Mohd Imran

🚀 From CIVIL ENGINEERING to DEVOPS ENGINEER (Remote) I’m super excited to share a big milestone in my journey — I recently landed my first job as a DevOps Engineer (yes, fully remote 🎉). Coming from a civil engineering background, this moment feels surreal, and I hope sharing my story helps someone out there who’s trying to switch into tech. My journey started around 2.5 years ago, when I decided to take a leap and transition into tech. I had no idea where to begin until one day, my friend Dinesh Solanki (who's a DevOps Engineer himself) told me go for DevOps, “Start with Linux, I’ll help you along the way.” And that one piece of advice kickstarted everything. While learning Linux, I stumbled upon @kunalstwt ’s DevOps Bootcamp. That was a game-changer! It wasn’t just about technical stuff — it introduced me to the idea of learning in public, writing blogs, sharing what I learned, joining communities, attending meetups and conferences. Slowly, I started building proof of work, and most importantly — confidence. Big shoutout to Kunal for showing me a whole new world. 🙌 Along the way, I learned from so many amazing folks like @TrainWitShubham , @Njuchi_ ,@SaiyamPathak , @techie_piyush , @AbhiVeeramalla , and Nasiullha Chaudhari — your content made things so much easier. Thank you! I also had the chance to connect with inspiring mentors like @birthmarkbart , @savinderpuri , and Gurumoorthy Raghupathy, who always guided me when I had questions. Through learning in public, I met @akshayktwt , and we even started a community together — learned so much from him and so many others along the way. Shoutout to my wonderful people who supported me and made this journey special: @palak_bhawsar , Ravi Shankar Raj, @manishtyagi__ , Sandhya Singh, @ankiit111 , @VopsAbhii , @saumya_bhushan , Aman Kumar, @harsh_dev8086 , and many more! Also, a big thanks to @eddiejaoude and @juliafmorgado — your posts and content inspired me more than you know. Of course, this journey wasn’t always easy — there were a lot of ups and downs, moments of doubt, and roadblocks. But I’ve genuinely enjoyed every step of it. 💙 This is just the beginning. I’ll keep learning, growing, and sharing my experiences in the hope it helps others on their journey too. If you’re trying to make a switch to tech — keep going, stay curious, and don’t be afraid to ask for help. You got this! 💪 #DevOps #CareerSwitch #LearningInPublic #FirstJob #Grateful #Community #TechJourney

🚀 Day 28 of #CKA prep! Today I covered: • Pod Priority & Preemption • PriorityClass • Priority-based scheduling • Creating custom PriorityClasses • Testing Pod preemption • Higher vs lower priority workloads

🚀 Day 27 of #CKA prep! Today I covered: - StatefulSets & when to use them - StatefulSet vs Deployment - PersistentVolumes - MongoDB StatefulSet - Scaling while maintaining data - Best practices for stateful apps Following @techie_piyush ’s CKA course. ☸️

🚀 Day 24, 25 & 26 of #CKA prep! Covered: - Private Docker Registry on Kubernetes - Helm Charts - Kustomize - Managing & customizing Kubernetes deployments Following @techie_piyush ’s CKA course and strengthening my hands-on Kubernetes skills. ☸️ Day 24–26 ✅

🚀 Day 22 & 23 of #CKA prep! Covered: - Worker node troubleshooting - Network plugin debugging - Worker node configuration - kubectl & Kubernetes API data - JSON vs YAML - Advanced JSONPath queries Following @techie_piyush ’s CKA course. ☸️ Day 22 & 23 ✅

🚀 Day 19, 20 & 21 of #CKA prep! Covered: • Metrics Server & monitoring • Logging & container runtime debugging • Application failure troubleshooting • Services & Network Policies • Backend DB troubleshooting • API Server, Scheduler & Controller Manager • Control plane

🚀 Day 17 & 18 of #CKA prep! Covered two important cluster admin tasks: • Upgrading a multi-node cluster with kubeadm • Kubernetes etcd backup & restore Hands-on practice with the upgrade, backup and restore workflows. Following @techie_piyush’s CKA course. ☸️

