How to Become A Successful DevOps Engineer?

DevOps has taken center stage in the software industry, and the role of DevOps engineers in their work is becoming increasingly important. Today, I want to share with you some ideas about how to become an excellent DevOps engineer.

What is DevOps?
The term DevOps comes from the combination of developers and operations. The explanation for it in Wikipedia is:

   DevOps (a combination of Development and Operations) is a culture, movement, or convention that values communication and cooperation between "software developers (Dev)" and "IT operations technicians (Ops)." By automating the "software delivery" and "architectural change" processes, it is possible to build, test, and release software more quickly, frequently, and reliably.

   Today, digital transformation is happening in every department-and if you can't keep up with the pace of technological development, your business is likely to die in the next few years. Automation will be a key part of it. Every company wants to get rid of repetitive tasks and then let it run automatically to maximize work efficiency. This is why DevOps appeared. It is derived from Agile and Lean technologies, but it is still an emerging technology in the software industry.

  As tools and platforms such as Docker, Puppet, and GitHub increase in usage, companies can more easily use automation to accomplish their goals.

  What is a DevOps engineer?
   An important part of adopting DevOps is to establish a better partnership between the development and operations teams. Regarding this part, it is recommended to bring these teams together to solve the problems encountered by everyone in the process and workflow, and even set up a cross-functional team that can do anything. Of course, in this approach, Dev is still Dev and Ops is still Ops.

  The significance of DevOps engineers is to fill the gap between Dev and Ops. When hiring such engineers, companies generally look for people who have excellent coding skills and can control all operational functions. Simply put, a DevOps project is a developer with operational thinking. At the same time, you should master the following skills:

  Able to master various Ops and automation tools
  ·Good at writing scripts
  Familiarity with handling frequent tests and incremental releases
  ·Understand the challenges of Ops and how they are solved in the design and development process
  ·Having soft skills to work better with the team

How to become an excellent DevOps engineer?
  To become an excellent DevOps engineer, you should pay attention to the following points:
  ·Understand the basic concepts of DveOps, and put the idea of automation in your mind
  ·Understand various DevOps tools, such as GitHub, Puppet, Docker, Chef, New Relic, Ansible, Shippable, JIRA, Slack, etc.
  ·Has a long-term Ops thinking mode. When developers design software, they will encounter many common Ops traps. When designing and developing software, promptly reminding developers will help to avoid these problems, which is much better than operating with problems and then fixing them. Try to create a design review template to standardize this process.
  ·Very important when working end-to-end and helping others solve problems
  ·You should become a scripting expert—Bash, Powershell, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript, Python, and you must be able to write code to automate repetitive tasks.

  Factors to measure the success of DevOps
  ·Deployment frequency
  ·Delivery cycle of code changes
  ·Regression rate
  ·Use of CI/CD automation tools
  ·Test Automation
  ·Meet business goals
  ·Faster time to market
  ·Customer satisfaction rate