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by shatteredspace 1572 days ago
If you are doing anything with infrastructure than finding a place with Ansible or Nomad would be:

Ansible - Deploying VMs on-prem and in the cloud, creating a managed-k8s cluster in the cloud, deploying k8s on-prem, possibly bare-metal server provisioning. Configuration of resources for all of the above.

Nomad - Alternative to K8s from Hashicorp (supposed to be simpler, I wouldn't know as I've never used it).

Tailscale - VPN provider

Where would you use these tools your day-to-day? If you aren't deploying VMs, containers, bare-metal servers, or making configurations to the above - you would probably be looking to pick these tech stacks up as a hobby.

Resources - While I always check the sources first, I'm not a fan of the Ansible getting started docs. The list I run down for resources after the source (based on cost and quality)

- Online resources provided by a local library - was able to find a good Java reference for a recent project.

- Getting started books ( your OReillys, Manning Pub, Starch Press, etc)

- MOOCs

- Pluralsight, LinkedIn Learning ,etc.

- Youtube - CodeCamp, etc