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106: Steve Buchanan on Cloud Native, DevOps, GitOps, Kubernetes, and Azure
Episode Summary
Previous guest Steve Buchanan is back to chat with Mike about a whole host of skills you can add to your toolbox to level up your career. Steve is a Director for Avanade, a large consulting organization, who works in cloud transformation. Since his last appearance on the podcast, he’s been staying busy with DevOps, Kubernetes, and Azure, so he has lots of great insights to share.
Episode Notes
Previous guest Steve Buchanan is back to chat with Mike about a whole host of skills you can add to your toolbox to level up your career. Steve is a Director for Avanade, a large consulting organization, who works in cloud transformation. Since his last appearance on the podcast, he’s been staying busy with DevOps, Kubernetes, and Azure, so he has lots of great insights to share.
In this episode, we talk about…
- Steve’s thoughts on how skills in GitOps and Kubernetes are critical to technologists in today’s world. Large companies are using them or planning to implement them soon.
- How Dice.com has named these skills as the most important tech skills, so you should start learning them if you haven’t yet.
- The difference between Git and GitOps and what it means for you as someone who needs to learn the skills.
- Where to go if you want to get started learning GitOps.
- The importance of diversity and inclusion in the tech industry.
- How there are many opportunities for a great career within SAP, which is becoming easier to break into than it was previously if you also have cloud skills to bring to the table.
- The best career advice Steve has ever gotten, which is centered around the importance of networking.
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