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Hi everyone ( help pannunga guys, read till end ) , I'm posting this because I genuinely don't know how to help my brother anymore. My brother completed a Mechanical Engineering degree. After graduation, he tried many different jobs, but nothing worked out. He even started a small tea shop, but it had to shut down because of bus stand renovation. I'm a software developer, so I suggested that he consider moving into IT. I never forced him into any specific role—I asked him what he was actually interested in because I believe people do well when they choose something they like. He chose the Desktop Engineer path. He learned the required skills, got a job, and has now been working as a Desktop Engineer for around 4 years. He's currently earning only ₹26k/month. Over the last several months, he has worked really hard to move into Azure Cloud Administration. He has learned Azure, completed multiple Azure, and prepared seriously for interviews. The problem is that he's been searching for a new job for around 7 months, but still hasn't received an offer. According to him, most of his interviews go well, but somehow nothing converts into a job. We honestly don't know where he's going wrong. I switched jobs this April, but I had been preparing since December. My job search was mentally exhausting, but I eventually received three offers. I know how difficult the process is, but my brother's situation feels even harder because he keeps trying without success. I don't have experience with Azure Cloud Administrator interviews, so I don't know how to guide him. If anyone here is an Azure Cloud Administrator, Cloud Engineer, or works in cloud infrastructure, could you please share: What companies actually expect from Azure Cloud Admin candidates? What are the most common mistakes candidates make? What skills or projects helped you get hired? Any interview tips or roadmap? Even if you have a friend working in this field, I'd really appreciate it if you could ask them or point me in the right direction. I had actually uninstalled Reddit after switching jobs, but I installed it again just to make this post for my brother. Any advice, referral, or guidance would mean a lot. Thank you. submitted by /u/dimo_1322 [link] [comments]

Because users are more likely to use the easy to read/remember randomly generated dinopass password given to them instead of immediatly changing the typically aggressively complex random password to their usual favourite garbage password submitted by /u/BeerEnthusiasts_AU [link] [comments]

Curious to hear from founders and operators. If you could permanently eliminate one internal headache at your company, what would it be? Not customer facing. I’m talking about things like onboarding, documentation, finding information, repetitive questions, internal workflows, approvals, handoffs, etc. What’s the one thing that makes you think, “Why are we still doing it like this?” submitted by /u/offlinecharacter [link] [comments]

I’m currently using an Azure for Students subscription, and it’s going to expire in about 2 months . I’m running a VPS (Linux VM) on it, and I want to know what exactly happens when the student subscription ends. My main question: Can I renew/extend Azure for Students without my running VPS stopping or being deleted? And a few related things I’m unsure about: If the subscription expires before renewal, does the VM get stopped , deallocated , or deleted ? Is there any grace period where resources still exist but are inaccessible? Has anyone successfully renewed Azure for Students while keeping all resources alive ? I’d really appreciate real experiences or official guidance. Thanks! submitted by /u/gaviru-bihan [link] [comments]

so... my company's only sysadmin was let go. I'm thinking of applying for the position and requesting reduced salary (enough to make it a Jr. Sysadmin position) as I lack experience. I asked, weeks ago, for a list of certs from the then sysadmin, which I never got, in the event he ever retired. I have a BAS Degree only from a local community college that is aimed at producing sysadmins. I don't want to be in the help desk for life. Would anyone be willing to advise me on what I'd need? Related: we're a windows and cisco based internal healthcare help desk. there are 900+ employees and 5 of us in help desk, 30 data services folks (programmers) a network engineer, plus the open sysadmin. thanks! submitted by /u/Canesh [link] [comments]

Upfront: part of this bill is legitimately mine and I have offered in writing to pay it. This post is about process, not about dodging a bill. THE SHORT VERSION June 28 — A billing agent processed a $76.00 courtesy adjustment for an unintended idle V100 Spot VM (a Vertex AI Workbench notebook that kept running after my work had ended) and confirmed in writing: "you have an ending balance of $28.98 on your account now." I agreed and considered the matter settled. July 1 — Google's own follow-up email admitted that when that adjustment was made, "the usage records had only been updated through June 27th" — and $146.51 of delayed charges from June 28-30 (the same idle resource) then posted on top of the confirmed balance. That same day I voluntarily unlinked billing from my projects and disabled the Compute Engine, Notebooks and Vertex AI APIs so nothing further could accrue, and told support so in writing. July 3 and July 13 — I asked, in writing, for collection to be paused while the dispute was reviewed. No answer, either time. July 8 — Billing account suspended. July 15 — Billing account TERMINATED, along with its projects and services. July 17 — Two days after the termination, support wrote: "I am escalating this case to a supervisor. A member of our leadership team will reach out to you directly within the next 24 hours." July 22 and 23 — I followed up. Nothing. July 27 — The identical email again, word for word, including the identical 24-hour promise. Twelve days after the termination it was promising to review. July 28 — Second 24-hour window expired. No supervisor name, no reference number, no contact — ever. My formal follow-up that day has had no reply either. As of today that is five more days of silence. FOUR QUESTIONS, ASKED SINCE JULY 13, STILL UNANSWERED The escalation reference and the supervisor's name. Whether collection was paused during the review (it plainly was not). Written confirmation the dispute is still open. The formal billing-dispute path if the answer stays no. THE NUMBERS DON'T RECONCILE EITHER Emails cite $101.57 in usage, the case title says $101.34, the invoice balance was $175.49 — and $101.57 minus the $76.00 adjustment is $25.57, not the $28.98 I was told in writing. I asked for a SKU/date breakdown on July 13. Nothing. Either those charges were already documented when the agent confirmed $28.98 — in which case the confirmation came from the party with full visibility and should stand — or they were not, in which case my acknowledgment was made without material information that existed only in Google's systems. It cannot be both. WHAT I'M ACTUALLY ASKING Not a refund — nothing has been collected on the disputed part. I have offered to pay the $28.98 that was confirmed to me in writing, immediately, if the $146.51 delayed-posted tail from the same already-adjusted incident is waived and the account reinstated. These are self-funded educational projects, not a business. If anyone from the GCP billing team sees this: case 72730110. I would genuinely rather resolve this in the support channel — it just hasn't answered a single direct question in a month. Redacted screenshots of the timeline available on request. submitted by /u/Inevitable-Simple674 [link] [comments]

