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How To Become A Successful DevOps Engineer

To become a DevOps engineer, one must understand DevOps culture, learn Linux/Unix systems, learn about infrastructure components and how to automate infrastructure, learn containers and distributed systems, understand logging and monitoring, learn security best practices, learn coding and scripting, learn Git, learn to document work, and understand the application delivery lifecycle. Focusing on fundamentals like OS, networking, and programming is also important if just starting out.

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How To Become A Successful DevOps Engineer

To become a DevOps engineer, one must understand DevOps culture, learn Linux/Unix systems, learn about infrastructure components and how to automate infrastructure, learn containers and distributed systems, understand logging and monitoring, learn security best practices, learn coding and scripting, learn Git, learn to document work, and understand the application delivery lifecycle. Focusing on fundamentals like OS, networking, and programming is also important if just starting out.

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How to Become a DevOps Engineer?

You must understand the fact that DevOps is not specific to developers or
system engineers. It is for anyone passionate about evolving practices and
technologies and willing to work in a collaborative environment where
everything is automated to make everyone’s life so easy.

Understand DevOps Culture


To become a DevOps engineer, the first and foremost thing is to understand
the DevOps culture. It is all about different teams working together towards a
common goal. In other words, there should not be any blaming culture
between different IT teams.

Note: If you are fresher, understanding cultural aspects is challenging because it comes
with actual industry experience. Therefore, my advice would be to focus on core IT
fundamentals (OS, Networking, and programming)

Stop saying, “CI/CD and infrastructure automation is DevOps.”

Learn about Linux/Unix Systems


We are in an era where we cannot live without Linux/Unix systems. You should
get a better understanding and working knowledge of various Linux
distributions highly used by organizations (RHEL, Centos, Ubuntu, CoreOS,
etc.).
Learn How Infrastructure Components
Work
The basic building block of any organization is its Infrastructure. It could be on
the cloud or on premise Data Center.

You should spend some time and have a basic understanding of the following.

Networking Storage
High Availability Single Sign-On

Security Load Balancers

Learn Infrastructure Automation


We no more create servers manually. Infrastructure automation has become
an essential aspect of every organization. Many organizations are investing in
their automation initiatives. From provisioning servers, application
configuration, deployment, everything should be automated. You can learn
any of the following DevOps toolsets that fit your needs.

For Dev Environment For infrastructure provisioning


1. Vagrant 1. Terraform (preferable)
3. Minikube (k8s)

For Configuration Management VM image management


1. Ansible (preferable) 1. Hashicorp Packer
Containers, Distributed Systems &
Service Mesh
Container adoption is increasing day by day. The organization you work for
might not be using containers now. However, it is best to have hands-on
knowledge of container technology like Docker or Podman. It will gain you
some competitive edge among your peers.

Logging & Monitoring


Logging and monitoring are fundamental aspects of an infrastructure.

All apps deployed in the infrastructure will produce logs and metrics. Logs are
pushed and stored in a logging infrastructure based on architecture and
design. For monitoring, there are open source tools like Prometheus, and
Nagios and enterprise tools like AppDynamics, Datadog, SignalFx, etc. You can
check out our blog on the best open-source monitoring tools.

Developers, operations teams, and security teams use logging systems to


monitor, troubleshoot, and audit applications and infrastructure. Also, for
AIOPS, log data plays a key role.

In every organization, mission-critical applications are monitored 24/7 using


monitoring dashboards. Generally, dashboards use data from logging
sources or metrics generated by the application.
Understand Security Best Practices
(DevSecOps)
DevSecOps is an augmentation of DevOps to allow for security practices to be
integrated into the DevOps approach. The traditional centralized security team model
must adopt a federated model allowing each delivery team the ability to factor in the
correct security controls into their DevOps practices.

One of the discussed topics in DevSecOps is the Shift-left security approach.


Shift Left Security is nothing but adopting security practices in the
design/development stages itself.

Learn Coding & Scripting


Scripting is essential for a DevOps Engineer. Nowadays, for DevOps interviews,
every decent company has a preliminary scripting/coding round. In one or
another way, you will end up using scripts in the CI/CD workflow. You can
learn the following commonly used scripting languages.

1. Bash/Shell
2. Python
3. Golang

Learn Git and Learn to Document


It is essential to version control everything you do (except passwords and
secrets :P). Git is the best version control tool. There are plenty of tutorials
available on git, and it will not take much time to learn important git
operations. The next important thing is to document every important thing
you do. Every repository must have a README file, which should explain your
code in a better way. Good documentation will help not only you but also
someone who tries to use your code.

Understand End To End Application


Delivery Lifecycle
When it comes to the application delivery lifecycle, there are three important
concepts you need to be aware of.

1. Continuous Integration
2. Continuous Delivery
3. Continuous Deployment

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