Navigating the Challenges of LLMs in Real-World DevOps Deployments

Views: 240LLMs do not take into account the entirety of a project LLMs struggle with real-world deployments, consistently forgetting ~20% of critical components. This became clear while setting up @Istio on Kubernetes with Prometheus and Kiali observability. Following my thoughts on DevOps interviews and whiteboard coding tests (see link below), I’m now seeing the flip …

Devops interview Paradox: When Whiteboard Hazing Replaces Real Skills

Views: 719Developer Hiring Managers that dont understand Devops As a DevOps engineer with over 20 years of experience I recently faced an interviewer who was genuinely shocked that I couldn’t find the missing number in an array of 1 to 100. Yes, really. This happened in 2025, when GitHub Copilot could solve this in seconds. …

ChatGPT defends google’s deteriorating search results for tech searches

Views: 1786 I had a discussion with ChatGpt where it denied that Google Search  results for tech searches are constantly deteriorating Write for me instructions to install the following commands on Amazon Linux 2 for both AMD64 and ARM64 write them with Google SEO in mind so that search engine will put these at the …

googleads utterly removed

Views: 3198googleads utterly removed I have utterly removed Google ads  from my site now, https://charming.co.il GoogleAds havent given me even a penny since 2014. Not even worth the energy to paste their useless code! from my site now. Read and get smarter. I simply turned off the WordPress plugin that was showing them.

Notes from setting up Disconnected Docker registry

Views: 4405 Clients concerned with security like financial institutions need to have their containers pulled from an internal Docker registry Setup disconnected Docker registry for Rhosp Pre-requisites: On registry run: $ yum update -y 3.2 Install the Offline registry and Tag the images yum install -y  docker-distribution docker yum-utils docker git wget git net-tools bind- …

I’ve had a mild curiosity about Docker’s silly container names

Views: 3678Here is the source file that is used to create docker’s silly container names. Source: moby/names-generator.go at master · moby/moby The left side has an adjective like “affectionate”, “agitated”, “amazing”, “angry”, “awesome”, “beautiful”, “blissful”, “bold”, “boring”, “brave”, “busy”, The right side show ignorance of special people as it is based on names from notable …

Bash Script that installs curl gets stuck asking to restart services

Views: 3976Automation is often a lot of work, even just installing curl Ubuntu is a social creature and does not like to be automated as much as you might expect. Very often your automation gets stuck because all of a sudden the folks at Canonical decided that they prefer human interaction. Often Ansible just hangs! …