JOURNEY INTO CLOUD NATIVE AND KUBERNETES: Day Zero (0)
WHERE IT ALL BEGAN.
For a time I have been uncertain about how to move forward.
My name is Chiwuike, a tech Writer, and this project is a personal narrative to break down complicated concepts into digestible mussels, as I go from beginner to expert and hopefully master the art of living and building in the cloud.
For a little background, I started with the usual Web programming languages, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Then I decided to deviate to laravel and PHP, and for a time I enjoyed it, wrote so many notes on web development.
After years spent working at the backend of web apps, I wanted something different. Yet it was difficult to look beyond my personal bias, AKA database management. So I spent so many weeks stuck, researching the new changes in my niche, catching up to date on all the changes in laravel 8, and writing down interesting notes for personal consumption.
Writing for personal consumption made me realize that I can share the little knowledge I was getting, by organizing it so other people can benefit no matter how little from my plenty hours of research… so the tech writer on UpWork was born.
While I was consuming my daily dose of tech trends, I came across a relatively new project that picked my interest… Kubernetes. So I jumped in, intending to start learning Kubernetes from scratch, gathering all the reading materials and videos. However, I got stuck… Again.
After 2 hours of jumping into the project, I crash-landed into all sorts of terminologies like cloud-native development, containment, monolithic and micro-services architecture, middleware, and network configuration. Some I understood, while others flew over my head, cat-wheeled gracefully in the air, and smacked me squarely on my behind.
I felt like I was both floating and drowning in the ocean of cloud computing and deployment. So I stepped out for a minute to get my bearing, took a coffee break, and look at the view. It was beautiful and enticing.
This time, however, we wouldn’t be jumping in aimlessly, which means I would be following a beaten path and documenting my journey into cloud computing, or cloud tech as I have come to call it.
What do I have in mind?
For anybody that wants to join me in this, I would be releasing simplified explanations of all I have learned each step of the way; from the leap to my arrival in Atlantis at the bottom of cloud ocean.
This is Day Zero (0). Time to gear up.
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