Category: VMware & Cloud
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Logging and Alerting: Reading the Story a System Tells (DevOps for Beginners, Part 13)
Logging and alerting for beginners: structured logs, log levels, centralized search, tracing a request with correlation ids, and why you should log less and never log secrets.
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Monitoring and Observability, and How to Know a System Is Healthy (DevOps for Beginners, Part 12)
Monitoring and observability for beginners: the four golden signals, metrics, Prometheus and Grafana, turning a metric into an alert, and why you alert on symptoms.
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Configure Servers Automatically With Ansible (DevOps for Beginners, Part 11)
Ansible for beginners: how agentless configuration management sets up servers over SSH with YAML playbooks, why idempotence matters, and how it pairs with Terraform.
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Infrastructure as Code: Build Servers From Files, Not Clicks (DevOps for Beginners, Part 10)
Infrastructure as Code explained with Terraform: describe servers in files, use the plan and apply loop, understand the state file, and avoid drift and lock conflicts.
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What Does Kubernetes Actually Do, and When Do You Need It? (DevOps for Beginners, Part 9)
Kubernetes basics for beginners: pods, nodes, deployments and services, how desired state and self-healing work, reading CrashLoopBackOff, and when you actually need it.
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Build Your First Container Image With Docker (DevOps for Beginners, Part 8)
Containers and Docker for beginners: how a Dockerfile becomes an image and a running container, containers versus virtual machines, ports, volumes, and layer caching.
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CI/CD Explained: How Code Ships Without Anyone Pushing Buttons (DevOps for Beginners, Part 7)
CI/CD explained for beginners: what continuous integration and delivery actually automate, how a pipeline file works, and why your build passes locally but fails in CI.
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What Really Happens When You Load a Website (DevOps for Beginners, Part 6)
A DevOps mental model of the web: the request and response cycle, DNS, load balancers, ports, TLS, and the status codes that tell you exactly where a site broke.
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Git and Version Control From Your First Commit (DevOps for Beginners, Part 5)
Git is the tool every DevOps job assumes you already know. Here is how it stores your work, how branches and merges really behave, and the first-push error that stops beginners, with commands you can run today.
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Learn the Linux Command Line That Runs Every DevOps Tool (DevOps for Beginners, Part 4)
The Linux command line is where every DevOps tool actually runs. Here are the everyday commands, file permissions, and troubleshooting basics to get comfortable in the terminal on day one.
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The DevOps Lifecycle and the Toolchain Behind It (DevOps for Beginners, Part 3)
A plain map of the eight-stage DevOps lifecycle and the tools that run each stage, with a real CI pipeline you can trace from git push to live.
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What Problem Does DevOps Actually Solve? (DevOps for Beginners, Part 2)
The dev versus ops split, the over-the-wall handoff, environment drift and big-batch releases, and how DevOps closes the gap with shared ownership and automation.
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Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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