Exams, Goals

Certification Goals – 2025

AWS Solution Architect Professional – I want to take this challenge first. The exam itself is for 3 hours. The questions are lengthy and the options too are. Definitely trains the brain to be focussed for a longer time. Linux SysAdmin – The more new tools I learn on the DevOps or Cloud, they end […]

OCI

Migrate WordPress from AWS to OCI

AWS turned out to be super costly for running a simple wordpress website on a single T2 micro VM (on-demand plan) with both apache webserver and mysql database. The overall cost came around 1400 INR for a month. With savings plan for 1 year/3year, we could get around 30% discount. It would be still be

AWS, General, Wordpress

Migrate WordPress from GCP to AWS

Today I migrated my wordpress server which was hosted on GCP to AWS. I had 3 months of free trial on GCP and it is getting over today. Though I was not billed, the cost per month for running a simple word press on Google Cloud comes around 1000 INR per month. May be with

Exams, K8

KCNA – Exam Prep

Learning Materials: I took couple of courses for learning the topics covered by this exam and one more for practice tests. The links are here The Udemy course was for fast track learners and the KodeKloud one goes slow and deep. I took the KodeKloud course after taking the Udemy course completely. There was a

Exams, IaC

Terraform Associate (003) – Exam Prep

Learning Materials I used couple of courses by Hashicorp Ambassadors (Bryan and Gabe) on Udemy to learn about Terraform and prepare for the exam. Course –> https://www.udemy.com/course/terraform-hands-on-labs/ – 15+ hours with hands-on Practice Tests –> https://www.udemy.com/course/terraform-associate-practice-exam – 6 mock exams The course was very engaging and the hands-on labs were easy (and not time consuming)

K8

Kubernetes – Commands

Getting Started Command Explanation minikube start –driver=virtualbox If you are not using Docker Desktop, minikube can help setup a cluster with Virtualbox as driver kubectl run hello-minikube –image=nginx Runs a Pod named hello-minikube with a nginx image. kubectl cluster-info Displays cluster information, including API server and core services URLs. kubectl run nginx –image=nginx –dry-run=client -o

AWS, GenAI

GenAI Assistants – Amazon Q & Copilots

In today’s fast-paced technology landscape, frameworks, languages, APIs, tools, and practices are constantly evolving. No doubt, all the Generative AI assistants are going to help developers/engineers/managers to keep up and be more productive in the entire Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). Ever since I tried ChatGPT, I have that pinned that on my bookmark bar and

IaC

Terraform – Commands – Cheat Sheet

Terraform is very powerful. It can do what CloudFormation or Bicep could not. Yes. We can create a Spotify playlist with Terraform. That’s a serious statment and not a joke 🙂 Terraform architecture consists of Terraform Core and it supports providers as plugins. There are 1000s of providers including AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud. Their

AWS, GCP

WordPress on Google Cloud & AWS

The cloud has made it so easy to host our own websites. On top of that, most cloud providers offer a free tier for 3 months to 12 months. This website is hosted on the Google Cloud and I have tried with AWS before. The steps and procedures are almost same. You could have your

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