Akhilesh Mishra
@livingdevops
Building LivingDevOps | DevOps engineer, Technical Writer, Mentor, Educator, Medium 10.5k+, LinkedIn 30k+
I am building LivingDevOps, a real-world DevOps education platform. 👉 Here's why. In the last year, I've spoken to 200+ DevOps aspirants and they all have the same complaint. They took expensive courses from big training companies, learned all the tools, but couldn't clear…
Top 10 Kubernetes Pod Concepts That Confuse Beginners When I first started working with Kubernetes, it felt like trying to decode a secret language. Here are the 10 pod concepts that trip up most beginners. 1. Pods vs Containers A pod is the smallest deployment unit that can…
There is only one way to learn Devops. The hard way. If someone is telling you otherwise, it’s a scam.
6-month, Devops zero to hero roadmap for beginners in 2025
DevOps has changed a lot in the last 10 years. But DevOps courses? Still the same old stuff. Interviews want you to have experience with complex projects and tough problems. Most courses are still teaching you to deploy a simple game in Kubernetes. This gap is hurting people…
If I Were to Start Learning DevOps From Zero, This Is How I Would Have Done It 🫵 Here is the 6-month no-bullshit roadmap ✅ Month 1: Linux, Networking, Shell Scripting, and Git → Learn Linux commands (ls, cd, grep, find), file permissions, and process management. → Master…
Still running Docker containers on your local machine? You don't need to anymore. Docker just shipped a feature that quietly changes the game: Docker Offload. It lets you offload regular docker run commands to a remote cloud machine, including GPU-enabled workloads, without…
🚨 Kubernetes is dead 🚨 GitOps is dead I keep seeing these clickbait headlines pop up on Medium and other platforms. And honestly, It’s getting ridiculous. Just this week, someone published a post claiming Kubernetes was finished. Then I read an AI generated “GitOps is dead”…
They call it information age but today is more of mis-information age. Most people have lost the ability to think before they accept/discard any information. They assume everything they read to be true. People need to understand who to trust, and what to trust.
Before start: I am not prepared for interview After 1st interview: Failed, need to learn After 5th interview: I know most of questions After 7th interview: I got an offer After 10th interview: I can clear any interview. This is the journey for every normal IT professional…
- You've watched every 'DevOps Zero to Hero' video out there. - You've completed multiple Udemy courses. Yet somehow, those interview rejections keep coming. Watching someone deploy a simple app to AWS or set up a basic Jenkins pipeline isn't enough. Real DevOps is messy.…
5 Scenarios that separate Real DevOps Engineers From Pretenders 👉 Your observability costs are 40% of your infrastructure budget. How do you optimize without losing critical visibility? → Implement log sampling and retention policies based on criticality → Use metric…
KPMG Interview Experience Compensation: 35L Role: Senior DevOps Engineer(8-10 years) 👉Round 1: Coding Challenges 👈 - Design and implement a Terraform module for a multi-tier application infrastructure with proper state management - Write a shell script to automate log…
J.P. Morgan Interview Experience Compensation: 22L Role: Senior DevOps Engineer Round 1 & 2 – Technical Deep Dive 1. You’ve deployed an app to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and it fails health checks randomly. How do you debug this end-to-end? 2. In a canary deployment to…
Just finished Special Ops Season 2 on Jio Hotstar, and my DevOps brain couldn't stop screaming. • Password auth in 2025? Really? • Zero-day vulns in gov systems? Patch your stuff! • One user with god-mode access? That's not security. Plot twist: The real villain was their…