The Roadmap to Become a DevOps Engineer

Hello everyone. DevOps is one of the fastest-growing areas in the field of Software Engineering. Many companies are moving towards DevOps culture and trying to adopt DevOps into their product development lifecycle. The market of DevOps is at around 11 billion USD currently and is projected to hit 25.5 billion USD by 2028. This has attracted many young talents to focus on DevOps, but at the same time, many people will easily get distracted and confused as there are a lot of things to focus on and learn. So, in this article, I am going to focus on what to learn to become a DevOps Engineer step by step. I will try my best to keep things simple and explain more clearly. Let's get started.

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What is DevOps?

The term DevOps stands for Development and Operations. A DevOps Engineer should know programming, but they will program for the infrastructure whereas Developers program for the application. Earlier, system administrators would take care of infrastructure and development, but with the evolution of DevOps, the engineers must know programming to automate the entire workflow.

“DevOps is a methodology in the software development and IT industry. Used as a set of practices and tools, DevOps integrates and automates the work of software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) as a means for improving and shortening the

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