r/devops
509k members
r/devops is a subreddit with 509k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses looking for, devops, struggling, cloud, and tired, and they frequently recommend/review linux distribution, monitoring tool, and cloud provider.
Popular Themes in r/devops
#1
Advice Requests
: "I'm lost after 3 years in DevOps. What would you do?"
7 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Cheapest server for a school project"
4 posts
Popular Topics in r/devops
#1
Looking For
43 posts
#2
Devops
: "Gym for Devops practice"
35 posts
#3
Struggling
21 posts
#4
Cloud
: "Why do experienced engineers open Cloud provider support cases for customer managed resources?"
14 posts
#5
Tired
9 posts
#6
Tool
9 posts
#7
Kubernetes
: "Vendor‑Neutral or Cloud‑Specific for Kubernetes: What’s the Better Path for a New Container Learner?"
8 posts
#8
Career
: "What is the single DevOps skill or tool that gave you the biggest
Career leap?"
8 posts
#9
Job
5 posts
#10
Docker
3 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
: "Are you team A or team B?"
34 posts
#2
Career / learning
: "First day finally receiving accesses as a Jr and It really fucking sucked."
24 posts
#3
Ops / Incidents
: "It's 2030 and the marketing dudes at a CICD company accidentally get access to Mythos 6.7 and ask for help making their competitors look bad"
7 posts
#4
Tools
: "Anyone still using Jenkins?"
6 posts
#5
Vendor / market research
: "EU cloud provider news roundup, May–Aug 2026: KVM escape patch wave, Redis→Valkey, uneven 1.36 rollout"
5 posts
#6
Security
: "NPM Supply Chain Compromise | ChainDrop"
4 posts
#7
Architecture
: "How much attention is harness engineering getting?"
4 posts
#8
AI content
: "What belongs in a production-readiness gate for a small engineering team?"
2 posts
#9
Observability
: "How deep do you go when monitoring production traffic?"
1 post
#10
Troubleshooting
: "Finally found why our agent was randomly ignoring tool results"
1 post
Member Growth in r/devops
Yearly
+89k members(21.1%)
Similar Subreddits to r/devops
r/aws
393k members
12.5% / yr
r/Backend
67k members
178.8% / yr
r/coding
645k members
5.1% / yr
r/dataengineering
474k members
22.3% / yr
r/devopsGuru
10k members
81.8% / yr
r/django
165k members
8.8% / yr
r/programming
6.9M members
1.9% / yr
r/selfhosted
826k members
42.4% / yr
r/sre
56k members
44.4% / yr
r/Terraform
84k members
20.6% / yr
About
GummySearch helps people research Reddit communities by organizing activity, growth, themes, and post-level signals into one place.
This page gives a focused view of r/devops, including current member size, discussion patterns, product reviews, and related communities to explore.
This data is synced periodically so insights stay current and useful for ongoing research.
Last updated: August 14, 2026