Looking to learn a novel DevOps topic on a low-end box

[shivajikobardan]

I work as a product support engineer.

I've so far learnt about

Now, I am looking to go in a new topic:

- It should be achievable to learn within 1 month(50-100 hrs) of effort. - It should be interesting to learn(something novel, I mean) - It should help me learn something new as well. - I don't have a cloud to practice aws etc and can't purchase them either. - I should be able to self host it in my lenovo thinkpad with 16gb ram and intel i5 7th generation processor

I can:

- write shell script for basic installation purposes. - Install applications on linux server & troubleshoot if something wrong occurs.(example: LEMP etc) - Configure NGINX web servers - Troubleshoot using command line utilities. - Create VMs in virtualbox. - Basic SQL(can read). - configure kubernetes on linux server.

So, I am now wondering what can I do that can drastically enhance my skillset.

I've asked this to ai bots(deepseek,chatgpt) and they all tell me un-creative answers. They say to do ci/cd with github actions & kubernetes. But the problem is I don't know how to write yamls.

They say:

- use helm -->I don't know yamls - Setup SIEM - log aggregation with loki & grafana--->I don't know programming language spring boot to centralize its logs - terraform---> I don't know yamls - gitops-->I don't know yamls - REST API in java--> I don't know spring boot

It seems like I need to learn yamls. However, really having tough time finding a resource

[talldayo]

> But the problem is I don't know how to write yamls.

I have very good news for you regarding the complexity of YAML and how long it takes to learn.

[shivajikobardan → talldayo]

Is it that easy?