Whether you are a Developer, QA or a IT Operations personnel, with organizations adapting devops practices you need to skill up with the latest and the greatest of the devops tools, relevant to you. And its not the same basket of tools that dev and ops both opt for. This talk is about the essential devops skills required to transform yourself to be a next gen devops professional. And this is based on real data, a devops skills report 2016 (to be published soon) by Initcron Systems.

1. Devops Skills - You Got What it Takes ? by Gourav Shah, Initcron Systems is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Devops Skills
Gourav
Shah
You Got What It Takes ?

2. www.initcron.com
GOURAV SHAH
FOUNDER, INITCRON SYSTEMS | SCHOOL OF DEVOPS
gs@initcron.com
twitter @gouravshah
Who am I ?
www.gouravshah.com
www.schoolofdevops.com
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3. DEVOPS
IS
CATCHING UP LIKE A
WILDFIRE
THE TERM
IN THE LAST FEW YEARS

4. The Short History of Devops - Damon Edwards

5. ITS ALL ABOUT
COLLABORATION
BETWEEN
DEV
&
OPS

6. dev ops

7. MYTH
YOU COULD HAVE A SINGLE
DEVOPS
RESOURCE
DEVELOPMENT
WHO WOULD MANAGE YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE
AS WELL AS DO

8. devops
merge

9. devops
merge

10. DEV vs OPS
ITS UNFAIR TO PUT
DEV | OPS
IN THE SAME BASKET
ROLES
WE BELIEVE BOTH HAVE DIFFERENT
BUT COMPLEMENTARY

11. DEV & OPS
DEV & OPS
SHOULD WORK TOGETHER
GOALS
TO ACHIEVE COMMON

12. DEV & OPS
DEV & OPS & QA
SHOULD WORK TOGETHER
GOALS
TO ACHIEVE COMMON
&

13. GOAL
AGIL ITY
ACHIEVE
QUALITY
WITHOUT COMPROMISING

14. devops
merge

15. dev ops
collaboration

16. dev ops
T
O
O
L
S
collaboration

17. “Devops is a TOOLS based approach ”

18. TOOLS
PROVIDE WAYS
TOGETHER
TO BRING DEV AND OPS
TOOLS

19. TOOLS
LET
LANGUAGE
DEV AND OPS
TOOLS
SPEAK THE SAME

20. SKILLS
LEARNING
SKILLS
NEW
TOOLS
TRANSLATES TO ACQUIRING
NEW

21. SKILLS
WHAT
DO I NEED
ACQUIRE

22. INITCRON’s
REPORT
WAS AN ATTEMPT TO FIND
TO THAT
ANSWER

23. INFORMATION
WE COLLECTED
SURVEY
AVAILABLE IN PUBLIC DOMAIN
AND
ANALYSED
WHAT
COMPANIES ARE LOOKING FOR
DEVOPS PRO
IN A

24. GOOGLE TRENDS
JOB POSTINGS
WHAT
SOURCES ?
We thought the simplest and the best
way to find out what companies are
looking for is from their JOB POSTINGS

25. FINDINGS ?

26. KEYWORD“devops”
HOW
KEYWORD
TRENDED
OVER TIME
IN
INDIA
2014

27. 2016
Devops Keyword Trend

28. Devops Keyword Interest by Country
2016

29. CITIES in INDIA

30. EXPERIENCE LEVELS

31. TOP
CATEGORIES

32. 2016

33. CATEGORIES
•OS
•CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
•CLOUD & VIRTUALIZATION
•CI/CD
•PROGRAMING/SCRIPTING
•MONITORING
•LOG ANALYSIS
•PERFORMANCE MONITORING

34. LETS
DRILL DOWN
CATEGORIES
INTO

35. CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT (2014)

36. Infrastructure as a Code
• Descriptive (What vs How)
• Revision Control
• Consistency
• Visibility
• DR and Migrations
• Manage Systems at Scale
• Change Management

37. PUPPET or CHEF
MUST
CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
FOR

38. RECOMMENDATION
(2014)
PICK UP ONE OF
ANSIBL E / SAL TSTACK
AS THOSE TOOLS ARE AWSOME TOO
NORM IN FUTURE
AND MAY BECOME A

39. 2016

40. CLOUD AND VIRTUALIZATION (2014)

41. AWS CLOUD
MUST
KNOW

42. • CLOUDFORMATION
• ELASTIC BEANSTALK
• OPSWORKS
• EC2 CONTAINER SERVICE
• CODE COMMIT
• CODE PIPELINE
• CODE DEPLOY
AWS
DEVOPS
TOOLS

43. DOCKER + VAGRANT
PRO TIP A LOT OF COMPANIES ARE
YET TO REALIZE THE POTENTIAL
OF THIS DUO

44. PUBLIC / PVT CLOUD (201)

45. CONTAINERS & VIRTUALIZATION (2016)

46. PICK UP ONE OF
PRIVATE CL OUD
PLATFORMS
ORGANIZATION
BASED ON WHATS HAPPENING
IN YOUR
R
E
C
O
M
M
E
N
D
A
T
I
O
N

47. OS

48. CI/CD

49. CI/CD

50. JENKINS
R
E
C
O
M
M
E
N
D
A
T
I
O
N
+
CI TOOLS SPECIFIC TO
YOUR ORGANIZATION

51. CI/CD (2016)

52. DATABASES

53. MYSQL
R
E
C
O
M
M
E
N
D
A
T
I
O
N
+
ONE OF THE
NOSQL
DB ADMIN

54. MONITORING

55. NAGIOS / ICINGA
R
E
C
O
M
M
E
N
D
A
T
I
O
N

56. VERSION CONTROL

57. GIT
MUST
KNOW
THATS THE PRESENT
AND
FUTURE
AS FAR AS WE COULD SEE
THE
OF VERSION CONTROL

58. • Log Monitoring - Splunk, Logstash, Kibana, Elastic
search
• Provisioning - Razor, Foreman, Cobbler
• Service Discovery - Consul, Etcd + Skydns
• Visualizations : New Relic, Graphite, Ganglia,
Geckoboard
ADDITIONAL TOOLS

59. PUPPET / CHEF
LINUX
ESSENTIALS
VAGRANT + DOCKER
SCRIPTING
AWS
MONITORING
GITOPS
DB ADMINISTRATION
TROUBLESHOOTING
SYSOPS / ARCHIECTURE
J E N K I N S

60. LOG ANALYSIS
ADDITINOAL
BIG DATA OPS
ANSIBLE/ SALTSTACK
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
RELEASE ENGINEERING
OPS
OPENSTACK
PROVISIONING

61. GIT
PROGRAMMING
ESSENTIALS
VAGRANT + DOCKER
J E N K I N S
DEV
SQL
TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT
USAGE
CLOUD LIBRARIES AND APIs

62. QA
CI/CD
VAGRANT
CONATINERS/DOCKER
TEST AUTOMATION TOOLS
CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

63. DEVOPS TRANSFORMATION TRACKS

64. TRAINERS

65. Essential Devops Tools

66. ? by Gourav Shah, Initcron Systems is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No
License