My DevOps Timeline

🚀 My DevOps Timeline

From SysAdmin Scripts to Scalable Cloud Pipelines

Every engineer has a story. Mine is built on Linux terminals, container logs, YAML files, and the pursuit of clean automation. Here’s how it all started — and where I’m headed.

🏁 2018 — The Command Line Spark

“I started with the basics — SSH, Bash, and sleepless nights fixing broken servers.”

  • Installed and maintained Linux and Windows servers

  • Wrote shell scripts to automate user and backup tasks

  • Learned what happens when you forget a --force flag 😅

🔧 2019 — Automation Era Begins

“Why click when you can script it?”

  • Wrote Ansible playbooks to automate server provisioning

  • Started using Git for version control (and rebasing nightmares)

  • Created cron jobs to run system tasks and auto-remediation scripts

🐳 2020 — Containers, Meet Cloud

“Docker changed the game. Kubernetes made it epic.”

  • Dockerized legacy applications for consistent environments

  • Deployed first Kubernetes cluster on DigitalOcean

  • Discovered Helm charts and fell in love with declarative configs

  • Built multi-stage Docker builds for optimized images

☁️ 2021 — Cloud-Native & IaC

“If it’s not defined in code, it doesn’t exist.”

  • Built cloud infrastructure using Terraform on AWS & GCP

  • Deployed autoscaling groups, VPCs, RDS, and S3 storage

  • Started GitOps using ArgoCD and GitHub Actions

  • Secured workloads with IAM roles, SSM, and WAF

🔐 2022 — DevSecOps & Observability

“You can’t protect what you can’t see.”

  • Integrated Trivy, Wazuh, and OpenVAS for vulnerability scanning

  • Built Prometheus + Grafana dashboards with real-time alerts

  • Created Slack and n8n bots to notify of production events

  • Enforced policy-as-code and secrets management via Vault

🌐 2023 — Full Automation & Self-Healing

“If it breaks, it should fix itself — or at least tell you nicely.”

  • Designed self-healing workflows using n8n and webhook triggers

  • Built custom Slack bots for deployment alerts and metrics

  • Automated WordPress deployments using Docker + GitOps

  • Used GA4 for performance metrics, Cloudflare for security/CDN

🧭 2024 — Scaling, Sharing, Evolving

“CI2CD was born — to share real-world DevOps knowledge.”

  • Launched CI2CD.space to share tutorials, tools, and projects

  • Working with small teams and startups to deliver scalable infrastructure

  • Mentoring junior engineers and contributing to open-source automation tools

  • Constantly learning: exploring serverless, eBPF, and platform engineering

🛠️ What Drives Me

  • Build once, deploy many

  • Automate the boring, secure the rest

  • Think like a developer, operate like an engineer

  • Tools change, principles stay

“DevOps isn’t just about tools — it’s about a mindset shift. One that lets you move fast without breaking things.”

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