CDKTF repository forks

There are some active discussions in the https://cdk.dev/ Slack channel #terraform-cdk about building community-driven forks of the existing Hashicorp/IBM CDKTF repositories. A number of developers who work at organizations that are heavily reliant on CDKTF have offered to pitch in.

There is currently a live proof of concept fork of the main cdktf repository that one developer made: https://github.com/TerraConstructs/terraform-cdk

And one Open Tofu developer said he and some other Open Tofu developers would be happy to collaborate with that community-driven effort to keep CDKTF alive:

>The OpenTofu maintainers are happy to collaborate with that project once it's up and running, but we will not be directly involved.

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Why did we name virtual switches, bridges?

Title says it all. A bridge is a virtual switch, you plug virtual ethernet cables in on both ends. Why did we name it a bridge, and not a vSwitch!

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Book Recommendations

Hello all,

As someone on a learning journey I was curious if you had any recommendations for books around DevOps that you wished other Engineers or team mates read?

I have read: The Phoenix Project, The Unicorn Project and Production-Ready Micro-services.

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My Raspberry pi pi3d Project

Hey , I am Warthog . I am a part of technolab team . We developed an app that helps preparing image for a particular raspberry pi pi3d picture frame all under one platform .

Our App's name is MetaPi currently on playstore .


WHAT Metapi do ?
It edit , crop and send images according to your pi3d picture frame . No more usage of 3,4 different apps to do the same thing .

Key features ?
It provide soothing reading and editing of Metadata for the images with for free . Like other apps where you have to pay to see and edit metadata for your images . In MetaPi you can see and categories and edit metadata for your images according to you

Moreover you can filter out tags of metadata and crop in free resolution with real time location change inside metadata and free of cost sharing with drive , icloud and other platforms through with your raspberry pi can read the prepared images for your own picture frame



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Offered a DevOps role - should I take it?

For the past few years I’ve been working as a backend developer (Java) on a Big Data platform project. One of our DevOps engineers is leaving, and my project manager asked whether I’d like to transition into a DevOps role and take over his responsibilities. If I say “yes”, there’s no option to switch back later, because they would hire a new developer to replace me.

The reason he asked me is that I’ve done some DevOps-related work in the past (within the same project), and I’ve always been open to that kind of work.


The main responsibilities would be:

* Platform engineering (Kubernetes, the entire Kafka platform, and other Big Data tools like Apache Iceberg, Spark, etc.)
* CI/CD (mostly building and maintaining deployment pipelines for new types of applications on our platform)
* Scripting and automation

The whole platform is on-prem, running on the client’s infrastructure. There’s no cloud involved at the moment, though that might change in the future.


In your opinion, is saying “yes” a good career move? I’m a bit concerned because most DevOps job offers seem to require cloud experience. Another concern is moving away from professional software development and doing much less “real” coding.

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Sick of having to manually read documentation diffs in CI

Does anyone else hate reviewing documentation changes in PRs?
​We do docs-as-code, but if someone rewrites a paragraph for clarity, the standard diff just nukes the whole thing. I have to manually check every single word to ensure they didn't sneakily change a price or a deadline. It's just a massive waste of time.
​I finally hacked together a small tool that compares semantic meaning instead of syntax. For example, changing "The system is fast" to "System performance is quick" gets ignored, but changing "Price: $10" to "Price: $20" actually flags it as a real change.
​It uses LLM classification, but I built a safety net around it: if the model is unsure or the output breaks, it defaults back to a standard diff. It fails safe.

​Demo here: https://context-diff.vercel.app/

​Thinking of packaging this as a simple GitHub Action. Would you actually run this step in your pipeline for docs review?

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resh v0.9.0 – an AI-native automation shell with URI-based resource handles

Hi all — I wanted to share a recent release of an open source project I’ve been working on, resh v0.9.0.

resh is an automation-focused shell designed to reduce brittleness in infrastructure and systems automation. Instead of stringly-typed CLI output, it models system resources as **URI-based handles** with structured JSON output, making it friendlier for automation, tooling, and AI agents.

Core idea:

    file://, svc://, net://, http://, proc://, secret://, snapshot://, mq://, log://
    

Each handle exposes explicit verbs (e.g., `status`, `verify`, `tail`, `ping`, `get`, `put`) and returns deterministic, machine-readable results. The goal is to make automation safer, composable, and introspectable — especially as more teams experiment with AI-assisted ops.




What’s new in v0.9.0 (high level):

* Expanded handle set (file, net, http, secret, svc, snapshot, mq, log, etc.)

