- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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