This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Pragyan Tripathi
As a DevOps engineer, you should get your hands with both Cloud Engineering and K8s Development. But as companies are looking for more specialized roles here are 5 differences that can help you out:
Difference 1:
Cloud Engineer manages the organisation's cloud computing environment, while Kubernetes Engineer manages containerised applications within K8s environment.
Difference 2:
Cloud Engineer broadly focuses on hardware, software and networking components of the cloud provider. While Kubernetes Engineer only focuses on managing components related to Kubernetes.
Difference 3:
Cloud Engineer has a strong understanding of cloud computing platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure. While Kubernetes Engineer has a strong understanding of containers and K8s components in particular.
Difference 4:
Cloud Engineer designs and implements cloud-based solutions and ensures their availability. While Kubernetes Engineer configures and maintains K8s environment and troubleshoots issues related to containerised applications.
Difference 5:
Cloud engineers can grow into roles of Cloud Architects or Solution Architects. While Kubernetes Engineers can get into more specialised roles that is focused into deploying and managing container applications.
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This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Pragyan Tripathi
Pragyan Tripathi | Sciencx (2023-04-13T01:42:00+00:00) 5 Differences you must know between Cloud Engineer and Kubernetes Engineer. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2023/04/13/5-differences-you-must-know-between-cloud-engineer-and-kubernetes-engineer/
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