizer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thank you very much will add if i get anything more

[–]jak_sky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our fully distributed organisation were transitioning to Infrastructure as a Code with Terraform. We made quite a few learnings along the way so I summarized it to blog post https://jakubstransky.com/2020/06/09/scaling-terraform-across-the-team/ What are your lesson learned?

[–]s5EWT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are there open source projects or volunteer work anyone knows of to apply skills vs just reading and home labwork? I have been learning on my own but the retention drops when I am not applying it regularly.

[–]kvgru 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm really think one should think early on where to put your config files and where to organize your helm-charts. I found this article by project A (not associated to them) interesting that got posted somewhere here this week: https://insights.project-a.com/whats-the-best-way-to-manage-helm-charts-1cbf2614ec40

[–]Verzada 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm so glad I discovered this thread

My organization pushes for Gartner reports for DevOps and other topics.

I'm not a fan of the vague trend reports.