Getting Started With DevOps
Hello, I'm Nikunj — a passionate Frontend Developer with 3.7+ years of experience in Web Design and User Interface Development, currently expanding my horizons into DevOps, Cloud Computing, and Linux Server Management. My journey combines the best of both worlds: crafting clean, user-centric frontends while integrating backend and infrastructure-level practices to ensure scalable, secure, and efficient deployments.
When I design or code, I always keep the user experience and performance at the core, blending aesthetics with robust engineering practices.
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🔹 Frontend Development ➤ HTML5, CSS3, SCSS ➤ JavaScript, jQuery ➤ Bootstrap ➤ PHP (for templating and basic server integration) ➤ WordPress, Shopify, Wix (basic CMS integrations as needed) ➤ React (Beginner) ➤ MySQL (Frontend-DB interactions)
🔹 DevOps & Cloud Practices (from a frontend developer’s lens) ➤ Git / GitHub – version control & team collaboration ➤ Docker – containerizing frontend apps for consistent deployment ➤ Jenkins – setting up basic CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments ➤ Kubernetes / ECS / Docker Swarm – experimenting with app orchestration ➤ AWS – deploying static/react apps, managing S3, EC2, Route53, etc. ➤ Terraform, Ansible – basic IaC and configuration automation ➤ Grafana – for visual monitoring of deployed applications ➤ Apache / Nginx – configuring frontend delivery through servers ➤ Linux OS – daily server operations and production deployments
🔹 Programming & Scripting ➤ Python (Automation & Scripting tasks)
🔹 Operating Systems ➤ Windows & Linux (Ubuntu/CentOS)
✨ What Sets Me Apart? While my foundation lies in Frontend Engineering, I actively contribute to the entire deployment pipeline—from development to delivery. I handle server configuration, DNS management, Git workflows, and regularly deploy frontend apps to cloud environments following DevOps best practices. I'm constantly learning and integrating cloud-native concepts to deliver better performing and scalable web applications.
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I love collaborating with professionals across the tech spectrum. Let’s grow and learn together! 📧 nikunjtiwari7@gmail.com 📖 Visit my blog on Hash node: hashnode.com/@NikunjDevOps 🧠 Sharing insights, projects, and lessons from my journey as a Frontend Dev evolving into a Cloud-native DevOps Practitioner.
What is DevOps
DevOps is a combination of two words "Development" and "Operation" .DevOps is an umbrella term or a methodology which describes the operation of the team collaborating throughout the entire programming production from design till the deployment of the software application. DevOps itself is a combination of so many tools that increase teams efficiency to produce high definition output .
DevOps is a set of practices that automates and integrates software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops), so teams can build, test, and release software faster
DevOps Automation
DevOps Automation is the addition of technology that perform task with reduced human assistance to process that facilitate feedback loops between operation and development team so that iterative updates can deployed faster to application in production. Basically it makes things easy to do by itself without more human assistance
Some Tools Used in DevOps Automation
Docker.
Kubernetes.
Ray gun.
Splunk.
Git.
Ansible.
Jenkins.
Bamboo.
Bit Bucket.
GitHub.
etc.....
Scaling
DevOps in a scaling environment is characterized as a computerization-driven environment for the foundation of DevOps culture and selecting of suitable apparatuses.
Companies will take diverse approaches to achieve DevOps culture, but scale presents extra complexities that can make receiving Devops a challenge. Once you begin scaling DevOps over tens or hundreds of ventures, you’ll need to set up a central work to back DevOps and establish a few fundamental ground rules for groups fascinated by moving speedier and taking more proprietorship of operations.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure automation enables developers or the operations team to automatically manage, monitor, and facilitate resources instead of manually configuring hardware, software, or operating systems. The process is sometimes referred to as programmable because the infrastructure configuration is defined in scripts.
Why DevOps Is Important
DevOps allow the developer team and operation team to work together it increases the efficiency of work that helps the industry to generate high-order outputs. Both teams work together to develop, deploy and automate the process of software development. By the use of DevOps tools, we can reduce the time of work and increase the quality of output.
Increased Efficiency in Development
Faster Innovation
Shorter Development cycles
Early Detection of Error
Continuous Release and Deployment
Reduce Implementation Failure
Better Communication between Teams
Greater Customer Satisfaction
Why DevOps Is So Relevant Today:
Companies are shifting to rapid delivery, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native infrastructure—and DevOps is at the center of it all.
💼 Top Roles & Responsibilities of a DevOps Engineer:
Automate CI/CD pipelines
Manage version control systems (Git, GitHub, Bitbucket)
Containerize applications (Docker, Kubernetes)
Monitor and log systems (Splunk, Prometheus)
Configure cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Bridge gaps between development & operations teams
Ensure high availability, scalability, and performance
The Job Market for DevOps
The demand for DevOps professionals is booming—across startups, enterprises, and cloud-native companies. According to LinkedIn & Indeed data:
🚀 DevOps roles have grown by 40%+ in the last 2 years
💰 Average salary for DevOps Engineers ranges from ₹8L to ₹25L+ in India
🌍 Top recruiters: Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Atlassian, TCS, Infosys, and many more
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Thankyou for reading!! many more in a queue
Nikunj Kishore Tiwari
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