r/devops

514k members
r/devops is a subreddit with 514k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses looking for, devops, struggling, tool, and cloud, and they frequently recommend/review linux distribution, monitoring tool, and cloud provider.

Popular Themes in r/devops

#1
Advice Requests
: "Best Devops Certification for Beginners"
6 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Looking for a docker registery"
4 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Do you ever feel like context switching and keeping too much system state in your head is the real bottleneck?"
1 post
#4
Ideas
: "Startup idea validation"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/devops

#1

Looking For

42 posts
#2

Devops

: "Best Devops Certification for Beginners"
31 posts
#3

Struggling

21 posts
#4

Tool

: "how do you benchmarks AI Eval and tracing Tools?"
11 posts
#5

Cloud

9 posts
#6

Tired

8 posts
#7

Career

5 posts
#8

Kubernetes

5 posts
#9

Ai

: "Forgot how to code by using Ai"
5 posts
#10

Job

4 posts

Products Discussed in r/devops

#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
: "How are teams keeping docs current when you ship several times a week?"
35 posts
#2
Tools
: "Migrating existing CloudFormation resources to OpenTofu -recommended approach?"
7 posts
#3
Architecture
: "vercel AWS placement"
4 posts
#4
Ops / Incidents
: "How much do you actually trust your own runbooks during a live incident?"
4 posts
#5
Security
: "How are people currently managing AWS access for AI agents? I'm looking into different approaches for securely handling permissions and credentials when agents need to interact with AWS services."
3 posts
#6
Vendor / market research
: "What’s the worst in-house DevOps tool you built that you wish a SaaS company would replace?"
3 posts
#7
AI content
: "Haven't had the agent touch that table again since. Curious if anyone's found a better way to keep long-running agent sessions from losing constraints set earlier in the same conversation, versus just restructuring what gets fed in up front."
2 posts
#8
Troubleshooting
: "Claude Code limits hit in just 60-90 mins but now I just borrowed my teammate's agent and kept going."
1 post

Member Growth in r/devops

Yearly
+88k members(20.6%)

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Last updated: September 21, 2026