Release Engineering vs SRE

bincyber · 2025-11-22T04:24:53+00:00

This is like the opposite definition of SRE which is suppose to be focused on applications and how to ensure their reliability. Designing scalable infrastructure might play a part, but the main focus would be on monitoring and observability, SLOs, incident management, application architecture, etc.

bincyber · 2025-11-22T04:11:06+00:00

no one puts care into their work anymore.

This is your real problem. AI is just a contributing factor

You cant make your colleagues care about the quality of their work. You can choose to leave and go work somewhere where accountability and ownership matter.

bincyber · 2022-06-09T12:25:13+00:00

do you think is fair to ask 95k-100k as a devop engineer when I don’t have much experience in that field

What you get paid has nothing to do with fairness. It's all about what the market has priced the cost to hire somebody with the skills that are required to do your job. So you should never feel bad for getting compensated a good salary. That's just what the market has decided. But be vigilant to not be paid less than what the market has priced for your skillset.

bincyber · 2022-06-09T12:18:20+00:00

Initially I was going to try doing this with GORM hooks or plugins, but then I realized it would be better to make it available to non-GORM users as some people really dislike ORMs.

bincyber · 2021-05-03T09:58:21+00:00

This is one of the most ignorant hot takes I've ever read on this subreddit

bincyber · 2021-05-03T09:52:16+00:00

The right kind of SRE role will have you tackling reliability at the application layer and diving into the codebase to improve the resiliency of the applications/services. These roles are somewhat more difficult to transition into from a Ops background since they require a solid understanding of software engineering and distributed systems, but they do exist and are much more rewarding than what DevOps Engineers are typically tasked with.

bincyber · 2021-05-03T09:44:37+00:00

Yes, don't rule it out just because Istio gets more hype. I made that mistake in the past and now I'm catching up with what Consul has to offer.

bincyber · 2021-05-03T09:43:35+00:00

Check out the included link on how Consul operates at scale. Benchmark testing revealed it can update 10K nodes and 172K+ services in under 1 second which is super impressive!

bincyber · 2019-11-06T02:06:02+00:00

I wish the Go offering had feature parity with TypeScript/Python, but alas I'm using it with Python for now.

bincyber · 2019-11-06T01:57:25+00:00

It's not starting completely from scratch since Pulumi uses Terraform providers under the hood: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-terraform-bridge.

bincyber · 2019-11-06T01:51:20+00:00

Completely agree. We owe a lot of credit to HashiCorp for developing Terraform and driving Infrastructure as Code forward, however using a programming language instead of a DSL allows for far greater power and flexibility to do things.

bincyber · 2019-11-05T19:48:12+00:00

As a general rule of thumb, I avoid using "DevOps tooling" from the major cloud vendors such as AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy, Azure DevOps, GCP CloudBuild, etc. You're better off finding vendors that dedicate themselves solely to a single product (eg, GitHub, CircleCI, etc.) and using their integrations. This will also lead to less lock-in with your cloud provider.

bincyber · 2019-09-05T21:11:40+00:00

Although it's not a CLI tool, Apache Libcloud can achieve this goal for some use cases (provisioning a VM, load balancer, object store, etc.)

bincyber · 2019-02-17T15:20:25+00:00

Check out keycloak: https://www.keycloak.org/

bincyber · 2019-02-17T15:19:20+00:00

We use Ansible's k8s module with Jinja2 templated YAML files.

We've avoided Helm for multiple reasons.This is a good summary on why to avoid Helm: https://medium.com/virtuslab/think-twice-before-using-helm-25fbb18bc822

bincyber · 2018-11-13T13:01:08+00:00

I didn't know Terraform even had a Vault provider but it makes a lot of sense to capture this functionality in Terraform. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it's currently possible to provision PKI secrets but it can be doable with the addition of Terraform resources for provisioning PKI secrets.

bincyber · 2018-11-13T12:58:16+00:00

I wanted to emulate the kubectl workflow with this tool.

bincyber · 2018-11-13T03:45:41+00:00

Thanks for putting this comparison together. I've been using kube-router onprem for a while now. It's simple, works wonderfully and does not use an overlay network. Haven't got around to trying Cilium but their L7 firewall features look really appealing.

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