What devops skills are needed in Canada?

 I will share with you ten crucial skills that every DevOps engineer should have for success.

1. Strong Communication and Collaboration Skills

Communication and collaboration are the skills that can make or break DevOps in any organization.

Just consider a few things that can be efficiently done if communication and collaboration are on your DevOps skill set:

• Breaking down the silos. Everyone is sick and tired of this, but DevOps is all about breaking down the silos between the development and operations teams. A DevOps engineer is someone who builds connections and relieves bottlenecks, which is done by talking to people.
• Aligning Dev and Ops goals for the customer’s sake. A DevOps pro should be able to assess and streamline the goals of Dev and Ops teams towards the common goal to ensure a flawless customer experience.
• Introducing and implementing a DevOps culture. All organizations are different, and you will not be able to instill DevOps values and DevOps culture should communication and collaboration be missing. You will have to explain what DevOps is, educate about DevOps principles and DevOps tools, and verbally dive deep into infrastructure and automation issues.

Simply put, if you are not a people person who can bring employees together to work towards a common goal, DevOps might not be the best fit for you.

2. Empathy and Unselfishness

Soft skills are as important to a DevOps professional as hard skills and should not be underestimated.

Not only does DevOps require strong hard skills like coding and automation, it also necessitates such soft skills as curiosity, flexibility, self-motivation, and empathy.

Among soft skills, nothing beats empathy and unselfishness — DevOps skills that help you understand what other people feel and allow you not to put yourself above others.

DevOps pros should not only be talkers, but also listeners. Never should you rush a DevOps transformation before you:

• Talk to key stakeholders
• Find out what the goals are
• Assess the current state of DevOps
• Identify areas of improvement
• Ensure that stakeholders realize what you are going to do

You should understand how the organization runs, who the people who manage it are, and what the organization’s culture is to avoid creating contention points and constraints. Empathy and unselfishness will definitely help you in the process.

3. Understanding of Major DevOps Tools

DevOps tools are too many, and it does not make much sense to try to master them all. The good news is, you do not have to.

However, knowing your way around the major DevOps tools (displayed in the table below) will be a huge plus on your resume.

Source Control	Continuous Integration	Configuration Management	Deployment Automation	Containers	Orchestration	Cloud Platforms
Git	Jenkins	Puppet	Jenkins	Docker	Kubernetes	AWS
Bitbucket	Bamboo	Chef	VSTS	Vagrant	Mesos	Azure
	TeamCity	Ansible	Octopus Deploy		Swarm	GCP

DevOps is constantly changing. To ensure that your DevOps skills are up to snuff, you will have to learn something new, including DevOps tools all the time.

4. Software Security Skills

DevSecOps (Security DevOps) has become one of the tech buzzwords in 2018 for a reason, which is:

While DevOps helps develop and release software more rapidly, it also creates a bunch of vulnerabilities, since security teams cannot keep up with the faster cycle.

Simply put, not only high-quality code but also bugs and malware can be deployed much faster now. Introducing DevOps without having perfected security processes in the IT-organization is a recipe for disaster.

Thus, DevOps should have at least the basic software security skills to be able to introduce security into the SDLC right off the bat.

The security component should be shifted left: You do not want to fix security issues in code; you want to predict and eliminate them from the start.

5. Command of Automation Technologies and Tools

Automation is the lifeblood of DevOps.

Unless you know how to automate the entire DevOps pipeline, including CI/CD, continuous testing, app performance monitoring, infrastructure settings and configurations, you cannot call yourself a DevOps engineer.

Automation is key because it allows to reduce the human component, which fosters speed, increases accuracy, improves consistency and reliability while cutting the amount of errors. Eventually, this results in more rapid and swift, higher-quality delivery of value to customers.

3 Steps to Expand DevOps and Automation Throughout the Enterprise from Puppet

Your ability to automate DevOps hugely depends on your knowledge of DevOps tools, coding and scripting skills, and experience with the on-premise and cloud infrastructure.

6. Coding and Scripting Skills

DevOps engineer should not have to be a coding guru. However, having some coding and, most importantly, scripting skills is very much recommended.

As a DevOps, you should have a good handle on Ruby, Python, Java, Javascript, PHP, Bash, Shell, and Node.js. (Of course, you should not know every programming language.) You will need these mostly for automation.

If you are looking for a good place to start, go for Python, Go, and JSON/Javascript.

7. Cloud Skills

DevOps and cloud are joined at the hip.

If you do DevOps, you have to know the cloud, since:

• The cloud provides DevOps and the entire crew a centralized platform to test, deploy, and release code
• It enables DevOps automation by offering CI/CD tools, cost-efficiency, and security
• The cloud ensures that resources are easily monitored and the associated cost is efficiently tracked and adjusted

And, most importantly, the cloud allows IT-organizations to accelerate and facilitate a development process.

