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
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
: "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