The ONLY 4 Skills You Need to Master Devops/Cloud
Published: 2023-05-05 00:54:44

The moment we hear Devops or Cloud, an army of tools and skills comes infront of us🤷🏻‍♂️
But do we really need to learn those 50 60 skills to call yourself a Devops or Cloud Guy🧐?

Devops and Cloud are the hottest things in the IT market at the moment🔥
But with this, there comes a mountain of tools we hear like Docker, Jenkins, Graffana, Prometheus, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Bamboo, Helm…+100 others !!🕵🏻‍♂️


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Being in the IT industry for 9 years & working as a Lead Cloud Architect, let me be honest with you all, these tools are needed in one way or another👨🏻‍💻

BUT BUT…🤚🏻
🤷🏻‍♂️Do I actually need to know all this?
🤷🏻‍♂️Do I use all this ?
🤷🏻‍♂️Do i learn all this, to be called a Devops or CLoud Professional ?
HELL NO !! HELL NO !!🙅🏻‍♂️

Every 3 or 4 months, there is a list of new tools coming in the market🙇🏻‍♂️
It’s impossible to get your hands dirty on all those tools and most importantly it’s also not possible that your team will be using all of them.

For example, for CI/CD one company can use Jenkins, while another can use Bitbucket CICD Pipeline or another must be using Circle.ci or another can be using AWS CICD pipeline🤌🏻

Even in AWS cloud, there are tons of services and those who are creating those services, are even not aware or using all of them, because obviously IT’S NOT POSSIBLE to know everything😅

So now, let’s Only Focus on the Skills that are crucial and important, to be aware of and these skills won’t be getting replaced in just a month or two, they’re the foundation on which this Devops/Cloud world is created other then legacy skills like Linux,Networking and all🌐


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⚡CLOUD:
Devops will be needing cloud as a platform🛤️
Its like if you want to catch a train, you need a platform where train will come.
Same way all the Devops tools, will be needing Cloud as a platform, so its important you make yourself good in a cloud like AWS or Azure or GCP☁️
Skill: Stephen Mareke Udemy : AWS Cloud Practioner + AWS Solution Architecture Associate

⚡DOCKER:
The code that you write to create your Project and docker is used to create a Docker Image of your project & which when we run, creates a container for us, inside which our Project is running. So its a gateway to Devops world🐳

⚡KUBERNETES:
The docker image, when we run, creates Containers in which our project run📦
There can be 100 of such containers and to handel these containers we should know Kubernetes, which is a Container Management Tool.
Resources: Youtube- TechWorld With Nana :Kubernetes Tutorial ☸️ , Udemy : Mumshad and rest all his course on Kubernetes like CKAD, CKA or CKS.

⚡TERRAFORM:
Now this is a latest addition in the list of hot thing in market🔥
This bascially helps you to create things(servers) on cloud by using scripts in Yaml, rather then doing login in AWS or Azure and doing click click click.
I have written a blog explaining Terraform using a Movie example🎥
And to crack Terraform Certification you only need 2 things:
1. Terraform Course by Mumshad on Udemy or by Zeal Vora
2. Paper Practise Teast by Bryan

Thats All….!!!🎉🥳🙋🏻‍♂️
And trust me, things you listen other then these 4 like CICD, Graffana & many others are useful ONLY when you know these 4 or atleast First 3 Skills🧞‍♂️

So remove all confusions from your mind, clear your thoughts and just make a 6 month target and tick-off these skills one by one📝👊🏻🤟🏻

You can build a Building only when you have a strong Foundation💪🏻
Once Foundation is done, its upto up you wana make it of 4 floor, 10 floor or a skyscraper🏯

If you feel, I made sense in a positive & clear way, do let me know either here or lets connect on Linkedin 🙋🏻‍♂️
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohitmishra3333/

And please, lets come out of this jungle of tools every HR or Job Description has created🙅🏻‍♂️

Don’t waste your money and time blindly roaming around this jungle of Tools 🧑🏻‍🦯
Use this list and go ahead from many around you🎉
And you will do it, I know, even You know it !!🦁

If you want any personal suggestion or a one-to-one call with me, will be more then happy to have one🌿🌾
Let me know on Linkedin !!
Now, Take a deep breathe and Go get it🌏


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