The DevOps Engineer thread

opethdisciple

opethdisciple

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Thought I'd make a DevOps engineering thread to discuss any topics related to our field.

I will start off with a question, does any one know any good material to learn Crossplane?

The only thing I have found is a book.
 
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Craig321 said:
I recently applied for a DevOps Engineer role. I have over 12 years of experience as a software developer and thought it would be an interesting, relevant, but slightly different role. My application was turned down due to never actually holding the title 'DevOps Engineer'. However, I've managed the full stack of web development for 10+ years (coding practices, CI, releases, hosting, server management, etc.), but they simply ignored this and didn't give me a second look (they basically told me that when I asked).

Am I not really understanding what's truly involved in a DevOps Engineer role? Maybe I am underestimating what you guys do. No offence intended, I am genuinely interested in the role! :)
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I wouldn't be too disheartened by being turned down by one company there are plenty of opportunities out there.

From my experiences a DevOps is usually from an system engineering background. So sometimes at work when we have to get developers to do "Devops" they think like a software engineer not like a systems/infrastructure engineer so although what they might produce is functionally correct it is not along the same lines of thought as someone with more of a systems/infrastructure background.

For example us systems/infrastructure engineers tend to centralise whilst developers tend to want to decouple.

I also find that developers lack networking theory.

On the flip side I think software developers can teach us DevOps a lot about designing proper ci/cd pipelines etc.
 
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Ok let's talk Python Vs Go.

A few years ago I picked up Python as my programming language of choice to learn as a DevOps.

Hower the general theme on the internet is that as a DevOps it is better putting time and energy in to learning Go instead as it's more modern and a lot of the tools we use these days are actually built with Go.

What do you think?
 
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What IDE are people using?

I still do everything through vim.

Just watching this video. Neovim could be a good tool to migrate too. Might take a little bit of time to learn the commands though.


 
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We right code, but yes generally its infrastructure stuff like Kubernetes and Cloud.

Obviously pipelines are important too, but developers write pipeline as well.

A DevOps is basically a developer with a background in SysOps.
 
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