Verify Certificate A Cloud Guru’s Beginners Guide to Containers and Orchestration provides an overview of the key concepts in containers and how they lead to the need for an orchestrator such as Docker or Kubernetes. The course also covers common use-cases for container orchestration technologies including microservice architectures, automated scaling, and CI/CD pipelines. I appreciated this course’s coverage of how different technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes relate to one another.

This past week, I reconfigured my home server to address some issues with the partition scheme. I also used this process as an opportunity to convert most of my bespoke configurations to IaC using Ansible . This was also the first time I took on a large DevOps project with the assistance of ChatGPT. The Ansible project has some great documentation complete with multiple examples of how to use each module, but because the options, and sometimes the syntax, of each modules differs, the process of automating the configuration of a complex server can be a time intensive process of hunting through many pages of documentation looking for the exact syntax of an ansible task so you can move on to automating the next task.