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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 24/09/2025

I just dropped my COMPLETE GitHub Actions course on YouTube! 🚀 3.5+ hrs long, starting with the basics and progressing to a robust system for building, testing, and deploying apps! 💻 The best part? It's FREE! Link below 👇 Thank you to @namespacelabs.com for sponsoring! 🙏 youtu.be/Xwpi0ITkL3U

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Complete GitHub Actions Course - From BEGINNER to PRO

YouTube video by DevOps Directive

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Azat S. @azat.io · 27/08/2025

Released Actions Up for interactive GitHub Actions updates. 🔼 It replaces floating version tags with commit SHAs for better security. Scans all workflows, shows outdated actions, lets you choose what to update, and adds version comments for readability. github.com/azat-io/acti...

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GitHub - azat-io/actions-up: 🌊 Interactive CLI tool to update GitHub Actions to latest versions with SHA pinning

🌊 Interactive CLI tool to update GitHub Actions to latest versions with SHA pinning - azat-io/actions-up

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 21/05/2025

"Oh, wow! This product looks awesome!" ...checks pricing... ┌────────┐ │ Talk to Sales ➡ │ └────────┘ "Oh, I guess I need to convince myself it's not as awesome as I thought" 😞

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 01/05/2025

Nobody: Me: I think I’ll try replacing the battery and thermal paste on my MacBook 😳

Disassembled MacBook during battery replacement

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 26/04/2025

What am I about to say here?

Still frame from a video of me about to say something

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 02/03/2025

So what exactly do you do?

Photo of the strongman hurcules hold event with one pillar labeled “dev” and the other labeled “ops”

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 18/02/2025

Looking for your next DevOps role? 👀 I’ve worked with nominal.io for the past 18 months, building DevOps & cloud infrastructure systems. We are adding a new member to the team! Infra stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Crossplane, FluxCD, GitHub Actions, Datadog jobs.lever.co/nominal/cba5...

nominal.io

Nominal - Unified Industrial Data Stack

Nominal powers mission-critical engineering with advanced data infrastructure, real-time observability, and analysis tools — all in one collaborative platform.

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 26/01/2025

I have received multiple emails from a hair transplant company asking if they can sponsor a video on my [DevOps] YouTube channel 💀

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 30/12/2024

Follow up! Were you able to develop/intuit the whole thing or did you have to look up and memorize the algorithms? I can intuit the first two layers but have to look up the algos for the final layer

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 29/12/2024

Getting hand, foot, and mouth was not on my bingo card for 2024, but here we are 😳 For anyone who has gotten it as an adult, how screwed am I? (I already have the worst sore throat I can remember)

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 27/12/2024

Potentially controversial opinion: granny smith’s are an s-tier apple 🍏

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 02/12/2024

I just switched sidpalas.com, devopsdirective.com, and courses.devopsdirective.com from Plausible to GoatCounter 🐐 I used to self host Plausible, but: 1. The free credits for the VM I was running on expired 2. A couple of times the clickhouse instance storing event data filled up the disk with logs

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 30/11/2024

I debate whether or not to purchase things (or which option to buy) long enough that if I spent that time doing client work I could just pay for the item with the extra money... 🙈

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Derek @ricketyshack.ca · 27/11/2024

Security pro tip: if you find a USB key on the ground somewhere, DO NOT plug it in to your home computer. Take it to the office and plug it in there. They have way better software that will mitigate any threats.

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 25/11/2024

The cool thing about keeping a workout log is being able to look back and see how much you lifted 5 years ago... 💪 The sad thing about keeping a workout log is being able to look back and see how much you lifted 5 years ago [compared to now]... 😭

Graph of lifts recorded from running starting strength over the years.

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 24/11/2024

Don’t lose yourself in the Kubernetes!

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 24/11/2024

I'm seriously considering getting the new Mac Mini + portable monitor instead of a MacBook Pro... Most of the time, I work out of my home office. Once a week I work elsewhere, but at a desk (and already bring keyboard + mouse + iPad for sidecar). 👍 or 👎?

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 19/11/2024

What causes DevOps complexity? Why do software systems devolve into a world of pain and toil? It is due to a topic I have named... The DevOps Chasm! 🧵

Sketch showing "the devops chasm" with a SCP main.php to prod on the left and "polyglot microservice hybrid-cloud federated kubernetes application platform" on the right

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 17/11/2024

I refuse to join Bluesky. I don’t want to become part of an Expo chamber.

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 17/11/2024

Searching your handle here skyzoo.blue/stats/ shows what number member you were! I was #40,478!

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 11/11/2024

Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do now: - Mowing lawns/landscaping 🌱 - Waiting tables 🍴 - Mechanical engineer (Satellites 🛰️ ) - Mechanical engineer (3d printing 🖨️ ) - Mechanical engineer (Lasers 🪩)

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 06/11/2024

I woke up this morning and reminded myself to live with intentionality.

