How to become a DEVOPS Engineer feat. Shawn Powers | Linux+ | LPIC-1

About this video

In an interview at CBT Nuggets headquarters, trainer Shawn Powers explains DevOps to NetworkChuck and how a sysadmin or network admin can move into it. Powers describes DevOps tools as automation for work you should already understand manually — his analogy is a calculator after learning arithmetic — warning that automating a task you cannot do by hand can put you in an uncomfortable spot. The best entry point, he says, is a repetitive task you already know and are tired of repeating, solved with automation rather than an invented practice environment. Tool choice follows background: Ansible feels more natural to system administrators, while Puppet or Chef suit developers better. Powers highlights Ansible because it works from configuration-style files and needs no client installed on target machines, connecting over SSH from the local workstation. For foundations he recommends Linux: Linux Essentials as a gentler on-ramp, then LPIC-1, noting that, as he describes it, CompTIA Linux+ used the same exams so one test session could yield both certifications. Once comfortable with Linux, a learner is ready, in his view, to start automating with DevOps tools.

Key takeaways

• Do not use DevOps tools to do something you could not do manually first; learn the underlying system, then automate it.
• Start small by automating a real, repetitive task you already know and dislike repeating, rather than building an artificial lab problem.
• Ansible suits sysadmins, is configuration-file based, and needs no client on targets because it works over SSH.
• Puppet or Chef may fit developers better because their approach is more programmatically oriented.
• Build the Linux foundation first — Linux Essentials for beginners, then LPIC-1 / Linux+ — before specialising in DevOps tooling.

Episode details: published June 26, 2018 · 14:06 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are NetworkChuck’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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