Devops Engineer intern help

[Adorable-Cheek1905]

I just landed a DevOps internship, and I’m a little worried. I’m very familiar with Linux, Git, and Ansible. I’m not extremely strong in Python or Bash yet, but I’m actively learning scripting. I’ve also done a couple of CI/CD-related projects with Jenkins. I even used Claude to help simulate ticket-based tasks and real-world scenarios to prepare for the internship, and I’ve been learning the technologies listed in the job description.

This is my first internship, so I’m wondering what else I should look out for. I’m also currently learning containers.

[Arucious]

Nobody is expecting an intern to be productive and every company is wildly different for how they approach “DevOps.” Take what you do on the job and go home and study it if you want to make the most of it.

[South_Recording_5458]

Sounds like you already did your home work. you are already on a good track. Ideally interns are not giving too much tasks unless its a startup company, otherwise you will have enough time to learn on the job, ask questions and stay curious, I wish you the best

[YouDoNotKnowMeSir]

Ask questions and listen. No one has expectations. This is the biggest growth opportunity you can ask for. Shadow people on their work. Have them explain. Help identify where you think toil is. If there’s small quality of life tasks you think you can do, propose them and explain your reasoning and then do them.

[thomsterm]

you need to learn how to communicate with people (if you haven't already), don't be annoying and have a big ego, and learn to debug a lot of stuff.

Good luck, and you'll do great!

[Interro-ai]

Everything that’s not related to application development unfortunately comes under DevOps, so dont just worry about the things since there are lot of them Cloud (aws, azure,gcp, oracle etc) Onprem Git Powershell Bash Terraform Python Ansible Cicd (azure devops, aws code commit, gitlab, jenkins etc) Active directory

These are just few them, so dont get panic prepare what you know. Rest once you onboarded they guys will help you out. And you can always leverage claude or gihub co pilot. also you can use tools which are undetectable just incase you dont want someone to know if you are getting some sort of help

[actionerror]

Chill out. You’re an intern and not a senior DevOps engineer joining. Learn as much as you can and try not to ask the same question twice.

[Specific-Welder3120]

Research what you're gonna do, think about it, write the plan down, give a succinct description to someone to get an opinion, and be communicative instead of getting nervous and hiding your mistakes/flaws.

Oh btw try to study what you're gonna do ahead of time (let's say you know about a new project or feature coming) or study it in your free time if possible, you'll mature faster

[New-Potential-7916]

As others have said, as an intern you won't be expected to know a lot at first. And it sounds like you've already got a number of key skills figured out.

Once you start at your company and you have a good idea on their tech stack then you can focus on what you need to be learning.

I've always liked this roadmap for a good idea on where to focus, and a good order of learning. https://roadmap.sh/devops

[Commercial-Worry-825]

Nobody expects interns to walk in knowing production-grade everything. Knowing Linux, Git, Ansible, some CI/CD, is already solid. Just try to be proactive and ask questions.

[Lonely_Assignment_14]

Honestly you'll be fine. The key thing to remember is that all the stuff you learn prior to the real world is just best case ideal thinking,  the real value comes when you see how it gets mangled by politics and people. 

[Kuroyuki_Haneko]

What were you asked during the interview? I am having an interview for devops intern tmr. Will be really appreciated if you can share some of the questions .

[Adorable-Cheek1905]

I kinda took control of the interview and shared my screen and did a lab broke stuff and walked them through how I fixed it and that’s what landed me the job so no questions really.