I am on this path myself but I asked if I could have a map of the path I should follow to get caught up with where the DevOps world is today and I was told…
- Learn a programming language. Python is a great one to learn and one of the easiest and most powerful
- Get comfortable with linux. Most everything DevOps is built on an instance of linux because seriously, windows is old news.  Trying to use linux as your default workspace will help you a lot to get involved with the unix ecosystem, and therefore you will be have more experience in troubleshooting in the long run.
- Knowledge about how web applications work is useful for DevOps, because most of what you’ll be facilitating are web applications, or database servers that are used by those web applications.
- Git ————-> Get your code done with other people.
- Jenkins ——-> Be able to automatize your builds and tests from your repo code, in order to create a image [docker image].
- Docker ——-> The container program that let you use your software image and be able to isolate from the host system, and be able to do it many times to have availabilty for multiple users.
- Kurbenetes ——> The thing that use docker runtime engine, and be able to get high availability and handle it.
- Terraform ———-> Usually the program you use to change your cloud setup configuration for many machines at once.
- Ansible ——–> The program that you use to change the config of many machines at ones (Not the cloud setup, is your OS environment setup of your machines [Yes, terraform can also do that but my suggestion is learn Ansible first before Terraform] )
- Study web development. I mean using html + css + typescript, not wordpress. I recomend you to learn angular or vue.
Once you accomplish the above you should check out what jobs are out there. You can always check out: https://www.getonbrd.com/ and remember that DevOps and DevSecOps are well paid jobs and also in my opinion this field won’t be replaced by AI any time soon.
