3 Concepts to Master for DevOps/SRE Interviews

I've been doing a lot of interviewing for DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Cloud Infrastructure jobs, and I think these three concepts are critically underappreciated.
1. Infrastructure As Code
2. Immutable Infrastructure (see my arch server video for examples in the comments)
3. Datacenter-as-a-Computer / Distributed Systems Scheduling
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[@Robert_Jacobs]

I am so appreciative for these videos. They talk about basics without thinking your audience are children. Honestly, simple explanations like these are vital, so again thank you.

[@jaideep_yes]

Thank you man, your videos are really guiding me in right direction to make a shift from backend developer to an beginner as DevOps engineer.

[@renatoespinoza1066]

thank you!! amazing high level but well rounded descriptiom of the goal of an SRE. Especially when a lot of people just talk about the technologies instead of the concept explanation. This video dies help me see what I need to be on the lookout for opportunities to participate in my own job as CyberSec that wants to make the leap. Besides this videos explains what is the goal of this position or at least tells you what youll be facing. It definetely does help me make a decision to pursue it. 👍👍👍

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[@alexmathews6387]

You're the first person who has properly demystified this bloody 3 letter acronym, it's practical requirements and expectations. _/\_ thank you

[@ricardofranco7419]

I’m a software engineer newly hired as devops/sre. I really appreciate this video! Subbed!

[@janrodriguez9566]

Great video, loved the topics and the insights!

[@escrituratalks]

I am currently working as a Software Developer. But lately I have bien thinking about transitioning into DevOps. Thanks for such useful info!

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Dude thanks for bringing this videos up. Every point you make has a real world scenario depth to it and its awesome to find out more as soon as the video end. Love you bro. Sorry don't know your name. 😅 Double quotes "feels like if I get a chance to work with you then we can automate any thing there is!"

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Love your videos ! Thanks for sharing your knowledge for free

[@Abraxis-Gnosis]

This is exactly what i needed, thanks!

[@shahrukh49]

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[@Master_Shredtacular]

I've got my first interview for a devOps internship tomorrow, thanks for the vids for helping me brush up on my skills beforehand!

[@pw0107]

How'd it go?

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[@aishwaryamurali450]

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[@oschvr]

Great video ! Thank you

[@karlforster4892]

Excellent video. explained a lot :-)

[@VanquishRCP1]

Excelent video!

[@sriramkrishnaswamy5595]

This is so awesome😊 you are really great

[@shankarartham5521]

That's a wonderful video, is it possible for you to show us an interview session on SRE positions, so that we get an idea of what exactly the industry is looking for.! Thanks a lot for the information :)

[@tutoriaLinux]

That's a cool suggestion, maybe Jeff and I can record a mock interview conversation to see what that might be like. A full day of interviewing is usually 4-8 hours though, so that might be a bit much :-D

[@shankarartham5521]

@@tutoriaLinux Thank you for the response, a small mock interview would be great though, you guys doing a great job. :)

[@lightyagami0ben]

Thanks man !

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Hey is there any way to write a sentinel policy which will fetch details of a json file present in gcp storage. It wouod be very helpful👍🙂

[@ansrhl9448]

omg I almost cried.

[@nikolakarlusic7368]

Hey, can you please make a video about freelancing as a sysadmin? I just can't find anyone covering this topic. There are plenty of videos about freelancing as a programmer but not as a sysadmin. Like what platform should you use or what can you work on in your spare time to have some side benefits. For example, maybe setting up your hosting services, or maybe UpWork or something like that. I believe that you know more that I so that's why I would like to see that video from you! Let me know what you think :) Also great video btw...

[@tutoriaLinux]

Honestly I’ve never freelanced and I don’t know anyone who does. Is it a common thing? I could imagine doing infrastructure consulting where you scale stuff or help someone move from aws to gcloud, but that seems more like regular contract work than freelancing. Maybe someone else can speak up and share their experiences?

[@FakieStreams]

To be fair, I love java things.

[@di12thman]

Hey @tutoriaLinux I'm looking to start my career as SRE/DevOps Engineer, but as a fresher I'm not getting opportunities. Do you recommend my any course or something to boost up knowledge and get some more chances. thanks

[@tutoriaLinux]

This is just my experience, but only VERY recently have I started seeing "junior" devops roles. I think it has always tended to me mid-career+ people, because it requires experience on the software development side AND the ops side. Again, I have been on a team that hired someone more junior (2 years of experience) but that was an outlier. All the SREs I know have 8+ years of experience, the vast majority have 10+ years in software dev, ops, cloud infra, security, and other topics (usually a mishmash). Just my experience, but it may explain what you're seeing. You may want to target software engineering jobs with a secondary focus on Linux/Cloud infrastructure. Take on those kinds of projects in your role and become "the linux/cloud/CI/pipeline person" and you'll naturally fall into a devops role at your second or third job.

[@di12thman]

@@tutoriaLinux Thanks a lot. Recently I got a job as an Java Engineer. So basically I need to stuck with the same for 2-3 years to have a inside glance how the Software Devlopers work and experience it. I'm totally confuse at the beginning wether to go for it or not. But Thanks a lot to clear my doubt. Love you Peace✌

[@justinphilip3147]

Hi I got 3 AWS Associate certifications. I didn’t get any job yet. What else I am supposed to added up on top of that certifications? Which is the right direction? Please give some advise.

[@elva136]

Same here. I have learnt IAAC as well as got AWS certified. I even showed fake experience on resume. I have over 6 years of experience in IT as a systems administration and now am working as infrastructure architect yet still didnt get a call. Not sure what I am doing wrong.😔

[@crazysloth9]

Completely disagree with immutable infra. The same CI practices work with IaC and small incremental changes tested through dev and staging environments before prod are the way to go. How else are you going to make incremental changes to your service infra?

[@kite2surf]

Will you be updating your Udemy course?!

[@tutoriaLinux]

I’ve been updating it ever since it came out! The instructions repo gets polished every month or so, and everything works with Ubuntu 20.04 and php 7.4. Which parts would you like updated? Do you mean the videos themselves?

[@kite2surf]

@@tutoriaLinux Udemy states the course hasn't been updated since 11/2018! I wanted to purchase it but that date put me off.

[@tutoriaLinux]

Ahh thanks for pointing that out! I’ve been updating the github repo with all the code and instructions, which of course doesn’t affect the modification date on the udemy course. My bad! I’ve been planning on adding an AWS video and a TLS video; I’ll film those tomorrow and get them added soon. Thanks again for letting me know, that is super valuable.

[@kite2surf]

​@@tutoriaLinux no problem.

[@kite2surf]

Hi David I just saw the course update video , that said the course still shows not updated since 11/2018. Might be some issue Udemys end.

[@VanDerLaars]

So the KernelPanicPodcast died for good?!?!

[@tutoriaLinux]

We recorded one a while back but the audio got lost I think...Jeff is super busy right now but we may start it up again in the future. Sorry man :(

[@anmax]

You shouldn't cut your hands out of the frame because it's clearly big part of your communication style

[@ashearera]

How long until we start calling multi cloud computing sky computing lol

[@thebrotherhood1675]

you what?