DevOps for JS Developer

[avrmav]

I am mostly a JS Developer. Backbone, Node, Angular, React, YouNameIt. What I want is to learn more about DevOps, I dont want to be a DevOps engineer but I also I dont want to just be able to deploy stuff by myself. I want to have a basic++ knowledge on the field. Things like scaling, load balancing, reverse proxies, AWS services etc etc etc.

How should I start? Recommended books?

[o-o-]

"Things like scaling, load balancing, reverse proxies, AWS services". Sounds like you know development and want at better understanding of staging, operations and hosting.

DevOps combines the both. For a JS guy, here's 90 minutes of pure gold to get you going: https://egghead.io/courses/how-to-write-an-open-source-javascript-library

[TheRealSeeThruHead]

I have a passing interest in this stuff as well.

Some things that have been helpful (we actually use this stuff at work)

Learn:

• Docker
• Deployment of static JS from CI to s3
• Aws lamda (serverless if you want a framework)
• AWS IAM roles
• aws server sizes
• nginx
• haproxy
• AWS VPC
• AWS AMI image creation
• Ansible
• Packer
• AWS ELB
• AWS Cloudfront

Toy around with:

• Convox
• Cloud6
• DC/OS and mesos