TL;DR Certifications are not bad; chasing them is. A badge proves you reached the passing mark on one exam on one day. It does not prove you have run the service in production, and the terms attached to every badge say so. The four reasons from the video: certification overload (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, AI, …

TL;DR Six skills, none of them cloud-specific, all of them used every day: 1) one programming language you can read the documentation of, plus Git and an editor; 2) scripting in bash first and Python second; 3) a CI/CD tool, Jenkins, GitHub Actions or GitLab; 4) automation with Ansible, with bash as the fallback; 5) …

Disclosure - this post and the video are sponsored by Teleport. The architecture, the code and the opinions are entirely my own - I built and ran everything shown here myself, and the parts that broke are in here too. 👉 Want to build this yourself? Start with Teleport's agentic identity and access control page (the …

This is the project video people keep asking me to write up - a real, end-to-end DevOps pipeline with nothing mocked: a Jenkins server that Terraform builds in one AWS region, a Jenkins pipeline that runs Terraform to build a second region, and at the end a Python Flask REST API talking to MySQL on RDS, behind an …

Disclosure - this post and the video are sponsored by Trigger.dev. The architecture, the code and the opinions are entirely my own - I built and tested everything shown here myself, and the parts that broke are in here too. 👉 Want to build this yourself? Start with the Trigger.dev Chat Agent documentation (the link …

Table of Contents What Are We Building? Architecture Overview Prerequisites Project Structure Step 1: Multi-Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform Providers Configuration AWS Module — VPC, Subnet, Security Group, EC2 GCP Module — Network, Firewall, VM Root Main and Outputs Step 2: The Flask App — CrashLab API Intentional …

I got this question many times like how should I start learning DevOps. Well in this article we are gonna talk about How should I learn DevOps by myself if I had to start from scratch? Devops learning path There are certain caveats which I would like to mention - Learning can different for everyone - The first one is …