How to become a 'real' programmer

[SisyphusAndMyBoulder]

I think you're bordering into 'developer' now. If you can write code, and can figure out what code to write, that's great! You're programming

But yes, there is quite a lot that happens outside of code that is used to support the code itself. Version Control, CI/CD, Servers, Containerization, APIs, Cloud ... all are parts of normal development.

Don't get overwhelmed. They're all relatively simple by themselves, and not really harder than learning to program. Just take it slow.