Exactly my thought. People tend to overcomplicate things. First learn the basics through maybe Youtube or any Certifications and then start building projects right away. Things like Kubernetes comes afterwards.

Thank you for mentioning this certification on Microsoft Learn. I suggest everyone give this thing a spin. It is going to boost so much of your career.

I am resharing the link for better reach of the course:
Learn DevOps and Cloud. You learn from these big giants to crack MNCs.

Also, congrats on your first written post. I wish you the very best. May I know how you create these blog banners and the text??

I am actively looking to get into the field of Cloud and promote myself to at least a junior/staff level engineer. Will the course provide certifications?

This is the best explanatiion of how to start with DevOps. Thank you for mentioning about Learn certifications. I got enrolled. How long take to complete this?

I love that you mention the course about Cloud and DevOps. Apart from that it seems to lack in explaining things properly.

I've just started my journey in DevOps, I think this post will be really helpful to me.

Yeah - I'd almost want to skip the certifications in step 1. They can provide an early sense of accomplishment and may look good on a resume, but those milestones could be mistaken for "end of road" markers and make it easy to forget that DevOps is an endless journey of discovery.

Definitely +1 on the "dive in and do stuff with it" thought process though!

Absolutely, I want to share my story on learning Ansible.
I start learning Ansible since setting up every server is boring. At the same time, I know something called dotfiles and I don't satisfied with some solution, so I go to Ansible again and build a role about my custom environment.
I started using git to manage playbook 3 years ago. Then this year I move them to collections to have a better organization. Cause I need to manage more servers belongs to serval groups.
All Technics and experience are come from real world projects.

Is this a sponsored post, because following CNCF will take you much further.
cncf.io/training/

Hi, nice article, but i was expecting something more detailed. Like a roadmap to learn how to be a DevOps. this is too generic and can be applied to anything. but the tip about getting certified by MS is good.
(also, you skipped #3 )

Automate everything 💯

A key part of becoming successful at something is experiencing a wide range of problems that need solutions. In our working lives we will get this variety all the time, but starting out it's hard to know the problems that need solving and therefore, hard to understand how we "reason out" solutions and the tools we employ to enact them.

Qualifying in courses like these means you get to see a lot of different problems as you progress and practice - this is vital. Then doing, actually seeing a variation of a problem, recognising it and applying a simple solution is indeed what gives you confidence and make you a practitioner. Don't worry about knowing everything, just use something to solve a problem!

Great post! Also there are many free non Microsoft devops certifications and free non Microsoft learning materials so please don't limit yourself by learning one vendors way of doing things :)