Which certificates are essential for applying as a DevOps engineer in 2025?

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I would like to become a DevOps engineer and am currently working on roadmap.sh/devops. I would then like to specialize in container orchestration because a family member of mine has an IT company in this area and told me that he was still looking for employees. I would like to know which certificates are generally important for an application these days? In general, I would also like to know which skills a DevOps engineer should definitely master in 2025 in order to have job opportunities in the future.

Thank you very much.

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I’m working on getting the RHSCA right now but I am confused on how much cloud knowledge is needed in devops

I am wondering how much aws knowledge is needed for devops and if getting a cloud cert is for different jobs than devops?

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Targe: Open-Source IAM CLI for managing cloud access without navigating the provider UI

Hi everyone 👋

I’m one of the maintainers of the Go OSS project Targe, an open-source CLI for managing cloud access with AI assistance.

Repository: [https://github.com/Permify/targe](https://github.com/Permify/targe)

# IAM Is the Worst

To give a quick disclosure, we specialize in developing access control solutions.

As we work and collaborate with folks in the IAM space, we’ve repeatedly observed the same challenges, and we’re focusing on addressing them. When I say IAM is the worst, I mean it.

Manually assigning cloud permissions wastes hours, as DevOps teams deal with ambiguous role names, endless back-and-forth with requesters, over-provisioned roles filled with unnecessary permissions, and the difficulty of identifying and scoping the exact permissions needed for custom roles.

# We aim to simplify and speed up the grunt work

That’s why we’ve created Targe, although its has very limited capabilities right now - we would love to hear your feedback.

# How it Works?

1. Configure your cloud credentials to enable Targe to access resources in your infrastructure. Currently, Targe supports only AWS.
2. Start an access flow with three major commands ([see an example access flow](https://github.com/Permify/targe#start-an-access-flow-manually))
* `~ % targe aws users`  | Grant or revoke access to/from a user.
* `~ % targe aws groups` | Attach or detach a policy to/from a group.
* `~ % targe aws roles` | Attach or detach a policy to/from a role.
3. Preview the access action and complete the access request.
4. (Bonus) Use AI to create an access command to fulfill an access request.

**Looking forward to your feedback!!**

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask. Also if you appreciate our project, please consider giving us a star on [GitHub](https://github.com/Permify/targe). We appreciate your support.

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Book recommendations?

Looking for technical Devops books recommendations to pickup. More so, if they intersect with Systems and Design

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Devops Certification roadmap question

Hey, i am working as devops with aws/kubernetes/terraform.
Which one certification i have to focus at the start?. At the end i would like to have all of them.

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2. round interview tomorrow for Platform Engineering, what to expect?

Hey there!

I'm a software engineer trying to make a switch into platform engineering, and I've got a second round interview tomorrow which I am both excited and nervous about!

I know the job involves Kubernetes and such and I've been honest in that I have no real knowledge with it but I am taking courses to become as productive as I can from day one. I have some CI/CD experience with pipelines in Azure. My angle in the first interview was that I'm young with decent IT admin/software engineering experience and is very eager to make a switch into platform engineering which seems like a decent middleground between the two fields.


Any recommendations or tips? Much appreciated :)

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How Do DevOps Engineers Connect with Business Goals?

Hi everyone,

I’m an engineering manager overseeing both application and DevOps teams. I’ve noticed that while my application engineers often align their work with business objectives—like feature delivery, customer impact, or revenue growth—my DevOps engineers seem more focused on infrastructure reliability, performance, and cost optimization.

These are, of course, critical goals, and I deeply value their expertise. But I sometimes wonder: do DevOps engineers generally feel connected to the bigger picture of business outcomes? Or do they see their role as primarily technical, serving as enablers for others to achieve those outcomes?

More importantly, how can I, as a manager, better bridge this gap? Are there ways you’ve seen DevOps teams become more engaged with business goals without feeling like they’re being pulled away from their core responsibilities?

I’m genuinely curious and looking for insights to foster a stronger sense of purpose and alignment across my teams.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts and perspectives!

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Terminal with blocks feature (like Warp Terminal)

I recently tested Warp terminal, and one feature that truly amazed me is the blocks feature. Each command you execute is stored as a block, allowing you to filter specific lines within that block. It's incredibly intuitive and useful, and I haven’t come across any other terminal offering something similar.

Do any of you know a terminal that has this feature? Or perhaps a way to emulate it?

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Interview tips for JR position?

