penguinlinux

I work as a cloud engineer. With so many years of being in this business. I have developer many custom utilities do to a lot of stuff much faster with cloud providers. a lot of it are custom scripts python /bash / that helps me do a lot of my work more efficiently. These are tools that have grown over time that do help me a lot and mainly i use them myself just to make my job more efficient. During a presentation i had my boss saw my utility folder on my terminal and asked me about it. I showed it and then said I should put that into a git repo and make it accessible for everyone. I told him that I am not interested in doing that because this is NOT company code as it existed before and also the repo only makes sense to me and that I don't think i want to make this into a company asset to then maintain it for the company.

These are utilities that have grown through time a provide a lot of value for me but i don't feel comfortable sharing this. Is my employer allowed to ask me to submit this code and give it to them so that other engineers can use it and probably i have to then support it. ?

I am lucky to live near a microcenter so for the past 2 years every week i take walks and buy a raspberry pi here and there. I have a bunch of them pi zero w's . So I have a bunch of them and i want to work on a little project with them. So far I have been able to use them to run docker and data science containers using jupyter notebooks to learn python and now i want to do something with them some project where i can utilize at least a few of them on any sort of projects. Web crawlers, web servers? irc servers? something. I was wondering if anyone have some suggestions of projects i can try this spring/ summer in 2021 thank you everyone. Happy Spring

Thanks for any advice. I am a DevOps enginer with lots of experience with many technologies. During the month of April i got a few companies reaching out during the pandemic and i was lucky to get a job with a company looking for an SRE, from the outside the company needed someone with my skills and the team was nice and I thought this would be a good fit for me so I took the job.

A month into the job i see the company really does not have good best practices for development, I have no access to dev environments or QA to test anything. It took 2 weeks for me to just get admin access on a Windows computer. They are a finance company and they don't even understand why I need virtualbox on my machine. There have been 3 outtages on a new service that was rolled out recently and i can see why. There is no communication between ops and devs and there are no best practices. The people are NICE but also they are not really looking to suddenly change their process because they involve security and change control and that's something they are not changing right away.

I interviewed with another company that is full AWS and i would basically take ownership of their existing environment from configuring aws resources, ci cd pipelines and working with monitoring and load testing. stuff that I now how to do and do well. I feel my current job is basically being a linux admin and paid very well for it but really they are not using my skills and even if i want to do my job there are blockers on my way.

I want to be honest and just thank them for the job and resign and let them now i don't feel well getting paid so much money when they are not maximizing my skills . I don't want to offend them or come across as an ungrateful person. is it fair for me to do this resign and move on or should i give them a longer chance ? any advice would be really helpful

I recently got a new job in this pandemic. I am so grateful that i got a new job with a good salary. I am a devops engineer where in the past i had full access to all AWS environments and had my own laptop where I could install vagrant , virtualbox docker. However, this new company is a fintech company and as such the security is very high on the laptop. Basicaly my laptop is a dumb terminal to connect to a Windows remote desktop where I can't even install stuff. so as such it is hard to make much progress. Specially administering linux and kubernetes clusters. using Windows putty :( . Have any of you faced a similar transition and how were you able to handle this change.

I happen to live close to a Microcenter. They happen to have the Raspberry Pi zero w for 5 dollars , so every weekend I walk to the store and buy a Raspberry pi zero w. I have around 15 raspberry pi's and I am looking for an interesting project to do with them. So far I have a few project running. 1.- Raspberry Pi zero W VPN server which I use to vpn from work into my home. 2.- I am hosting a full copy of wikipedia on a Raspberry Pi zero w and an external ssd drive. http://wikipenguin.onthewifi.com , but I still have 13 more raspberry pi's that I can use for other projects. Any ideas or suggestion on what I can do with them?