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Which DevOps Tools Are Most in Demand on Hacker News? (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform)

The DevOps and infrastructure tools companies hire for in Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' posts: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins and Prometheus, charted by share since 2011.

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Ranked by demand (all-time)

  1. 1.Docker6,219 postings · peak Oct 2018
  2. 2.Kubernetes5,324 postings · peak Jun 2021
  3. 3.Terraform2,833 postings · peak May 2022
  4. 4.Ansible1,650 postings · peak May 2018
  5. 5.Jenkins887 postings · peak Oct 2018
  6. 6.Prometheus404 postings · peak Jul 2017
6,219
5,324
2,833
1,650
887
404
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Job postings

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Each calendar month since 2011 as one bar. Switch to share % to stack the bands to 100% and see each one’s slice of the category’s postings, narrow the window, or click a month to read the postings behind the bar.

What the chart shows

DevOps hiring follows the arc of infrastructure-as-code going mainstream. Docker appears first and spikes as containers become table stakes; Kubernetes climbs behind it to become the orchestration skill teams actually advertise; Terraform rises as declarative cloud provisioning becomes the norm; Ansible and Jenkins hold steadier configuration and CI niches; Prometheus tracks the observability build-out. The relative bands show the order of adoption clearly. Read the sample postings to see the wider platform stack these tools sit in - almost always next to a cloud (usually AWS) and a backend language like Go.

Popular Docker postings (the category leader)

  1. cuchoi · read the thread · view on HN

    …checks). * Backend Software Engineer (Python, PostgreSQL PostGIS, Docker, AWS, Terraform) - $135-$155k — https: enveritas.org jobs backend-software-eng #10d7adef8us (worldwide remote)

  2. ransom1538 · read the thread · view on HN

    …* Experience with infrastructure tools (e.g. Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker) is a plus. * I will read all resumes! We need more resumes! Job link: https: job-boards.greenhouse.io epickids jobs 6669024003

Each skill on its own

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