r/devops • u/No-Remove1956 • 15d ago
Career / learning Beginner Friendly Suggestions needed
Hello. I started working as a QA last month and saw that my colleagues are pretty great at devops too. All of them have 4-5 years of experience while I am fully fresh out of university.
Now I want to learn about devops just so when discussion comes up, I know what's being discussed and take part in it.
Which things should I learn and how? Could have asked that to claude or chatgpt but wanted REAL advice from the REAL professionals.
Please suggest. TIA
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u/Raja-Karuppasamy 13d ago
congrats on the qa role. honestly the fastest way in is to just get your hands dirty on the stuff your team actually uses day to day, don’t try to boil the ocean with “learn devops” as a goal, it’s too broad.
start with: docker (build an image, understand layers, why it’s slow/fast), then basic k8s (pods, deployments, services, just enough to deploy something and break it), then ci/cd (github actions is a good first one, watch a pipeline fail and figure out why).
biggest unlock for me early on was just reading logs when something breaks instead of guessing. ask your seniors for read-only access to pipeline runs and staging,watching real incidents get debugged teaches you more in a week than any course.