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Skills that a DevOps Engineer MUST possess

Ever wondered what are the skills that your DevOps Organization should look for its resources for them to fit in your DevOps culture. Among the so many skills people keep on talking about as being relevant to a DevOps organization, we have come up with a refined list of the key technical and soft skills that any engineer MUST possess to contribute to the success of the strategy for your organization. 1. Coding Skills It is no more a debate whether a DevOps engineer should possess coding skills or not. So, it is a well-established fact that your DevOps service should be able to deliver solution presented on the form of code. Regardless of which part of the DevOps team the engineer represents – QA, Dev, Ops, Security, DBA or data analytics, the ability to not just ‘code’ but ‘offer solution as a code’ is what counts in this case. So, this ultimately boils down to imparting real business value for the stakeholders of the business ( ranging from the customers to ...

DevOps Basics You Should Know Before Adopting Services

Before you consider   D evOps service   for your organization to embrace this new approach, it is critical for you to develop at least a basic understanding of what all it takes for the holistic implementation of devOps for your organization. Just like agile, the adoption of devOps also involves embracing a set of practices that result from an organizational attitude, philosophy and culture. This is the reason why adopting devOps can be a bit misleading since the organizations are likely to undertake a few of the devOps related activities according to their understanding of it, and thereby, start believing that they have implemented it successfully – regardless of whether these activities define devOps or not. By this, we mean to say that more than being just a set of activities, devOps is a cultural change that an organization needs to make, for embracing it wholeheartedly. So, exactly what all does the devOps culture comprise of? To get there, we need to understand what m...