From the course: Succeeding in DevOps
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DevOps skills for developers
From the course: Succeeding in DevOps
DevOps skills for developers
- One pathway into the role of DevOps engineer comes from a traditional development role. Traditional software engineers typically already have strong software engineering skills, including the ability to write production-grade code, and an understanding of software development best practices, like coding standards, tests, and utilizing version control systems, such as Git. In order to transition into a DevOps role, software developers generally should focus on everything beyond the code they write. Typically, they need to transition their focus away from delivering new features to end users as quickly as possible toward caring more about the stability, and reliability of their services, and, their underlying infrastructure. Specific areas of growth for software engineers looking to transition, include an understanding of how to manage whatever production operating system is in use, typically Linux. A deeper…
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