How did you brehs learn programming? Any Ops guys go to Devops from that?

[ViShawn]

Much of my career in technology has been on the Linux Operations side of things. I worked support for smaller companies then landed a job into Web Hosting where I worked on Openstack much of those 5 years there. I was doing a lot of Cloud Computing related tasks in my role. Half the time I was in an Operations role having moved up from support.

I have some experience in Configuration Management and have been in some SRE roles as of late, but I notice that I have a huge gap in my repertoire and that is in programming. I honestly never thought I had anything useful to code so I used to not attempted until recently. I could understand some syntax and attempted some a bit, but I'd get sidetracked. I'm playing with Python a bit to learn how to code but understand to a degree some languages. I took a C++ course in college but I did miserably with it back then.

Now I realize not honing that skillset could hurt me a lot in the future with potential roles. If you're not an ops guy with some configuration management experience and some coding, then good luck in the next few years. I don't want to be left behind this trend.

What have you guys done to adjust or improve your skillset in this aspect in the industry now? Did it land you DevOps and/or SRE roles?

 

[Double J]

Programming is basically like anything else in life: the more you do it, the better you'll get at it. But trust me it is NOT easy and not everyone is built for it. Pick a language, buy a book on it, and stick with it.

 

[ViShawn]

I've been writing small things with. Bash, Perl and Python so I'm on my way.

 

[kevm3]

going through books cover to cover and courses on udemy.

 

[Vaselclean]

Type out example code from books into your complier/editor and run it.