From the course: Succeeding in DevOps

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DevOps qualifications and training

DevOps qualifications and training

From the course: Succeeding in DevOps

DevOps qualifications and training

- Just as there is no one true authority on what DevOps is, there is no predetermined path to DevOps enlightenment. There is no college degree you can get in DevOps and many vendors that pitch a certification or course as DevOps use it for the buzz that comes along with a buzzword. These types of courses can still be very useful as they teach specific tools that help solve problems that fall under the operations domain, such as deployment, monitoring, or infrastructure management. But teaching a tool is different from teaching an evolving set of practices that emerge from experience. And it's important to keep that in mind when vetting these materials. To complicate matters further, different organizations may have very different cultures and ideas around the day-to-day responsibilities of a DevOps engineer. Given this, the best way to gain the skills required to become a DevOps engineer is through hands on…

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