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The original was posted on /r/sysadmin by /u/overwhelmed_nomad on 2024-01-21 10:08:50+00:00.
Hi,
I'm trying to figure out what my logical next step should be both for personal growth and to help the business I currently work for.
I've got a solid understanding of networking, configuring firewalls, switches, WIFI set ups etc. I'm very familiar with Windows, O365 etc. Reasonable with Linux, mainly Ubuntu servers. Reasonable understanding of Azure and AWS. I've got myself to a place where I am pretty comfortable with Terraform having created lot's of resources in Azure and AWS and also importing our remaining infrastructure into Terraform, storing the configs in git and the backend encrypted in Azure blob storage.
I want to get even more focused on working with cloud technology and IAC but I am looking for the next technology I should be learning to move upwards in the world. Should I be learning some CI/CD tools? How does that even fit in with Terraform. My current environment is quite static, we have a lot of applications on VM's that haven't been moved to containers yet. Maybe that's another avenue I should look at? I've never been a dev type really. I have basic python skills I wouldn't even know where to begin with that side of things.
Of course every organisation differs but what tends to be the hand off point? Developers write the code, compile it then hand it over to the team that creates and deploys the containers? Or do devs often create the container image and then hand it over to the team that deploys it? Presumably this is all done via some kind of automation. I'm just a bit lost at the moment.
I feel like Docker/kubernetes and some kind of CI/CD tool would be ideal next steps for me to move in the direction I want. I learn well from books so maybe someone out there has some reccomendations on books that could point me in the right direction.