r/devops
513k members
r/devops is a subreddit with 513k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses devops, looking for, struggling, cloud, and ai, and they frequently recommend/review linux distribution, monitoring tool, and cloud provider.
Popular Themes in r/devops
#1
Advice Requests
: "Is platform engineering a good field?"
12 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "What are the best workflow orchestration tools in 2026 for production systems?"
4 posts
#3
Ideas
: "Frontend/GUI for Github Action ! Do you think its a big enough problem?"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/devops
#1
Devops
: "Beginner Devops question: Do experienced engineers actually write YAML like this?"
44 posts
#2
Looking For
43 posts
#3
Struggling
21 posts
#4
Cloud
10 posts
#5
Ai
: "Ai Comiseration: Client replacing production portal with Ai Slop"
10 posts
#6
Tool
9 posts
#7
Tired
8 posts
#8
Kubernetes
: "I made a k8s operator to force exercise 💪"
8 posts
#9
Career
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 much you agree with this"
45 posts
#2
Tools
: "Beginner DevOps question: Do experienced engineers actually write YAML like this?"
8 posts
#3
Security
: "A quick guide and gotchas for GitHub OIDC and avoid using AWS permanent credentials in GitHub Actions"
5 posts
#4
Architecture
: "AI Comiseration: Client replacing production portal with AI Slop"
5 posts
#5
Career / learning
: "honest worry or impostor syndrome"
5 posts
#6
Ops / Incidents
: "Brain fart moment this morning"
4 posts
#7
AI content
: "Your runner has OPENLINEAGE_URL set. Should a library you add pick it up automatically?"
4 posts
#8
Troubleshooting
: "Advice on deploying a 5-microservice stack on a tight student budget"
3 posts
#9
Vendor / market research
: "How do you handle correlation/dynamic data when load testing?"
3 posts
#10
Observability
: "A Kubernetes CronJob that misses 100 schedules stops scheduling for good"
2 posts
Member Growth in r/devops
Yearly
+88k members(20.7%)
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Last updated: September 11, 2026