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Bread and butter from React and Rails, but currently exploring Linux System Administration and Cloud Solutions/DevOps.
Learning everyday. Follow along with my series on creating Chrome Extensions, Desktop Apps (soon), and PWAs.
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I learned today that my main blog posts should be called "Today I Learned"s. I'm surprised my last post was over two months ago. I've been working on my new Chrome extension project, Chorus, making features, fixing problems, and getting it ready for ...
TLDR: Fix a bug, package and upload to Developer Dashboard, fill forms, submit for review, and look at analytics after going live. In this post, we want to create and submit an initial release for the Chrome Web Store and upload it to Github. Before ...
Here's a recap of what we want to accomplish for the first feature: Either disable or remove all the Add to queue UI (on hover and via the dropdown: Enable or disable the first feature by clicking on the extension in the toolbar, which controls t...
Building a Youtube Add-on to Regain Control of Queue Playlist
TLDR: This article demonstrates how to use AppleScript to control Spotify and display song information in a tmux status bar. Tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables several terminals to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. T...
In my efforts to learn Cloud & DevOps this year and transition into a Cloud/DevOps Engineer, I have steeled myself to follow a program to implement 25-30 projects with ever-increasing difficulty to gain experience in working with tools/services like AWS (S3, EC2, EBS, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, and many others in helping to deploy, automate, continuously release, and monitor status/health/usage of live applications. That's already a long list of technologies I am not too familiar with and integrating them is currently a mystery to me, but hopefully, through a PBL approach, I can slowly introduce them as the projects get more complex.
PBL is a learning/teaching method to develop knowledge and skills through engaging projects set around challenges and problems one may face in the real world. Each project should work towards the ultimate goal of expanding my DevOps knowledge base and gaining experience in industry tools.
PBL is organized around an open-ended driving question or challenge, creating a need-to-know essential content and skills, which in turn requires inquiry to learn and/or create something new.
Extend knowledge of various Web Stacks.
Deploy and configure a LEMP solution using a very popular Web Server – NGINX.
Deploy a full-scale three-tier Web Solution with WordPress CMS.
Configure and effectively use Linux storage subsystem with Logical Volume Manager (LVM).
Deploy a DevOps Tooling website from a GitHub repository.
Configure a MySQL database as an Identity Storage and Network File System (NFS) as a centralized file storage solution
Introduce a Load Balancer to ensure that the DevOps Tooling website will be scalable to serve more users by deploying additional Web Servers.
Implement Apache Load Balancer and local DNS Names resolution.
Automation of repeated routine tasks with Jenkins Continuous Integration
Automatically deploy the DevOps Tooling website to Web Servers straight from your GitHub repository upon every commit using Webhooks.
Master securing connections to a website by using SSL/TLS with NGNIX
Ensure website security by supporting HTTPS protocol.
Learn aspects of the Ansible Configuration Management tool.
Create an Ansible playbook to automate infrastructure creation.
Explore more advanced Ansible concepts.
Make your configurations reusable with Imports
Create and assign Ansible Roles.
Diving deeper into more advanced Ansible concepts by learning Dynamic Assignments and Community Roles.
Explore options on whether to use predefined roles or develop roles for MySQL, Nginx, Apache and Jenkins.
Implement a full-scale CI/CD pipeline with a combination of various technologies.
Understand DevOps terminology and success metrics required to measure and constantly improve.
Explore new instruments such as artifact repository, quality analytics & assurance and pentest tools.
Setting up your infra like a Pro with Infrastructure as Code (Iac) tool – Terraform.
Learn how to create high-quality Terraform configuration files & study best practices.
Manage networks in the Cloud as Code with Terraform.
Learn advanced Terraform syntax to create parametrized configuration files with dynamic values assignment and conditions.
Practice creating various AWS resources like EC2, S3, ALB and many others via Terraform configuration files.
Continue exploring Terraform capabilities, increase the reusability of configurations with Terraform Modules,
Learn the role Terraform plays in CI/CD.
Get an introduction to Packer – Machine Images Build Automation tools from HashiCorp.
Get familiar with a Cloud Terraform Offering from Hashicorp
Learn how to manage Infrastructure as Code without provisioning any servers - straight from the cloud web console.
Introduce containerization with Docker.
Write Dockerfile, learn how to work with the DockerHub repository and practice container deployment with Docker Compose.
Manage production-grade containerized solutions with Kubernetes.
Learn how to build a Kubernetes cluster "From-Ground-Up"