DevOps Weekly is a long-running email newsletter that collects links on devops, operations and infrastructure.
HN commenters list it among the newsletters they subscribe to, with one saying they find something interesting in it nearly every week.
Provide something useful, on a regular basis, then gradually try to sell something. It took me well over 2 years before I made money from it. It takes an extremely long time to build your subscriber base too. I am talking about month over month, you will be sending newsletter blasts to 5, 10, the 30 people, then one month 1000 people will sign up. Takes will power to push through. Just the name of the game. So, start early, and do not expect much. If you are looking for good examples, check out http://www.devopsweekly.com/ & http://rubyweekly.com/. Subscribe to them and check out the format. They are both free, and provide high quality curated content, but have "sponsored" (clearly marked) parts. This should give you some inspiration.
There is pretty much zero barrier to entry. Register a domain, create a one-page static website on AWS S3/CF, which will host your signup form (and list archive for seo reasons), then use http://mailchimp.com/ to run the list. You could have it up and running in an afternoon. Finding high quality curated content is the hard part.
I would suggest picking something you know tons about, or something fairly new. Take golang for example, there is tons of information churn, so you want someone in the know, to tell you about interesting things. This is the underlining principle for devopsweekly and rubyweekly. You do not even need to be an expect, just put in the time to track down interesting bits, over the last week. This can and should take many…
Learning DevOps is a good move.
It depends on your company but your goal should be to get on the on-call rotation as quickly as possible. Once you are on the on-call rotation, you will take your responsibility even more seriously - as you will be the point person for systems issues.
Similarly, your goal should be to identify a pain area in your systems management and be able to write a script, a Nagios plugin, something to address that pain point. You can work from there to larger projects involving infrastructure automation.
Like with anything, it will help to learn to understand the language of DevOps. The best way to do that is by reading and watching presentations by practitioners.
Similar to iOS Dev Weekly, you can learn a lot by reading a curated list of articles in the DevOps world.
http://www.devopsweekly.com/archive
Surge 2014 (one of the better DevOps conferences) has slides and videos.
http://surge.omniti.com/2014
Haha, as the author of that commit, I'm embarrassed to see it here. Maybe it's a story, though.
I heard about Heroku Bartender from http://devopsweekly.com
It pushed me to finally use a Linode slice for which I had a $60 credit from http://appsumo.com and play with Ubuntu, which is outside my typical skill set.
I had fun installing Ruby, git, Postgres, and https://github.com/defunkt/cijoe on that slice. While stuff was installing, I added the favicon to Heroku Bartender.
There's a lot of cool software and tools out there. Open source, DevOps Weekly, etc are awesome for learning and playing.
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DataElixir http://dataelixir.com/issues/33?#start
DevOps Weekly http://devopsweekly.com/
Ansible Weekly https://devopsu.com/newsletters/ansible-weekly-newsletter.html
Servers for Hackers https://serversforhackers.com/register?email=#
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CoolTools Newsletter http://kk.org/cooltools/ (and the related WinkBooks and WinkFun sites)
BrainPickings http://www.brainpickings.org/
MakerPro newsletter http://newsletter.makezine.com/t/ViewEmail/r/13D299B4C46EE7C22540EF23F30FEDED/385533F1F74A777E1A01488700E2614F
DevOps is a moving target right now, and a lot of great fundamentals are linked here already. I'd also recommend subscribing to, and reading old issues of:
https://sreweekly.com/
http://www.devopsweekly.com/
https://lastweekinaws.com/
https://weekly.monitoring.love/
The last two are fairly young, but have good content so far. I wouldn't call it a well-curated list, but there are tons and tons of great posts are linked (in loosely chronological order, as weekly mail blasts tend to be).
For sysadmin/devops stuff, I'm a fan of:
- DevOps Weekly: http://www.devopsweekly.com/
- SRE Weekly: https://sreweekly.com/
- cron.weekly: https://www.cronweekly.com/
- Monitoring Weekly: http://weekly.monitoring.love/
There's occasionally a little overlap between these, but I mostly find that they cover different ground. SRE Weekly in particular has good coverage of outages and incident reports that I find interesting.