r/devops
521k members
r/devops is a subreddit with 521k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses devops, struggling, tired, frustrating, and interview, and they frequently recommend/review linux distribution, monitoring tool, and cloud provider.
Popular Themes in r/devops
#1
Advice Requests
: "Books for Devops"
2 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "What is VPS provider for production?"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/devops
#1
Devops
16 posts
#2
Struggling
14 posts
#3
Tired
4 posts
#4
Frustrating
3 posts
#5
Interview
3 posts
#6
Tool
2 posts
#7
Kubernetes
2 posts
#8
Ai
2 posts
#9
Hate
2 posts
#10
Backend
1 post
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
: "Am I wrong to be turned off by coding examinations in interviews?"
54 posts
#2
Tools
: "How do I make colleagues aware of the risks of giving an LLM agent root access to production?"
11 posts
#3
Vendor / market research
: "How many apps have non-engineers at your company built with Claude/Cursor/Lovable, and who owns them when they break?"
6 posts
#4
Ops / Incidents
: "Railway's headline uptime went from 97.10% to 100%."
4 posts
#5
Observability
: "Which YouTube channels actually help with platform/infra work?"
4 posts
#6
Security
: "Is committing config-only .env files (no secrets) to a private repo really a security sin?"
3 posts
#7
AI content
: "I built pacboard, a read-only dashboard for Tekton Pipelines-as-Code runs (Go + Vue, AGPL)"
3 posts
#8
Architecture
: "Which is more used in industry: ArgoCD or Flux?"
2 posts
#9
Troubleshooting
: "trivy.dev down, pipelines break"
1 post
Member Growth in r/devops
Yearly
+82k members(18.6%)
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Last updated: November 12, 2026