Do DevOps engineers write code?

Question

Can anyone tell me whether coding is required for DevOps engineers?

Answer 1

Yes, DevOps Engineer has to write code, but there is no compulsion.

DevOps engineers have to write code for automation or even to improve the code to be deployed. However, not all DevOps engineers have to write code. In my current profile, we don't work on the direct product code. However, we code and script for most of the tasks that we do on a regular basis, we also write tools, utilities, plugins for some products like Jenkins, etc.

So all in all, writing full-fledged code is not an essential part of being a DevOps/SRE, however, at least mid-level scripting is often needed.

Most popular languages for that maybe any; python, Java, GO Lang, groovy, Perl, etc.

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