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Friday July, 2025
Got Rejected from Amazon DevOps Role — How Can I Level Up My Scripting and Interview Skills?

I got an opportunity to interview for a Devops Role at Amazon. The process started with an OA. Which had basic logic questions, some Linux commands, Docker basics and Behavioral questions. After a week I got a call from the recruiter and she told me about the onsite interviews ahead. …

What are the best Continuous Delivery tools on the market today?

I'm looking for a great CD tool that automates various stages of the software delivery pipeline, such as building, testing, packaging, and deploying... What are ya'll using these days?

Cloud to Local Server - Should we do Openstack?

Hi,

I work at a startup with a small platform team who are currently running on AWS cloud. We rely on AWS mostly for Aurora Mysql, EKS, Load Balancers. We also have Site-to-Site VPNs, DXs but they are confined to higher environments. We use Kafka for queues but we manage …

On-prem deployment for a monolith with database and a broker

I have been looking into the deployment cycle of our application, currently we are deploying to just normal Windows Client OS but I really don't like the idea of whole manufacturers relying on windows.

We really just want to deploy the system and leave it be, maybe for particular clients …

Deployment environment from scratch - OpenTofu or Terraform?

Hello friends,

some time ago, I started a new job in a company providing a SaaS platform + some customer managed installations on various cloud providers. The entire infrastructure is deployed and managed through Ansible. Recently we started a project for a new platform which will be hosted entirely in …

Splunk alerts are delayed by 15 minutes, so I started building a side project to fix it. Has anyone else done something similar?

I work in a regulated industry where fast production alerts are critical. Our team relies on Splunk, but over time it’s become so bloated that alerts can be delayed by 15 minutes. That delay has real consequences — our support team no longer trusts it.

Out of frustration, I started …

Moving from Jenkins to Harness, any advice and experience you could share?

So I have to learn more about Harness, and our org is moving from Jenkins to Harness.

Some pain points I have heard is that it isn't working easily with Terraform like Jenkins declarative pipelines, and that build artifacts do not persist within the same build run, and additionally after …

Skipping builds on push to primary branch? Jenkins and Bitbucket

What’s the best or most common release build practice for build tools that auto-increment a version number?

We have builds with gradle-release and/or npm version that to the major/minor/patch + snapshot edits of their various properties or json files. With an Org folder and multi-branch pipeline, we get webhook event …

Has anyone here transitioned from contractor to FTE at Google in a DevOps role?

Hi everyone,

I’m currently working as a contractor at Google in a DevOps position. It’s been my long-time dream to become an FTE at Google, and I’m curious to know if anyone here has successfully made that transition.

If you have:

•   What did your journey look like?

•   Did …
Single pane of glass Observability MCP server( a Jarvis style AI assistant)

I’m excited to share a project I’ve been diligently working past month during my free time to help out #devops #sre folks who are always oncall and into “firefighting” incidents, it’s an observability MCP server.

This MCP server — whose name, Eagle-Eye acts like a Jarvis-style MCP server. Eagle-Eye aims …

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