Learning roadmaps, home labs, interviews and certifications for sysadmin and DevOps careers
Microsoft is running a free, live Certification Week from 28 Sep to 2 Oct (IST), and you can walk away with a free exam voucher. There’s a catch or two, and most seats are already gone. Here’s what’s still open and which cert I’d pick.
Build a job-ready Linux lab on a budget: VMs, snapshots, fake prod habits, SSH practice — without burning cash or your laptop.
Practice sysadmin interview scenarios with structured answers: disk full, SSH fail, bad unit, DNS, load — how hiring managers listen.
A field-tested SysAdmin → DevOps roadmap for 2026: Ansible, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD order — no buzzwords, just what actually works.
Linux roadmap for beginners: what to learn, in what order I’ve already written about whether Linux is worth learning in 2026 (short version: yes, unambiguously). This post answers the question that immediately follows: okay, but what exactly do I learn, and in what order? Because that’s where most beginners actually fail. Not from lack of…
Is Linux Still Worth Learning in 2026? An Honest Answer From Someone Who Uses It Daily. Concretely: in a normal week Linux appears when I deploy services to ECS, tail application logs to find why a container is crash-looping, tune an Nginx config, chase a disk-space alert, and check why a service didn’t come back…