https://rishabkumar.com/tags/cloud/ Recent content in Cloud on Rishab Kumar Hugo -- gohugo.io en Sat, 23 Mar 2024 14:49:24 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/cloud-resume-api-challenge/ Sat, 23 Mar 2024 14:49:24 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/cloud-resume-api-challenge/ A beginner cloud project - The Cloud Resume API Want to impress potential employers and gain hands-on cloud experience at the same time? The Cloud Resume API Challenge is the perfect way to start! By building a cloud-based API for your resume, you’ll showcase your cloud computing skills while creating something that has real-world value. And the best part – you don’t need to be a cloud guru to get started. https://rishabkumar.com/blog/azure-az-204-study-guide/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 13:00:27 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/azure-az-204-study-guide/ Hey everyone! If you’re prepping for the Azure AZ-204 Developer exam, you’re in the right place. I recently passed, so I want to share my experience and the strategies that worked for me. My Journey I was excited and a little nervous heading to the test center. The exam definitely challenged me, but walking out with a passing score of 737 felt amazing! I know I barely passed, as 700 is required passing score and also I barely finished in time, so managing those minutes is essential! https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-i-passed-lpi-linux-essentials-certification/ Thu, 15 Jun 2023 14:11:07 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-i-passed-lpi-linux-essentials-certification/ Introduction In this blog post, I will share my experience and the resources I used to successfully pass the Linux Essentials certification. This certification is a fundamental level exam that provides a solid foundation in Linux. Whether you’re new to Linux or pursuing a career in cloud security or cybersecurity, this certification can be highly beneficial. I will discuss the preparation process, the resources I utilized, and my overall exam experience. https://rishabkumar.com/blog/understanding-docker/ Thu, 08 Jun 2023 13:14:45 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/understanding-docker/ Hello, cloud explorers! Have you ever played with LEGO blocks? If not, you still might know what they are. Those colorful, versatile bricks that let your imagination run wild? Sure, you have! We all love to build castles, robots, or spacecraft with them, right? Now, what if I told you there’s something quite similar in the world of computers, and it’s called Docker! Hold up! You might be thinking, “What does Docker have to do with my LEGO blocks? https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-i-passed-google-cloud-associate-cloud-engineer-certification/ Wed, 24 May 2023 13:06:48 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-i-passed-google-cloud-associate-cloud-engineer-certification/ Hey there, I know, another certification blog post! Today, I’ll be sharing the resources and strategies that helped me pass the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer exam. Whether you’re new to the world of cloud and cloud certifications or have some experience, I hope you’ll find these tips useful. I also have a video about the same and posts about other cloud certifications, so make sure to check those out too. https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-i-passed-aws-devops-engineer-professional-exam/ Mon, 15 May 2023 19:14:30 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-i-passed-aws-devops-engineer-professional-exam/ Introduction In this blog post, I’ll share my experience taking the AWS DevOps Pro Exam, how I prepared for it, well I guess not prepared for it, and some recommendations for resources to help you pass the exam. Preparation Like the Azure DevOps Expert Exam (AZ-400), I didn’t have any specific preparation for the AWS DevOps PRO Exam either. I had a coupon expiring and the exam version was retiring, so I decided to wing it. https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-i-passed-azure-az-400-devops-engineer-exam/ Mon, 08 May 2023 19:01:14 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-i-passed-azure-az-400-devops-engineer-exam/ I recently passed the Microsoft Azure AZ-400 DevOps Engineer Expert exam without any preparation, which is designed to test your knowledge and skills in DevOps practices: continuous integration and deployment, infrastructure as code, and monitoring and logging. In this blog post, I want to share my experience of taking the exam without much preparation and how I managed to pass it. Exam Objective Configure processes and communications Design and implement source control https://rishabkumar.com/blog/deploying-a-static-website-to-aws-with-pulumi/ Sun, 30 Apr 2023 12:00:42 