Overview
A personal DevOps Engineering learning and experimentation space
DevOps Engineering Playground
Welcome to my DevOps Engineering Playground — a personal space dedicated to learning, experimenting, and evolving as a DevOps engineer.
⚠️ Note: This is not a production-ready toolkit. It's a hands-on lab environment where I try new ideas, test tools, break things on purpose, and explore how to glue technologies together in meaningful ways.
🧭 Purpose
The primary goal of this repository is exploration and growth in the DevOps field. It serves as a digital notebook and lab bench where I:
- Experiment with various DevOps tools and practices
- Design and iterate on custom CI/CD workflows
- Practice infrastructure automation with tools like Terraform, Ansible, etc.
- Build out observability stacks for logging and monitoring
- Learn by doing — through trial, error, and iteration
🧰 Areas of Exploration
This repo contains practical experiments in the following areas:
| Area | Tools / Concepts |
|---|---|
| Infrastructure as Code (IaC) | Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CloudFormation |
| Configuration Management | Ansible, Chef, Bash scripting |
| Containers & Orchestration | Docker, Kubernetes, Helm |
| CI/CD Pipelines | GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI |
| Cloud Platforms | AWS, GCP, Azure (selectively explored) |
| Monitoring & Logging | Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack |
| Security & Secrets Management | HashiCorp Vault, SOPS, IAM policies |
| Scripting & Automation | Bash, Python, Makefiles |
🧪 What's Inside
This repo includes:
- ✅ Modular Terraform configurations
- ✅ Sample CI/CD workflows (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
- ✅ Kubernetes manifests and Helm charts
- ✅ Bash and Python scripts for automation
- ✅ Notes and documentation of what worked (and what didn't)
- ✅ Demos of observability stacks
- ✅ Experiments with self-hosted tools and services
🚧 Disclaimer
This is a learning environment and not intended for production use. Some components may be partially implemented, outdated, or intentionally broken for learning purposes.
📚 Future Goals
- Build a robust, reusable base infrastructure module
- Experiment with GitOps workflows using ArgoCD or Flux
- Try out policy-as-code tools like OPA / Conftest
- Set up zero-trust networking or service meshes (e.g., Istio)
- Simulate incident response scenarios