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 05/11/2024

Just a casual 3.2M line PR… 😳

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 05/11/2024

When writing infrastructure as code, do you modify resource names to make them human readable, or keep the autogenerated random names generates by [terraform|pulumi|crossplane|etc…] to avoid naming collisions? 🤔

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 04/11/2024

I usually treat all sources of income the same. Paycheck, bonus, cash back, its all going to the same place so why think about it any differently? That being said, unprompted tips for my content... those hit different! 🫶 🥹

Screenshot of buymeacoffee tip for $25 with the comment "Content is pure gold. Keep doing it."

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 04/11/2024

My favorite version of this meme:

Child attempting to skip many steps in a staircase.

Steps are labeled:
- linux fundamentals
- web dev
- networking and cloud
- containers
- kubernetes

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 01/11/2024

351 trick or treaters! 🎃 🍫 😮‍💨

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 29/10/2024

Did you know you can get logs for all pods within a Deployment/DaemonSet/StatefulSet with a single command?! kubectl logs -l key=value --prefix=true This will get the logs AND prefix them with the pod name!

screenshot of running `kubectl logs -n kube-system -l k8s-app=kube-dns --prefix=true`

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 28/10/2024

What do you use for managing releases in a mono-repo? I’ve been using release-please (github.com/googleapis/r...) but just hit a case that it doesn’t handle well (shared code in two packages) and am curious how others are handling this type of thing!

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GitHub - googleapis/release-please: generate release PRs based on the conventionalcommits.org spec

generate release PRs based on the conventionalcommits.org spec - googleapis/release-please

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 27/10/2024

Hi, Folks! 👋 I’m Sid. I run the “DevOps Directive” YouTube channel. I like to talk about: - DevOps - Infrastructure as Code - Docker/containers - Kubernetes - Parenting toddlers - Lifting weights - Coffee - DIY + home improvement - Track and field / pole vault

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 27/10/2024

Out here talking nonsense. Like he’s got a detached HEAD or something 😵‍💫

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 26/10/2024

Aeron for $400 on FB marketplace one town over… should I get it?! 🤔 Currently have a Steelcase leap v1 which I like, but everyone raves about the HM Aeron!

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 26/10/2024

My new favorite class of bug is the one where your infrastructure as code tool breaks for AWS govcloud (or any nonstandard partition) in subtle ways 🫠

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 24/10/2024

My Kubernetes course repo is outpacing my Docker course repo! 🚀 📈📈📈 Links: - github.com/sidpalas/dev... - github.com/sidpalas/dev...

image from star-history.com showing graphs for two github repos

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 18/05/2023

For ~$75 you can completely revolutionize your bathroom experience: 1: Toilet seat bidet attachment ($30 - cleans your 🍑) 2: Sink faucet swivel aerator ($15 - fixes poorly designed faucets 🧼) 3: Decent shower head ($30 - makes low water pressure bearable 🚿) Trust me on this.

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 11/05/2023

For those interested, I used github.com/cloneofsimo/lora/tree/ma… and trained with a handful of photos of myself. Training took around 20 min on a Linode machine type "Dedicated 32 GB + RTX6000 GPU"

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 11/05/2023

Apparently, our AI overlords think my defining feature is my receding hairline 🤣

images generated using LORA + stable diffusion

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 11/05/2023

👀 -- people seem to like the Docker course! 🎉

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 10/05/2023

Making oatmeal with oatmilk... yea or nay? Kind of the vegan equivalent of duck confit 😅

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 09/05/2023

Twitter can't seem to decide how to pronounce "Daemon"... 👀 What does BlueSky think?

Screenshot of twitter poll showing equal split between pronouncing "daemon" as "damon" vs "demon"

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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 04/05/2023

bluesky team: shares one line of code everybody: how can i cause problems

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 03/05/2023

Polyphasic sleep hack: have a child! 🥱

Screenshot of fitbit sleep charts from a few weeks after having a child.

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 02/05/2023

Woo! The KubeconEU 23 talks were published to the CNCF youtube channel! Lots of good ones in there, but I just watched @lookitup.baby @mauilion.dev, @bradgeesaman.com, @mccune.org.uk talk about fooling container image scanners! Highly recommend! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9weGi0csBZM /HONK

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 01/05/2023

The there is something wonky going on with the space-time continuum during the time between when your wire transfer goes through and when the recipient confirms they have received it… 🐌⏳😰

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 01/05/2023

Companies that do not have a public pricing page are so frustrating! 🤬 You're gonna force me to get on the phone with your salesperson BEFORE you can even tell me how much your product costs?! No thanks! 🙅‍♂️

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 01/05/2023

How do you know everybody else in the world isn't an NPC?

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Sid Palas @sidpalas.com · 01/05/2023

The reception to last week's Docker course was incredible! I received amazing feedback from so many students already improving their container skills using the course! 🎉 Today, the course gets a free upgrade! I added written guides to accompany each of the 36 lessons! 📝 courses.devopsdirective.com

Screenshot of https://courses.devopsdirective.com docker beginner to pro first lesson

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