🚀 Day 16 of #CKA prep! Today I covered Kubernetes Ingress and how it routes external traffic to services inside a cluster. The lecture was taught by @AbhiVeeramalla Following @techie_piyush ’s CKA course. ☸️ Day 16 ✅ #CKA #Kubernetes #DevOps

🚀 Day 15 of #CKA prep! Today: • Kubernetes Networking • Kubernetes network model • CNI & CNI plugins Today’s lecture was taught by @SaiyamPathak from @kubesimplify . Following @techie_piyush ’s CKA course. ☸️ Day 15 ✅ #CKA #Kubernetes #DevOps

Day 14 ✅ 🚀 Back on the grind! Couldn’t post my CKA progress for the last 5 days due to fever, but I’m back at it again. 💪 Day 14: • DNS fundamentals • Root Name Servers • A & CNAME records • DNS records & localhost • CoreDNS in Kubernetes • Kubernetes service discovery

🚀 Day 13 of #CKA prep! Today: • Docker layered architecture • Storage & Volume Drivers • Docker Volumes & Bind Mounts • Kubernetes Persistent Volumes • Persistent Volume Claims • StorageClasses Following @techie_piyush ’s CKA course. ☸️ Day 13 ✅

🚀 Day 11 & 12 of #CKA prep! Covered: • Service Accounts • Network Policies & Calico • Restricting Pod access • Multi-node cluster with kubeadm • Control plane & worker setup • Required ports & networking Following @techie_piyush ’s CKA course. ☸️ Day 11 & 12 ✅

🚀 Day 10 of #CKA prep! Today I covered Kubernetes RBAC: - Roles & RoleBindings - ClusterRoles & ClusterRoleBindings - Namespace vs cluster-scoped permissions Following @techie_piyush ’s CKA course and strengthening my Kubernetes administration skills. ☸️ Day 10 ✅

🚀 Day 9 of #CKA prep! Today: • TLS in Kubernetes • Client-server model • Certificate loading & control plane usage • Authentication & Authorization • Kubeconfig Following @techie_piyush ’s CKA course and strengthening my Kubernetes fundamentals. ☸️ Day 9 ✅

🚀 Day 7 & 8 of #CKA prep! Covered: • HPA vs VPA • Cluster Autoscaling & Node Auto Provisioning • Liveness, Readiness & Startup probes • ConfigMaps & Secrets • SSL/TLS • Symmetric vs Asymmetric encryption • Public/Private keys & SSH Following @techie_piyush 's CKA course.

🚀 Day 5 & 6 of #CKA prep! Covered: • Static Pods & manual scheduling • Labels & Selectors • Taints & Tolerations • Node Affinity • Requests & Limits • Metrics Server & node metrics Following @techie_piyush ’s CKA course. ☸️ Day 5 & 6 ✅

🚀 Day 4 of #CKA prep! Today: • Namespaces & management • Multi-container Pods • Sidecar vs Init Containers • Commands & args • DaemonSets vs Deployments • Jobs vs CronJobs Following @techie_piyush ’s CKA course. ☸️ Day 4 ✅

🚀 Day 3 of #CKA prep! Today: - Deployments & ReplicaSets - Rolling updates - Services: ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer & ExternalName - Endpoints & service debugging - Namespaces Following @techie_piyush ’s CKA course and strengthening my fundamentals. ☸️ Day 3 ✅

🚀 Day 2 of #CKA prep! Today I revised: • Multi-node cluster & setup • kubectl basics & contexts • Pods & creation methods • Imperative vs Declarative • YAML & Pod manifests • Pod debugging & troubleshooting Following @techie_piyush ’s CKA course. Day 2 ✅ ☸️

🚀 Day 1 of #CKA prep! Revisiting the fundamentals I already know, this time in greater detail. Today: - Docker & multi-stage builds - Containerizing projects - K8s fundamentals - K8s architecture & use cases Following @techie_piyush 's CKA course. Day 1 ✅ ☸️

Attended the Grafana & Friends Delhi Meetup yesterday great sessions, valuable discussions, and an awesome opportunity to connect with the DevOps & cloud-native community. 🚀 Big thanks to Tauqeer and Umesh for organizing such a fantastic meetup. Looking forward to the next one!