Best agile project management tools for startups in 2025?

Our startup moved from Trello to Monday dev because it wasn’t good at scaling once we passed 5-6 devs. Monday dev feels like a good alternative to jira- as its not complex and still structured. Anyone here using Linear, Asana, or other tools for agile workflows?

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SRE/DevOps with on-prem background — recruiters always ask for cloud, feeling stuck

I’ve been working in SRE/DevOps for over 10 years, with a strong background in on-prem infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, automation, incident response, and observability. Most of my production work has been in on-prem environments, though I can usually pick up cloud tasks when needed.

Now that I’m exploring new opportunities, I’ve noticed that almost every recruiter frames cloud (AWS, Kubernetes, etc.) as a hard requirement. While I’m confident I can adapt quickly, I sometimes feel like my lack of direct, long-term cloud experience makes it harder to get past recruiter screening.

I don’t necessarily want to move into a “cloud-only” role — my focus is still SRE/DevOps — but it feels like cloud has become unavoidable in today’s market.

For those of you with similar backgrounds:
• How did you present strong on-prem experience so it translated into “cloud-ready” on a resume/LinkedIn?
• Did you find certifications (AWS, etc.) actually helped get past the recruiter filter?
• Any advice on building credibility in cloud without years of production cloud experience?

Would really appreciate hearing how others navigated this. Thanks 🙏

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Building a platform for AWS security scans & real-time compliance scoring – looking for feedback!

We’ve been building GuardNine, a platform that keeps an eye on your AWS (GCP Coming Soon) infrastructure 24/7 and flags common misconfigs before they cause trouble.

Demo: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJvkoY3N93k&ab_channel=KubeNine)
Try it here: guardnine.in

# What GuardNine does

Continuous monitoring of AWS accounts (GCP support in progress)
Pre-built security scan templates
Create custom scans with 100+ checks
Real-time compliance scoring
One-click CloudFormation setup

# Current features

Detects open S3 buckets, EC2 misconfigs, insecure VPCs, RDS, SQS, SNS, and more
Multiple daily scans with severity filtering
Simple onboarding (setup <2 mins with IAM role deployment)

# Coming soon 🚀

Knowledge graph of your cloud environment
AI-powered check suggestions tailored to your infra

We’re still in early development and the platform is completely free to use right now.

Would love feedback, suggestions, or brutal honesty from this community! 🙌

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Windows heavy Devops/Sre - How to transition to a more typical linux Devops skillset?

Currently I work at a FAANG doing devops type work. With how the job market is right now, I'm very worried that my skillset doesn't really transfer anywhere else.

My work is a mix of operational work managing a massive windows server fleet (servers going down, creating automation for em, writing noscripts for local engineers to execute, etc) and project based work (creating full stack applications in AWS to manage our stuff, such as managing cameras, permissions, various automation for migration related projects, etc). Almost all of the work is done through AWS.

The problem is that because 99% of my work is in the context of managing a huge Windows Server fleet and IP cameras connected to them, I'm worried my skillset doesn't really transfer over to your typical "Kubernetes/terraform/etc" job. A lot of my coding is done in PowerShell, TypeScript, and my python is good enough for writing lambdas. I've also noticed most SRE/Devops listing wants heavy Linux and container experience, which I definitely lack coming from a Windows background

Even my "full stack" applications aren't really too fancy... Just a react website hosted in S3 with some cloudfront distribution, and a backend of various DDB, SSM, lambda, etc resources.

Also, since I work at a FAANG, a lot of our tooling is also internal and I can't actually leverage stuff like terraform, I have to use AWS CDK for IAAS.

Do Windows heavy devops/sre roles like this actually exist? I've actually never seen it outside of my current job. Or should I be trying to cross train much more to your typical devops/sre skillset?

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Advice for Devops Engineer II role

Hi Everyone,
I have a technical interview coming up for a DevOps Engineer II role. Can anyone share what kind of questions I should expect? Will it include coding, like Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, Linux commands, or noscripting?

Thanks in advance.

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Thoughts on NVIDIA Certifications

Hello,

What are your thoughts on infrastructure related NVIDIA Certifications?

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MVP GitHub Action: Zero Trust checks + compliance proof in CI/CD

I built a GitHub Action that blocks Terraform misconfigs and emits signed attestations. Yes, it’s a simple CNAPP with one important addition: it generates trust documentation. The point is to move past “scan and warn” into verifiable proof that risky changes never hit production.

Why it matters:
- Manual reviews don’t scale, screenshots aren’t proof.
- Tools like Vanta, Wiz, or Chainguard cover parts of the workflow, but there’s no open-source, end-to-end chain of compliance evidence.
- SOC 2 costs run $10k–$80k+ plus hundreds of staff hours — out of reach for teams below the security poverty line.

What it does today:
- Blocks public S3 buckets, open 0.0.0.0/0 security groups, long-lived AWS keys in PRs
- Emits DSSE-signed attestations as compliance evidence
- Built in Go with hashicorp/hcl + Cobra

Usage:

name: Zero Trust Infra Check
on: [pull_request]
jobs:
  security:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - uses: miqcie/mondrian/.github/actions/mondrian-check@main
        with:
          generate-attestation: true

Repo: github.com/miqcie/mondrian

Looking for input:
- What misconfigs are the biggest pain in your pipelines?
- How do you balance blocking gates with deploy velocity?
- Anyone chaining compliance proofs into a live trust center?

