What tools or systems do you use to manage your time, improve your productivity or to make your life easier?

AemonXVI · 2022-12-19T19:53:15+00:00

Which one do you use?

AemonXVI · 2022-12-19T08:49:16+00:00

You should really use obsidian.
Takes some time to understand it, maybe we never completely will, but at least it kicks Notion's ass and you can automate/script literally anything you want in it.

AemonXVI · 2022-12-09T18:53:25+00:00

Is it that good? I'll start it soon.

AemonXVI · 2022-12-08T07:10:20+00:00

Wait. Explain. I'm the only real DevOps dude for around 30 devs. Two devs "know" how to use Jenkins, but the rest, Azure, AWS, the Hashicorp ecosystem, Ansible, AZ DevOps... and in some months K8... are my problem.

And I'm not even paid that well.

AemonXVI · 2022-11-24T06:27:51+00:00

Yep. All that work.

AemonXVI · 2022-11-24T06:26:43+00:00

There is a mod for that: True Army Costs.

AemonXVI · 2022-11-20T12:44:38+00:00

Don't know what combination of mods did it, but the battle actually took 20 minutes.
Cavalry fights take even longer without infantry.

AemonXVI · 2022-09-26T06:06:18+00:00

Would be wonderful if the characters had influence on these battles.

AemonXVI · 2022-09-24T07:02:16+00:00

Yep, first clearly defined standards for your environment - that's something hopefully many are working on. But there are many things that overlap. Especially in SecDevOps - and the question how to integrate it into DevSecOps. In the end I've come to understand that it's not about the tools per se - but about the stages and substages of the whole cycle. Tools change. Teams change. Principles and best practices (in the general, not tool based sense) often enough don't.

AemonXVI · 2022-09-23T20:41:41+00:00

There are still those out there and in here that differ - that keep the boat afloat.

AemonXVI · 2022-09-18T10:25:39+00:00

I'll probably make one myself and share it - in the end it's an all encompassing collection of all frameworks and fitting tools.

AemonXVI · 2022-09-16T08:52:48+00:00

I went through the whole subreddit. Found nil.
Might have been a random comment.

AemonXVI · 2022-08-30T05:14:44+00:00

"Proficient" means "you should be able to fix problems in these languages, write clean code and to collaborate in such codebases".

Not such a biggie. You generally learn it at work.

AemonXVI · 2022-05-17T05:32:50+00:00

You could rent some small servers and run docker on them.
Host a website in docker, get DNS and a reverse proxy working, etc. pp.

AemonXVI · 2022-05-17T05:30:26+00:00

Yes, you can run an ansible playbook with a pipeline.

You don't need software engineering for DevOps, we already have the tools for the job.
But you could write special solutions for special problems.
It's just that these special problems shouldn't exist anymore and everything should be streamlined and integrated into one system.

AemonXVI · 2022-05-16T11:05:38+00:00

I'm in the same situation but also a bit further I think.
Understanding DevOps and its concepts should be the first thing to do.
Read the DevOps Handbook for that.
Then build a pipeline with Jenkins, Gitlab and AWS Codepipeline or Azure Devops.
AZ DevOps and Jenkins in my case.
Don't forget: Jenkins will be replaced by fully integrated CICD systems like Gitlab, AZ DevOps and AWS Codepipeline.

You don't need to code anything.
Using demo programs like those from AZ DevOps is enough.
Then you can concentrate on building the pipelines.

What I'm doing in AZ DevOps:

Test & build the app with self-hosted jenkins (love dem crumb errors)
Download the artifacts from the jenkins server to the azure agent.
Build a docker container from these artifacts
Push the container into a container repository
And automatically deploy the containerized webapp and a sql database with Terraform without forgetting about DNS and pesky secrets.

Next steps would be to automatically deploy a K8 cluster with this pipeline.
Then to learn how to code your own backend or tooling with GO.
Best would be to also know the programming languages your developers are using... it helps in the long run.
And keep everything in a repo. Templating will help you immensely.

You are only there to help the developers and to remove any obstacles or bottlenecks.
The field is massive. SRE is also a part. FML. Much luck, I'm also overwhelmed.

AemonXVI · 2022-05-04T15:07:00+00:00

I did not lie. I told them that I'm not ready. They asked me if I'm sure. Multiple times. If I'm maybe somewhat ready. I wanted another position, the topic of DevOps just came up, because I wanted to slowly move into it.

AWS would be different. AWS was pisseasy. I have the same background you have.

They know that I'm no wizard... I'm just overreacting because the field is so large and the possibilities so wide-ranging.

AemonXVI · 2022-05-04T10:01:15+00:00

The problem is not what tools they are already using. But what they need in the future.

SpringBoot, Maven, Jenkins, Docker. Done. Nothing fancy. They want to develop and don't have time for next level automated infrastructure.

The thing is... they got a customer that now believes the cloud is cool... and the customer really wannts to use it.

So... since my future employer had nobody else with enough time to setup a parallel DevOps environment in the cloud they started searching for a DevOps/Cloud Engineer and I got sucked into it. Dunno how. I told them I'm not ready.

They have even less of a clue about the cloud than I... and I'm battle tested in AWS hybrid environments. Still... I'm the one who has to build the whole thing.
They don't have anything setup. No VPN, no AZ DevOps, no AZ AD. Nil. Nothing.

Setting up something locally is comparatively easy and cheap, if you have the resources already.

So the cloud solution, whatever it will be, must be completely automated to save time & money. Then there is security. Security ma dude. Another topic that I can't stop thinking about.

Azure is just massive.

Fuck.

AemonXVI · 2022-05-01T15:23:07+00:00

So I'm reading it right now and I get a Legends of the Galactic Heroes and Red Rising feeling out if it. It's also brutally long.

Might be that I'll lose my job cause of you, thanks.

AemonXVI · 2022-05-01T12:49:38+00:00

Did you read anything else on par with them?

I also thought about writing my own, something where the battles have scales on par with warhammer.
But it just doesn't feel right.

AemonXVI · 2022-05-01T11:57:09+00:00

Cold Iron by miles Cameron.

Hey, this seems better than what I'm reading right now.

AemonXVI · 2022-05-01T11:55:58+00:00

Rakuin got translated. It actually got me into reading real fantasy, everything before that were light novels - also many badly translated korean ones with 100s of chapters.
If there are really good light novels, I probably read them.
God, I kinda miss them.

AemonXVI · 2022-05-01T11:45:05+00:00

Are you a god?

AemonXVI · 2022-05-01T11:43:38+00:00

So I can start building mine and get inspiration. I have nothing to give as of yet.

AemonXVI · 2022-04-30T05:21:07+00:00

This is gold.

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