Maximizing DevOps Efficiency with ChatGPT

Roman Burdiuzha
3 min readJul 24, 2023

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🚀 AI is all the rage these days and it’s taking charge like a boss! You won’t believe how much chatGPT can make a DevOps engineer’s life easier.

It’s like when calculators revolutionized accounting, but now it’s for tech whizzes!

AI won’t replace you

The one who fears change or being replaced — will be replaced.

Smart automation & use of AI will outperform competitors.

Generate small scripts

Prompt Example:

Hello, ChatGPT! I’m working on a [Python/Bash/etc.] script for [describe the task you want to accomplish]. I could use some help getting started. Can you provide a basic outline or code snippet to kick-start the script?

Generate configurations

Prompt Example:

Deploy Apache airflow via Terraform using Helm. or Build my own database from scratch.

Create a functional cloud architecture with [AWS resource example] and [Azure resource example] in this [region].

Increase productivity

Developing CI/CD Pipeline Code: Jenkins declarative pipeline code to clean up the app workspace, check out the code from GitHub, and build it using Maven.

Prompt Example:

ChatGPT, I’m looking for a tool that can help with [describe specific task]. Can you suggest the best DevOps tools for this? Act as a DevOps engineer.

Automated Code Reviews

Prompt Example:

ChatGPT, can you review the code snippet below for any potential issues, improvements, or inconsistencies with coding standards?

Documentation Generation

Prompt Example:

ChatGPT, I have this piece of code. Could you generate some initial documentation based on it?

Automated Incident Response

Prompt Example:

ChatGPT, here is an alert I received from our monitoring system. Can you suggest potential causes and remediation steps?

Log Analysis

Prompt Example:

ChatGPT, here are some log entries I’ve been investigating. Could you identify any patterns or potential issues?

“Act as a devops engineer….”

Include the phrase “act as” followed by a description of the role or persona the ChatGPT should assume in the conversation.
“Act as a DevOps engineer….”

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Roman Burdiuzha
Roman Burdiuzha

Written by Roman Burdiuzha

Cloud Architect | Co-Founder & CTO at Gart | DevOps & Cloud Solutions | Boosting your business performance through result-oriented tough DevOps practices

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