Top 5 DevOps Tools to quickly Jumpstart your DevOps Career
As companies are being digitized, the need for DevOps has increased at a tremendous rate. The future of IT companies is now dependent on the DevOps approach, making it the most demanding job at this time. The market has grown from 40–45 percent within the last five years, increasing the DevOps demand.
If you are believing that you have effectively missed the DevOps flight and presently no chance exist for new applicants, I am glad to let you know that you still have time and also a lot of scope to make a rewarding career into the DevOps domain.
Here I reveal Top Five tools that you need to ace to pursue a DevOps engineer career.
These are the five tools that you will be using daily, and you need to have the knowledge on how to work on them, which includes both hands-on knowledge and also theoretical knowledge. But mostly having hands-on experience is very important.
So, whenever you get the job, you can sit and work on these tools to prove yourself.
The very first tool I would say would be.
DevOps tool #1: Jira
Jira is commonly used by businesses and companies all around the world.
It is a complete Project Management tool in which you can distribute your workflows and workloads within projects and within teams.
Also, in Jira you can have different kinds of tickets, issues, epics stories and different tasks that are assigned to different team members and different teams regarding their own specific projects. It is a simple and easy to learn tool.
So, I would say, for a DevOps Engineer position you should know how to use Jira.
Now the second tool on this list would be
#2: Git or GitHub
GitHub is a commonly known repository tool, many companies use it for the repositories to store and version control their code.
In GitHub you have an option to either make your repositories public, or you can keep them private. It totally depends on your company’s policies. If your organization decides to make the repository public, the code stays on cloud. Otherwise for private repositories, GitHub Enterprise needs to be setup by the organization on one of their data centers.
I would say GitHub is a really good tool that you should know how to use. Especially you need to know,
How To
- Create New Repository
- Store code in the repository
- Clone the code on your local machine
- Make changes in your local copy
- Create Pull Requests and push the code to the remote repository after code reviews.
You also need to know all the basic Git commands like
So, these are some basic git commands that you need to know.
For example,
Scenario 1: If you want to fetch a repository from GitHub to your local machine how would you
do that?
Scenario 2: If you want to push your local code to remote GitHub repository, how would you do that?
Apart from these, there are other important things in GitHub that are worth practicing like Web Hooks etc.,
These kind of basic activities in GitHub and ability to nonchalantly run the git commands on the terminal would be must for you to survive in a DevOps Engineer role.
So, moving on to the third tool in this list.
#3: Any Cloud Platform
You have a variety of cloud platforms to choose from. But you should completely focus on one. Simply
start gaining hands-on experience on it.
Personally, I have learned AWS. I also have AWS certification as an Associate Solution Architect in AWS. The certification itself demands hands-on experience on AWS and that will be thoroughly tested in the certification exam.
Also, my current position as a DevOps engineer. I have mostly worked on AWS, along with Containerization, Orchestration, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). Also having hands-on experience on Storage and database is a must.
Having experience and thorough knowledge on at least one cloud provider is a must for a DevOps Engineer currently. Although, I personally recommend AWS, you can choose any provider that you can get your hands on.
Moving on to the fourth one, which is Jenkins.
#4: Jenkins
Jenkins is a CI tool which is Continuous Integration tool.
You can integrate it with AWS (or any cloud platform), GitHub, and many other tools to achieve CI/CD pipeline. Therefore, as a DevOps Engineer you need to at least know
- How to use Jenkins
- How to create jobs in Jenkins
- How to create builds on Jenkins
- How to integrate it with AWS or even GitHub
So, with Jenkins you can create Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
for your business. So, once the developer pushes the code to GitHub repository, the pipeline job is automatically trigger through Jenkins and it updates your application.
Jenkins is a great tool to learn. Although, it is easy to learn and master Jenkins, it is a very critical tool for any organization to practice DevOps. Therefore, you should dedicate a major amount of time and effort in learning and mastering this tool.
Now, the fifth tool on this list would be any Containerization tool which can be Docker in conjunction with Kubernetes.
#5: Docker and Kubernetes
As you might already know containerization is growing rapidly throughout the cloud platform and DevOps world.
Docker makes it easy to deploy your app or Microservice on Cloud.
Kubernetes makes it easier to deploy your app on hundreds of servers.
Besides Docker, if there is another tool or technology which has caught software developers’ attention in recent times then it must be Kubernetes.
Docker also helps with DevOps because it simplifies deployment and scaling, and that’s why Every DevOps engineer should learn Docker.
Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services, that facilitates both declarative configuration and automation.
So that is it, get to know these tools, have your hands on them, get your hands wet, run into issues, resolve those issues and master these tools to land into your DevOps Engineer job.
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Originally published at https://shaikwahab.com on November 29, 2021.
