Tech IndustryFeb 8, 2019
AppDynamicsdevopswoot

Devops not software developer

Does everyone really believe that devops engineers need to be good coders? I have 15+ yoe and have always disliked coding. Coding meaning software development. I have done plenty of infrastructure coding ie. chef/ansible/k8s and have no problem doing that as it’s crucial to Devops. I am hating how companies are now expecting Devops people to have software development background or be good at coding. Is it wrong to not want to do any software development coding when it’s NOT what Devops is about? Or is the only option to be a Devops mgr/director?

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ktFx33 Feb 8, 2019

You’re right devops are expected to code because they deploy and manage often custom apps or environments for them. So they need to understand the code to create these environments and troubleshoot them

Walmart.com QTFP86 Feb 8, 2019

You are in 2019, not in 1999.

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lzf66 Feb 8, 2019

I suggest you read Site Reliability Engineering so you understand the implications of your statement. It is my opinion, unless you change your position, you may find you are not even qualified to be a DevOps manager. Sad, but after you read SRE, you will understand what I'm talking about.

Microsoft ogLh58 Feb 8, 2019

how is devops different to ops if it is a role as opposed to a methodology? Am I missing something? Because 4 years ago when it was the new hotness it was all about getting rid of ops. Now it's essentially just rebranded ops? Wat?

AppDynamics devopswoot OP Feb 8, 2019

Well if software developers write software, and devops engineers are software developers who also do devops, shouldn’t devops engineers get paid more since they do more?

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ktFx33 Feb 9, 2019

At google they get paid the same. They might just spend 40% on coding and 60% on more traditional systems stuff