Thus, whether you choose AWS or Azure, or any other cloud platform, knowing how to do DevOps in the cloud is a must-have DevOps skill.

8. Testing Skills

DevOps is hugely impacted by how well testing is done in the IT-organization.

You cannot automate the DevOps pipeline if efficient continuous testing, the process of executing automated tests, is not in place.

Ensure that every automated test runs as it should, or risk pushing buggy code directly to customers, which is not great from a user experience standpoint.

9. Customer-Centric Mindset

DevOps engineers should work with a final goal in mind, which is delivering value to the end user and getting tangible results for their organization’s business. They should analyze how their own and their organization’s activities can be enhanced to deliver value more rapidly.

To do that, DevOps engineers should keep in touch with key stakeholders, including developers, testers, project managers, and business leaders. Eventually, they need to ensure that their activities are properly synchronized and optimized around the common goal.

10. Passion and Proactivity

DevOps engineers should nurture passion and proactivity.

To begin with, loving your job is naturally linked to happiness at a workplace, which impacts performance and productivity. And the more meaningful results you produce for the company, the more valuable asset you become.

Then, as a DevOps engineer, you will have to learn a lot on a daily basis. New tools, new technologies, new cloud offerings, and so on. You should approach those proactively and with passion. Otherwise, you will slowly but surely become someone whose skills are no longer needed.

And finally, passion and proactivity are your safe road for setting you up as an authority. You can and should develop a brand identity not only to stand out against the competition but also to build trust with your co-workers.

Conclusion

DevOps is not exactly rocket science. However, it requires an individual to have a lot of hard and soft skills. Some of which are really hard to gain and nurture.

DevOps engineers should be able to do a lot on the tech side of things — from using specific DevOps tools and managing infrastructure in the cloud to writing secure code and checking automation tests.

They should be individuals who are passionate about what they do and who are ready to deliver the enormous amounts of value. They should be curious and proactive, empathetic and assertive, reliable and consistent. They should be able to put customers’ needs above their team’s needs and take action when required.

The DevOps role is not easy, yet it is totally worth it to become a DevOps.

To take things off the ground, check how many of the DevOps skills featured in this article you have. And if you lack some of them, be proactive and start learning right now!

DEVOPS TECH

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Introduction

•       Why Cloud computing?

•       Why you should learn AWS?

•       Why AWS certification is important?

•       History of AWS

•       Free account setup demo for hands on practice.

•       Course in detail

Why Cloud computing?

•       Cloud computing means that instead of all the computer hardware and software you're using sitting on your desktop, or somewhere inside your company's network, it's provided for you as a service by another company and accessed over the Internet, usually in a completely seamless way.

•    

   What makes cloud computing different?

q                  It's managed

q                  It's "on-demand"

q                  It's public or private

Types of cloud computing

•          Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Ex: you pay a monthly subscription or a per-megabyte/gigabyte fee to have a hosting company serve up files for your website from their servers.

•          Software as a Service (SaaS) - Ex: Zoho is another well-known SaaS provider offering a variety of office applications online.

•          Platform as a Service (PaaS)  - you might develop your own ecommerce website but have the whole thing, including the shopping cart, checkout, and payment mechanism running on a merchant's server. App Cloud (from salesforce.com) and the Google App Engine are examples of PaaS.

Cloud Providers in market

Why you should learn AWS?

•       Fastest growing cloud computing platform on the planet.

Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world’s leading research and advisory company. According to their study and compared AWS and other top 14 cloud providers in the world and if you add up the compute capacity of Amazon it consumes about 90% of world’s total compute capacity in terms of public cloud. Next 5% by Microsoft, and next 5% by all other remaining service providers.

•       Largest public cloud computing platform.

•       More and more organizations are outsourcing their IT to AWS

Certification Path

Why AWS certification is important?

AWS certifications are most popular one right now and according to forbes AWS is the top Paid certification in 2016.

History of AWS

´  2003 – Chris pinkham and Benjamin Black present a paper on what Amazon’s own internal infrastructure should look like.

´  Suggested selling it as a service and they came

up with business idea.

´  SQS officially launched in 2004.

´  AWS officially launched in 2006.

´  2007 over 180000 developers on the platform.

´  2012 they had their first re-Invent conference.

´  2013 they came up with certifications.

´  2014 committed to achieve 100% renewable energy

usage for its global footprint.

´  2015 AWS breaks out its revenue $6 billion

USD per annum and growing close to 90% year on year.

Why AWS is the best?

While AWS is an extremely useful platform for backups and disaster recovery, it is also extremely reliable. Despite a high-profile outage earlier this year, an independent review found that since 2015, AWS has been “far better at keeping its public cloud service running than either Microsoft or Google.”

