Devops

Linux / Bash scripting

Easy Medium Hard

Basic bash commands

aliases, .bashrc/.zshrc ,

interactive vs non interactive shells Process Management

Cron jobs

File transfer - ftp, scp

File permissions

Creating your own bash script - variables, loops,

conditionals, functions

args in bash scripts

stderr, stdout, File descriptors,

piping

grep

Creating a CLI in Node.js

Projects

1. Create a script that ssh's into a VM and pull the latest code and restarts it

2. Do the same using ssh2

VMs/EC2/GCP VMs

easy medium hard

What are VMs?

Creating a VM in various cloud providers. Specs,

pricing …

GUI vs clis for creating VMs Keypairs and ssh’ing into VMs

Deploying a non containerized app to a

VM

Process management
easy medium hard

Reverse proxies

Certificate management

Load balancers

ASGs/MIG

Easy Medium Hard

What is autoscaling, why do you need

it?

Images, Target groups, ASGs, LBs, Autoscaling

policies

MIG Internals

Containerization

What is a container

What is docker

Docker vs other
container runtimes

How to dockerize your app, WORKDIR,

CMD, RUN, ENV, COPY, ARG

Volumes and networks

Publishing to dockerhub,
other registries

Running a docker container in a VM,

exposing it over the internet

Multi stage builds

docker-compose
ECS (Warming up for k8s)

easy medium hard

What is ECS, common use

cases

ECR vs Dockerhub

Setting up Task definitions

Serverless vs EC2 instances for deploying , pros and cons of

either

Autoscaling policies

Kubernetes

Easy Medium Hard

Introduction to Kubernetes, clusters,

nodes, pods, worker node vs control
plane

Kubernetes architecture

Local deployment using

kind/minikube

Replicasets, Deployments

Networking Concepts - Services,

Types of services

Ingress, Ingress
controllers

Certificate management

Storage, PVs, PVCs,

StorageClasses, Static vs dynamic
provisioning

StatefulSets,
DaemonSets, Jobs and
CronJobs

Conifgmaps and secrets

Easy Medium Hard

Kubernetes Policies, Role-Based

Access Control, CRDs

HPAs, VPA, Cluster

autoscaler

EKS, eksctl, eks best practises

Extra - k9s, kubctx

Iac, Terraform

Easy Medium Hard

What is
Iac

Iac using bash scripts, aws cli/eksctl

Various iac tools, ansiable vs terraform.

Installing tf, What is a resource, HCL syntax, Providers

Running Terraform Commands (init, plan, apply,

destroy)

Managing state, variables,

counts

Terraform with AWS

Remote state on S3

Monitoring

Easy Medium Hard

Introduction to monitoring, why do

you need to monitor your systems

Datadog vs newrelic vs sentry.

Logging vs process observability vs

Infrastructure observability. p95, p99.
Easy Medium Hard

Self hosted monitoring using prometheus. metrics,

counters, gauges, histrograms, promQL, Graphs in
Prom

Pulling vs pushing metrics, Push gateway

Grafanna for charting, observability.

Prometheus and grafanna service discovery in a

kubernetes cluster

Package managers (helm)

easy medium hard

Why package managers, what is helm?

Installing helm cli, values and

templates

Helm charts, Dependency

management

Helm hubs, repos, custom values,

Release management in Helm 2.0 and 3.0

Templates, Go templating logic,

functions, pipelines, with blocks, creating and

uploading charts

Exploring other package mangers

(glasskube)

CI/CD in github

Easy medium Hard

What is CI/CD?

Github CI CD yaml format, Github actions

Using CI/CD to deploy to a VM

Easy medium Hard

Using CI/CD to provision infrastructure using Iac

Using CI/CD to deploy to a kubernetes cluster

Gitops

Easy Medium Hard

What is
GitOps?

Why gitops

Creating aws resources using

gitops

Creating/Updating k8s clusters

GitOps using ArgoCD

Gitops in a multi cluster environment using

ArgoCD

CDNs and Object stores

Easy Medium Hard

What are object stores, Why object

stores?

Intro to CDNs

S3, R2 for assets

Cloudfront as a CDN

Attaching a custom domain to your CDN, certificate

management

Project

1. Building a serverless provider (aws lambda) / repl.it

1. http layer, cli layer, auth

2. Building a distributed video transcoder / image resizer

3. Building a alerts manager (better stack) and status page provider