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What are the hardest things you've implemented as a DevOps engineer?

What are the hardest things you've implemented as a DevOps engineer? I am asking so that I can learn what I should be studying to future-proof myself.

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I feel I'm doing some greater evil

I set up a decent CI/CD for the infra (including kubernetes, etc). Battery of tests, compatibility reboot tests, etc. I plan to write much more, covering every shaky place and every bug we find.

It works fine. Not fast, but you can't have those things fast, if you do self-service k8s.

But. My CI is updating Cloudflare domain records. On each PR. But of course we do CI/CD on each PR, it's in the DNA for a good devops.

But. Each CI run leaves permanent scar in the certificate transparency log. World-wide. Now there are more than 1k of entries for our test domain, and I just started (the CI/CD start to work about a month ago). Is it okay? Or do I do some greater evil?

I feel very uncomfortable, that ephimerial thing which I do with few vendors, cause permanent growth of a global database. Each PR. Actually, each failing push into open PR.

Did I done something wrong? You can't do it without SSL, but with SSL behind CF, we are getting new certificate for new record in the domain every time.

I feel it's wrong. Plainly wrong. It shouldn't be like that, that ephimerial test entities are growing something which is global and is getting bigger and bigger every working day...

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Dev Ops in 2025 for a beginner?

Hey, I've got no real DevOps experience, just Linux basics. Thinking about diving into junior developer or DevOps roles, focusing on Linux and automation, but with AI advancing, is it still worth learning? Are Linux and DevOps skills valuable when AI can do so much? Need advice from experienced devs or DevOps folks!

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Am I wasting my time trying to build this?

I’m a DevOps/SRE I’ve had multiple debugging sessions with teammates and worked a lot in slack. I’ve experienced multiple micro-incidents and major incidents. I’m aware of the standard; ALWAYS DOCUMENT! I create tickets and RFOs for the incidents I tackle, with the necessary details and so forth, some times I keep personal notes for easy recall of some specific recurring similar incidents, but when I have to deal with hundreds of incidents, it becomes a hassle, and I lose the zeal to keep documenting. I guess you could say I’m just lazy. 😅

I’ve been thinking about building something that remembers every debugging session and incident engineering teams have ever resolved all in one place, without context switching— well in slack. A tool that can answer questions in natural language “have we seen this incident before?”, then it returns a list of related past resolved incidents. I’m focusing purely on capturing and retrieving knowledge from conversations. No runbooks, no on-call schedules, no status pages. Just “turn my debugging conversations into searchable memory.”

PS: More details can be found here: https://incidly.com

My major concern is this;
- is this worth building? Maybe people won’t care enough about this problem to want to use it?

- Maybe the major players in the incident field will add it as a feature?

- Am I naive to think there’s an opportunity here for me to build?

I’d really appreciate your honest opinions. Thank you very much!

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I built a sandbox SMTP server for email testing in staging/dev – feedback welcome!

Hey folks 👋

I've been working on a tool called [Mailfrom.dev](https://mailfrom.dev) – a sandbox SMTP server designed for staging and development environments. If you’ve ever had to deal with testing email flows like password resets or onboarding confirmations, you know how messy it can get when you don’t want to send real emails.

[Mailfrom.dev](http://Mailfrom.dev) lets you send emails to a fake SMTP server, where you can inspect everything in a web UI — no emails actually go out to the end users and you can also share everything with you team.

I was frustrated with how expensive or overly complex other tools in this space are.. I wanted something affordable and dead simple to use. Just check the pricing — you'll see what I mean.

I’d love any feedback, thoughts, or feature suggestions.

**Tech stack**:

* Backend: Laravel (Horizon, Reverb, Cashier)
* Frontend: Vue 3 + shadcn + reka
* Infra: k3s on Hetzner, S3 & SES on AWS

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Is AI coming after DevOps?

As I go through so many new tools and platforms, I have got many questions!

- is AI going to eliminate DevOps jobs?
- will Dev & DevOps be managed by genetic platforms in future?

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Need Full Stack Dev for Hackathon

Hey everyone,
I'm working on a hackathon project that's about 50% complete, but the submission deadline is tomorrow. I’m looking for someone with Full Stack experience who can jump in today and help speedrun the rest of the build.

The project is solid so far, just need help finishing up features and polishing for submission. If we win, I’m happy to split the prize.

If you're up for a fast-paced collab and can start ASAP, DM me and I’ll share the details.

