The rule for this journey: never click something in the console without asking whether it could have been Terraform.
In progressPart of roadmap: Cloud and DevOps, hands on
Cloud and DevOps journey
From deploying containers by hand to provisioning networks, compute and pipelines from scratch, with AWS and Kubernetes certifications as checkpoints.
Overall progress10%
Done means: Rebuild a full stack (VPC, ECS Fargate, ALB, RDS or ElastiCache) in Terraform with CI/CD, and pass AWS SAA-C03.
- Started
- 3 May 2026
- Updated
- 27 Oct 2026
- Milestones
- 1 / 7
Milestones
- Deploy a real service to EC2 by handDone
- Phase 1 · Cloud fundamentals: VPC, subnets, IAM, security groupsPending
- Phase 2 · Dockerised Rust service on ECS Fargate behind an ALBPending
- Phase 3 · Rebuild everything in TerraformPending
- Phase 4 · CI/CD with GitHub Actions, secrets, CloudWatchPending
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03)Pending
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)Pending
Log
Roadmap agreed; next concrete step is a manual VPC with public and private subnets and a bastion host.
Deployed the personal RAG service to a t3.micro in ap-south-1 with Docker. Learned security groups and SSH the hard way.