Looking For Alternate IT roles
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@IRJ said in Looking For Alternate IT roles:
DevOps = Cross between IT admin and Engineer. It is almost solely scripting and command line based, which makes it awesome IMO.
Devops is something I have my eye on
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@RamblingBiped said in Looking For Alternate IT roles:
Also, a modern "DevOps" Engineer is more of a Software Engineer role than a cross between SysAdmin and Systems Engineer.
I do DevOps, and I literally do zero SOftware Engineering. Mostly PowerShell, some Python. I don't need to know any programming languages. Sure, you can also do DevOps AND programming... you can be a programmer gone DevOps and CI/CD your software. Or, you can do DevOps to bridge IT Systems Engineering, Administration, and Operations.
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@IRJ said in Looking For Alternate IT roles:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking For Alternate IT roles:
@IRJ said in Looking For Alternate IT roles:
DevOps = Cross between IT admin and Engineer. It is almost solely scripting and command line based, which makes it awesome IMO.
Yeah, DevOps makes it almost impossible to keep your hats separate because you kind of role the two together.
Also DevOps roles never deal with users. Some people may or may not like that
Yeah I've primarily dealt with users for the last 5 years so it wouldn't hurt my feelings to do otherwise
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@Obsolesce If you're doing DevOps and you're not engineering software, aren't you just doing Ops then?
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@RamblingBiped thanks, that's a lot of good info. I've read about many if those topics before and a few are on my radar like ansible and AWS technologies. Learning python currently and it's interesting for sure.
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I would suspect you're writing software @Obsolesce . I am constantly engineering automation and tooling for facilitating the build, test, deployment, and reliabilty of software. Whether that is writing a Lambda, creating a Step Function State Machine, or rearchitecting an existing workload for the Cloud.
It's all code, and it is all stored in a source repository, and developed using the same principles and engineering practice that would go into developing any other application/piece of software.
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@RamblingBiped said in Looking For Alternate IT roles:
@Obsolesce If you're doing DevOps and you're not engineering software, aren't you just doing Ops then?
Literally zero software engineering, zero software programming. I am currently spending a lot of time in Azure DevOps, as well as Azure Automation and other Azure serverless technologies.
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A pure devops engineer job is infrastructure as code pretty much. It has nothing to do with developing software.
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@RamblingBiped said in Looking For Alternate IT roles:
I would suspect you're writing software @Obsolesce . I am constantly engineering automation and tooling for facilitating the build, test, deployment, and reliabilty of software. Whether that is writing a Lambda, creating a Step Function State Machine, or rearchitecting an existing workload for the Cloud.
It's all code, and it is all stored in a source repository, and developed using the same principles and engineering practice that would go into developing any other application/piece of software.
Yeah thats not software, its called infrastructure as code.
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Just because you use git doesnt make you a developer lol.
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Companies may ask you to wear multiple hats, but everything else is outside the devops role.
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@RamblingBiped said in Looking For Alternate IT roles:
I would suspect you're writing software @Obsolesce . I am constantly engineering automation and tooling for facilitating the build, test, deployment, and reliabilty of software. Whether that is writing a Lambda, creating a Step Function State Machine, or rearchitecting an existing workload for the Cloud.
It's all code, and it is all stored in a source repository, and developed using the same principles and engineering practice that would go into developing any other application/piece of software.
No, I'm not writing any software. I'm not writing any applications.
@Obsolesce said in Looking For Alternate IT roles:
@RamblingBiped said in Looking For Alternate IT roles:
@Obsolesce If you're doing DevOps and you're not engineering software, aren't you just doing Ops then?
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Literally zero software engineering, zero software programming. I am currently spending a lot of time in Azure DevOps, as well as Azure Automation and other Azure serverless technologies. I really like Azure Functions a lot and have quite a bit in there. I started moving a lot of Azure Automation scripts to Functions with a lot of better than expected results. -
So using python to architect and write a serverless application doesn't count as software engineering? Developing, testing, and deploying custom resources for CloudFormation doesn't count as Software Engineering?
^That work literally follows the same steps and workflow as developing a microservice.
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@RamblingBiped said in Looking For Alternate IT roles:
So using python to architect and write a serverless application doesn't count as software engineering? Developing, testing, and deploying custom resources for CloudFormation doesn't count as Software Engineering?
^That work literally follows the same steps and workflow as developing a microservice.
Nope
That is again infrastructure as code. Python is used by damn near every Linux admin
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@RamblingBiped said in Looking For Alternate IT roles:
So using python to architect and write a serverless application
Define application?
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Cloudformation is just a json files. Nearly every system admin deals with json files
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@IRJ said in Looking For Alternate IT roles:
Cloudformation is just a json files. Nearly every system admin deals with json files
...not because we like json.
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One of the most recent examples was a python-based serverless application composed of multiple lambdas that interfaced with AWS Organizations to provide automation around creating, configuring, and deploying AWS accounts and automated governance. It is exposed to end users through a self-service portal as a Service Catalog Product.
All written in python, deployed and managed via SAM templates, and maintained via a CI/CD pipeline.
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@IRJ said in Looking For Alternate IT roles:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking For Alternate IT roles:
@IRJ said in Looking For Alternate IT roles:
DevOps = Cross between IT admin and Engineer. It is almost solely scripting and command line based, which makes it awesome IMO.
Yeah, DevOps makes it almost impossible to keep your hats separate because you kind of role the two together.
Also DevOps roles never deal with users. Some people may or may not like that
Not desktop users. But they will often deal with software dev users or other IT departments as users.
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And yes, CloudFormation is IAC via JSON or YAML templates. It does have more dynamic aspects that allow you to code logic into the provisioning of resources though.
(Intrinsic Functions, Mappings, Conditions, Imports/Exports)
