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A Bit About Me<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I’m currently pursuing a Diploma in Cloud and DevOps at IPSR Solutions<\/strong>, building on a BSc in Computer Science from Calicut University<\/strong>. Alongside my diploma, I recently started as a System Administrator Trainee<\/strong>, where I’m getting hands-on exposure to live company projects, working under a team leader, and learning what “production” really means outside of a classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What draws me to this field is the mix of building and breaking things \u2014 provisioning infrastructure, automating what used to be manual, and then watching dashboards light up with real metrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I’ve Been Learning<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My focus over the last year has centered around a few core pillars:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cloud Infrastructure (AWS)<\/strong> Working with EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, ALB, EKS, Auto Scaling, and CloudWatch has taught me how to think about systems that don’t just work \u2014 they stay up. Designing for high availability across multiple Availability Zones, with Auto Scaling Groups and Lambda-based auto-healing, completely changed how I think about “what happens when something fails.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Container Orchestration (Kubernetes & Docker)<\/strong> This is where things got fun. Containerizing microservices with Docker and orchestrating them with Kubernetes and Helm taught me about StatefulSets, Ingress controllers, ConfigMaps, and Secrets \u2014 the unglamorous plumbing that keeps real applications running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform & Ansible)<\/strong> Once you provision your first VPC and EKS cluster through Terraform instead of clicking through a console, there’s no going back. IaC isn’t just convenient \u2014 it’s how you make infrastructure reproducible and auditable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CI\/CD & DevSecOps (Jenkins, SonarQube, Trivy)<\/strong> Building pipelines that don’t just deploy code, but actually gate it \u2014 blocking builds with HIGH or CRITICAL vulnerabilities \u2014 was a turning point in how I think about security. It’s not a separate step anymore; it’s baked into the pipeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monitoring & Observability (Prometheus & Grafana)<\/strong> There’s something satisfying about watching custom application metrics flow into a Grafana dashboard in real time. Monitoring taught me that deploying something is only half the job \u2014 knowing how it’s behaving is the other half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Projects That Taught Me the Most<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A few projects stand out as genuine turning points in my learning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • A Three-Tier Snake Game on AWS EKS<\/strong> \u2014 a full microservices app (frontend, backend API, auth service, MongoDB) deployed with Terraform-provisioned infrastructure, Helm charts, Jenkins pipelines, and integrated security scanning. This project alone touched nearly every tool in my stack.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • A DevSecOps CI\/CD Pipeline for a Flask App<\/strong> \u2014 where I learned to combine automated testing, vulnerability scanning, and Docker Compose into a single reliable pipeline.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • A Highly Available AWS Architecture<\/strong> \u2014 designing for failure before it happens, with auto-healing and sub-minute recovery times.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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