* Stronger JSON envelopes and error determinism across verbs

* Improved service control (systemd/OpenRC)

* Better HTTP handling for automation use cases

* Continued focus on test coverage and production-safe defaults



This is early-stage OSS, not meant to replace Bash interactively, but to serve as a reliable automation substrate that other tools (or agents) can call.



Repo & docs are here if you’re curious:

👉 [https://github.com/millertechnologygroup/resh\](https://github.com/millertechnologygroup/resh)



Feedback — especially from folks who’ve fought fragile shell automation in CI/CD or ops tooling — is very welcome. If this isn’t useful for your workflow, that’s totally fair; I’m mainly looking for informed critique and real-world perspectives.



Thanks for reading.

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are we teaching juniors how to build, or just how to use ai?

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i’ve noticed a lot of newer devs are really good at getting something working quickly with ai help, but things slow down fast when the output isn’t quite right. once the happy path breaks, it’s harder to reason about what’s going on.

tools like chatgpt or cosine are genuinely useful, but they work best as support, not a replacement for understanding. if you don’t know why something works, debugging turns into trial and error pretty quickly. it feels like there’s a fine line between using ai well and leaning on it too much.

curious how others approach this. how do you encourage good ai usage without letting core skills slip?

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Has anyone actually found cloud cost visibility tools that don't feel like they were designed for accountants?

Ok so I'm the only devops person at a 12 person startup and I've somehow become the "cloud cost guy" which honestly was not in my job denoscription lol, and oour aws bill went from like $2,800 to $4,300 over the last few months and my cto keeps asking me where all the money is going and I genuinely have no idea half the time which is kind of embarrassing to admit.

Cost explorer is fine I guess but it's always delayed by like a day or two and by the time I actually see a spike the damage is already done, so I've been poking around at different options but everything either looks like it was designed for finance teams who want 47 different pivot tables or it's so expensive that it kind of defeats the whole purpose of trying to save money in the first place you know?

We're not big enough to justify hiring a dedicated finops person but we're definitely past the point where I can just ignore costs and hope for the best, and we're running mostly eks with some lambda and rds so nothing crazy but complex enough that tagging everything properly feels like a part time job on its own.

What are you all running for this kind of thing, and bonus points if it's something that doesn't require a week of setup or a sales call just to see a demo because I really don't have time for that right now.

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Stuck with installing arogcd using terraform

So I am trying to creates VPC and EKS using modules in my terraform code. But I am unable to find a way to EASILY install Argocd on my cluster and apply application.yaml (manifest for argocd config) on the cluster post creating it in same Iaac.

I tried googling/LLMing to find way.

I tried using eks's module output to set host in helm and install using helm_release but its not working giving me some kind REST endpoint kinda error.

What is the easiest way to do? Should I use Ansible? and is it really this tedious to setup argocd using terraform?


Please share code example if possible you can look at my code at - https://github.com/c0dysharma/microservices-demo-Iaac

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KODEKLOUD QUESTION

Hello, recently I got fired from Cloud Support position and now I am ready to sub there. Wanna grind as much as I can for the next few months. My question is is the Pro sub already enough or the next tier which is the AI one would be more beneficial? Idk how the AI Tutor and assisted labs would help me considering the price so I have a dilemma is it worth it. Thank you in advance!

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Sources to stay ahead of trends

Hi r/devops

I am approaching Senior level in our field and have noticed the requirements are to have architectual knowledge and an opinion on trends. Am aware of DevOps handbook, ByteByteGo and generally where to go if I were to interview for a different company.

For example, at my current company we're adopting a modular design of self service products and bringing the tooling we create closer to the developers. This includes investing in a GitOps strategy, naturually with ArgoCD, and Terraform module projects designed with Terraform Enterprise in mind. Of course IDPs are all the rage too recently.

I am more than happy with the tools and how to implement, but I am finding I am learning about these best practises from colleagues above rather than reading material in my own time.

I appreciate every company has a different problem to solve, so the shoe doesn't always fit. But I interested to hear from you all on how you keep up to date with new(er) methodologies and learn how to critically implement them from a philosophical standpoint (if that makes sense!).

Happy to clarify or expand on this quick ramble post.

Thanks.

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How are you handling integrations between SaaS, internal systems, and data pipelines without creating ops debt?

We’re seeing more workflows break not because infra fails, but because integrations quietly rot.

Some of us are:

* Maintaining custom noscripts and cron jobs
* Using iPaaS tools that feel heavy or limited
* Pushing everything into queues and hoping for the best

What’s your current setup? What’s been solid, and what’s been a constant source of alerts at 2 a.m.?

