Hello beautiful people,
I am really excited to share that this is the 100th edition of the "weekly" Seven Day DevOps Newsletter!!
It has been an incredible journey – one that would not have been possible without the continuous support of all you amazing people out there. Thank you so much to everyone who is opening (& hopefully reading) my newsletter!
You can find all 100 newsletters on my blog: anaisurl.com
In this special edition, I want to highlight all of my favourite resources & content that I have used for my personal learning throughout the past 3 years in this space. (I am sure I forgot something or someone)
Enjoy!
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Top Conferences
You might have thought I would say KubeCon, but no, no – here we go, my top three conferences!
1st DevOps Days
My absolute favourite conferences were definitely DevOps Days. All DevOps Days that I have been to were super inclusive and welcoming. Also, I learnt so much while co-organising DevOpsDays Birmingham!
Plus Point: There is likely a DevOps Days Conference not far from you – alternatively, you can start one! Get involved!
2nd Swiss Cloud Native Day
The conference had such a great atmosphere & the best view of a conference venue! If you have a chance, I would highly recommend attending!
3rd O'Reilly's Superstreams
O'Reilly organises online Superstreams, which are like mini-conferences! I had the pleasure of speaking at them twice. However, note that you need access to the O'Reilly Media platform to attend.
What are your favourite conferences? Which ones should I attend?
Top YouTube Channels
Here are my top three YouTube channels, from which I have learned a lot, and I would definitely recommend subscribing to them.
- Continuous Delivery – If you want to learn about new tools, check out the channels mentioned below. This channel is amazing for culture, tech best practices, case studies etc.
- Viktor Farcic - It's Viktor and the DevOps Toolkit, no more to say hahah – for real, this channel launched right before I got started in the DevOps space.
- 90DaysOfDevOps - Michael, who runs this channel, found the best way to gather lots of amazing content for you.
Top Blogs/Writers
- Rory McCune provides the best security-focused content out there in a very easy-to-follow manner.
- Ivan Velichko has the best diagrams out there – Have a look at his blog & free online tutorials
Best Paid tool
I would pay for O'Reilly Media over any other platform if you want to pay for anything. Accessing the vast number of books, online courses, and more can give you a much more detailed understanding of a tool than a YouTube video.
Most content is free. If you want to pay for anything else, use cloud providers to learn real-world skills. However, there is little point in paying for a cloud provider's resources before you have a certain foundation level.
Top learning journey
I got the idea to get started with 100 Days of Kubernetes from Rishab Kumar
He has so much amazing content on practising for cloud certifications – and an amazing example of learning in public.
Top CLI tools
- This Newsletter would not be complete without Trivy, your all-in-one cloud native security Scanner. If you are configuring or using any form of cloud or engineering resources, whether it's a Git Repository, Container Image or Terraform module, you should scan it for vulnerabilities!
- K9s – Oh my love! K9s – what would I have done without you throughout the past 3 years...
- Helm – I just love Helm, it's one of those tools that is soo sooo useful if you are dealing with lots of YAML files or third-party applications.
Top Company Engineering Blogs
Several engineering-focused companies share their work and infrastructure setup on a blog. You can learn so much about real-world integrations from those companies. Here are my top three:
Meme of the week
This week's top meme is by David, who is another amazing content creator in the space.
