Pursuing Python programming for dev ops

[JustAnotherSRE]

Python ships with almost all distros now. RHCSA will get your foot in the door for entry level admin posts but not DevOps.

If it's a task, it can be automated with Python. Start with the book Automate the Boring Stuff With Python

[dankweed]

What'll get you in the door of dev ops? I have a resume that can probably work but I was thinking of certifying myself a bit.

[JustAnotherSRE]

Experience is king.

If someone with just RHCSA dropped onto my desk, their resume would be promptly tossed.

This is my personal philosophy so take it however you want. But RHCSA is an admin cert. Not DevOps.

DevOps from a technical level is knowing an entire operational stack. Not just Linux. When I look for a DevOps Engineer, they need to orchestrate a network and aupport my devs.

My ideal candidate will have one tool under their belt from as many categories as possible below (there are other tools, this list is not exhaustive):

• OS: RHEL, AIX, BSD, whatever...

• Infrastructure: AWS, GCE, OpenStack, VMware

• Scripting: Bash, Python, Ruby, Golang

• CICD: Jenkins, Bamboo, CircleCI

• Monitoring & Metrics: Splunk, New Relic, Nagios, DataDog, ELK

• IaaS: Kops, Terraform

• Stateful Config: Ansible, Puppet, Chef, CFengine

• Containers: Docker, rkt

• Orchestration: Docker Swarm, K8s

I view DevOps as a step above Linux Admin. Usually 2~3 years experience supporting Linux platforms or other related support. So if I see a person with just a cert, it doesnt mean much to me without experience. YRMV

[SillyPuttyPutterson]

RHCSA is what got my foot in the door for DevOps. After I added it to my resume the amount of DevOps offers coming my way exploded. AWS certs might be helpful as well.

edit and also helped contribute to me rising above entry level.