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How to create FedRAMP compliant cloud environments with IaC for repeatable deployment

Is it possible to build a full cloud environment using Infrastructure as Code and make it FedRAMP compliant from the start? The goal would be to offer pre-authorized environments to companies seeking FedRAMP approval. Since everything is IaC, the setup could be repeated across accounts and tenants. The main challenge is understanding the actual effort for audits, ongoing compliance, and maintenance in production.

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Upgraded Github runner version - now facing build errors

We were forced to upgrade from v2.28 to v2.330 as the older one was deprecated.

However now we have dependency issues :

>C:\\Users\\ContainerAdministrator\\.nuget\\packages\\microsoft.build.sql\\0.1.14-preview\\Sdk\\Sdk.targets(22,89): error MSB4226: The imported project "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\18\\BuildTools\\MSBuild\\Microsoft\\VisualStudio\\v16.0\\SSDT\\Microsoft.Data.Tools.Schema.SqlTasks.targets" was not found. Also, tried to find "Microsoft\\VisualStudio\\v16.0\\SSDT\\Microsoft.Data.Tools.Schema.SqlTasks.targets" in the fallback search path(s) for $(MSBuildExtensionsPath) - "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\MSBuild" . These search paths are defined in "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\18\\BuildTools\\MSBuild\\Current\\Bin\\msbuild.exe.Config". Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk in one of the search paths. [C:\\home\\runner\\_work\\Main\\Main\\src\\Core.Database\\Core.Database.sqlproj\]

Any idea how I could fix this?

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Do you actually trust K8s rightsizing recommendations?

Working at a bank, I've noticed teams straight up ignore cost optimization tools because the recommendations feel risky — cutting resources too aggressively can cause outages, and nobody wants to get paged at 3 am to save $50/month.

So the tools just... get ignored.

Got me thinking: would it help if a tool was explicitly asymmetric? Meaning it prioritizes "don't break anything" over "save maximum money" — recommending conservative cuts that won't cause OOMKills, even if it leaves some savings on the table.

For those managing K8s clusters:

* Do you actually follow rightsizing suggestions today?
* Would you trust a tool more if it guaranteed no under-provisioning risk?
* Or is the problem something else entirely?

Genuinely curious how others handle this tradeoff.

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What's your note-taking system for tech learning?

I've been jumping between note apps trying to find the "perfect" system - Notion, Obsidian, Logseq, Inkdrop, Affine... you name it, I've probably tried it.

But here's my problem: I take all these notes and then never actually remember the stuff later. I'll write detailed notes about Docker or some AWS service, then 2 weeks later I'm googling the same thing again like I never learned it.

So I'm curious:
- What note-taking app/system do you actually use?
- More importantly, how do you take notes so you actually remember things later?
- Or do you just not bother with notes and learn by doing?

Feels like I'm spending more time organizing notes than learning. Maybe I'm overthinking this whole thing?

What works for you?

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need grafana alternatives

Hey, good chance that i dont know how to use grafana but is there a better "logs visualizer" then it?
for context i come from uptrace, amazing frontend, but grafana has been a pita to get logs, filter etc , my other backend is victorialogs which has vlogscli, but i was hoping some something simpler like vmui for metrics, please lmk if yall know of anything.

Have a good one

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Github Actions introducing a per-minute fee for self-hosted runners

Github have just sent out an email announcing a $0.002/minute fee for self-hosted runners.

Just ran the numbers, and for us, that's close to $3.5k a month extra on our GitHub bill.

https://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-for-github-actions/

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Pricing changes for GitHub Actions

On January 1, 2026, you will receive up to a 39% reduction in the net price of GitHub-hosted runners.
On March 1, 2026, we are introducing a new $0.002 per-minute GitHub Actions cloud platform charge that will apply to self-hosted runner usage. Any usage subject to this charge will count toward the minutes included in your plan.

"Please note the price for runner usage in public repositories will remain free, and there will be no changes in price structure for GitHub Enterprise Server customers"

source: https://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-for-github-actions/


p.s their email states 96% of users will see a cost reduction, but the actual extended link says 15%...make your own conclusions...

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Working for a company where people maybe don’t have that much tech knowledge

I’m not sure because I haven’t started yet but it seems they may not be so knowledgeable about current technology but maybe I’m getting the wrong impression. I know for sure I’m the only one who knows the cloud we will be using.

What are the pros and cons of working in this kinda environment?

I’m excited for how much I can be involved in but a little nervous about how much might be on my plate right away and a potential lack of onboarding/time to understand the new environment I’m in. Any tips? Thank you!

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