I come from a sysadmin background, almost have my BS in computer science and have a few projects with ansible and regular web development projects with CI/CD pipelines built in.

I never formally learned CI/CD or ansible and really only know from messing around with it until it worked.. can anyone offer some tips, common interview questions, or things to brush up on to help me pass this interview?


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Digital Ocean: Good or Bad?

We moved from aws to digital ocean and our first day our servers on digital ocean went down and they keep saying it’ll be back online soon and it has been 20+ hours and nothing. They seem horrible as of right now. Their support keeps sending the same generic email. I also noticed most of their reviews are fake. The real reviews seem to complain about them. What do you guys think? 🤔

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How hard is it to break into the US market as a UK citizen?

Bit of a sensitive topic but with this recent H1B fiasco going on. I've always wondered how people from mainly India are getting these H1B visas but I have yet to meet another British person that has migrated to the states other than the L1 Visa. I have tried myself for a few years now.

I personally have over 5 years experience as a DevOps enginner. Currently do work for a US company but live in Canada and it isn't something they offer. I do apply and hope for the best but i am curious if anyone else has any insight?

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Staying or Leaving as "person working there the longest"

I am an engineer somewhere between junior and mid-level and have been with my team for roughly three years. Throughout this time, my team has gone through a series of layoffs, organization restructures, and people leaving which significantly cut our tenured team members. I am now the only IC who is currently working on our team's platform and has worked on it for longer than a year.

I am concerned about being "the person who has been there the longest" as it results in me being the main point-of-contact for our platform despite having more-senior team members (but are relatively newer to our team).

One specific concern is the expectation to spend non-trivial amounts of time on mentorship and knowledge transfer rather than solely on business deliverables and my own professional development. I have shared these opinions to my team and attempted to handoff my knowledge as best I can, but I definitely still feel the pressure to be the "subject matter expert" when our team needs one.

On one hand, I am getting experience in mentorship/soft skills and I get to see how our platform evolves in the long-term, which seems useful as I progress to senior. However, I am worried that this is stunting my technical growth as an IC since I dedicate time to upskilling others rather than focusing on my own technical skills.

I would really appreciate some feedback on my views of this situation. I am unsure whether it is best to stay or leave in my role/company for my long-term best interest.

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Can we give custom response and status code when lambda is throttling.

I'm calling lambda through API gateway(lambda proxy integration), but want to give some custom response when lambda is throttling.

Any possible ways? Through api gateway or anything?

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Grafana vs Datadog: Cost Comparisons

Recently published blog post with quality examples on Grafana vs Datadog cost considerations. I know a lot of people here have spoken about the high price of Datadog and I was surprised to see how things tilted in favor of Grafana.

Thoughts?

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Become a Data Engineer in 2025 - Based on 100 Jobs data!

Happy New Year, everyone! Reposting a combination of 2 of my most upvoted posts last year at the start of the year for those looking to set ambitious career goals in 2025 assuming lot of new people are looking for this info now. After all, there’s no better time to plan your next big leap into Data Engineering!

Top skills in demand -

I analyzed 100 data engineering job descriptions from Fortune 500 companies to find the most frequently mentioned skills. Here are the top skills in demand:

|Skill Group|Frequency|Constituents with Frequency|
|:-|:-|:-|
|Programming Languages|196|SQL (85), Python (76), Scala (21), Java (14)|
|ETL and Data Pipeline|136|ETL (65), Pipeline (46), Integration (25)|
|Cloud Platforms|85|AWS (45), Azure (26), GCP (14)|
|Data Modeling and Warehousing|83|Data Modeling (40), Warehousing (22), Architecture (21)|
|Big Data Tools|67|Spark (40), Big Data Tools (19), Hadoop (8)|
|DevOps, Version Control and CI/CD|52|Git (14), CI/CD (13), Jenkins (7), Version Control (7), Terraform (6)|
|Data Quality and Governance|42|Data Quality (20), Data Governance (13), Data Validation (9)|
|Data Visualization|23|Data Visualization (11), Tableau (6), Power BI (6)|
|Collaboration and Communication|18|Communication (10), Collaboration (8)|
|API and Microservices|11|API (8), Microservices (3)|
|Machine Learning|10|Machine Learning (7), MLOps (2), AI/ML Model Development (1)|

➡️ Excel Sheet with data - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zB6wocrgxNgjWwo6Jkezje0SgJ3PXMIoCEyJwdY-nLU/edit?usp=sharing

➡️ Checkout the full video with explanation of tasks - https://youtu.be/XzqYdCov-LA

4 Month Study Plan -

Month 1: Foundations

DBMS & SQL: Basics of database concepts, querying, and design.
Python: Focus on Python essentials, including libraries like Pandas and NumPy.
Linux: Basic commands and navigation.
DSA: Data structures and algorithms, especially for big tech roles.

