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Ask HN: What are your favorite DevOps tools?

5 points| rpseq | 8 years ago | reply

I am interested in careers software industry after a few years in a computational genetics PhD program. DevOps seems like a good fit because of my experience with a "Dockerized" distributed computing platform but I don't know where to start.

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[+] cflyingdutchman|8 years ago|reply
(curious why you want to leave genetics because I'm an engineer and would like to go into computational genetics)
[+] bsears|8 years ago|reply
I'll just list a few tools I use on a daily basis

Kubernetes - Great platform for orchestrating containers, made my life a ton easier (Learn Docker and containers first)

Jenkins - Very powerful automation platform, great for setting up CI/CD pipelines

AWS - Good to get your feet wet in the public cloud space

Chef - Configuration management and infrastructure automation tool, you define how you want your workloads to look and it delivers

Terraform - Infrastructure as code, where Chef defines the configuration of an existing machine, terraform defines how that machine should be provisioned

In terms of core concepts, read up on CI/CD, Agile, and SDDC architecture.

[+] rpseq|8 years ago|reply
Thanks! I am comfortable using Docker so I'll try to come up with a Kubernetes + AWS project.
[+] naim08|8 years ago|reply
Dockers are probably my fav. Containers make it really easy to share projects