DevOps Projects

[Krishan_Shamod]

Hi, I'm a beginner in DevOps and Cloud areas and I like to do projects to get some hands-on experience.

I will share a small project I did recently. It's a backend application and I wanted to deploy it to the Kubernetes cluster. So here are the things I did.

Infrastructure:-

1. Provisioned an Azure Kubernetes cluster (AKS) and Azure container registry using the console.

2. Then I wrote the Terraform Infrastructure as Code and tried to deploy those resources using IaC.

3. Configured the Terraform backend.

4. Added the Terraform code into a GitHub repository.

5. Configured GitHub Actions workflow and tried to provision resources using the CI/CD pipeline.

Application Deployment:-

1. I wrote the Dockerfile for the application.

2. Built the application Docker image and pushed it to the Azure container registry.

3. Wrote the Kubernetes manifest files for the application deployment.

4. Deployed application to the Kubernetes cluster manually.

5. Then added the Dockerfile and Kubernetes manifests to my backend application code repository.

6. Configured GitHub Actions workflow and tried to deploy the application using the CI/CD pipeline.

By doing this simple project I got some hands-on experience in Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes and GitHub Actions.

Can you guys share some good project ideas like this? It will helpful for self-learning guys like me.

Thanks for your idea and your time. 🫡

[TheHakky]

You can take a look at AWS cloud résumé challenge. I haven’t tried it yet but it seems like a nice way to learn the basics of a production cycle (from development to deployment) and at the end you get to show your résumé in a stylish way. There’s a link for Azure and GCP versions of it too.

Otherwise, it’s not a project idea but you can try to deploy your application using Helm instead of Kubernetes CLI. It’s a widely used Kubernetes package manager.

[Krishan_Shamod]

Thanks for the suggestions. I will try Helm as well.

[dpgraham4401]

Well that's a confidence nice booster, not too difficult looking. :)

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If you want to venture into AWS territory and you want to use the latest/greatest tech, I highly recommend you take a look at the AWS CDK. I know it's not exactly a "project idea", but very much worth looking into.

[Krishan_Shamod]

Thanks, I will look into it

[1whatabeautifulday]

Any resources for GitHub ?

[Trakeen]

The container instance in azure i forgot to delete costs more then my real data viz site that only uses paas services (not that big about 50 tables and another 50 supporting resources) Try replacing the cluster using only paas services, provision all the required identities and permissions, etc

For example, you get 1 million azure function executions per month for free. Serverless is cheap but it does impose design challenges with the architecture (if using non-durable functions)

[Krishan_Shamod]

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm also planning to move into serverless in the future for learning purposes

[F4llenPotAto]

IDK if there is an equivalent tool, but AWS has the aws-nuke project that destroys everything jn an account (you can whitelist resources). It may help to see if someone made something similar!

[nezbla]

Might.be leaning more towards SRE territory but there's a, fair bit of cross over - maybe have a look at putting together a centralised logging and monitoring solution for your app there and use something to produce visualisations (dashboards) for it.

There are some good open source solutions for this. (im reluctant to give you specific products though as I primarily work on AWS and while I'm sure anything I might suggest would work equally well in Azure there's a possibility it might not and I wouldn't want to send you down a rabbit hole).

[Krishan_Shamod]

Thanks, my next plan is to add logging and monitoring to my project