Hey everyone,
I’m a 4th-year B.Tech student and I recently decided to focus on DevOps as my career path.
I just started learning Linux today. My plan is to complete Linux basics in the next 2 days, and after that I’ll keep posting updates about the next topics I learn in DevOps.
I want to stay consistent and document my journey from beginner to becoming job-ready.
If anyone has suggestions, resources, or advice for a beginner in DevOps, I’d really appreciate it.
Day 1 starts today 🚀

I’m the only DevOps engineer handling the India dev team in my company. There is a DevOps team in France, but they do not handle our India infrastructure or deployments. Everything for India comes to me.

The strange part is that despite having 7 years of experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, GitLab, CI/CD, branching strategies, automation, infra management etc., my current company barely uses any proper DevOps practices. They only use GitHub, there is no branching strategy, no deployment process, no tickets, no written approvals, and deployments are still mostly manual.

Whenever I tried to introduce proper engineering practices like:

- branching strategy

- deployment approvals

- CI/CD improvements

- written change tracking

- release process

management simply said:

“We don’t want process. Just communicate.”

My manager is a project manager with almost zero infrastructure knowledge, and many times I feel DevOps is treated as “just run 2 commands.”

Recently a developer asked for deployment. I checked the repo and there were literally no new commits pushed. I informed the developer.

Then my manager messaged me saying changes were already on staging and I should deploy to dev. I verified again — both environments had the same code because I am the only person with access. Later the code was finally pushed, and I immediately deployed it.

But today my manager escalated to upper management through email saying I was denying deployment and delaying delivery. I replied professionally with proof that no code existed in the repo at that time.

Then during a meeting I explained everything, but management said:

“It’s your responsibility to tell developers to push the code.”

And when I suggested written approvals/tickets/process, they said:

“We specifically do not want process.”

Honestly I feel mentally exhausted and stuck.

I know technically I’m capable, but working in an environment with:

- no process

- no ownership clarity

- no technical leadership

- and blame shifting

is becoming stressful.

Has anyone else worked in an environment like this? How did you handle it without burning out?

Hi everyone,

I am currently learning:
- JavaScript
- React
- Next.js
- Node.js
- Express.js
- MongoDB

I need advice on:
- Getting internships
- Building strong projects
- Resume improvement
- Interview preparation
- DSA vs project focus
- Becoming job-ready

Any advice from experienced developers would help.

Thank you.

If you're hunting for Devops work, here's a fresh batch of openings that just hit the board. Good luck!

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• Staff DevOps Engineer @ Caris MPI, Inc.

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• Senior Site Reliability Engineer @ Mimecast India Private Limited

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Hello, a company approached me for a principal devops role and at the end they told me I have to pass a polygraph test as the final step in the recruitment process. Did you ever had that? I mean, it seems kind of intrusive.

Hiring: DevOps Engineer (1–3 Years) | Bangalore | Product Company Background Preferred

We’re looking for a DevOps Engineer with 1–3 years of experience to join a fast-moving engineering team.

Skills Required:
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• AWS
• Linux
• Go (Golang)
• Helm Charts
• CI/CD & GitOps basics
• Shell/Bash scripting

What we are looking for:

• Experience working in a product-based company
• Good understanding of cloud infrastructure, automation, and deployment workflows
• Comfortable working with Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code
• Ability to read and navigate Go codebases
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving mindset

Location: Bangalore
Experience: 1–3 Years
Fixed Compensation: 15–20 LPA
ESOPs included

If this sounds relevant or if you know someone suitable, feel free to DM or share resume.

At first, our focus was simple: deploy faster, automate more, improve workflows. Everything felt exciting when the infrastructure was small.

But after a few months, we started noticing something nobody on the team was paying enough attention to cloud costs quietly increasing every month.

Not because of one big mistake. Just small things:

• old resources never removed
• test environments left running
• oversized instances “just to be safe.”
• duplicate tools doing the same job

Individually, none of it looked serious. Together, it became expensive.

That’s when I realized Cost Optimization in DevOps is less about cutting corners and more about building better habits and visibility from the beginning.

Curious how other teams handle this once projects start growing:

• Do you regularly audit infrastructure costs?
• Any tools/practices that genuinely helped?
• What was your biggest “why are we paying for this?” moment?

