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Most of this can be learned for free with a little time investment on your part. AWS has great training courses, both online, and in person [1]. I have taken a

Most of this can be learned for free with a little time investment on your part. AWS has great training courses, both online, and in person [1]. I have taken a couple by heading to their Seattle office and it was extremely useful (like seeing the future). But before you take a course, I would suggest getting an AWS account, if you don't already have one, and using the free tier to get a lay of the land. Also, download and play around with redis, ansible, and docker via Vagrant VMs on your local machine. This is a personal plug, but I run a screencast site for sysadmins @ https://sysadmincasts.com/ https://sysadmincasts.com/, so you might find some useful bits there also. ps. I am always looking for episode ideas too, so if you have something you want to learn about, shoot me an email. [1] http://aws.amazon.com/training/ http://aws.amazon.com/training/

coned88 12y ago
What does aws have to do with devops?
- WestCoastJustin 12y ago
  Sorry, I am a little late in replying, hopefully you are still around. > what does aws have to do with devops? I am not really sure what you are asking, but let me rant a little about devops, and in a round about way hopefully answer your question. Personally, I hate the word DevOps because no one knows what it means. Devops seems to mean different things to different people. If I were to define it, I guess I would say DevOps to me means, you want a hybrid sysadmin who knows how to program enough to work with configuration management, or you want a developer who knows enough about sysadmin bits to keep things stable and secure. If you look at most of the DevOps job postings, you will see they actually want someone who is 80% sysadmin + 20% developer. DevOps kind of seems like BS to me, since to be a good sysadmin, I think you should know how to use configuration management by default, you don't need to be this hybrid position. So, long story short, AWS allows sysadmins or develops to use APIs to manage infrastructure through code. So someone who does "devops" should be able to use AWS. I also think, that if you are devops (whatever the sysadmin/developer ration), and don't know how to use AWS (or other cloud providers), your job prospects are going to look pretty grim (non-existent) 10 years out.
  - danudey 12y ago
    I hope you're still around as well, since I missed this thread earlier… > if you are devops (whatever the sysadmin/developer ration), and don't know how to use AWS (or other cloud providers), your job prospects are going to look pretty grim (non-existent) 10 years out. I personally think that people who can use AWS are pretty common, and using AWS is only getting easier. If you know how to work with actual, physical hardware, on the other hand (which most people even today don't seem to know how to do), then you're going to be in a much better position, skill-wise, than someone who only knows AWS (which is many people).

coned88 12y ago

What does aws have to do with devops?

WestCoastJustin 12y ago
Sorry, I am a little late in replying, hopefully you are still around. > what does aws have to do with devops? I am not really sure what you are asking, but let me rant a little about devops, and in a round about way hopefully answer your question. Personally, I hate the word DevOps because no one knows what it means. Devops seems to mean different things to different people. If I were to define it, I guess I would say DevOps to me means, you want a hybrid sysadmin who knows how to program enough to work with configuration management, or you want a developer who knows enough about sysadmin bits to keep things stable and secure. If you look at most of the DevOps job postings, you will see they actually want someone who is 80% sysadmin + 20% developer. DevOps kind of seems like BS to me, since to be a good sysadmin, I think you should know how to use configuration management by default, you don't need to be this hybrid position. So, long story short, AWS allows sysadmins or develops to use APIs to manage infrastructure through code. So someone who does "devops" should be able to use AWS. I also think, that if you are devops (whatever the sysadmin/developer ration), and don't know how to use AWS (or other cloud providers), your job prospects are going to look pretty grim (non-existent) 10 years out.
- danudey 12y ago
  I hope you're still around as well, since I missed this thread earlier… > if you are devops (whatever the sysadmin/developer ration), and don't know how to use AWS (or other cloud providers), your job prospects are going to look pretty grim (non-existent) 10 years out. I personally think that people who can use AWS are pretty common, and using AWS is only getting easier. If you know how to work with actual, physical hardware, on the other hand (which most people even today don't seem to know how to do), then you're going to be in a much better position, skill-wise, than someone who only knows AWS (which is many people).