Welcome to my attempt at creating a DevOps Knowledge Base for myself!
This is the start on my journey to actually learning how to do DevOps and acquire all the skills that I need. In the end I hope that I will have learnt enough to work as a DevOps Engineer or something related. I am using Foam for this as I am already using it for my personal notes. You should check it out if you are interested in personal knowledge management (think Roam, zettelkasten, etc.).
My name is Julius Printz and I have worked in IT operations since 2012. Before that I studied Software Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology.
I have always had an interest in IT and how it relates to the actual user and find the principles in DevOps interesting because I feel like they have a focus on the reality of software and the users of said software. By that I mean that, to me, it seems that DevOps is about creating something that is actually usable and relevant to the user instead of delivering fluff that looks good on paper.
Quite frankly I've had enough experiences of managers and "higher-ups" that just want something to look or sound good instead of something that works and is actually needed by the business. That's were I hope that working with DevOps might eliminate most of the risk of having to deal with just that. I realize that, in the end, those people don't go away but hopefully a company that is committed to the DevOps practices have less of them.