Month 2: Key Concepts & Tools

Data Concepts: Topics such as Data Lake, Data Mart, Fabric, and Mesh.
Data Governance: Management, security, and ethics in data.
Spark: Introductory concepts with Apache Spark.
Distributed Systems: Overview of Hadoop, Hive, and MPP systems.
Cloud Services: Options such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Month 3: Advanced Topics

Orchestration: Basics of workflow orchestration with tools like Apache Airflow.
Compute: Databricks, Snowflake, or equivalents like AWS EMR.
Containers: Introduction to Docker and Kubernetes.
CI/CD: Tools such as Jenkins and SonarQube.
Streaming: Fundamentals of Kafka.
ETL/ELT: Tools like dbt and Talend, along with architecture basics.
Terraform: Code-based infrastructure setup.

Month 4: Projects & Portfolio

Build a project portfolio to showcase skills. Examples include:

Bank Data Warehouse
Fraud Detection ETL
Reddit Review Tracker
Retail Analytics
Trip Data Transformation
YouTube Clone

Certifications

AWS Certifications: Cloud Practitioner, Solutions Architect Associate, Data Engineer Associate
Databricks: Data Engineer Associate
Apache Airflow: Airflow Fundamentals

Showcase Your Work

Document projects on GitHub, post on LinkedIn, and network with target companies.

➡️ Full detailed roadmap - https://youtu.be/5b4CIon\_1pY

➡️ For best certifications checkout: https://youtu.be/cfBoR6VY6Rw

Hope you found this helpful, I will try my best to add value to you this year as well, let's kill it fam! 🤝

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Building in public - just added Built-In Analytics to Rollout—For Free!

Hey everyone! I have another update to share!

I am Super excited to announce an exciting feature in Rollout—**Privacy-First Analytics** that’s built directly into the platform

💡 **Why This is a Big Dea**l

* **Out-of-the-Box**: Analytics is included for **free** in Rollout—no setup, no additional cost!
* **Better than Competitors**:
* Netlify charges for analytics (yikes).
* Vercel offers analytics, but with **limited free access**.
* Cloudflare’s analytics can be hard to set up and overly complex.
* **Simplicity**: Whether you’re a freelancer, agency, or developer, you’ll get all the insights you need with just a few clicks.
* **Privacy First**: No trackers, no cookies—your data stays private and secure.

🔍 **What Can You Track**?

* Pageviews
* Sessions
* Bandwidth
* Events, and much more.

Rollout continues to focus on **speed, simplicity, and transparency**, and this feature is just another step in that direction.

Try it out today: [https://app.rollout.sh](https://app.rollout.sh/)

Got thoughts or feedback? We’d love to hear from you!

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Configuring logrotation for gunicorn running as a systemd service

Folks, I want to configure log rotation for my django gunicorn log files which is running as a custom systemd service on the server, could not find any appropriate solution yet. Seeking help to guide.

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How you handled gitops with kubernetes, i use argocd , but i need a tool (not helm ui) that will help me manage the charts on github (team of 4) so collabaration feature also could help

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I need help :(

I've been working as a Junior DevOps Engineer for 2 years.
I have some experience with Azure, GitLab, and Azure DevOps, but most of the other tools and technologies I’ve learned on my own. I haven’t had the chance to apply them in real-world projects yet :(.

I want to change jobs because my current salary is low (I’m from Argentina). I’d like to work on personal projects or get hands-on experience to improve my skills and grow professionally.

What would you recommend to win practice? Can I find a new job with my current level of experience?

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How to go about learning and implementing Devops as a backend developer?

Hi, I am a backend developer(student) and am trying to upskill by learning devops. I have recently got a server that I would like to host and work on.
Coming from backend dev, I have a decent-ish grip on the menial server tasks, I would like to learn more about Devops and so how should I go about learning?
I prefer books, so are there any books that explains Devops theory?
What all technologies should I learn to be able to operate my server and also have professional relevance?



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Strategies for Containerized development environments?

What tools or strategies have you found most effective for streamlining containerized development environments? I'm curious how others have tackled the challenges mentioned in this blog about improving dev workflows and reducing build times.

Or on the flip side, if you're a container hater, I'd love to know why.

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