At present, many big companies such as Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, Toutiao, Didi, Meituan and other companies are doing DevOps internally, so what is DevOps? Why are big manufacturers rushing to it? What should DevOps do? First let's talk about what is DevOps? DevOPs is a methodology. DevOps=Developers+Operators, that is, the integration of development team and operation and maintenance team. It covers the whole process of development, testing, and operation and maintenance. The application of DevOps can simplify the work process, decompose problems into small steps that are easy to solve, and improve work efficiency as much as possible. to create more value for the company.
In the past, when there was little competition on the Internet, companies could adopt the waterfall development model and develop slowly step by step. But now there are countless competitors in every field of Internet opportunities. Whoever develops faster and updates faster will be more competitive. The method that can help enterprises to develop and iterate faster is DevOps. Therefore, DevOps has almost become the standard configuration of Internet companies, and DevOps has also risen.
DevOps talent demand skyrocketing
According to data from recruitment websites, the demand for DevOps in the market remains high, with an increase of 75% in 21 and 20 years, and the discussion of this term in social media has also increased by 50% compared with 2020.
DevOps engineers maximize company productivity through automation, and companies that use the DevOps methodology tend to grow 30 times faster than those that do not. In terms of salary, the salary of DevOps engineers can be ranked among the top five in the Internet, with an average monthly salary of 25K, and more than 35% of them can get 30-50K/month.
Career Outlook for DevOps
Every career has a progression path, and DevOps is no exception. You can start as a DevOps Developer, then move up to DevOps Test Engineer, DevOps Cloud Engineer, and finally DevOps Architect.
DevOps engineers need to have extensive knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and are experts in implementing various DevOps automation tools and processes to solve complex operational problems. A successful DevOps engineer is also able to switch between different tasks such as coding, integration and testing.
Basic knowledge and skills a DevOps engineer should have
- Basic knowledge and application of software development techniques and tools
- Test and deploy frequency faster
- Experience operating in a production environment
- Knowledge of IT systems
- Experience in data management
- Determination to achieve business results
- Ability to identify and eliminate organizational silos through team collaboration and communication
- Use automated tools to reach your goals
- Understanding Process Reengineering
- Understand the production environment
- project management skills
Basic knowledge and application of software development techniques and tools include these skills:
- Get a comprehensive understanding of Linux fundamentals, web development fundamentals, and Java fundamentals.
- Knowledge of DevOps automation tools includes:
- Ongoing management (Puppet, Chef, and Ansible)
- Continuous Integration (Travis CI, Jenkins, and Bamboo)
- Continuous testing (Test Complete, Docker and Tricentis Tosca)
- Continuous monitoring (Nagios, Sensu and Splunk)
- Understand the CI/CD process
- Understand the IAS (infrastructure as code) model to solve deployment problems
