Become a DevOps Engineer in 6 Months - 2024

If you're new to my channel, I'm Mischa. I teach DevOps, Kubernetes, and note-taking to accelerate tech careers. My communities bring together over 2000 people, from beginners to seasoned engineers.

My Journey:
28 yrs old: Started working as a nurse after 5 years as a Project Manager in the oil industry
31 yrs old: Made a new start with $0 to my name.
32 yrs old: Learned DevOps from scratch and landed my first junior position in just 6 months.
33 yrs old: Doubled my salary by securing my first DevOps consulting role.
34 yrs old: Became a Microsoft MVP and entrepreneur, living my dream life.

Today:
I work as a freelance DevOps engineer, create content and run the #1 DevOps Community on Skool.

I'm a strong believer in sharing knowledge and helping others achieve the same success like I did.

[nicopicchio]

Ex intensive care nurse and ambulance technician (for 19 years) here too, then turned dev just over 2 years ago! Best decision ever!

[hayrichj]

Just stumbled upon your channel. Inspiratie tot en met! Being a hardware guy 10+ years ago, the transition to DevOps hasn't been easy. I jumped back into IT after years, and now everything is code-based. I love challenges and hate giving up, which is still pushing me to keep learning and getting better at development. Thanks for the motivation and your calm, laid-back style. I like it, man 🎉.

Bedankt

[happynz]

I just recently started following but it's really inspiring to see the quality and scope of your videos get better and bigger. Really admire your workflow and ethic. Excited to see what comes next, thanks Mischa!

[FightingPanda-wngk]

I'm in Venezuela trying to transform my life, I'm glad I found you!

[OscarAlaniz]

Just starting. I have very basic knowledge of Unix file system and Terminal. I have always loved to make computers do what I want them to do in order to make difficult jobs easier and faster. Life took me in another direction, but now I am trying to come back. What rekindled my love for this was Obsidian, that was the start of the rabbit hole. I reinstalled Linux on my laptop. From the I went on to Vim and NeoVim, also I am trying to learn Lua. I forgot how much I enjoy being in front of a screen filled with text and making it work they way I want it to.

[yyev]

Wow, it is definitely a new level, very powerful, valuable, and inspiring video. Thanks a lot! Keep going, please

[modoulaminceesay]

just saw your post on X and now on youtube what a coincidence, I am a cloud engineer trying to switch almost the same

[This_Account]

I do wonder about the "Do everything in public" advice. You are not the only one who gives that advice, and it seems to fit for any field. Thank you for pointing to the book, "Show Your Work" by Austin Kleon. It seems worth checking out.

This advice seems to be given often by content creators. It's hard to tell if the advice is for a content creation career. There does seem to be success overlap with career & social media (which is great btw). Content creation seems daunting to me. Maybe it's just me needing to get out of my shell.

Thanks for sharing

[NegativeClock]

As a nurse looking into DevOps, this video was made for me

[paugarcia]

I would love if you make a series of how to build a simple homelab! Really nice video btw!

[derp-xj]

this is great advice, thank you. It would be great if you could make a video about what it's like doing devops in practice. I've seen videos and read articles about the tech devops uses but there's not much out there that covers what life is like for devops engineers. Things like what they do day to day, which types of companies typically hire them (e.g. enterprise, startup, etc), stress levels, remote/hybrid/in-office work, etc. I've read that they're well-paid, work mostly in large companies and that it's more "people facing" than standard programming jobs (that's all from US perspectives). I wonder if that's been your experience or if it's the same in Europe? Thanks!

[PieterGeelen-ld]

Awesome video, though you should not underestimate the power of such a wonderful beard in DevOps! My personal favorites of your list are definitely start a homelab and go public :)

[waelhussein]

when is the time to learn dokcer and kubernatis as you did not mention them as a learning step ?

[crazymiaou]

I have 8 years experience in software engineering (currently software architect). I really want devOps opportunities, but I don't want to throw away my experience by aiming for a junior devOps position (mainly because of a major salary loss). Do you have any advice (I have 2 certifications (GCP - Professional Cloud Developer + Kubernetes -CKAD)) ?

[Adam_Smasher]

Do you have any suggestions for a Data Scientist / Engineering roadmap? Maybe some concepts work well for both career paths. Thanks.

[irawookikiola]

Thank you!

I am open to junior DevOps roles, like I wanna get my hands dirty in tasks and would be glad if I can be invited into any team... Thanks

[MinuteModeller]

I am not sure I’ll be able to make the change, as I am nearly 60 and probably too old but it’s worth a try 😊

[brown_martian-miqo]

do i need to have development knowledge to start learning devops or can I start as a complete layman.

[drmanhattan]

I'm interested as a network engineer in making this pivot, and was considering first going down the network automation path, as it is get exposure to CI/Cd and other components also used in devops. Is this the best way for someone in my position?

[mischavandenburg]

👇Where are you in your DevOps journey? Let me know in the comments below. Thank you for watching!