DevOps Road Map — The Top 6 DevOps Skills That Organizations Are Looking For

Saurabh Kulshrestha
Edureka
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4 min readMar 16, 2018
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DevOps is a buzzword in the industry right now. Every organization is using DevOps practices, but what are these companies looking for, in a DevOps engineer. This blog on DevOps skills will explain the skills required to become a successful DevOps Professional. These skills are collected after consulting the recruiters from various companies.

Below are the 6 most important DevOps skills, that organizations look for:

  1. Linux Fundamentals And Scripting
  2. Knowledge On Various DevOps Tools And Technologies
  3. Continuous Integration And Continuous Delivery
  4. Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
  5. DevOps Key Concepts
  6. Soft Skills

Linux Fundamentals And Scripting:

As a DevOps professional you might have to provision your infrastructure, therefore in order to automate it, you should know at least one scripting language.

Most of the companies have their environment on Linux, also many CM tools like — Puppet, Chef and Ansible have their master nodes on Linux.

To become a DevOps engineer you should be aware of Linux fundamentals and knowledge on one scripting language is a must. Scripting language can be any for example — Python, Ruby, Pearl etc.

Knowledge On Various DevOps Tools And Technologies:

DevOps involves various phases and there are multiple tools available for those stages. You should have good knowledge on these development, testing and deployment technologies.

Continuous Integration And Continuous Delivery:

Knowledge on various tools is not enough, you should know where to use these tools.

These tools should be used in order to facilitate Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. Even Continuous Deployment in few cases, but Continuous Deployment is not considered as a good practice. Consider the below diagram to understand the difference.

Infrastructure As Code:

Infrastructure as Code (IAC) is a type of IT infrastructure that operations teams can automatically manage and provision through code, rather than using a manual process. Infrastructure as Code is sometimes referred to as programmable infrastructure.

With the advent of IAC, the line between a developer and a sysops guy is getting blurred.

There are multiple tools available, like — Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Saltstack etc.

If you want to become a DevOps professional, this skill is a must.

DevOps Key Concepts:

Till now, I have only discussed the technical skills. But remember, DevOps is not a technology, it is a methodology.

This methodology aims at bringing the Dev and the Ops part of the organization together to release good quality software in time. If you understand the key concepts of this methodology, you will be able to provide better solutions to various business problems.

Soft Skills:

Whenever developers and operations staff communicate with each other clearly, they not only develop and release software in time with good quality but, can help in marketing the application with lower costs and better quality.

A DevOps professional also sometimes help in cultivating positive relationships with business and customers.

Those interested in the field need to be able to listen attentively, negotiate, solve problems and build teams.

I hope you have enjoyed reading this post on DevOps skills. If you wish to check out more articles on the market’s most trending technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Python, Ethical Hacking, then you can refer to Edureka’s official site.

Do look out for other articles in this series which will explain the various other aspects of DevOps.

1. DevOps Tutorial

2. Git Tutorial

3. Jenkins Tutorial

4. Docker Tutorial

5. Ansible Tutorial

6. Puppet Tutorial

7. Chef Tutorial

8. Nagios Tutorial

9. How To Orchestrate DevOps Tools?

10. Continuous Delivery

11. Continuous Integration

12. Continuous Deployment

13. Continuous Delivery vs Continuous Deployment

14. CI CD Pipeline

15. Docker Compose

16. Docker Swarm

17. Docker Networking

18. Ansible Vault

19. Ansible Roles

20. Ansible for AWS

21. Jenkins Pipeline

22. Top Docker Commands

23. Git vs GitHub

24. Top Git Commands

25. DevOps Interview Questions

26. Who Is A DevOps Engineer?

27. DevOps Life cycle

28. Git Reflog

29. Ansible Provisioning

30.Waterfall vs Agile

31. Maven For Building Java Applications

32. Jenkins CheatSheet

33. Ansible Cheat Sheet

34. Ansible Interview Questions And Answers

35. 50 Docker Interview Questions

36. Agile Methodology

37. Jenkins Interview Questions

38. Git Interview Questions

39. Docker Architecture

40. Linux commands Used In DevOps

41. Jenkins vs Bamboo

42. Nagios Interview Questions

43.DevOps Real-Time Scenarios

44.Difference between Jenkins and Jenkins X

45.Docker for Windows

46.Git vs Github

Originally published at https://www.edureka.co on March 16, 2018.

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Saurabh Kulshrestha
Edureka

Saurabh is a technology enthusiast with interest in DevOps, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Data Science.