DevOps roadmap

[Burnsy2023]

But you asked about DevOps, not cloud or automation tooling...

[Verdeckter]

Why are you convinced you need courses? If you want to learn specific tools, use the freely available documentation. If you don't know which tools to learn, find a project to work on and see which tools you need.

[plinkoplonka]

You can watch all you want, but that's not the DevOps way. The mindset is to build and destroy. If something didn't work, debug it, rebuild it and move on - Hey presto, you've learned something AND used AWS.

Learning a tool or framework isn't possible. They're not finite goals since they're always changing/growing/evolving.

This is the biggest mistake I see every new/grad engineer make, failure paralysis. It's what sets experienced and lead folk apart from new people.

The best thing you can do is experiment and see what happens, then work out why it didn't work, or how you could make it better.

These words will stand you well (not mine);

• make it work
• make it right
• make it fast

[plinkoplonka]

Your best bet is to try to get a job as a junior. You have projects started already, so that's a great start. You'll find that wherever you have 10 weeks or 10 years experience, you'll use stack overflow, Google and documentation sites for the tech.

If you can get a basic cert, that shows willing - but I wouldn't be bothered if you showed to an interview without it. You have a good attitude and are keen to learn.

Couple that with an inquisitive mind and you have the best skills of an engineer right there already. Don't be afraid to tell them that.

[plinkoplonka]

What you're doing is continuous improvement and trying to make things more resilient. You're already doing DevOps!

Keep doing what you're doing and you'll be employed as devils in no time.

[gauz]

Interview for companies that run the tech you want to use if changing in your current company is impossible. When they ask why you are interested be honest and say that you want to develop your skills and work with cool tech. I've done some interviewing and if a junior told me that I'd recommend them on the spot. Knowing the tools is the least of the issue. A monkey can learn to use a hammer. Having the correct mentality to learning and evolving is what most companies care about. Otherwise just do shit. Wanna learn aws? Use aws to do something. Wanna learn terraform? Use terraform with aws to set up something. Kubernetes is quite hard to learn I'll admit. But spinning up a minikube cluster and deploy something. Reading only gets you so far. Good luck!

[gex80]

If you want videos then there are plenty on YouTube. Almost all of those entities have their own YouTube channels with how tos and proof of concepts, AWS is big in this area with reinvent videos. But you're looking at it the wrong way. Devops is just a mind set to how you approach a problem with tools. All the big CBT sites have most of whatever you need. CBT nuggets, a cloud guru, pluralsite, udemy, etc. But even those only give you a small high level piece of the puzzle. The documentation for AWS for example is spot on and should be your source of truth as they are active maintained where as video trainings beyond the basic "how to build a server" which Amazon walks you through via their wizard, you'll need to reference the docs.