r/devops
503k members
r/devops is a subreddit with 503k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses devops, looking for, struggling, ai, and cloud, and they frequently recommend/review linux distribution, monitoring tool, and cloud provider.
Popular Themes in r/devops
#1
Advice Requests
: "System Admin for 2+ Years but I Feel Like I Never Learned SysAdmin. Want to Transition to DevOps. Where Should I Start?"
7 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "NAT Gateway is somehow 80% of our AWS bill, how are you all keeping this in check?"
2 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "My CTO forced a microservices migration for our tiny user base and it's a dumpster fire."
1 post
#4
Self-Promotion
: "Weekly Self Promotion Thread"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/devops
#1
Devops
: "Regrets leaving previous Devops role as I am not enjoying the new company"
58 posts
#2
Looking For
43 posts
#3
Struggling
22 posts
#4
Ai
: "Ai sre kind of just became part of my oncall"
17 posts
#5
Cloud
10 posts
#6
Career
: "Advise and guidance needed for Career"
10 posts
#7
Tired
9 posts
#8
Tool
9 posts
#9
Kubernetes
8 posts
#10
Docker
5 posts
Products Discussed in r/devops
Linux Distribution
52 reviews
#1
Ubuntu
4.3★ from 18 reviews
#2
Debian
4.6★ from 12 reviews
#3
Rocky Linux
4.4★ from 5 reviews
Monitoring Tool
28 reviews
#1
Datadog
2.5★ from 28 reviews
Cloud Provider
27 reviews
#1
DigitalOcean
4.5★ from 4 reviews
#2
Google Cloud Platform
4.0★ from 4 reviews
#3
Amazon Web Services
4.7★ from 3 reviews
Flair Used in r/devops
#1
Discussion
: "My CTO forced a microservices migration for our tiny user base and it's a dumpster fire."
31 posts
#2
Career / learning
: "How is CI/CD managed in enterprise environments?"
16 posts
#3
Tools
: "How are you setting up build systems in monorepos?"
7 posts
#4
Ops / Incidents
: "Does anyone actually test their database restores on a schedule?"
4 posts
#5
Security
: "CVE-2026-63087: Grafana Oncall is EOL"
4 posts
#6
Vendor / market research
: "How are you actually tracking token spend across your LLM API calls?"
4 posts
#7
Architecture
: "Terraform/Github deployment overwriting another deployment"
4 posts
#8
Observability
: "Mobile to backend end-to-end tracing: worth it? How do you keep the public ingest from being a DDoS target?"
1 post
Member Growth in r/devops
Yearly
+91k members(22.2%)
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Last updated: July 24, 2026