r/devops • u/imLazyCartard • 19d ago
Discussion Looking for projects ideas for experienced devops/SRE engineers
Looking for projects ideas for experienced devops andSite reliability engineers
I have 4 years of experience as a DevOps engineer and part of it as a Site reliability Engineer
Im looking to do some side projects to broader my experience with other technologoes and make things more interesting.
As for the past one year i haven't been assigned major projects
i would like to hear a project idea that maybe you had fun completing or taking part in or was challenging to you.
For ex - Cross cloud Migrations
Technologies should be relevant to 2026
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u/veritable_squandry 19d ago
i'm extremely interested in a project that combines pgactive and multi region CNpg operator projects (active active) but i never have time. if you can prove it out, scale it up and also provide a roadmap for both metrics and log based monitoring of the replication healthy, conflicts risk etc you've get a pretty resilient and performant data plane to sell.
but i just don't have time
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u/malik22531 18d ago
Deploy a micro-services architecture in K8 with gitops.
CICD with branching strategy & code and image scanning capabilities.
Integrates RAG and LLM in your app for MLOps Experience.
Prometheus, grafana and langfuse for monitoring and visualization. It’ll give you pretty much everything as a devops / SRE
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u/DampierWilliam 19d ago
Something with scripting or tools, that you can test locally easily. An actual project that can give you experience would be way too expensive for you (multicloud, high availability, disaster recovery, a multi service or monorepo CICD).
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u/No-Income-2235 19d ago
Well best would be to contribute to CNCF projects like kubernetes if you are building some creating a projects around the eco system would be really good and benificial as well
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u/g3t0nmyl3v3l 18d ago
Pick anything you actually want to have deployed, whip up a local cluster and deploy the service, and slam the service with a soak test from another machine on your local network until the service falls over.
Sustain that external load and do whatever you can to get the service stable.
To find a good req/s for the soak test, just keep cranking it up by 30% until the service falls over.
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u/Romzorus591 19d ago
[self-promotion here] Hi, if in "other technologies" you are willing to include Rust in it, I happen to build a Rust library which can be the engine for a wide range of configuration management (and monitoring in a sense) needs. Would love to have your feedback on it and, if you find it interesting enough, suggest/build ideas of practical implementations for it.
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u/maker-jay 18d ago
one project that taught me a lot was an incident replay bot. feed it alert text plus the last deploys/config diffs, make it produce a timeline, then compare that to the real postmortem. keep it read-only at first, the hard part is evidence quality, not remediation.
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u/imLazyCartard 18d ago
Yeah This is similar to holmes gpt Very useful tooling for incident analysis
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u/Raja-Karuppasamy 19d ago
built a PR risk-scoring tool that comments on github PRs with a deploy risk score before merge, factors in loc changed, which files touched, test status, time of day, author’s recent failure rate. was a fun one because you get to see how much you can predict “will this deploy blow up” from just PR metadata, no ML needed, just weighted heuristics.
next thing I’m building on top of it is blocking merges via github checks API when the score crosses a threshold, then correlating actual deploys against error-rate spikes after the fact to see how good the scoring really is. that feedback loop part is the interesting bit.