DevOps or QA -- what is the best choice?

SIC

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    Man me kiana ake hodata kalpana karanna balanna. Mage career path Change karapu ake and mage advices tika.

    Mama career ake start kre application support engineer kenek vidyata. 3.5years application engineer kenek vidiyata vada kara. ITIL uth kara. But mata teruna dee thamai application engineer kenek viidyata vada karala terumak naha mokada ops side ake clear career path akak tynne devops side aketa only. Application support kine kisima future ake gana clear path akak nathi field akak. Example akak vidiyata gatot ake company akaka uba vada krnne full product based, TEC side ake exposure naha. Tava vacancy akak baluvot ake full technical devops la vage tec exposure akak expect krnava.


    Ops side ake job roles

    Application support, operations engineer, site reliability engineer, devops, help desk engineer, sys admin etc.

    So after 3.5 years mata teruna dee thamai meh side aken clear path akak tynne devops valata. But mata prashne ave ops side ake lankave salary akak ganavanam hoda aniva overnight shift akak krnna one. Oka kolla kale ok. Married unama karanna ba work life balance aul yanava. So mama decide kara QA valata switch venna.

    Mata ada veddi 4 years QA and 3.5 years application support exposure ake have. Man QA valata switch venna gatta decision ake gana mata mara happy mokada application engineer vidiyata vada karala mama gatta technical and client handling exposure ake mara vadagath una.

    Meka mage decision ake. Mata kinna tynne decision ganiddi oya man kiapu facts uth compare karala balanna kiala.
    Ube katwemai wage SE pattata try kare nadda mcn. Man try karanne eka
     

    Don GasCan

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    මම දැන් DevOps studies කරන ගමන්නේ ඉන්නේ. ඒත් මේකෙ ජොබ් ඔපචුනිටීස් අඩුයි වගේ දැනෙන්නේ. Topjobs වලට ගියාම QA field එකට නම් ඕන තරම් ජොබ් ඔපොචුනීටීස් තියේ. මට මේ training එකක් හොයාගන්න බැරුව ඉන්නවා devops පැත්තෙන්. මට prior experience නැති නිසා සහ මම වෙනම බැක්ග්‍රවුන්ඩ් එකක කෙනෙක් නිසා. QA වලට සෑහෙන්න ජොබ් ලිස්ට් වෙනවා. මොක්ද කරන්නේ? වයසත් යනවා තව කල් ගියොත්?
    ඩෙව් ඔප්ස්
     

    analytics

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    ගොඩක් වෙලාවට QA ඕන වෙන්නේ product/system එක implement කරන දවස් වල. එත් DevOps කියන්නේ system එක live තියෙන තාක් කල් ඕන වෙන එකක්.

    ඔයාට පස්සේ කලෙක පොඩි company එකක shape එකේ ජොබ් එක කර ගෙන ඉන්න පුළුවන්. QA වල ජොබ් security අඩුයි මම දන්න විදිහට.
     
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    අපි මාතර..!
    මොනවගේ projects ද මචං කරන්න ඕනෙ? Frontend, backend developer projects ගැන නම් idea එකක් තියෙනවා.. Devops projects ගැන තමා හරියටම idea එකක් නැත්තෙ..
    AWS GCP AZURE wala free tier thiynwa ne. Ewayin gihin web apps ehema deploy karala try karanna. Interview waladi ehema ewa watinwa. Thawa teraform wage use karala cloud apps deploy karanna. ewye codes oyage github eke thyaganna. Thaniyama cloud paltform wala apps deploy karana eka thama godk welawata danaganna one. Jenkins, Teraform, Nagios wage monitoring systems cloud eke deploy karala atha patha gaala thiyaganna. DevOps thama issarahata tikak demanding wenne lankawe. Godak aya migrate wenwa
     

    siri_ayya

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    AWS GCP AZURE wala free tier thiynwa ne. Ewayin gihin web apps ehema deploy karala try karanna. Interview waladi ehema ewa watinwa. Thawa teraform wage use karala cloud apps deploy karanna. ewye codes oyage github eke thyaganna. Thaniyama cloud paltform wala apps deploy karana eka thama godk welawata danaganna one. Jenkins, Teraform, Nagios wage monitoring systems cloud eke deploy karala atha patha gaala thiyaganna. DevOps thama issarahata tikak demanding wenne lankawe. Godak aya migrate wenwa
    Thanks bro ❤️
    @pasansnoop @IT kolla @beam_tech FYI :)
     

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    Mama mechanical engineer kenek. Dan DevOps engineer kenek. Oya thaniyama hari projects karanna. DevOps walata job adu na bn. One tharam thynwa. But right candidates la adui. Wenna one thaniyama hari aasawata karapu dewal hariyata interview eke present karana eka. IT industry eke dan techincal balanwa adui. Baluwath ehema lokuwata theory ahanne na. Balanne attitude. Mokada technical skills igenagena goda daganna plwn. attitude ehema ba. QA walata wada DevOps hodai kiyalai mata nm therenne. mokada QA walta wadiya karanna thyena wada aathal (as per me) :-)
    Motivated😍. Ehnm mama meka digatama krnawa. Mata awla thamayi oya projects krna eka. Mama dapu interview ekakdi ohoma projects karada kiyala ahuwa. Eth mama projects kale ne mokda mama dnne nethi nisa. Youtube ekerh mula idn clearly krna projects tutorials adui. Oyata puluwnnm ehema tutorials wodiyata projects krna resources tikk hari ehema projects krna widiyak kiyannako. Mama kohomath QA walata wada me peththta asai eka hinda awlak ne.

