Skills for becoming a DevOps Engineer

We usually come across various posts for job opportunities in the IT industry, and you all might agree that in our day-to-day life we see many openings for the DevOps role. Every organization is using a DevOps culture.

As I said in my previous article that DevOps is a state of mind, so what are these companies looking for, in a DevOps Engineer. Let’s find an answer for that. This article will help you in understanding what are those skills that will guide you to the path of DevOps culture.

Linux fundamentals and any scripting language:

• Knowing any scripting language will be an add-on to your skill list because once we start using DevOps tools we will come across situations where we need to work on a little bit of scripting. I would like to share my experience as I was not aware of these scripting languages and being from an Electronics background, initially, I had to work or we can say that I had to invest some more time in learning scripting as they really help you in doing your task much easier. 

DevOps Tools:

• When we search in google about DevOps tools we can read many tool names such as git, Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins, Nagios, Docker, and many more. Let's try to understand a few of them.
• Git: It helps in managing and tracking changes in the code. If we are familiar with a few basic Git commands that will help us and even save our time.
• Jenkins: It's a continuous integration tool that helps in automating the process of building and testing the code. We do have other continuous integration tools such as TeamCity, bamboo, GitLab CI, etc.
• Selenium: It's an open-source tool and is mainly used for functional and regression testing.
• Docker: Docker is a shipping tool that helps us in packaging our application with all its libraries and dependencies as a single unit and it ensures that your application works the same in all environments.
• Ansible: It's a deployment automation tool and it uses YAML for writing the code and no special coding skills are required for writing Yaml syntax files.
• Kubernetes: It's an open-source container orchestration tool, it enables us to run multiple containers on a single machine.
• Nagios: It's a continuous monitoring tool that helps us in monitoring database servers, networks, applications, and many more.
• Various Cloud Platforms: -We have Azure, AWS, and GCP cloud platforms, these are the 3 main cloud platforms.

As we can see we have many DevOps tools that we can learn and it's not necessary that you should have knowledge of every DevOps tool it's not a must. Instead of that, we can try to focus on understanding the basics of any DevOps tool that you feel you can learn, and gradually you can move to other tools.

I started my career as an Electronic engineer and worked for 3 years in the same field and when I felt I am not happy with what I am doing I tried to switch to the IT industry that's when I started my DevOps journey and still continue to learn. The challenges that I faced and things that I thought if I would have known before would have been an additional help for me, I am sharing those same skills with you all. Hope my article would be helpful for you all.