Ultimate Guide to Becoming a DevOps Engineer

Detailed specifications of what is expected, the skills required, useful resources and 10 useful tips for new DevOps engineers.

Fernando Villalba

Sep 01, 2021 • 27 min read

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Summary

From his real-life experience, Fernando Villalba takes us through an in-depth guide to becoming a DevOps engineer describing what it takes to tap into the industry, the job specifications, the skills required, and useful resources, and also suggests 10 important tips for new DevOps engineers. He notes that DevOps has closed the gap between operations and development allowing developers and operation engineers to collaboratively work together for better business outcomes, real-time delivery of quality software, and getting business ideas to customers faster. If your goal is to make entry into the DevOps space as a DevOps engineer, then this blog is a must-read.

Takeaways

DevOps aims to solve the traditional friction between software development and its operation by introducing more cohesive cooperation between developers and operation engineers and also by overlapping responsibilities.
DevOps is a culture and a way of working whereby developers and operations engineers work as one team to achieve a common goal.
In traditional software development, there was a gap between operations and development. Developers were only loosely involved in the operation of the software they created and knew very little about where or how it was run. While operations (sysadmins) knew very little about what the software did or how it was created and had to pray it would run as expected.
The implementation of DevOps has led to better business outcomes through increased quality of software, less overtime, and downtime, and getting your ideas in the hands of your customer faster.