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Hi all,

So, at the moment I’m a infrastructure engineer, dealing with Windows Servers, Networks, Vmware, Citrix. I’ve got a CCNA, working towards a VCP at the moment, and have some Powershell knowledge/history - although I couldn’t write any major scripts.

We are moving away from a ITIL way of working and delving towards Agile/Scrums. Part of which is moving the Infra guys into devop roles where we become part of the sprints. Although we haven’t discussed it yet, any moment now - we are going to be asked to start working on .NET and other things (we use bash, json, VB6, probably other stuff aswell).

I have no real prior experience in developing and previous attempts to write any form of code normally leaves me frustrated and making stupid mistakes, I’ve tried things like codeschool to learn basic .net and just dont really understand what I’m doing.

Theres alot of talk about a move towards AWS which I would be really interested in, but running infrastructure as code (where I’ll trip up again).

Probably more a soundboard than anyone being able to offer direct advice (unless your in the same boat as me). I just dont see how Infrastructure (me) can fit in?

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I have no direct experience in Dev Ops, but from what I’ve seen the two aren’t a perfect fit (infrastructure and dev ops) I also have zero experience in programming and am horrible at it, so if I were in your shoes, I’d look for employment elsewhere just because it’s not what I want to do.

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I also agree looking elsewhere. That’s not what DevOps really is; it’s not about being a dev and ops person, however some people/companies do this because they don’t really understand what it really is or try to lump the two roles together to get more for less. It’s more so about Devs and Ops working together.

A sys admin/infrastructure/ops sure needs to know to script to automate tasks and write Puppet (or equivalent) configs but being a developer (.NET in this case) is very different and completely different roles. Good luck with whatever you decide!

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I agree with Carl Holzhauer.

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Sounds like you are the OPS side of the equation. If you are doing any automation, you are already practicing Dev/Ops. Dev/Ops is a concept, not a job title. It’s something you practice not something you are.

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I work alot with SCOM and have built powershell scripts that are run upon failure to restart a service/run a sql query to restart a stuck process etc.

I guess thats DevOps but not the level they are looking for!

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Then they probably do not know what they are looking for.

Go read “The Phoenix Project”. And then make them read it.

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DevOps is ops using dev tools (like Ansible, Puppet, Salt, Chef, etc) for CM and automation/orchestration. It’s not devs being ops, they are two different skill sets.

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Correction. DevOps is a culture, not tools.

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Right, which is why I said it’s using those tools. It’s not the tools themselves. I could have been more clear.

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In that case, we are in the middle of implementing puppet and rolling it out across our CentOS servers. So i suppose we are doing devops!

I’ve bought the phoenix project and half way through now. Will point it out if I next get asked to do Dev work!

Thanks

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Hi ,

Devops is focusing for CI (Continuous Integration ) and (Continuous Development ) which need to co-ordinate as a Devops Engineer (i.e infra support team) . So in this case new support person need to learn about monitoring tool like Zabbix, Newrelic and Google analytics and etc tools. and the major role is that application integration like “SaaS” platform.

Regards,

NMSelvaraja | Coimbatore | India.

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