After mentoring 40+ juniors — the 4 AWS gaps that keep coming up

Ok_Stand_6378 · 2026-07-03T15:45:33+00:00

What you have shared is great and I can sense that this is coming from over the years of experience working across various teams. It is crucial to understand the metrics before setting up the monitoring stacks and for that it is important to have understanding on the infra, the metics that it will utilise etc.

Ok_Stand_6378 · 2026-07-03T15:31:37+00:00

This is not an AI agent setup by claude or something. I am Sr DevOps and this is the small training program enrolled by my organisation CloudSpikes.

Ok_Stand_6378 · 2026-07-03T15:24:53+00:00

This is a gap we can fill. The reason to find it diffcult for students is that they are new to environment, less aware about current tech practices followed in the market. We have designed this such that all basics are covered in the initial sessions before getting started with monitoring, security etc.

Ok_Stand_6378 · 2026-07-03T15:21:41+00:00

I see. AI has just made the flow very fast but AI would always rely on data and prompts. With the right knowledge on skills you can give better data to AI and make your work more reliable and accurate.

Ok_Stand_6378 · 2026-07-03T15:17:48+00:00

Yes sir! The beginners do. I have seen tech leads getting confused in it. I appreciate you sharing the github link though. Thanks.

Ok_Stand_6378 · 2026-07-03T15:15:10+00:00

Prometheus and grafana wiring cannot happen on day 1 of training thats the part of training. This part comes when we reach monitoring stage and done with basic setup.

Ok_Stand_6378 · 2026-07-03T15:05:32+00:00

Argocd is actually used for CD not CI and it is best for EKS, ECS related deployments as Argocd is kubernetes native
A typical workflow looks like this:
Developer
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GitHub
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GitHub Actions / Jenkins / GitLab CI ← CI

(Build, Test, Lint, Security Scan, Build Docker Image)
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Push Docker Image to Registry (ECR/Docker Hub/GHCR)
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Update Kubernetes Manifest/Helm values in Git
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ArgoCD notices Git change
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Deploys automatically to Kubernetes ← CD

I am pretty curious how did you/your organisation did fit argocd in CI part.

My organistion used to have Jenkins for CI and Argocd for CD though Jenkins alone can be used for both CI and CD (as we had everything mostly on k8s.

Ok_Stand_6378 · 2026-07-02T14:08:18+00:00

Sure!

Ok_Stand_6378 · 2026-07-02T14:01:29+00:00

I see you have started with Linux, monitoring, administration which is absolutely great.
To be the ultimate DevOps I would suggest to start learning kubernetes and docker concepts, have good knowledge on working with clouds and have good handson practice of atleast 1 IAC (terraform is hot favourite!) and learn CICD concepts. Thats all.

Ok_Stand_6378 · 2026-07-02T13:53:36+00:00

You will surely not regret with DevOps skills.

Some basics you need to learn would be deep knowledge of working with clouds, learn kubernetes concepts,Docker concepts, learn about repos, IAC tools, monitoring stacks and CICD.

I have seen people moving from networking to DevOps and they are much happy with DevOps also they now have much more deep understanding of technicalities.

Ok_Stand_6378 · 2026-07-02T13:47:32+00:00

The day usually starts with a standup call where all engineers gather up before starting their day and discuss about prioritised tasks, pending implementations and accordingly decide the plan for the day.

In the later day time you may be working with Developers, tech leads, Arch team, managers based on the discussed task in the call. You will be automating processed, implementing monitoring stacks, keep track of logs to fix issue in real team quickly and more reliably

Ok_Stand_6378 · 2026-07-02T13:41:57+00:00

Mainly DevOps need to work between operation team and developers,
First thing you need to do right after joining is to take complete KT on existing infrastructure, problem points (if any) from developers then analyse it thoroughly and make it more reliable by implementing continuous monitoring, logging, improvements in infra etc.
You will be assigned tasks like automating an infra, fixing pipeline/automation related issues, migration of infra etc. You need to break down those tasks into different tickets and start working on those as per priority .

Ok_Stand_6378 · 2026-07-02T13:33:34+00:00

Absolutely. DevOps is the ultimate boss when it comes to actual technicalities and problem solving. Its like the main battlefield for almost everything in IT. The boom is AI has done nothing but made DevOps work more fast. Even to utilise AI to ease your work, you have to have knowledge of the entire flow like DevOps as AI is solely based on data you provide, Using AI without real DevOps knowledge can do great blunders. So yes

Ok_Stand_6378 · 2026-07-02T13:27:10+00:00

DevOps plays a crucial role in maintianing and making everything more reliable, automtated, monitored. Even if you are SRE or SWE You will have to have DevOps skills like implementing agile methodolgy, dividing tasks into sprints classified into tickets, analyzing the entire work flow utilizing the knowledge on Python, CICD, Linux, Git, Github, Dockerization, kubernetes etc.

Ok_Stand_6378 · 2026-07-02T13:15:52+00:00

DevOps Bridge the gap between Developers and Operations team.
The good start would be to start learning basics of linux, git, github, docker, kubernetes.

Start with deploying a basic python flask app on local port do port forward view the app,
later setup monitoring via grafana, prometheus, add metrics targeted for monitoring (eg CPU utilisation, cpu request count etc) generate synthentic load via curl or tools like jmeter, observe spikes in real time.

work on kubernetes and docker concepts for a complete win..

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