How to market on r/devops

Can you promote on r/devops?

Yes, within limits. An occasional mention is fine, but accounts that mostly promote get removed. What the rules say:

“Although we won't mind you promoting projects you're part of, if this is your sole purpose in this reddit we don't want any of it. Consider buying advertisements if you want to promote your project or products.”

Rule 4: No vendor spam

The rules

As the moderators wrote them, shortened where they run long.

1. Submissions must include discussion informationCan't be just a link, but also commentary about a link.
2. No editorialized titlesExact titles of articles should be used to avoid confusion or mislead people.
3. Job postings go to /r/devopsjobsThis subreddit is for news and discussion.
4. No vendor spamAlthough we won't mind you promoting projects you're part of, if this is your sole purpose in this reddit we don't want any of it. Consider buying advertisements if you want to promote your project or products.
5. No shortened URLsThere's no reason to have a level of indirection here. They could also change/disappear in the future.
6. No personal infoThis is a site-wide rule.
7. Be excellent to eachotherHeated discussions are fine, personal attacks are not.

Full text on Reddit: r/devops rules.

What people asked this week

58 of the 142 posts on r/devops in the last 7 days asked a question or for a recommendation. Here are 12, starting with people asking for a tool, a service or someone to hire.

• Needs suggestion on CKA practice exams
  r/devops · 24 Oct
• Best platforms to start freelancing as a DevOps Engineer?
  r/devops · 19 Oct
• How do you actually figure out what’s eating your Redis memory key wise?
  r/devops · 24 Oct
• What are some use cases for an internal system monitoring bot?
  r/devops · 24 Oct
• What's the biggest time-waster in your DevOps workflow?
  r/devops · 24 Oct
• What does AI-assisted incident investigation actually look like at your company right now?
  r/devops · 23 Oct
• When does self-service infra become too much self-service?
  r/devops · 23 Oct
• How do cloud load testing tools compare to JMeter?
  r/devops · 23 Oct
• Are you patching faster now that AI can help turn old bugs into working exploits?
  r/devops · 23 Oct
• How should we evaluate AI Agent observability platforms in 2026?
  r/devops · 23 Oct
• Has anyone found a way to automate SOC2 audits using AI?
  r/devops · 22 Oct
• how are you confirming the fix actually reached your running containers?
  r/devops · 22 Oct

How to show up here without getting banned

• Help first, mention later. Answer questions on r/devops for a while before you bring up your own product, and when you do, say you made it.
• Answer questions. 41% of recent posts on r/devops ask a question or for a recommendation. A useful answer is the safest way to get noticed.
• Read the sidebar and pinned posts. Moderators often add rules there, and rules change. Check r/devops's before your first post.
• Build a history first. Comment helpfully on r/devops for a few weeks before you post. Accounts that only ever promote get filtered.

More on how this works across Reddit: Reddit's self-promotion rules, explained and the full Reddit marketing playbook.

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