$ watch kubectl get pods
Funny DevOps engineer shirts and gifts
For the engineer who owns the pipeline. Every line here is a step in it, or the reason it stopped.
01 The lines
What they say at work.
Every piece is made to order. The images are mockups, and each one is labeled.
- PREVIEW IS BUILDING. tee, $44
- Everyone is waiting for the link. Refreshing doesn't help.
- SQUASH & MERGE. tee, $44
- Forty commits in, one clean line in the history.
- DO NOT MERGE. tee, $44
- The label that holds the deploy, printed on the back.
- KNOWN ISSUE. crewneck, $68
- The flaky test everyone knows about and nobody has fixed.
02 The job
Why these lines.
DevOps work sits between writing code and running it, which means it sees every status a change can have. The preview environment that is still building. The squash commit that landed forty commits as one. The do-not-merge label on the change that would have taken down the deploy.
The jokes come from waiting on machines. A build that takes eleven minutes to fail on the last step. A preview link that everyone has refreshed, more than once, while it was still building. A pipeline that worked for months and then stopped on a Friday afternoon, for reasons that turned out to be a known issue.
These are the statuses the pipeline reports. Now the person who built it can wear them.
The words, in plain English: Preview deployment / preview is building, Squash and merge, Do not merge, Known issue.
03 As a gift
Buying one for them.
Buying for someone who runs the pipeline? PREVIEW IS BUILDING. is the line they'll recognize fastest, and it reads well from across an office. If their size is a guess, the emoji pack is the size-free pick: it puts these statuses into the deploy channel, where they belong. The crew suits anyone who works next to a loud, cold rack of machines. Everything is printed to order and shipped by Fourthwall, so plan around production time.
More by budget in the gift guide for programmers, and sizes, shipping and returns on the help page.
04 Someone else
Other jobs, other lines.
Buying for a whole team? Pick one line, any mix of sizes, no minimum. Team shirts.