Hey DEV Community! 👋

I'm Ash, an aspiring Cloud and DevOps engineer, and this is my first post here.

Over the past few months, I've been focusing on moving beyond theory and building hands-on projects to understand how modern cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, and monitoring work together.

One thing I've learned along the way is that learning a tool and understanding how to use it in a real environment are two very different things.

🛠️ What I've Been Building

Rather than learning tools in isolation, I've been trying to connect them through practical projects.

Here's a glimpse of what I've explored so far:

☁️ AWS & Terraform

Building cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, working with VPCs, networking, IAM, and Terraform modules.

🐳 Docker & Kubernetes

Containerizing applications, deploying workloads, and learning how container orchestration works in practice.

⚙️ CI/CD & Deployment Strategies

Building automated pipelines and experimenting with blue-green and canary deployments…