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What r/devops is talking about this week

r/devops has 521,416 members and 4 posts in the last 24 hours, with about 5.2 comments an hour right now. From the Redlisten index, refreshed daily.

521,416members
4posts in the last 24 hours, newest 11 h ago
5.2comments an hour right now, newest 10 h ago
64points on the top thread this week

Words coming up in r/devops this week

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Top threads this week

  1. How do I make colleagues aware of the risks of giving an LLM agent root access to production?

    I could use some advice on a situation at work. A few colleagues in ops have, almost overnight, started to fully trust their LLM agent because it has gotten so good lately and "doesn't make...

    64 points133 comments6 d ago
  2. Go vs Python for DevOps: which one is more worth learning?

    Besides Bash, which language is more worth learning for devops: Go or Python? Which one would you recommend focusing on?

    56 points114 comments2 d ago
  3. What's Your Go-To Strategy for Handling Secrets Management?

    Hey fellow DevOps folks! I've been wrestling with secrets management recently. I set up a tool that generates API keys, but every time I think I've got it right, I find myself second-guessing...

    56 points62 comments7 d ago
  4. Is committing config-only .env files (no secrets) to a private repo really a security sin?

    I'm working on a project split across several private GitHub repos. The ones that matter here are the Docker repo, the backend and an indexer. Each has its own .env files, and what's in them falls...

    53 points53 comments5 d ago
  5. OpenSSH on musl has a problem

    In case any of you use OpenSSH on musl without PAM: https://sshhole.com/ TL;DR: Accounts that should never take a password at all (root, your key-only deploy user, ldap users, the default user on...

    43 points9 comments6 d ago
  6. Books for Devops

    Hi, Im now in the beginning of devops journey and I'm not really a reader person but I want to spend my free time in something useful so any suggestions for a book would help in my career and will...

    31 points17 comments6 d ago
  7. New to AWS: Project-based roadmap for production-ready infra? (Course & tutorial recs?)

    Hi everyone, I am completely new to AWS and want to learn through hands-on, project-based learning. My ultimate goal is to understand how to build and deploy production-ready infrastructure. I'm...

    25 points6 comments2 d ago
  8. Across the whole DevOps stack (Pipelines, Terraform, K8s, Docker, Ansible), how much do you actually write by hand vs prompting or using templates?

    With so many different syntaxes and configs in our daily stack—CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab), Terraform modules, Kubernetes manifests, Dockerfiles, Ansible playbooks, and Bash...

    21 points21 comments5 d ago
  9. Is GHA + ArgoCD still the default CD standard or are you using something else?

    Evaluating CD tools to automate our end to end delivery (build, test, packaging, and deployments). Curious if the standard GHA + Argo/Flux combo is still what most teams stick with, or if there...

    21 points40 comments5 d ago
  10. How do you load test third party APIs realistically?

    We use several external APIs and I’m curious how often other teams out there keep performance tests realistic and structured while accounting for third party dependencies. How do you balance...

    21 points26 comments7 d ago

Newest posts

  1. Interesting projects to try hands on.
    1 points0 comments11 h ago
  2. What are DevOps Interviews like?
    1 points0 comments19 h ago
  3. Thinking about learning DevOps
    1 points0 comments19 h ago
  4. How to learn while also completing tasks?
    1 points0 comments20 h ago
  5. Need Guidance..
    1 points0 comments1 d ago
  6. What’s the one tool in your stack you wish you could throw in the bin?
    1 points0 comments1 d ago
  7. Running additional checks after automated code review
    1 points3 comments1 d ago
  8. Future of Devops engineers with IA
    0 points17 comments1 d ago
  9. I made a free CLI that tells you which Dependabot alerts actually need fixing
    0 points1 comment2 d ago
  10. Do I need release branches in this workflow, or another long lived branch?
    10 points24 comments2 d ago
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