r/devops

497k members
r/devops is a subreddit with 497k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses devops, looking for, cloud, ai, and struggling, and they frequently recommend/review linux distribution, monitoring tool, and cloud provider.

Popular Themes in r/devops

#1
Advice Requests
: "Pivot to Devops from infra guy"
12 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Is there a Cloudflare alternative based in EU?"
5 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Has relying on AI tools like Claude Code made your Docker, CI/CD, and infrastructure skills weaker?"
1 post
#4
Opportunities
: "Jr Devops Opportunity"
1 post
#5
Self-Promotion
: "Weekly Self Promotion Thread"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/devops

#1

Devops

: "Can We Stop Reinventing Problems Devops Already Solved?"
112 posts
#2

Looking For

35 posts
#3

Cloud

: "The EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework Sets a New Benchmark - for Everyone"
28 posts
#4

Ai

: "Are Ai agents reintroducing problems software engineering already solved?"
23 posts
#5

Struggling

22 posts
#6

Aws

: "Are DevOps interviews becoming more like Aws trivia quizzes than real engineering discussions?"
21 posts
#7

Kubernetes

: "I Built a Retro Terminal Game to Make Kubernetes Less Boring"
16 posts
#8

Tool

15 posts
#9

Career

: "Career discussion, guidance"
14 posts
#10

Tools

: "useful Tools for cleaning up messy infra / cloud costs"
13 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
: "Break the vicious cycle"
48 posts
#2
Career / learning
: "Got rejected for AI generated content"
30 posts
#3
Architecture
: "Reddit taught me why my CI pipeline was wrong. Runtime dropped from ~10 minutes to under 4 minutes"
9 posts
#4
Tools
: "I Built a Retro Terminal Game to Make Kubernetes Less Boring"
6 posts
#5
Ops / Incidents
: "' On prem ' infra ....."
6 posts
#6
Vendor / market research
: "Is there a Cloudflare alternative based in EU?"
6 posts
#7
Observability
: "Wrote up how OTel fleet management works under the hood with OpAMP Supervisor"
4 posts
#8
Security
: "Security patching across distributed edge infrastructure. Why are we still treating it as a ticketing problem."
4 posts
#9
AI content
: "Are any of the AI tools actually worth learning?"
3 posts
#10
Troubleshooting
: "Nginx tuning tips: HTTPS/TLS - Turbocharge TTFB/Latency"
2 posts

Member Growth in r/devops

Yearly
+92k members(22.8%)

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Last updated: June 24, 2026