Would love to hear real experiences because most advice online sounds way simpler than reality

1. Can you introduce yourself and explain your Cloud/DevOps experience?
2. What projects, tools, and Azure services have you worked on?
3. Do you have cloud migration experience?
4. What is your latest project and role?
   5, How proficient are you with Terraform?
5. Write Terraform code to provision two Azure VMs with high availability.
6. What is Terraform and its alternatives?
7. How does auto-healing work in Kubernetes?
8. Explain ingress and egress in Kubernetes.
9. What is the purpose of Azure Virtual Network (VNet)?
10. What is a Virtual Machine?
11. Are containers OS independent in Kubernetes?
12. What is an Azure Landing Zone?
13. What does “pre-configured” mean in Azure Landing Zones?
14. What Azure services and CI/CD tools have you used?

Guys tell me...how many DSA questions are enough to get internship in a faang or mang companies? And on which platform?

We’re looking for a DevOps Engineer with hands-on experience supporting MVPs and SaaS products.

If you’re comfortable working in a remote team, joining Zoom discussions, and improving infrastructure for real-world products, this could be a great fit. We’re looking for someone who enjoys building reliable systems and making deployments smooth and scalable.

What You’ll Do:

Set up and manage cloud infrastructure

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines

Monitor system performance and ensure uptime

Support backend teams with deployment and scaling

Quick Specs:

Pay: $70–$90/hour (depending on your skills and experience)

Location: US & EU

Fully remote, part-time friendly

Work that directly impacts the product

Interested?

Upvote and send me a message.

Please include your location in your DM

hey guys, i'm 17 from argentina and currently in an IT-focused high school. i'm really trying to start making some cash and getting actual experience, but being a minor in LATAM makes getting a standard dev job pretty much impossible right now.

​i've spent a lot of time teaching myself and building things. i mostly do full-stack web dev with react, node, express, and sql, but i'm also super into linux—i daily drive mint/fedora and know my way around ubuntu servers. on top of that, i do component-level hardware repair on motherboards and laptops, like diagnosing mosfets and bios programming. i also mess around making 2d games in godot 4 on the side. my english is solid enough to work with clients globally, but the main bottleneck is freelance platforms. upwork and fiverr are a nightmare because they require ID verification and just ban you if you're under 18.

​so i'm trying to figure out my best move here. does it make more sense to just build a portfolio and try to hunt for remote clients on discord, twitter, or linkedin? or should i just ask around at local hardware shops to get some real hands-on experience first? also, if anyone started freelancing early, how the hell do you handle international payments when you're underage down here?

​would really appreciate any advice from people who started young or found a way to bypass the minor barrier. thanks!

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for DevOps Engineer opportunities in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, or Mangalore.

I have 2.5 years of experience working with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and AWS.

If anyone knows of openings or referrals, please DM me. Thanks!

Hey y'all, looking to land my first DevOps Engineering role soon, and figured I should use enterprise software as much as possible for some resume building and personal practice.

For reference, I've set up a NAS server once before but haven't got too much experience outside of that. Basing this on some DevOps Engineers I've talked to IRL and some friends who hire engineers, but wanted extra community feedback.

Use case: parents are data hoarders, probably have at least 4tb saved composed of every type of media you can think of, so hopefully the whole family can use this when I'm done with it all. Otherwise, aiming to be able to claim experience with enterprise grade DevOps software.

Some of this is personal research, a lot of Reddit research, and some LLM comparisons used to choose between two software systems. Please let me know what you'd keep or change! I'm still kinda new to this :p

Hardware: (old gaming pc)

• Intel i5-9600K
• 32GB DDR4 RAM
• GTX 1070
• Gigabyte Z370XP SLI
• Seagate IronWolf 12TB 3.5" SATA

Hypervisor & OS:

• Proxmox VE (type-1 hypervisor)
• Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS (VM operating system)
• cloud-init (VM provisioning automation)

Infrastructure as Code & Automation:

• Terraform (infrastructure provisioning)
• Proxmox Terraform Provider (VM automation)
• Ansible (configuration management)
• GitHub Actions (CI/CD pipelines)

Containerization & Orchestration:

• Docker (container runtime/builds)
• Kubernetes/k3s (container orchestration)
• Helm (Kubernetes package manager)
• ArgoCD (GitOps continuous deployment)

Networking & Ingress:

• Traefik (ingress controller/reverse proxy)
• MetalLB (bare-metal load balancer)
• cert-manager (TLS certificate automation)
• WireGuard (VPN software)
• Surfshark (VPN service)

Secrets & Security:

• HashiCorp Vault (secrets management)
• External Secrets Operator (Kubernetes secret syncing)
• SSH hardening (secure remote access)

Observability & Monitoring:

