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Re:Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration by 400thecat on Saturday January 29, 2022 @08:47AM (#30126223)
> I am a Unix/Linux sysadmin, not a "DevOps" or a "Cloud/AWS/Azure engineer". I am only doing traditional Unix/Linux sysadmin stuff.

I will steal this.

As for the term "DevOps", I am never sure what people mean when they use it. You seem to be using in contrast to traditional linux sysadmin. What exactly does DevOps mean in your definition?

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Re:Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration by harryruhr on Saturday January 29, 2022 @09:09AM (#30126387)
DevOps originally means a method. It is not a position or a job. But that doesn't stop companies to say, there are looking for an "DevOps engineer" or similar. The definition is vague at best.

Some seem to think a "DevOps" is a developer who knows how to administrate servers (or vice versa), as a modern term for a general IT person who can do anything, from programming, to firewall administration and repairing the printer.

Another definition is more specific, DevOps means in this case: working with CI/CD tools, programming "infrastructure as code" (Terraform, Ansible, etc) and doing all things "agile". This job is mostly cloud focussed.

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