Want to be a devops professional? School of Devops at Initcron conducted a survey on what skills are companies looking for when it comes to devops. The top devops skills were as follows, - Cloud and Virtualization - AWS, Openstack, Azure, Google Compute Engine - Docker with kubernetes and Vagrant - Configuration Management with Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Saltstack, Fabric - Continuous Integration and Delivery - Jenkins, Bamboo, Travis, AWS Codepipeline, Capistrano, Phing, Continuum, Ant - Databases - mysql, mongo, postgresql, nosql, oracle, cassandra, riak, couchdb - Monitoring - Nagios, Zabbix, Cacti, Monit, Icinga, Munin, Sensu - Version - git, svn

1. DEVOPS SKILLS SURVEY
2014 INDIA EDITION
BY INITCRON

2. DEVOPS
IS
CATCHING UP LIKE A
WILDFIRE
THE TERM
IN THE LAST FEW YEARS

3. THERE IS
GROWING INTEREST
TO BECOME A
DEV
OPS
PRO

4. THE REAL
QUESTION
IS

5. SKILLS
WHAT
DO I NEED?
TO BE ONE

6. THIS
SURVEY
IS AN ATTEMPT TO FIND
TO THAT
ANSWER

7. INFORMATION
WE COLLECTED
HOW ?
AVAILABLE IN PUBLIC DOMAIN
AND
ANALYSED
WH AT
COMPANIES ARE LOOKING FOR
DEVOPS PRO
IN A

8. GOOGLE TRENDS
JOB POSTINGS
WHAT
SOURCES ?
We thought the simplest and the best
way to find out what companies are
looking for is from their JOB POSTINGS

9. RESULTS ?

10. KEYWORD“devops”
HOW
KEYWORD
TRENDED
OVER TIME
IN
INDIA

11. WHERE ?

12. EXPERIENCE LEVELS

13. TOP SKILLS

14. LETS
DRILL DOWN
TOP SKILL CATEGORIES
INTO

16. PUPPET or CHEF
MUST
LEARN
CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
FOR

17. RECOMMENDATION
PICK UP ONE OF
AN SIBL E / SAL T ST AC K
AS THOSE TOOLS ARE AWSOME TOO
NORM IN FUTURE
AND MAY BECOME A

19. AWS CLOUD
MUST
LEARN

20. DOCKER + VAGRANT
PRO TIP
DEFINITELY LEARN
A LOT OF COMPANIES ARE
YET TO REALIZE THE POTENTIAL
OF THIS DUO

21. PICK UP ONE OF
PR IVATE C L OU D
PLATFORMS
ORGANIZATION
BASED ON WHATS HAPPENING
IN YOUR
R
E
C
O
M
M
E
N
D
A
T
I
O
N

23. NO NEED FOR OPINIONS HERE !
LINUX
JUST GO AHED AND
GET A CRASH COURSE ON

25. JENKINS
R
E
C
O
M
M
E
N
D
A
T
I
O
N
+
CI TOOLS SPECIFIC TO
YOUR ORGANIZATION

27. MYSQL
R
E
C
O
M
M
E
N
D
A
T
I
O
N
+
ONE OF THE
NOSQL
DB ADMIN

29. NAGIOS / ICINGA
R
E
C
O
M
M
E
N
D
A
T
I
O
N

31. GIT
MUST
LEARN
THATS THEPRESENT
AND
FUTURE
AS FAR AS WE COULD SEE
THE
OF VERSION CONTROL

32. MYTH
YOU COULD HAVE A SINGLE
D EVOPS
RESOURCE
DEVELOPMENT
WHO WOULD MANAGE YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE
AS WELL AS DO

33. REALITY
WE WOULD NOT PUT
D EV | OPS
IN THE SAME BASKET
ROLES
WE BELIEVE BOTH HAVE DIFFERENT
BUT COMPLEMENTARY

34. DEV & OPS
HOWEVER
D EV & OPS
CAN WORK TOGETHER
GOALS
TO ACHIEVE COMMON

35. DEVOPS
AND
D EVOPS
PROVIDE WAYS
TOGETHER
TO BRING DEV AND OPS
TOOLS

36. SPLIT
WE WOULD SPLIT
OPS
FROM WHAT IS REQUIRED
DEVFOR
TO LEARN
SKILLS

37. PUPPET / CHEF
LINUX
ESSENTIALS
VAGRANT + DOCKER
SCRIPTING
A W S
MONITORING
GITOPS
DB ADMINISTRATION
TROUBLESHOOTING
ADMIN
SYSOPS / ARCHIECTURE

38. LOG ANALYSIS
ADDITINOAL
BIG DATA OPS
ANSIBLE/ SALTSTACK
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
RELEASE ENGINEERING
OPS
OPENSTACK
PROVISIONING

39. GIT
PROGRAMMING
ESSENTIALS
VAGRANT + DOCKER
J E N K I N S
DEV SQL
TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT
USAGE
CLOUD LIBRARIES AND APIs

40. ADDITIONAL
DEV
NO SQL
BIG DATA
DEPLOYMENT TOOLS
ARTIFACTS MANAGEMENT

41. TAKEAWAYS
“A dedicated devops professional is a ops
professional with knowledge on certain tools and
practices ”
“Companies are also aligning existing dev
teams to be devops oriented by training them
on certain practices ”

42. SYSTEMS
INITCRON
www.initcron.com
A DEVOPS COMPANY
WE ARE
GOURAV SHAH
FOUNDER, INITCRON
gs@initcron.com
twitter @gouravshah
CONSULTING | TRAINING | RECRUITING

43. www.schoolofdevops.com