About Me

• I am Mohammed Daoudi AKA iduoad
• I am a DevOps engineer
• I am a GitLab Hero
• weCanTalkAbout([🐧, 🐳, 🦊, …])
• More about me here !

Disclaimers

• Work in progess
• Subjective
• Interactive
• Good news: I am working on a DevOps Course 🎉🎉

Prerequisites

• Good English (or not)
• Programming
• Problem Solving
• Googling

Tools and techniques

• Learning by doing
• Iteration
• Document as you go
• Ask for help
• Give back

• Daily read.

Learn Operating Systems (especially Linux)

• Best way to learn Linux is to use Linux
• At first you only need to know you way in and out.
• Get a bit of administration skills.
• Always learn by doing (TASK based learning).

Learn about Git

• Git 101: Working from home
  • git init
  • git add
  • git commit
  • git log/show
• Git 102: Working remote

Script as much as you can

• RegEx 101
• Unix Filters (Grep, cut, sed, awk …)
• Shells
• Shell scripts

Learn Networking

• OSI and TCP/IP
• Dive into protocols (IP, TCP, HTTP, TLS …)
• Wireshark things
• Linux network stack (iproute2)

Learn Storage

• Get some Storage theory
• OS level: Linux storage stack (file systems, volume management …)
• Software defined storage (Network storage).

Learn Compute

• Get you feet wet with VirtualBox or virt-manager
• Try vagrant (if you want to)
• Go deeper with KVM, Xen or VMware ESXi.
• Virtual compute, storage, networking…

Learn Security

• Learn about firewalls.
• Web security (OWASP top 10)
• Participate in CTFs

Container 101

• Install docker or podman and have fun with it.
• Create your own dockerfiles
• Learn docker compose
• Learn OCI

Containers 102

• Learn Kubernetes
• Install Kubernetes
• CKAD and/or CKA

CI/CD

• Pick a project!
• Pick a tool!
• Create a CI/CD pipeline for the project using the tool.

Cloud Computing

• Cloud is most underrated (and overrated) tool we have today.
• Two steps
  • Define your needs
  • Choose your stack
• Automate using IAC (Terraform, Pulumi, CDKs …)
• Road to Architecture.

More things

• Software engineering
• Acceptance tests
• Monitoting and Logging (Observability)

Mindset

• Break things and try to fix them.
• Patience is key.
• Document you journey.
• Delegate work.
• Delegate learning.
• Adopt Security from the beginning.
• Everything as code.

Thank you

Let’s be friends! 🤗

• iduoad.com
• @MIduoad
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