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/deploying-a-static-website-to-aws-with-pulumi/ Deploying a static website to the cloud has never been easier, thanks to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Pulumi. If you’re like me, a developer who has used Terraform for your IaC needs in the past, Pulumi offers an alternative that allows you to write code in your preferred programming language (TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Go, .NET, and Java) to provision and manage cloud infrastructure. In this blog post, we will walk through the steps to deploy a static website to Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Pulumi, ps: this is my first time trying it out. https://rishabkumar.com/blog/aws-cli-cheat-sheet/ Fri, 10 Mar 2023 19:55:34 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/aws-cli-cheat-sheet/ With cloud computing becoming more popular and AWS being one of the leading cloud providers, it’s essential for developers to understand how to use the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). The command line interface (CLI) is a powerful tool that allows developers to manage AWS resources and services from the command line, and it can greatly improve your workflow. However, with so many commands and options available, getting started can be overwhelming for beginners. https://rishabkumar.com/blog/devops-roadmap-2023/ Fri, 03 Feb 2023 02:49:53 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/devops-roadmap-2023/ DevOps is a rapidly growing field, and with the increasing demand for skilled professionals, many people are looking to make the switch. However, knowing where to begin and what steps to take to become a DevOps Engineer can be difficult. In this article, I will provide a comprehensive roadmap for those looking to make the transition. We will go over the necessary skills, knowledge, and experience, as well as the steps you can take to acquire them. https://rishabkumar.com/blog/are-cloud-certifications-worth-it/ Wed, 02 Nov 2022 20:04:33 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/are-cloud-certifications-worth-it/ So the most valuable cloud engineers or developers in many established organizations don’t necessarily have loads of certifications. Instead, they bring extensive experience in IT infrastructure and have hands-on experience with the cloud and a habit of self-taught learning. I think there are two sides to cloud certifications and I want to cover both. Pros I’ll start with the pros, cloud certifications or certifications in general in IT, this has been a long-going debate and just like everything there are upsides and downsides. https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-did-i-become-a-devops-engineer/ Thu, 29 Sep 2022 03:21:56 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-did-i-become-a-devops-engineer/ Hey friends 👋 I wanted to talk about my journey from cloud engineer to devops engineer, some of you already know bit about my career trajectory from help-desk to cloud engineer and then to DevOps engineer. If you would like to know what DevOps is, check out my article - What Is DevOps? What does a DevOps Engineer do? So I stayed in the cloud engineering role for almost two years before I got into DevOps and I made this tweet just to give people perspective on what were some things that I focused on during my cloud engineering role to move to DevOps. https://rishabkumar.com/blog/what-is-devops-what-does-a-devops-engineer-do/ Mon, 24 Jan 2022 21:47:15 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/what-is-devops-what-does-a-devops-engineer-do/ Hello Friends 👋🏾 It’s been a while that I wrote a blog, but starting 2022 strong, here is the first one for this year! So as some of you may know I have been working as a DevOps Engineer for almost a year now, and I am often asked, what is DevOps? and what does a DevOps Engineer do? DevOps Engineer A DevOps engineer introduces processes, tools, and methodologies to balance needs throughout the software development life cycle, from coding and deployment, to maintenance and updates. https://rishabkumar.com/blog/installing-grafana-and-serving-via-nginx-as-reverse-proxy/ Fri, 15 Oct 2021 13:46:35 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/installing-grafana-and-serving-via-nginx-as-reverse-proxy/ Hey Friends 👋 Hope everyone is doing great. It’s been a few month since I last published an article. I was busy with getting more YouTube videos out. And did I mention I was on the Microsoft Reactor Session with Gwyneth Pena on Deploy a Containerized App with Azure App Service. Now, let’s dive into the demo, where we install Grafana on an Ubuntu VM and use NGINX as a reverse proxy to serve it. https://rishabkumar.com/blog/az-104-study-guide-azure-administrator/ Thu, 03 Jun 2021 13:37:47 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/az-104-study-guide-azure-administrator/ Hello amazing people 👋 Hope you all are safe out there. I recently sat my AZ-104 exam and glad to share that I passed 🥳. I took around 4 weeks to prepare for the exam and I am gonna be honest, I was not that confident about it. I have sat some fundamental certification for Azure but didn’t had much practical experience, so doing some hands-on labs was the way to go. https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-i-passed-the-sc-900-microsoft-security-compliance-and-identity-fundamentals-exam/ Sun, 02 May 2021 20:42:06 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-i-passed-the-sc-900-microsoft-security-compliance-and-identity-fundamentals-exam/ Hello amazing people 👋 Hope you all are doing well and safe out there. This week I got my SC-900 exam results back and I passed 🥳 https://www.credly.com/badges/5a457cc1-3c67-4e11-9d88-df3eacc84298/public_url I gave my exam back in March. (Since, it is in BETA hence the wait for the results) Microsoft recently announced 4 new Security Certification: Exam SC-900: Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals Exam SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Exam SC-300: Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator Exam SC-400: Microsoft Information Protection Administrator I decided to go with the SC-900 and below is some more detail on the exam and resources I used to prepare for it. https://rishabkumar.com/blog/adding-custom-domain-and-ssl-certificate-azure-static-web-apps/ Thu, 22 Apr 2021 15:42:42 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/adding-custom-domain-and-ssl-certificate-azure-static-web-apps/ Hello amazing people 👋 So we finally had our website running the last article. Oh not sure what I am talking about, check out the first part of the blog here 👇 https://blog.rishabkumar.com/how-easy-it-is-to-deploy-with-azure-static-web-apps Now let’s setup a custom domain and make sure we have the SSL certificate for it. Setting up the custom domain Let’s navigate to the Static Web App that we created in the last article. And in the blade, you should see Custom Domains section. https://rishabkumar.com/blog/my-2021-certification-goals/ Fri, 12 Mar 2021 17:57:12 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/my-2021-certification-goals/ Hello Amazing people 👋 Hope everyone is doing great. This week I had some time to think about what my certification goals are for this year and I planned them out. As some of you may know, I had this great idea of getting started with cloud certifications last year, planning and staying consistent did help me get 8 of them! https://twitter.com/rishabk7/status/1344534469051445248?s=20 I have 6 of them planned for this year for now. https://rishabkumar.com/blog/deploying-pokedex-next-app-to-gcp-app-engine/ Wed, 03 Feb 2021 08:05:37 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/deploying-pokedex-next-app-to-gcp-app-engine/ Hello amazing people 👋 Hope everyone is doing great! This week I have started looking into GCP App engine and have been trying to build something to test out the platform. So I decided why not deploy the Pokedex app that we created last week, on the App Engine. If you haven’t checked it out, last week we deployed the pokedex app to a docker container. https://blog.rishabkumar.com/pokedex-with-nextjs-and-serving-it-with-docker https://github.com/rishabkumar7/next-pokedex Getting started: You can either use the GCP Cloud Shell through the web portal to follow along or download the Google Cloud SDK: https://rishabkumar.com/blog/cloud-certification-notes-next-app-hackathon/ Mon, 01 Feb 2021 19:27:17 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/cloud-certification-notes-next-app-hackathon/ Hello amazing people 👋 Hope you all are doing great. For this blog, as the title suggests, it’s my submission for the @Hashnode Hackathon! What I built? 🛠 As some of you may know about the notes for my cloud certification that I have made publicly available for the community via GitHub. I was not expecting so many people using it. And 68 stars on GitHub😲 https://github.com/rishabkumar7/CloudNotes So I decided as part of this Hackathon, let’s make a Web app that will serve my cloud certification notes. https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-i-passed-the-azure-data-fundamentals-dp-900-exam/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 16:38:57 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-i-passed-the-azure-data-fundamentals-dp-900-exam/ My Cloud Adventure After passing 4 AWS certifications, I wanted to learn new things and start with another cloud provider: Azure, as part of the #100DaysOfCloud Challenge! I am on this Azure adventure and already have bagged the AZ-900, Azure Fundamentals. I wanted to get some more experience and certifications for Azure. So I decided to go with another