January 2, 2025 1 min to read

Welcome to My DevOps Journey

A DevOps Engineer's perspective on Cloud Infrastructure and Automation

Welcome to My DevOps Journey

As a DevOps engineer, I’ve had the opportunity to work with various modern technologies and practices. In this blog, I’ll be sharing my experiences and insights about:

Cloud Service Providers (CSP)

• AWS architecture and services
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) implementations
• Multi-cloud strategies and best practices

CI/CD & Automation

• GitHub Actions workflows and custom actions
• GitLab CI pipeline optimization
• Jenkins automation
• ArgoCD and Flux for GitOps
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, Ansible, and Pulumi
• Custom automation tools and scripts

Container & Orchestration

• Kubernetes cluster management and optimization
• Docker and container technologies (Podman, Containerd)
• Helm chart development
• Service mesh implementations
• Load balancing with MetalLB and Ingress-Nginx
• Certificate management with cert-manager
• Container registry with Harbor
• Storage solutions with Ceph and MinIO

Database Management

• MySQL/MariaDB administration
• MongoDB deployments
• PostgreSQL optimization
• Redis caching strategies
• RabbitMQ message queuing
• AWS RDS and DynamoDB
• GCP CloudSQL management

Monitoring & Observability

• Prometheus and Grafana dashboards
• Loki and Promtail for log aggregation
• Fluent Bit log forwarding
• Thanos for metrics scaling
• ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
• Custom monitoring solutions

Security & Compliance

• HashiCorp Vault secrets management
• Kyverno policy management
• RBAC access control
• OPA Gatekeeper implementation
• Vaultwarden deployment
• Infrastructure security best practices

Storage Solutions

• Rancher Local Path Provisioner
• NFS Subdir External Provisioner
• Ceph CSI implementation
• Storage optimization strategies

Operating Systems & Infrastructure

• Linux system administration (Ubuntu, CentOS, Rocky Linux)
• Alpine Linux optimization
• Amazon Linux configuration
• Debian system management
• Infrastructure scaling and maintenance

Development & Scripting

• Python automation scripts
• Bash scripting
• Go development
• Infrastructure automation tools

Stay tuned for detailed posts about each of these topics! I’ll be sharing practical experiences, best practices, and real-world implementations of these technologies.

Feel free to connect with me on GitHub or check out my custom tools and resources!