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My struggle coming from a UNIX background in the modern corporate jargon server software world.
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I swear Im a decent coder, but fuck me if kubernetes and that whole ecosystem just confuses me

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What makes DevOps so different from sysadmin? Recruiters always told me “it’s nearly the same”, but I never got the job, so I guess idk.

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Recruiters lie my dude.

They are similar but with a strong knowledge set in different tools.

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Makes sense I didn’t get the job, I only vaguely know the difference and it was mostly theoretical stuff like CI/CD, but those recruiters really wanted to throw me at random interviews to see if I’d stick :D

PS: sorry I offtopic’ed to recruiter-hating, gonna go find a community for that.

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You good homie. I shit on recruiters frequently. I have them hitting me up all the time for in person stuff from LinkedIn when it actively says no in person stuff

It’s actually pretty distinct. DevOps refers to the mindset (or philosophy, if you will) of “you build it, you run it”. It boils down to you as a software developer are also responsible for packaging up you masterpiece, pushing it through CI, getting it deployed and making sure it keeps on running smoothly. It is designed to shift responsibilities away from the sysadmin to the developer.

The problem with this is that it’s not a role or a job title, so recruiters and HR does not know how to work with it. Hence, they invented the DevOps “Role” because it sounds more modern. So in reality its used as a marketing term most of the time. So when someone pitches you a DevOps jobs, this tells you a few things:

  • they don’t know what they are talking about
  • the company behind the offer puts a lot of meaning into titles, which means things will likely be pretty hierarchical even though they claim it won’t be
  • they’ll likely try to pay you less that your worth

I am someone with kubernetes in my job title. If you as a developer are expected to know about kubernetes beyond containerizing your application then your company has set itself up for failure. As you aptly said kubernetes is an ecosystem, and the dev portion is a small niche of that.

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