What motivated you to choose DevOps as a career? Was there a specific reason or did you somehow end up on this path by accident? submitted by /u/SwordfishPositive91 [link] [comments]

I'm currently working as a Facilities Engineer in one of the big data center company. I got an offer to join AWS for the Engineering Operation Technicians 3 (Same role as my current job right now) with about 15% pay increase and of course the RSU's. I'm still haven't accepted the offer because I'm hearing about the layoffs and the workplace culture is not good at the moment. submitted by /u/RedrainEnryu1 [link] [comments]

I'm currently pursuing a Master's in Cloud Computing, but I feel like my courses are very generalized and don't go deep into the practical skills I'm looking for. My goal is to build a career in DevOps, but I'm honestly feeling overwhelmed and confused about where to start. I have a few questions for those already working in DevOps or who have successfully made the transition: Where can I learn DevOps for free? (Courses, documentation, YouTube channels, hands-on labs, etc.) What are the best platforms to practice real-world DevOps skills? How many hours should I dedicate each day to learning and practicing? Realistically, how long does it take to become job-ready? At what stage should I start applying for entry-level DevOps roles or internships ? I'm not looking for shortcuts. I just want a clear, realistic roadmap from people who've been through this journey. Any genuine advice, resources, or lessons you wish you had known when starting would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! submitted by /u/Informal_Ad5966 [link] [comments]

What motivated you to choose DevOps as a career? Was there a specific reason or did you somehow end up on this path by accident? I’ll start. I was a Linux admin and in 2012-2013 my company gave me the DevOps title. I thought I’d give it a go, but if it didn’t work out I’d fall back to Linux admin. That never happened. submitted by /u/SwordfishPositive91 [link] [comments]

Hi everyone, I recently watched this video and found the idea of colocating my own server in a data center very interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbkqRPIUYAo I’m interested in putting my own physical server in a Canadian data center instead of keeping it at home. Does anyone know a company that offers affordable colocation services for a small setup (for example, 1U or 2U server space)? I’m mainly looking for: Reasonable monthly pricing Space for my own hardware Good internet connectivity Reliable power and cooling Remote hands support would be a bonus I’m located in Canada and would appreciate recommendations from people who have actual experience with providers. Thanks! submitted by /u/Routine_Relief_7323 [link] [comments]

Hello fellow sysadmins, I posted this some time ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1uoc55f/linux_guy_being_asked_to_do_windows_entraid_stuff/ and you were all very helpful, thank you. the entraid and exchange migration stuff went well, a few inboxes with too many folders, the local imap server serving folders with special name that broke the imap migration (fixed with -includefolder and -excludefolder list, obviously I generated all the stuff programmatically using a small DB where I wrote all the infos I needed that I got from the on prem email server, axigen) autoconfigurations, outlook clients, teams, calendar, signatures, everything seems to be working well. the MX record have been switched, mail deliverability, inbound and outbound seems good. now I need to prepare the environment for the support people at the company to handle stuff like quarantine release and such. any pointers? I see that under security.microsoft.com -> threat policies -> standard protection seems to have a bunch of decent defaults, is this something that people do? I will spend some time learning this stuff because I have to say exchange online does seem like a well crafted product and I'm curious now of this side of things, my understanding of emails comes from using them, having read the IMAP and SMTP RFCs and having had adiacent issues with it from applications and infra management. and yes, they will also get someone to at least audit this stuff, I was able to get at least this done from a proper expert on the subject. submitted by /u/Zestyclose_Ad8420 [link] [comments]