Let’s crush this. 💪

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About to take the CKA exam, couldn't find documentation for Kustomize in the official Kubernetes docs

So I heard that I am allowed to use the kubernetes official documentation on the exam as long as I'm using their secure browser, but I cannot find Kustomize in the official docs. Instead it seems it has its own independent website. Am I allowed to use it in the exam or did I miss it in the docs

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I Battled Google's Inconsistent Docs to Set Up Custom Error Pages with Cloud Armor + Load Balancer, Here's the Workaround That Saved the Day

As a cloud consultant and staff cloud engineer, I’ve seen my fair share of GCP quirks, but setting up a custom error page for Cloud Armor–blocked traffic was a real nightmare! 😫

Setup: HTTP(S) Load Balancer, Cloud Run backend, and a GCS-hosted error page. Google’s docs made it sound possible, but contradictory info and Terraform errors told a different story, no love for serverless NEGs.

I dug through this subreddit for answers (no luck), then turned to GitHub issues and a lot of trial and error. Eventually, I figured out a slick workaround: using Cloud Armor redirects to a branded GCS page instead of the ugly generic 403s. Client’s happy, and I’m not stuck explaining why GCP docs feel like a maze.

Full story and Terraform code here: Setting up a Custom Error Page with Cloud Armor and Load Balancer (on Medium).

TL;DR: GCP docs are messy, custom_error_response_policy doesn’t work for Cloud Armor + serverless. Used Cloud Armor redirects to GCS instead. Code’s in the article!

So what’s your worst GCP doc struggle? Anyone got Cloud Armor hacks or workarounds? Spill the beans.

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Documentation Contradiction:

One part of the documentation states that custom error pages work for errors generated by Cloud Armor: [https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/custom-error-response?utm\_source=chatgpt.com](https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/custom-error-response?utm_source=chatgpt.com)
However, another part of the same documentation says the policy only applies to responses that come from the backend, not the Google Front End (GFE). Since Cloud Armor operates at the GFE level, it seems this feature is not applicable to our setup: https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/custom-error-response?utm\_source=chatgpt.com#limitations

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Small teams adapting faster to AI-driven changes in software delivery?

Interesting early signal from the first two weeks live of Warestack.

While we expected mid-size engineering organizations to jump in first, it’s the smaller, fast-moving teams that are setting up modern processes and context-aware rules to keep AI-driven changes safe.

They already sense how quickly the ground is shifting:

- AI code editors are writing production code and developers don’t always own every change
- Autonomous agents may soon manage pull requests end-to-end

That means unmanaged changes can reach production in seconds. Some of these smaller teams are already moving beyond static GitHub settings toward more agentic, adaptive guardrails, like:

- Enforce smart review thresholds (e.g. large PRs require extra reviewers) with the flexibility to bypass only when an urgent hotfix is created by a senior team member
- Apply critical-path ownership and secret / config change controls
- Block risky deployments outside approved windows
- Align every PR with its project ticket to keep scope transparent


Curious if others here have seen similar patterns - are small teams actually quicker at adapting to this shift than larger organizations?

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Wanna build a production ready fullstack website

I’ve only done like student projects never deployed or done something scalable. If anyone’s willing to coach/manage/guide me through the process would be greatly appreciated. Having trouble figuring out the apis and tools ill need to calculate like a cost analysis and have an accurate full picture.
I have an initial functional and non functional requirements list but I need experienced advice and reviews theres alot i dont know about im in way over my head

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Need Help in Learning Devops

I'll be joining Cognizant as a Fresher and I'm planning to learn Devops during this and in 1-1.5 years after cognizant,get a Devops job.
How can I do that?
What all resources should I follow??
How can I manage work along with Devops learning coz I will be doing a non Devops work in cognizant most probably..

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Looking for minimal containers with built in audit trails and signed metadata

Our environment demands high transparency like every deployed container image must be traceable and verifiable. We are talking signed provenance, tamper proof SBOMs, and easy audit exports for regulatory reviews.
The usual workflow of building images locally and then generating SBOMs feels brittle. manual, inconsistent, and prone to oversight. Ideally i would use ready made, minimal container images that include signed SBOMs and provenance data. Even better if they integrate with our CI/CD pipeline and help speed up compliance audits. Any recommendations?



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Feeling unfulfilled in tech

Hey ,

I’m currently a Software Engineer with 2.4 years of experience at a major MNC, and I’m finding myself at a professional crossroads. While I've been doing decent in my career so far, I’m feeling a deep sense of unfulfillment. I've always been good in the of my peer group because of my ability to learn quickly and solve complex problems, but the tech itself just doesn’t excite me anymore. I'm ready for something more.

I'm not looking for just another job or a promotion. I'm looking for something worthwhile. I believe my intelligence and drive can be applied to much more than optimizing pipelines. I want to use my skills to solve a real-world problem and build something that truly matters.

I’m not interested in the stereotypical path of an MBA or upskilling in a field that no longer resonates with me. Instead, my biggest goal is to work with and learn from highly influential people—founders, visionaries, and leaders who have already succeeded. I want to be in an environment where I can absorb their wisdom and contribute .

I'm open to almost any field. I'm a fast learner and adaptable. I’m a tech professional on paper, but at my core, I'm a problem-solver who just happens to be getting paid for it. If you're a leader who is tackling a real-world challenge, and you're looking for someone with an intense will to build something worthwhile, let’s talk.

I’m ready to put my all into a new challenge. If you’re a founder or visionary who can offer a role with fantastic environment, I’d love to connect.

Feel free to comment or send me a DM.

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