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Apply everything you've learned by building complete end-to-end projects. Integrate multiple tools, create production-ready pipelines, and showcase your DevOps expertise.
Available Projects
Start with these comprehensive projects and build your DevOps portfolio
Full CI/CD Pipeline Project
Build a complete production-ready pipeline from scratch. Take a Node.js app from code commit through automated testing, Docker containerization, and Kubernetes deployment using GitHub Actions. This project integrates Git version control, CI/CD automation, container orchestration, and GitOps principles.
What you'll build:
- Automated testing pipeline
- Docker image builds
- Security scanning integration
- Kubernetes deployment
- GitOps workflows
- Rolling updates & monitoring
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Terraform Infrastructure Project
Build a complete multi-environment infrastructure from scratch. Create reusable Terraform modules, manage state across environments, configure workspaces for dev/staging/prod, and implement infrastructure best practices with variables, locals, and outputs.
What you'll build:
- Reusable Terraform modules
- Multi-environment setup
- Workspace management
- Variables & tfvars configs
- State management
- Drift detection & correction
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E-Commerce Analytics Platform
Design, build, and query a complete e-commerce analytics database from scratch. Set up PostgreSQL via Docker, write complex analytical queries with CTEs and window functions, create views for business reports, and implement monitoring and backup strategies.
What you'll build:
- Normalized database schema
- Sales & revenue reports
- Cohort analysis with CTEs
- Window function analytics
- Audit triggers & views
- Backup & monitoring
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Full Observability Stack Project
Build a complete observability stack with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Alertmanager. Then debug a real incident using metrics, logs, and traces together.
What you'll build:
- OpenTelemetry instrumentation
- Prometheus metrics & alerting
- Grafana monitoring dashboards
- Loki centralized logging
- Tempo distributed tracing
- Cross-signal incident debugging
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DevOps Automation CLI Tool
Build a complete DevOps automation CLI that queries the GitHub API, fetches repository and commit data with Bearer auth, and generates formatted reports in JSON and YAML.
What you'll build:
- argparse CLI with flags and subcommands
- GitHub API client with Bearer auth
- Secure .env credential loading
- JSON and YAML report generation
- Structured logging and exit codes
- Fail-fast error handling patterns
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AWS CloudFormation Capstone
Deploy a complete multi-resource stack — IAM role, S3 bucket, Lambda function, and log group — from a single YAML template. Preview a destructive update with a change set before executing it, then tear everything down atomically. Pairs with the Terraform on AWS capstone below, which rebuilds the same infrastructure so you can compare both IaC approaches.
What you'll build:
- YAML CloudFormation template
- IAM role, S3 bucket & Lambda stack
- Intrinsic functions & stack outputs
- Change-set previews of updates
- Safe replacement-aware updates
- Atomic teardown with delete-stack
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AWS CLI & IAM🪣 S3 Buckets & Objects⚡ Lambda FunctionsTerraform on AWS Capstone
Rebuild the CloudFormation capstone's infrastructure — IAM role, S3 bucket, Lambda function, and log group — with Terraform and the AWS provider. Review saved plans before applying, drive an update through typed variables, watch a bucket replacement surface in the plan, and destroy everything cleanly while learning why Terraform state must be protected.
What you'll build:
- AWS provider & version pinning
- IAM, S3 & Lambda in HCL
- Typed variables with validation
- Saved plans & reviewed applies
- Replacement-aware updates
- State-safe destroy & cleanup
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