In the process of trying to document the environment for a small non-profit that I have been supporting for a long time. My time is winding down but I thought I had most things covered, password manager with mulitple MFA options including a hardware yubikey to allow access to vault. But I never thought about doing the same for other sites like M365 or Duo Security etc. I have enabled MFA with the microsoft authenticator but if I was to be hit by a beer truck etc before being able to move accounts over etc, I do not think they would be able to logon etc. I assume m365 allows for hardware tokens in ADDITION to soft tokens and if so I can register the yubikey hardware token and do the same hopefully for Duo. But it had me thinking for small shops how are folks handling secondary MFA authentication methods so a new admin is able to carry on etc...I prefer not to use email as secondary but thought I would ask to see what other options are out there, thanks. submitted by /u/bishoptf [link] [comments]

Hi all, I have created a security tool that automates your day to day tasks and post compromised things as well it really helped me in many things i thought to make it free for everyone this will be a good option or should i enhance it further and make it more efficient and sell to some company. I cant tell you much but it has actually helped me alot. I have 3yoe and in last 2 years because of this i have made my tasks more accurate and complete in less time . Need your thoughts. Cant tell much about it right now. submitted by /u/Original-Success69 [link] [comments]

Luna's 80% price cut landed this week so I ran the numbers on my PR review bot. A real review of a ~180-line PR: about 2,300 tokens in, 590 visible out, which works out around $0.001 The dashboard total for my whole billing window, 15 requests including three full reviews, is 6,244 tokens and $0.00. Screenshots and links to example code review PR: https://codylabs.uk/blog/ai-code-review-cost/ https://preview.redd.it/3kl6us18bzgh1.png?width=2340&format=png&auto=webp&s=d85a0f590b9dc7f7d4ffa7300c77c128505c8361 submitted by /u/Due-Calligrapher-369 [link] [comments]

Hi everyone, I'm a CS student, and I realized something recently. In college, we're taught how to write code, debug it, maybe deploy it once, and then we move on to the next assignment. But I keep reading incident reports from companies like GitHub and Cloudflare, and it feels like the real engineering work actually starts after deployment. I'm curious because I honestly have no idea what that world looks like. When something breaks in production at 2 AM, what actually happens? Do you immediately know what's wrong, or is it more like putting together pieces of a puzzle? What's usually the most frustrating part of the whole process? Also, what's one thing about running software in production that you wish every CS student knew before joining the industry? I'm not building anything or looking for textbook answers—I just want to understand what the job is really like beyond what we learn in college. I'd love to hear your stories, even if it's just one incident that taught you something you'll never forget. submitted by /u/No_Comfortable9746 [link] [comments]

the cloudfront outage on the 16th is still bugging me. the fleet that manages connections to private vpc origins couldn't load updated config, traced back to one frankfurt AZ, and it served 5xx on vpc origin traffic for about three and a half hours. hugging face, tailscale and ubiquiti were among the ones down. bad timing, because i was in the middle of moving four services off public alb origins onto vpc origins. to hit a compliance date i ran the migrations in parallel instead of one clean cutover at a time. the outage wasn't the hard part. all four workstreams were editing the same terraform repo and the same shared network module. one branch tightened a security group, another assumed the old rule was still there, and a third rebased on both and quietly reverted half of it. i spent more time untangling my own branches than dealing with aws. what kept it sane was isolating each migration so the changes didn't collide. i run each one as its own task in verdent, parallel lines of work in the same codebase without branches stepping on each other. at least i had a clean diff per service to reason about. the ugly part: the agent's config for one service moved the origin to vpc origins but left the alb's public security group open to 0.0.0.0/0. on paper we were private, in reality the load balancer was still reachable from the internet, which is the whole reason we were migrating. i only caught it because the diff on the shared module looked off. what i still haven't solved is sequencing. running four in parallel meant that during the actual outage, two services were on vpc origins and degraded while two were still public and fine, and my runbook assumed one uniform state. my only fix is a per-service origin flag and a single cutover window, which just trades the messy middle for a concentrated blast radius. submitted by /u/Appropriate-Carry557 [link] [comments]

Every time I touch a workflow file it's the same loop, small change, push, wait for the runner, watch it fail on some tiny thing, tweak, push again. Ten commits later it finally goes green. No real way to test it before it runs, so I'm just push-and-praying. Do you hit the same thing? Or is there some other part of CI/Actions that drives you nuts? What you'll guys actually dealing with? submitted by /u/aizyn_ [link] [comments]

Hypothetical, but I want a realistic answer rather than an optimistic one. Say there was a tool that ran batch jobs on engineering workstations after hours, inside your own network, releasing the machine the moment someone touched it. Nothing leaves the building. Does that get past your security review, or is unattended execution on an endpoint a hard no regardless of how it works? And if it is a no, is that policy or is it the review process being long enough that nobody bothers? Also curious whether anyone has already tried this and given up, and why. submitted by /u/Rare_Piano_1369 [link] [comments]

Well, this was not on my bingo list. They're really redesigning Print Mnaagement app for Windows https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/02/windows-11s-winui-3-modernization-just-reached-one-of-its-oldest-legacy-tools-meet-the-new-print-management/ submitted by /u/WPHero [link] [comments]