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?

just curious if you had a chance to join the company knowing what's said on the news? They can be the next netflix, they have grown in users exponentially but also means they are bleeding cash. Just curious what would you do if you were presented with an offer to join them?

I need some advice. For the past 3 years I have worked at startups as a devops engineer. I have made a big difference right away.

I am able to see visibility to my work right away. I have worked in large projects scaling applications in the cloud, AWS, databases and using Ansible, chef to automate a lot of the server configurations, and deployments. I also like working close with developers and help them with their dev environments, also with issues with scaling or helping them to debug code. Right now I am working for a large corporate company. They are using a lot of interesting technology docker, coreos, kubernetes but though the technology is really cool, it is not setup properly, it is hard to get something done because there is so much process to get changes into production, so things that at a startup would take me a week it takes 2 months to see them here in production at this new job. Most of the time the Ops team is putting out fires , we also don't have any type of architecture meetings or one on ones, So I am struggling to see visibility to my work.

I just got offered a role at a startup as the only DevOps engineer so they want someone to come in and start solving problems and we went through some of the problems and it is stuff that I can do with my eyes closed. The team is nice and they truly believe in working towards DevOps principles, at my current job there is still that separation between ops and developers and I don't think either group trust each other.

I feel like they are paying me and I can't be the best or do the work i am good at. Because there is so much process. I would understand if the process was in place because things are working but most of the time even the ops people don't trust their own configuration systems and cause outages.

how can I leave this job without saying all these things to them as the reason for me leaving.?

I dislike code pairing interviews. Specially ones where you haven't even talked to the team, don't know anything about the people they just give you a laptop connected to a tv so that they can sit infront of you and watch you code. Maybe I am the only one but I can't perform when someone is watching me or analyzing what I am doing. I would prefer if they gave me a set of tasks. A github repo where I commit code and then I submit the code and we can discuss what I did and my reasoning. But when I am being watched I forget everything. It sucked :(

What do you do when you get a great job offer with a hot startup but your company's CEO is asking you to stay. I was going to leave the company and he asked me to stay earlier this year because he said he was close to selling the company. Time went by and no updates and I know we didn't have much money left. He was having a hard time getting more funding and a deal he had fell off. I got a new job and my CEO still wants me to stay. No match on salary but he asked me to stay because he said he is close to sell the company. I stayed once and nothing happened, I am about to purchase a home and have a new job this time with a 30K bump on salary with a great team. I know my current team depends on me but I don't have faith that the company will succeed . I stayed once already. Any advice. I like my team but I don't want to wait until the end to start looking for a job if we fail.