# Knowledge Needed / Skills Inventory

Running PASS in a production environment requires a variety set of skills. The main set of knowledge and skills for running PASS are the following:

* **AWS Architecture and Development:** knowledge of designing, deploying, and managing applications on AWS.
* **Docker and Containers**: knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker, including how to build, deploy, and manage containers in production using ECS or another container orchestration technology.
* **Systems Administration**: general knowledge of systems administration is valuable such as managing Linux-based EC2 instances, monitoring and performance tuning, backups, and cost estimations.