r/devops

Hey everyone,

Devops of ~3 year of experience here.

I’m planning on improving my homelab security, as part of my CKS journey. I’ve managed to setup TinyAuth using a rpi that I have laying around w/ Yubikey but yet to leverage it as I do not fully understand this subject.

Therefor I’m reaching out for help, looking for study materials of these subjects, my end goal is to be able to leverage tinyauth as my CA for client certificates generation, as my Istio mTLS CA, and also to set up mTLS with a remote pangolin instance.

Keen to hear you feedback, thanks! 🙏

One of Amazon's data centers in the UAE caught fire after being hit by 'objects' amid the Middle East conflict

EC2,RDS,Dynamo DB Disrupted, Slowness on API calls .

I know that practice plays a huge role in developing DevOps skills, but I’m wondering whether DevOps books are just as important. Like, if someone trains normally without books, it might take around 3 years, but with reading, could that timeline be significantly shortened?

For example, with something like system thinking — it usually takes years and a lot of scars (real-world mistakes) to really get it. But if you read and deeply think through good books, it feels like you can grasp those concepts much faster.

Also, DevOps has a ton of tools. Of course, practice is necessary, especially for beginners. But if beginners also read books about best practices, scenarios, frameworks, cookbooks, and methods, then apply them to real projects — can they level up at a surprisingly fast rate?

I’m really curious about this.