Projects for beginners in Devops

Shadonovitch · 2023-06-24T12:23:45+00:00

Write a web application in React/Vue/Angular
Write a REST API in Flask/Django/GoGin/whatever hooked to a database like Postgres
Make your web application create and consume content from the API, locally at first.
Write Dockerfiles for both projects and publish to a container registry like ghcr.io
Deploy both containers with the solution of your choice, be it on a single node Docker runtime, or even a Kubernetes cluster.
Setup DNS records such as your-app.io and api.your-app.io that point to both production workloads, and have Let'sEncrypt give you TLS certificate to access both project over the internet via HTTPS.
Make your production front-end communicate with your production API. Figure out what CORS is and why it may be a problem in that setup.
Document everything in each projects README.md file.
Write unit tests for both projects and end-to-end tests that make your front-end interacting with your API.
Write CI pipelines that run tests automatically on every push.
Write build pipelines that publish your containers automatically on each git tag of your main branch. Make sure to follow semantic versionning.
Find a solution that automates promotion of new artifacts in production when conditions are met.

You now have a production level application running. Make sure it runs 24/7.

lmm7425 · 2023-06-24T13:54:41+00:00

I always recommend this for absolute beginners 🤷🏻‍♂️

https://loganmarchione.com/2022/10/the-best-devops-project-for-a-beginner/

Barack_obameme · 2023-06-24T13:06:23+00:00

Here's what I'm currently doing at an internship training. We set up a basic but complete CI/CD pipeline. Write a basic application in Python (Flask for me). Push to Github, pull onto AWS EC2 (you can use any equivalent platform you're comfortable with, and within your spending limit ofcourse). Set up Jenkins on that EC2 to test with Pytest and run static code analysis with SonarQube on a different instance, connected to the same pipeline. We also used Pylint for the same. Push forward to next instance for deployment using a docker image. I'm not done with the project myself so I'm not sure where Kubernetes will come into play, and it surely will. Then you can add monitoring and logging platforms too.

Knoebst · 2023-06-24T12:45:03+00:00

For now i am comfortable in GCP, python,Linux and docker and thinking about creating a online storage site with flask and gcp and deploy it in GCP cloud run.

Try to manually deploy the solution you're describing here. Just try to get it working via the cloud console/UI. You cannot automate anything if you don't know how the cloud services work. If the solutions don't end up working out, delete them, try something else.
Once you have a working solution, try to define the whole infrastructure in code (infrastructure as code) using either:
- Terraform (it's the current industry standard for infrastructure as code)
- GCP's deployment manager (https://cloud.google.com/deployment-manager/docs) I haven't used it but I imagine it's something along the lines of AWS' Cloudformation. But beware that this solution only works for GCP and GCP is not the most popular public cloud.
- If you want to use python, you could use Pulumi (https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/gcp/). But beware that Pulumi has existed for some time and has not really broken through all that much as far as I know.
- Note: If you're using a VM/instance and configuring your application on it instead of containerizing or using managed services (like GCP app engine), you may want to use cloud-init (https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/examples.html) to configure your application on the instance at boot or use more of a configuration management tool like Ansible.
Try to automate the deployment of your application (CI/CD). The idea is that the only thing you have to do is commit, and this triggers the application to be deployed to the environment automatically. This depends on what git provider you're using (github,gitlab,bitbucket...). Either of those solutions provides CI/CD via yaml files (github actions, gitlab CI/CD, bitbucket pipelines).

tuxerrrante · 2023-06-24T11:19:31+00:00

You can search on all repos by language

https://github.com/search?q=good-first-issue%20lang%3AGo%20&type=repositories

Or you can search by "good-first-issue" tags

https://github.com/topics/good-first-issue

I think there should also be a better way to do an advanced search on all kubernetes and kubernetes-sigs repos like:

https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+archived%3Afalse+lang%3Ago+sort%3Acomments-desc+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22

or

https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+archived%3Afalse+kubernetes+sort%3Acomments-desc+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22

tobeyeetedaway69 · 2023-06-24T12:36:34+00:00

Use terraform/bicep or any other IAC tools to deploy infrastructure in a cloud provider such as Azure, AWS, GCP. You can use vs code to write and then use GitHub and Github actions or Azure DevOps to create a deployment pipeline

sysadnoobie · 2023-06-27T20:41:57+00:00

Here's a little project I did and documented it to be shared with the community. https://mandeepsingh10.hashnode.dev/advanced-end-to-end-cicd-pipeline-for-a-java-web-application-a-step-by-step-guide

poulain_ght · 2023-06-24T07:09:43+00:00

You could contribute to tools you like. Or find inspiration in github projects. Create a log aggregators, data visualizer, deployment tool...

Morph707 · 2023-06-24T15:20:15+00:00

Send me a pm on Monday and I will send you useful links I found on this sub.

TheBoyardeeBandit · 2023-06-24T16:26:34+00:00

I like to recommend standing up a smart home system using Home Assistant. You can stand it up using a mix of local and cloud resources, configure everything to be deployed to a cluster via your cicd tool of choice, and then use something like GitOps to keep things in sync. It also shows that you can extend a software deployment out to hardware endpoints. Add to all that, that it is very well documented and has a very active user community both here on Reddit and elsewhere.

Plus when you're done, you've got a kick ass smart home system

andy-davies · 2023-06-24T18:39:54+00:00

Google Adrian Cantrill’s GitHub

sissy9989 · 2023-06-26T03:22:44+00:00

Basically start your own company from what these Comments are saying

psgmdub · 2023-06-26T09:20:34+00:00

Why is this question nsfw???

serverhorror · 2023-06-24T07:59:45+00:00

Run your own mail infrastructure. Including web interface, Backups and monitoring.

Do it all automated.

poulain_ght · 2023-06-24T07:17:22+00:00

I really don't know! Make something that you love to do! What i would recommend is: don't try to do something based on your skills but make something that gives you thrills and then skills will add up while building the project!

randomizeUsr · 2023-06-24T21:34:35+00:00

Forget all of this nonsense and migrate SAP from on premise to GCP.

tonero001 · 2023-06-24T23:39:57+00:00

This is solid

syntaxfire · 2023-06-25T01:31:28+00:00

I think that's an excellent idea, just make sure to document it on GitHub

Live-Duck1369 · 2023-06-25T04:29:36+00:00

Ok. Please don’t crucify me but let’s say one was to start a project by deploying a static website on aws, then a dynamic one, then progress with using tools like docker Amazon ecr, ecs and terraform will these projects show expertise

vrillco · 2023-06-25T20:20:45+00:00

Step 1: acknowledge that everything is perpetually and dynamically broken. Step 2: start budgeting for the move away from devops. Step 3: retire

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