fundamental exam, just to get comfortable with Microsoft’s style of exams. https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-i-passed-aws-certified-sysops-administrator-in-2-weeks/ Wed, 09 Sep 2020 19:32:06 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-i-passed-aws-certified-sysops-administrator-in-2-weeks/ It’s been a few months when I got my first AWS Associate Certificate. And I wanted to get my last Associate certificate for AWS before I got distracted by some other technology. Since the start of the pandemic, I took the opportunity to utilize my extra time to get some certifications. https://twitter.com/rishabk7/status/1284842429498236928?s=20 For the past certifications, my strategy was pretty comparable to others, go through the study material (courses, labs and documentation) do some practice tests and then book the exam once I felt prepped. https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-i-built-a-resume-api-with-javascript-and-azure-functions/ Sun, 06 Sep 2020 16:04:57 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-i-built-a-resume-api-with-javascript-and-azure-functions/ I’ve been inspired by the Cloud Resume Challenge by Forest Brazeal to build more stuff in the cloud. I wanted to build something simple to continue my Cloud journey. I decided to build an open-source REST API for my JSON-based standard format resume. I’m using JavaScript and Azure Functions. Demo You can curl the REST API to view my resume curl -L https://myapphttp.azurewebsites.net/resume Setup An Azure account with an active subscription. https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-to-set-up-a-vm-in-gcp/ Wed, 19 Aug 2020 13:33:47 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-to-set-up-a-vm-in-gcp/ This is a three part series. In this article, I’ll walk you through one way that you can take your site and host it on your own server. Step 1: Linux server or a VM. You’ll need shell access to your server/VM. I would recommend micro instance in Google Cloud and if you are new you can almost get $300 in Google Cloud Credits. Also, check out their free tier. https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-i-passed-aws-solutions-architect-associate/ Sun, 09 Aug 2020 14:47:40 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-i-passed-aws-solutions-architect-associate/ Tick tock. Tick tock.🕐 As the clock ticks on, with a deafening silence we have never known before, like many of us, I didn’t want to sit and count those seconds scrolling by. Time ain’t really money (I mean we should have been rich by that logic long time back) but it sure is an opportunity. So, I decided to put this period of lockdown to unlock more of my potential, by diving into the clouds! https://rishabkumar.com/blog/what-is-immutable-infrastructure/ Sun, 02 Aug 2020 20:44:34 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/what-is-immutable-infrastructure/ As Cloud is getting more popular, so is the immutable infrastructure and historically we have been using the mutable infrastructure. But hey, what is Mutable or Immutable? According to Cambridge Dictionary: Mutable: able or likely to change Immutable: not changing, or unable to be changed What is Mutable Infrastructure? Now, in terms of Infrastructure, Mutable implies that the infrastructure will be persistently refreshed, changed, and tuned to meet the progressing needs of the reason it serves. https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-i-passed-the-azure-fundamentals-az-900-exam/ Mon, 29 Jun 2020 14:54:56 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-i-passed-the-azure-fundamentals-az-900-exam/ So I recently took the #AzureCertified challenge and started preparing for the AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals certificate. It’s the starting point for Azure certifications. Fortunately, I was able to pass it last night with a score of 880 (not great, but I will take it!) Courses Again @andrewbrown to the rescue! Andrew published his free AZ-900 course on FreeCodeCamp Youtube Channel. I also went through the Microsoft Learn path for Azure Fundamentals and must say that I loved this new approach to learning! https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-you-can-start-your-aws-certifications-journey-for-free/ Wed, 24 Jun 2020 13:07:22 +0000 https://rishabkumar.com/blog/how-you-can-start-your-aws-certifications-journey-for-free/ First of all, I would like say a huge thanks to @andrewbrown for providing his courses and resources to the Cloud community. (⚠ You would still have to pay for the certification fee.) Where should you start? 🤩 AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner So the Cloud Practitioner is the fundamental and entry-level certificate for AWS, it covers the principles of cloud computing and introduction to the fleet of cloud services AWS provides.