 Setting up AWS free Tier account

https://aws.amazon.com/free/?all-free-tier.sort-by=item.additionalFields.SortRank&all-free-tier.sort-order=asc

Create Free account

Select Country and fill all the asked details

Main selection is Select Account Type : Personal

Post which it will ask for card details follow the steps carefully.

Mandatory:

Credit/Debit Card details

Phone to which this card is tag

ged to for OTP puposes.

The weddings 'ruined' by Kashmir's lockdown

Article 370: The weddings 'ruined' by Kashmir's lockdown

Hundreds of weddings in Indian-administered Kashmir have been cancelled or scaled back since the region was placed under lockdown on 5 August, when it was stripped of its special status.

The BBC's Neha Sharma and Aamir Peerzada met one bride whose wedding is turning out to be a far cry from the grand event she wanted.

Kashmir LIVE: BJP Demands Apology from Rahul, Says Pakistan Used His J&K Comments as Evidence in UN

Kashmir LIVE: Union Minister Prakash Javadekar today criticised Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his comments on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir after his failed attempt to visit the Valley on August 24. Gandhi's remarks in the wake of the visit were widely reported in the Pakistani media. Gandhi had last week said that he got a taste of the current "draconian administration" in Jammu and Kashmir when he and other opposition leaders were barred from leaving the Srinagar airport and sent back to Delhi. Gandhi was also mentioned in a letter sent by Pakistan's Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari on Monday to bolster Islamabad’s stand at the United Nations. The letter also quotes Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad questioning the restrictions in Kashmir.

"The Congress has embarrassed the nation," said Javadekar on Wednesday. "Where did Rahul Gandhi get this information from? Kashmir is normal. Rahul Gandhi's comment is being used by Pakistan."

Kashmir Live Updates: Pakistan minister predicts full blown Indo-Pak war in October

Supreme Court is hearing a batch of 14 petitions challenging the Centre's decision to abrogate Article 370 and revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. The Supreme Court has issued 2 notices to the Centre saying all petitions regarding Article 370 will be heard by a 5-judge bench in October. It has also sought reply on press restrictions in Kashmir. An important Cabinet meeting will be held on Wednesday evening, which will be followed by a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA). The government may announce a fresh package following the Cabinet meeting, including more job opportunities and trade investments. A delegation of government officials has reached the Valley to explore such opportunities. Stay tuned for live updates on Kashmir developments:

How, where are 2 former J&K CMs Omar Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti

Both former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti have been under detention for the past 23 days.

While Omar Abdullah has been kept at the Niwas Guest House near his house, Mehbooba Mufti has been taken far from her residence and is being detained at the government guest house in the Chashme Shahi area.

Omar Abdullah spends most of his time in imprisonment gymming or playing games while Mehbooba Mufti spends time reading newspapers and books.

Both former CMs have also been given access to satellite television.

Shawwal moon sighted, Eid-ul-Fitr on Wednesday

Shawwal moon was sighted in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday evening, said J&K Grand Mufti Nasir-ul-Islam.

“Ample of testimonies were received from many parts of the state, therefore, the 1st of Shawwal 1440 Hijri will be on Wednesday 5th June. Based on local moon sighting, Eid-ul-Fitr will be on Wednesday 5th June 2019,” Grand Mufti told Greater Kashmir.

Eid-ul-Fitr, the festival of thanksgiving, marks the culmination of the holy month of Ramadhan.

Greeting people on the Eid-ul-Fitr, he appealed Muslims to celebrate Eid with austerity and help poor and downtrodden.

Shawwal moon has also been sighted in Pakistan.

Kashmiris Drown In Festive Spirit; Markets, Roads Jam-Packed

Eid al Fitr in 2019: Eid marks the end of Ramadan, a month-long fast observed by Muslims worlwide.

SRINAGAR: 

As Eid 2019 approaches, markets in Kashmir Valley are flooded with enthusiastic shoppers. True to the festive spirit, Kashmiris are queuing up at bakeries, mutton and poultry shops, departmental stores, sweet shops, ready-made garment shops and shops selling toys, mobile phones, refrigerators to buy every imaginable thing that can add to the festivities of Eid-ul-fitr on Wednesday.

Most interior and even main roads are choked as people are out for Eid shopping. During this joyous time, prices were not the priority. Mutton is being sold in Srinagar and other places at Rs. 550 per kg while the officially announced rate is Rs. 450 per kg, but the mutton shops were seen doing brisk business.

"All that the buyers are worried about is the availability of things they want to buy, prices seem to be nobody's concern," said Muhammad Ashraf, a resident of old city Srinagar as he waited for his turn at a bakery shop.

Road leading to various markets is seeing massive traffic jams. Gonikhan and Nowhatta markets, which are popular for women and children items, have been jam-packed with Eid most likely to be tomorrow. The Eid date will be confirmed by evening after the moon sighting.