• Prometheus (metrics collection)
• Grafana (monitoring dashboards/visualization)
• Loki (centralized log aggregation)
• Promtail (log shipping agent)
• Alertmanager (alert routing/notifications)

Storage & Backups:

• ZFS (filesystem/storage management)
• NFS (network storage)
• Persistent Volumes/PVCs (Kubernetes storage)
• Restic (encrypted backups)
• Velero (Kubernetes backup/disaster recovery)

Container Registry & CI Infrastructure:

• GitHub Container Registry or Harbor (container registry)
• GitHub Runner (self-hosted CI runner)

AWS Emulation:

• LocalStack (AWS cloud emulation)
• Terraform AWS Provider (AWS IaC practice)
• MinIO (S3-compatible object storage)

Self-Hosted Applications: (personal use, not for resume)

• Prowlarr (indexer manager)
• Sonarr (TV show management automation)
• Radarr (movie management automation)
• LazyLibrarian (book management automation)
• Lidarr (music management automation)
• Homarr (application dashboard)
• Seerr/Overseerr (media request management)
• Jellyfin (media server)
• qBittorrent (torrent client)
• NZBGet (Usenet downloader)
• Immich (photo gallery & backup)
• Mealie (meal planner)
• Moonlight (low-latency remote gaming)
• Kavita (ebook/manga/audiobook reader)
• Funkwhale (music streaming)
• Grafana (monitoring dashboards)
• Uptime Kuma (uptime monitoring)

We’re a small team, pretty laid-back, and we try to keep things practical. No heavy process, no constant meetings. Just people building things, improving systems, and helping each other out when needed.

Looking for someone with at least a year of experience who’s comfortable getting their hands dirty, deployments, infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, automation, troubleshooting, performance improvements, that kind of work.

We’re not strict on tooling:

* AWS, GCP, Azure — whatever you know best

* Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines

* Scripting/automation with Bash, Python, etc.

* Expect to work with real systems, reliability issues, and scaling challenges

What you get:

* Remote setup (Prefer EU/US/CA)

* Flexible hours (seriously)

* $27–$49/hour depending on experience

* Part-time or full-time, both are fine

If this sounds like something you’d enjoy, send a quick intro and your location 📍

I’m a 2nd-year CS student with a background in technical production and scholarship leadership. I’ve been building out my own infrastructure logic maps and messing with Docker images for my student projects, but every "Entry Level" job I see on this sub requires 3+ years of experience and a mastery of Terraform.

For the hiring managers here: what is the "Primary Key" skill a student should focus on to actually stand out in a sea of 8-YOE applicants? Is it still about the tools, or is it about showing you can handle a high-stakes incident without a mental breakdown?

What are the minimum prerequirement to start learning devops

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Hi everyone,

I’m trying to create my first Microsoft Azure account for learning cloud and DevOps technologies, but I’m stuck at the payment verification step and need some advice from experienced users.

I’m from India, and here’s my exact situation.

Background:

- My personal SBI card is RuPay, so I learned that RuPay cards often do not work properly for international verification on Azure.

- Because of that, I used my relative’s SBI MasterCard debit card instead.

- It is NOT a credit card — it is a debit card.

- International transactions are enabled.

- Online/e-commerce transactions are enabled.

- Sufficient balance is available.

- Card is active and usable for normal online payments.

The problem:

When I enter the card details during Azure signup, I do NOT receive any OTP from the bank.

Instead, Azure immediately shows this error:

“We’re unable to validate the credit card information you provided.”

So the process fails before even reaching the OTP authentication stage.

This made me wonder whether:

- Azure internally rejects some debit cards before bank authorization.

- Microsoft’s risk/fraud system blocks certain account/card combinations.

- Azure prefers credit cards over debit cards in India.

- The issue happens because the Azure account is in my name while the debit card belongs to my relative.

- Multiple failed attempts may have temporarily flagged the account.

Additional details:

- No OTP comes at all.

- No visible transaction attempt occurs.

- I retried several times while troubleshooting.

- I’m using genuine identity/details.

- I’m only trying to create a learning account for Azure/cloud/DevOps practice.

Questions:

1. Has anyone from India successfully created an Azure account recently using an SBI MasterCard debit card?

2. Does Azure reject some debit cards before OTP verification?

3. Does mismatch between account holder and debit card holder matter?

4. Is Azure significantly more reliable with credit cards only?

5. Could repeated failed attempts temporarily block verification?

6. Would waiting 24–48 hours before retrying help?

7. Should I contact SBI or Microsoft billing support first?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.