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WeAreDevelopers LIVE • Apr 18, 2023

#90DaysOfDevOps - The DevOps Learning Journey

Michael Cade

Michael Cade proves DevOps is a cultural shift, not just a job title. Discover his 90-day open-source roadmap to bridge IT operations and cloud-native platform engineering.

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#1 about 3 min

Establishing the 90 days of DevOps learning project

Establishing a structured study plan remedies missing foundational knowledge regarding modern automation tooling.

#2 about 2 min

Career transition into cloud native and data management

Transitioning from traditional systems administration into platform engineering requires learning distributed cloud native architectures.

#3 about 5 min

Structuring a public GitHub repository for continuous learning

Documenting technical experiments on an open repository accelerates personal comprehension while helping the broader community.

#4 about 7 min

Defining DevOps and navigating the ecosystem landscape

Managing an overwhelming open source landscape means adopting an application-first methodology to bridge development and operations.

#5 about 3 min

Choosing a programming language for infrastructure management

Reading source code for tools like Kubernetes becomes easier by studying foundational compiled languages like Go.

#6 about 3 min

Experiencing core Linux capabilities for DevOps administration

Gaining tactile comfort with Linux distributions prepares engineers to configure actual production servers safely.

#7 about 2 min

Grasping core networking and infrastructure automation components

Automating programmatic network interactions starts by grasping core routing primitives and domain name structures.

#8 about 2 min

Understanding cloud service models and abstraction patterns

Separating vendor abstractions like platform services reduces cognitive load when learning initial cloud concepts.

#9 about 2 min

Adopting Git tracking for widespread version control

Navigating massive collaborative projects relies on rigid version histories instead of treating source control as absolute backups.

#10 about 2 min

Running lightweight executions with Docker application containers

Removing deployment friction involves bundling code runtimes and isolated dependencies into immutable transportable images.

#11 about 1 min

Orchestrating container distribution across high availability nodes

Orchestrating distributed computing architectures allows resilient workloads to autonomously recover from isolated node outages.

#12 about 2 min

Enforcing repeatable configuration with infrastructure as code

Eliminating manual configuration errors requires defining desired infrastructure states through consistent declarative provisioning syntax.

#13 about 1 min

Separating continuous integration from production deployment actions

Scaling feature delivery dictates splitting code integration testing mechanisms from discrete user release actions.

#14 about 1 min

Operating critical stack observability and service monitoring

Preventing silent service degradation demands embedding centralized metrics dashboards that parse operational telemetry signals.

#15 about 1 min

Guaranteeing application data integrity and recovery patterns

Protecting stateful architecture persistence guarantees that critical business functions can recover during destructive database incidents.

#16 about 3 min

Augmenting DevOps roadmaps with security and runtime defense

Securing an iteration lifecycle demands pushing threat detection and secret management deeply into continuous integrations.

#17 about 12 min

Exploring community collaboration in documentation translation mechanisms

Expanding accessible educational pathways occurs when community volunteers translate complex administrative guides into varied native languages.

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