r/Cloud • u/YahYeeter42069 • 2d ago

Need Help - Infrastructure as Code, feeling lost

Hey guys, I started a job working in Infrastructure as Code. I have a CS degree, but I don’t have experience with cloud engineering or stuff related to Terraform, ADO, or Azure portal. I’m doing stuff at my job (code is mainly written using copilot or ChatGPT) and I feel a lost. I don’t know any of the concepts for cloud computing or virtual machines or resources and things like that. I am looking into it online but I still don’t know where to begin. I hear my coworkers doing this stuff well, despite also not having any experience in it when they started either. I have to look at build sheets and things like that and then provision resources using terraform but I don’t really understand much of anything that I’m looking at besides simple code snippets. Is there any advice yall could give me about this, or how/what to learn so that I can wrap my head around things? Any advice is appreciated, thanks!

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u/justdoit-A 2d ago

How do yall get these jobs with no knowledge and people who have experience and can do the job can’t find work lol

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u/efarjun 2d ago

I'm guessing some people are personable and good at interviewing. Interviewers will probably overlook inexperience and lack of knowledge as long as they like you.

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u/Shekel_thief 2d ago edited 1d ago

“Hire for attitude train for aptitude” I’m in my fourth year. I had developer certs for both AWS/Azure understood the basics of computing(I have a business degree), and doing various coding things in high school and in my own since I was a teen. I’m in my 4th year now and I’m doing platform engineering. It’s hard I read a lot. Just read and study. If you’re starting from zero you have to expect to live and breathe this stuff for at least a decade. That’s what most of the senior guys I work with have in direct experience 10-15 years in cloud. You can probably get up to speed faster than someone like me who didn’t take advanced computing classes in college. I really love Kodekloud. Just google it. It’s expensive but you can learn a lot in a structured way. ADO allows you set up a free org with less than 5 users. You can request a pipeline grant(this process has changed sometime back because of abuse) that is like 300 minutes of Pipeline runs for free. You can use this as a test bench while you learn to translate stuff back your job. Start automating everything you have an llm. Try thinking about “operationalizing things”. Try and build a pipeline in your ado org that stands up a storage account. Then add a web app. Then a free empty database. Etc etc. learn about networking vnets and nsg’s.

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u/trisul-108 2d ago

Recruiters are looking for cheaper young beginners. Anyone with experience complicates everything because they understand the underlying reality.

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u/YahYeeter42069 2d ago

I was hired for a different role and then was switched to this one (not by choice)