    first degree eka tamai ban tama labune naththe
    Awlk ne ne oyata IT peththen degree ekak nm thiyenne.
    ------ Post added on Aug 1, 2022 at 11:28 AM
     
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    bump. QA giyath devops dewal tikak dannawanam (CI/CD integrations wage dewal, web services etc) honda demand ekak thiyenawa
     

    IT kolla

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    Thank you @siri_ayya broo😍 PM ekak demma balannako

    AWS GCP AZURE wala free tier thiynwa ne. Ewayin gihin web apps ehema deploy karala try karanna. Interview waladi ehema ewa watinwa. Thawa teraform wage use karala cloud apps deploy karanna. ewye codes oyage github eke thyaganna. Thaniyama cloud paltform wala apps deploy karana eka thama godk welawata danaganna one. Jenkins, Teraform, Nagios wage monitoring systems cloud eke deploy karala atha patha gaala thiyaganna. DevOps thama issarahata tikak demanding wenne lankawe. Godak aya migrate wenwa
    Mama me dewal try krnnam. DevOps wala apita monawage programming languages da denaganna one wediyen. Ex: bash scripting wage
    ------ Post added on Aug 1, 2022 at 11:32 AM
     
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    අපි මාතර..!
    Motivated😍. Ehnm mama meka digatama krnawa. Mata awla thamayi oya projects krna eka. Mama dapu interview ekakdi ohoma projects karada kiyala ahuwa. Eth mama projects kale ne mokda mama dnne nethi nisa. Youtube ekerh mula idn clearly krna projects tutorials adui. Oyata puluwnnm ehema tutorials wodiyata projects krna resources tikk hari ehema projects krna widiyak kiyannako. Mama kohomath QA walata wada me peththta asai eka hinda awlak ne.


    Awlk ne ne oyata IT peththen degree ekak nm thiyenne.
    ------ Post added on Aug 1, 2022 at 11:28 AM
    Meke thiyanwa sinhalenma. Issella Cloud computing balala AWS and kubernetes eka karanna
    https://www.youtube.com/c/KuppiyaSL

    Mekath hodai

    https://www.youtube.com/c/TechWorldwithNana
    Me namkiwa thama godak follow karanne tutorial walata ;-)

    Languages nam bash scripting, python, go wage ewa dannwa nm watinwa. Basic linux commands ehema hodata plwn nm athi machan.
     
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    Meke thiyanwa sinhalenma. Issella Cloud computing balala AWS and kubernetes eka karanna
    https://www.youtube.com/c/KuppiyaSL

    Mekath hodai

    https://www.youtube.com/c/TechWorldwithNana
    Me namkiwa thama godak follow karanne tutorial walata ;-)

    Languages nam bash scripting, python, go wage ewa dannwa nm watinwa. Basic linux commands ehema hodata plwn nm athi machan.

    Thank you soo much. Math me tika follow krannm. Denata godak theory wage pethith balala thiyenne. Projects/practicals peththa thamayi dn hadgnna one.
     
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    if you are planning to migrate DevOps will be a good path to choose, In European countries, they don't have a position called "QA", they recruit software engineers as test software engineers and automate everything so minimum manual quality assurance needs.
     
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    devops skills thiyenawada.. aws, docker , Kubernetes etc...
    degree + skills thiyenawanm intern or training set wenna puluwan ewa thiyenawa
    Ow basic knowledge ek thiyenwa. But practical experience ekak thama madi. Mata degree ekak thiyenwa but IT related ekak nemei.
     

    Colours

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    Ow basic knowledge ek thiyenwa. But practical experience ekak thama madi. Mata degree ekak thiyenwa but IT related ekak nemei
    Ehenm training job ekk try karala balanna.... chance ekk labenna puluwan linkedin eke recruitment karana aya through try karanna
     

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    Ehenm training job ekk try karala balanna.... chance ekk labenna puluwan linkedin eke recruitment karana aya through try karanna
    Ow ilaga target eka thama meka. Linked in eke recruit karana ayagen mehema personally massage krla ahuwata awlk nedda mehema training ekk thiyeda kiyala?
     

    Colours

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    Ow ilaga target eka thama meka. Linked in eke recruit karana ayagen mehema personally massage krla ahuwata awlk nedda mehema training ekk thiyeda kiyala?

    inbox karala ahanna , experience and knowledge eka gana kiyala mona wage opportunity ekk da hoyanne kiyanne clearly kiyanna un cv eka illai eeta passe chance ekk thiyenawanm