How to become a qualified dev&ops

With a period of time of working as dev & ops, it occurs to me how to become a good operator while maintaining several applications at the same time? And what's the added value that a dev & ops can brings to the company?

 

1. Values

Keep in mind that someone is using your application, they rely on it to do their business, so never let them disappointed; if your customer can’t make profit or even lose money as result of your application down, they will find an alternative;

Customer service (Sale persons) may have given their word of honor that the problem will be fixed, please respect the dignity of them.

2. Methodology

Eradicate the problems before they happens;

Security is important than productivity;

3. Tools

There exists many tools that can be used for checking the quality of your website.

Pingdom

You may need to buy a license to access to the full feature, but it also provide somefree tool which are very useful. You can test your sever and domain name.

 

New realic

What you need to do is to add their provided script into your website, then you will be able to view the status of your web application.

Statuspage

Good product of atlassian, you can seethe below who is using it.

 

Site24x7

Site24x7 is a very powerful tools that can monitor your server as well as application, it can be scheduled to scan your application with a certain time interval. The reason why enterprise likes to use this Saas is that it offer many type of monitors and can be configured very easy. Taking the example of server monitoring, it provides the following types of monitoring: Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft IIS Server, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft SharePoint, Server Microsoft, BizTalk Server,Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Failover, ClusterPlugins, EC2 Instance, RDS Instance, SNS Topi, Classic Load Balancer,Application Load Balancer, DynamoDB Table, VMware ESX/ESXi Server, VMware VM,Docker BETA, Network Device, Amazon Web Services, vCenter. And for website monitoring: Website, Port Monitor, Web Application, Web Page, Analyzer Web Application (Real Browser), DNS Monitor, Mail Server RTT, POP Service Monitor,SMTP Service Monitor, Ping Monitor, SSL Certificate Monitor, FTP Service Monitor, FTP RTT Monitor, REST API Monitor, SOAP Monitor, Website Defacement Monitor.

Nagios

Nagios can be adapted to your needs and it’s easy to be installed.

 

Qualys SSL Libs

SSL Libs is a non-commercial application that provide you details report of the ssl vulnerabilities of your application as well as your server. The commercial version is Qualys on which you are able to schedule some test and scans regularly so that you can always keep up with the vulnerabilities of your application.