What do you actually test before launching a side project?
At work, releases usually go through CI, staging, QA, and testing by other people. With my own projects, I usually deploy, click around for a few minutes, decide…
CI/CD
How can I set an environment variable from a shell command in GitHub Actions?
I need to extract the application version from pyproject.toml using this awk command: awk -F'"' '/^version[[:space:]]*=/ {print $2; exit}' pyproject.toml. What is the correct way to assign that…
How can I set a GitHub Actions environment variable from a shell command?
I need to read the application version from my pyproject.toml file using this awk command: awk -F'"' '/^version[[:space:]]*=/ {print $2; exit}' pyproject.toml. What is the correct way to…
What’s the best way to get comfortable with Git, Gitflow, and TeamCity?
I'm trying to become more familiar with Git, Gitflow, and TeamCity as part of my career development. I already have the Pro Git book, but I'm looking for…
How can I get comfortable with Git, Gitflow, and TeamCity?
I'm trying to become more comfortable with Git, Gitflow, and TeamCity as part of my career development. I'm not aiming for expert-level engineering skills, but I'd like to…
How do you independently verify what unattended coding agents actually did?
When a coding agent runs unattended in CI, on a schedule, or as part of an autonomous pipeline, its final summary may be the only explanation of what…
What are the best self-hosted alternatives to GitLab for an on-prem DevSecOps toolchain?
We're considering moving away from our Atlassian setup because we need to remain fully on-premises and cannot adopt a cloud-only platform. GitLab is the obvious option, but I'd…
How do you reconcile a release ticket list with what actually shipped?
Between declaring a release ready and deploying it, teams often pull a list from a tracker, compare it with the release tag, generate notes, complete a change request,…
What CI/CD setup works best for both iOS and Android apps?
What tools and pipeline setup do teams commonly use to build, test, sign, and distribute mobile apps for both iOS and Android? I'm especially interested in whether teams…
What are the best self-hosted alternatives to GitLab for an on-prem DevSecOps stack?
We're considering moving away from Atlassian because our environment must remain fully on-premises and cannot move to cloud-only services. GitLab seems like the obvious replacement, but I'd like…
What CI/CD setup works best for both iOS and Android apps?
I'm setting up mobile app delivery and want to understand what teams commonly use for CI/CD across both iOS and Android. I'm especially interested in build automation, testing,…
How can I deploy a new AWS Lambda and API Gateway version without downtime?
I have a /catalogue API backed by AWS Lambda, currently running version 1. As part of my CI/CD pipeline, I publish the OpenAPI definition and Lambda deployment package…
How can I learn DevOps and system architecture while staying a software developer?
I'm a software developer who already handles some operational work in personal projects, including Docker, VPS deployments, Nginx, DNS, Cloudflare, Git, and a little network administration. I want…
How do you reconcile a release ticket list with what actually shipped?
Between deciding that a release is ready and deploying it, teams often pull a work-item list from a tracker, compare it with the tag, write release notes, complete…
How can a full-stack developer break into their first DevOps role?
I'm a full-stack developer with nearly five years of experience building web and desktop applications, libraries, APIs, installers, and other software. About two years ago, I started working…
How Can I Learn DevOps and System Architecture Without Leaving Software Development?
I'm a software developer who already handles some operational work in personal projects, including Docker, VPS deployments, Nginx, DNS, Cloudflare, Git, and a little network administration. I'd like…
Am I ready to apply for Azure roles that use Terraform and IaC?
My current work involves Azure, but most deployments and changes are still done manually through the portal. I have built up solid Azure experience across several projects and…
How did you land your first DevOps engineering role?
I'm a full-stack developer with nearly five years of experience building web and desktop applications, libraries, APIs, and installers. About two years ago, I started working with GitLab…
What’s the best way to manage the same dashboards across multiple OpenSearch instances?
We currently send application logs to nine OpenSearch instances. The saved objects and dashboards are almost identical across them, but each instance uses different namespaces or index names.…
What’s the best way to coordinate ECR images and an ECS Fargate service?
I'm redesigning my CDK setup and need to manage both an Amazon ECR repository and an ECS Fargate service. My current pipeline builds and pushes an image to…