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Greeetings people,

As I am working a long time as a MCSE, CCNP, JNCIA and LPIC I was also following the trends and want to get into DevOp to make my daily task easy. Automation, script development, small devops apps and similar.

I was wondering where is a good place to start, books guides?

Thanks in advance.

@dotnetcoder5029 @markamenitek1857 @devops

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The problem is devops isn’t really really a defined role in* most companies yet. It’s normally a blend of development as well as project management skills. Take a look in your area at job requirements and set goals to meet those requirements.

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To expand on that, unless your entire department, and development start using DevOps methodologies there’s really not much you can do at an individual level. Saying YOU want to be more DevOps basically shows you don’t really know the concept too well, which is fine I’m just starting to wrap my head around it too! I recommend reading “The Phoenix Project” (I got the audio book and listened to it during my commute to and from work), it’s a surprisingly good read from someone who was in the IT trenches (or at least listened very closely to someone who was).

What can you do on an individual level? All the things you said! From an operations standpoint the three most important things are: automation, automation and automation. :slight_smile:

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Hey.

Thanks for the good answers.

Yes I wanted to make my skills in automation much better. I was thinking on the Microsoft world also, as LInux is much easier. I was thinking Visual Studio 2014, C#, Powershell and so on?

Are there any advices here ?

Are there any good web sites with interractive learning on coind with automation and makind daily tasks easier? I read before some books, and the theory is what I have, but to make more out of the Microsoft based Enterprise companies, I am searhing for some web sites with interactive on site code learning, real world examples from production and similar.

Kind regards

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As all things in IT, “it depends”. What do you want to do with your career? Do you want to stay in Operations and Administration? Small business vs. Enterprise? If you’re looking to be more of a developer (and in the MS realm) then C# is the way to go (Visual Studio is just a IDE for development–and is in the process of pulling PowerShell under it’s umbrella too). If you want to stay in Operations then PowerShell is where you need to start.

For PowerShell we have this sticky for learning it that might help you:

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