cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/60171730
Hey y’all, looking to land my first DevOps Engineering role soon, and figured I should use enterprise software as much as possible for some resume building and personal practice. For reference, I’ve set up a NAS server once before but haven’t got too much experience outside of that. Basing this on some DevOps Engineers I’ve talked to IRL and some friends who hire engineers, but wanted extra community feedback.
Use case: parents are data hoarders, probably have at least 4tb saved composed of every type of media you can think of, so hopefully the whole family can use this when I’m done with it all. Otherwise, aiming to be able to claim experience with enterprise grade DevOps software.
Some of this is personal research, a lot of Reddit research, and some LLM comparisons used to choose between two software systems. Please let me know what you’d keep or change! I’m still kinda new to this :p
Hardware: (old gaming pc)
- Intel i5-9600K
- 32GB DDR4 RAM
- GTX 1070
- Gigabyte Z370XP SLI
- Seagate IronWolf 12TB 3.5" SATA
Hypervisor & OS:
- Proxmox VE (type-1 hypervisor)
- Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS (VM operating system)
- cloud-init (VM provisioning automation)
Infrastructure as Code & Automation:
- Terraform (infrastructure provisioning)
- Proxmox Terraform Provider (VM automation)
- Ansible (configuration management)
- GitHub Actions (CI/CD pipelines)
Containerization & Orchestration:
- Docker (container runtime/builds)
- Kubernetes/k3s (container orchestration)
- Helm (Kubernetes package manager)
- ArgoCD (GitOps continuous deployment)
Networking & Ingress:
- Traefik (ingress controller/reverse proxy)
- MetalLB (bare-metal load balancer)
- cert-manager (TLS certificate automation)
- WireGuard (VPN software)
- Surfshark (VPN service)
Secrets & Security:
- HashiCorp Vault (secrets management)
- External Secrets Operator (Kubernetes secret syncing)
- SSH hardening (secure remote access)
Observability & Monitoring:
- Prometheus (metrics collection)
- Grafana (monitoring dashboards/visualization)
- Loki (centralized log aggregation)
- Promtail (log shipping agent)
- Alertmanager (alert routing/notifications)
Storage & Backups:
- ZFS (filesystem/storage management)
- NFS (network storage)
- Persistent Volumes/PVCs (Kubernetes storage)
- Restic (encrypted backups)
- Velero (Kubernetes backup/disaster recovery)
Container Registry & CI Infrastructure:
- GitHub Container Registry or Harbor (container registry)
- GitHub Runner (self-hosted CI runner)
AWS Emulation:
- LocalStack (AWS cloud emulation)
- Terraform AWS Provider (AWS IaC practice)
- MinIO (S3-compatible object storage)
Self-Hosted Applications:
- Prowlarr (indexer manager)
- Sonarr (TV show management automation)
- Radarr (movie management automation)
- LazyLibrarian (book management automation)
- Lidarr (music management automation)
- Homarr (application dashboard)
- Seerr/Overseerr (media request management)
- Jellyfin (media server)
- qBittorrent (torrent client)
- NZBGet (Usenet downloader)
- Immich (photo gallery & backup)
- Mealie (meal planner)
- Moonlight (low-latency remote gaming)
- Kavita (ebook/manga/audiobook reader)
- Funkwhale (music streaming)
- Grafana (monitoring dashboards)
Just to share, a funny question in an interview I had was: what are the 3 command you prefer? I remember having a smile, hesitating, and responding bash, ssh, and man.
I got the job. 6 months later I got that I have been the only one to smile (I like the domain) and respond basic commands without looking like a smart ass. Also, I have been able to respond 3 when half of the candidates couldn’t (with AI nowadays, it’s going to be ecen funnier).
Do you mean 3 CLI formats? Like bash or fish or whatever?
It seems they literally meant what commands are your favorite. Bash is a shell but it is just as much a command (
bash -c 'wall poop'), and ssh and man are some of the most widely used commands on linux (if you end up working with LXC containers many of them do not come with manpages preinstalled. I highly recommend installing them if you’re going to spend any of amount of time on thr LXC)If so I wouldn’t have been able to resist saying vim as one of them.
W answer (although im considering moving to neovim due to vim using AI code)