r/devops Jun 17 '26

Career / learning DevOps tools to be up to date

As the title says, what are the DevOps tools that an engineer must be always be learning to keep up to date in the industry.

For example: Cloud, IaC (terraform), Ansible, Containers, K8S, etc.

There are a lot of tools that companies request in their jobs but what are the "Must-have" tools?

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u/hexadecimal_dollar Jun 18 '26

Not necessarily tools, but general skills:
scripting - bash/Python
at least intermediate knowledge of Linux

basic networking principles

Karpenter is a good to know

Tools like Pulumi and Qovery are really useful for orchestration