Scripting is crucial for automation in DevOps, enabling tasks automation, cloud infrastructure management, and CI/CD workflow optimization.
Key scripting languages for DevOps engineers include Shell Scripting (Bash & PowerShell) for basic tasks automation, and languages like Python, Go, Terraform, and Ansible for advanced automation and cloud provisioning.
DevOps engineers should focus on learning fundamental scripting with Bash and Python, progressing to managing Kubernetes clusters, optimizing CI/CD workflows, and building scalable systems in cloud-native architectures.
For Azure DevOps, essentials include PowerShell, Bash, YAML, Python, Go, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and Git for automation, pipeline configurations, managing Kubernetes, and version control in CI/CD.