The roadside vendors have also set up stalls at Lal Chowk and in adjoining areas selling different merchandise. Serpentine queues are also seen at ATM outlets and banks.

The fasting month will end on Tuesday or day after depending on the sighting of the moon.

Many charitable trusts have come up in Kashmir especially during the last two decades whose account books are annually audited and results are published for public scrutiny. People lavishly contribute to these charitable trusts and help others' Eid a joyous occasion.

Eid-ul-fitr has a special significance as it marks the end of Ramadan, a month-long fast that is observed by Muslims across the world. The holy fast or roza is observed from sunrise to sunset. After Ramadan, Eid is celebrated on the first day of Shawwal, the 10th month of the Islamic lunar calendar. Eid gifts, known as Eidi, are given to children and relatives on this festival of breaking the fast.

Markets in Srinagar and elsewhere in the Kashmir valley wore a festive look

Markets in Srinagar and elsewhere in the Kashmir valley wore a festive look Monday as people began shopping for Eid-ul-Fitr which will be celebrated this week to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

Bakeries, confectioneries and toy shops witnessed heavy rush of customers as Muslims began the preparation for the Eid festival at the end month-long fasting.

Shops selling readymade garments, clothes and shoes, besides mutton and chicken, were found doing brisk business.

Road leading to various markets witnessed massive traffic jams as people thronged them for shopping.

Markets like Gonikhan and Nowhatta, which are popular for women and children items, were jam-packed since the morning.

The roadside vendors have also set up stalls at Lal Chowk and in adjoining areas selling all kinds of merchandise. Serpentine queues were witnessed at ATM outlets and banks.

The fasting month will end on Tuesday or day after depending on the sighting of the moon.

flag of Jammu and Kashmir

The flag of Jammu and Kashmir is the official flag of the state of Jammu and Kashmir in northern India. It consists of a deep red field, representing labour, charged with a plough to represent agriculture. Three stripes are found on the hoist side and represent the three regions of the state: Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.^[1]

Jammu and Kashmir is 'permitted' to fly its own 'state' flag along with the national flag.^[2] Jammu and Kashmir also has a separate constitution which works under Article 370 of the Constitution of India. This is due to the state's special status under the Indian Constitution.^[3]

History

The flag has its origin in events that took place on 13 July 1931 in Srinagar. During a demonstration against the Dogra rulers, the police opened fire and 21 people were killed. The blood-tainted shirt of one of the victims was then hoisted by the crowd as the new flag of Kashmir. 13 July is known as Martyrs' Day and is an official holiday in Jammu and Kashmir.^[4]

On 11 July 1939, the flag was adopted by the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference, a political party. Then on 7 June 1952, a resolution was passed by the Constituent Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir, making it the official flag of the State. Meanwhile, according to the Delhi Agreement between Nehru and Sheikh Abdullah, the national flag has the same status in Jammu and Kashmir as in the rest of India.^[4]

Description

Article 144 states that flag of the state shall be rectangular 3:2 format. Its color is red, which originally represented the blood of the martyrs of the 13 July 1931 demonstration, but later came to symbolise workers and labourers. In the middle, a white plough further symbolises the peasants. Next to the staff, three vertical white stripes represent the three regions of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.^[4]

2015 controversy[edit]

The Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir makes it mandatory to hoist the state flag alongside the national flag at all times.^[2] However, in 2015, the newly elected Bharatiya Janata Party members in the Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly refused to hoist the state flag in their offices. BJP Ministers did not hoist the State flag either, as they consider that it has no importance.^[2]

The government led by Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed then issued a circular making it compulsory to hoist the state flag along with the national flag, stating that "The state flag has the same sanctity and position as the Union flag has under the Indian Constitution and other statutory provisions." However, within 20 hours, the state government withdrew this circular.^[2][5][6] On withdrawal of the circular, the Jammu & Kashmir BJP spokesperson said, "“Our leaders cannot have any other flag on their vehicles besides the Tricolour. We welcome the withdrawal of the circular."^[2]

In December 2015, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court ordered the government of the state to hoist the state flag along with national flag on official buildings and vehicles of constitutional authorities.^[7] However, this decision was contested by the Bharatiya Janata Party and in January 2016 Jammu and Kashmir High Court stayed their decision of hoisting state flag. Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Nirmal Kumar Singh said that no flag could be hoisted at an equal level of the national flag of India. Other parties alleged that the BJP is trying to impose its nationalist agenda on a state with special status.^[8] Despite the stance of the BJP, ministers of its coalition partner PDP continue to use the state flag alongside the national flag in official meetings. Youth wing of National Conference also launched a campaign encouraging people to use the state flag as the profile image on their social media accounts saying that "the State flag of J&K doesn't undermine or take away the protocol or status of the National Flag and is clearly provided for in our constitution.