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DevOps vs. systems administration

Capgemini

Most people are aware of the traditional role of a system administrator. System Administrators provide the computing environment and access to the engineers, enabling them to do their job and move on to the next request. In the System Administrator model, there is a clear separation of duties between IT and Engineering.

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Emphasizing the Dev in DevOps

Xebia

When an organization is “doing DevOps”, and has employed “DevOps Engineers”, it often means they’re automating deployments and CI/CD pipelines, in addition to generally filling the role of what we used to call “System Administrators”. Does it perform? And does it not do what it’s not supposed to? Does it scale? Is it secure?

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Continuous deployment without downtime

CircleCI

Often you can find information on how to adopt DevOps practices like continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment, but there isn’t as much information on what could go wrong and how to handle those challenges. First, let’s note that continuous delivery is different from continuous deployment.

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Infrastructure Engineer: Key Duties, Skills, and Background

Altexsoft

The article promoted the idea of a new type of system administrator who would write code to automate maintenance, upgrades, and other tasks instead of doing everything manually. In smaller companies, networking falls into the responsibilities of an infrastructure engineer or system administrator. Infrastructure architect.

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7 DevOps Skills that are must-have for a DevOps Engineers

Openxcell

The engineers often combine system administration, operations, and software development in the full capabilities matrix. Automation is a crucial aspect of continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline, deploying infrastructure. To perform these tasks, DevOps engineers require specific skills.

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Top 10 Software Products to Integrate with GitHub

G2 Crowd Software

CircleCI is in our continuous integration software category. It was a High Performer in the Winter 2017 Grid ® for Continuous Integration. Travis CI is in our continuous integration software category. It was a High Performer in the Winter 2017 Grid ® for Continuous Integration. Reviews: 79.

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New live online training courses

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Ken Blanchard on Leading at a Higher Level: 4 Keys to Creating a High Performing Organization , June 13. Performance Goals for Growth , July 31. AWS Certified SysOps Administrator (Associate) Crash Course , July 17-18. Linux Performance Optimization , July 22. Architecture for Continuous Delivery , July 29.

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