Getting Started with DevOps & Cloud: A Beginner's Guide (Milestone 1)

Hello everyone 👋,

I’ve started my DevOps + Cloud learning journey and I want to share my progress step by step. This is my first milestone, where I explored the fundamentals of DevOps and set up my initial hands-on environment.

🔹 Key Learnings

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Understood the different phases such as requirement gathering, design, development, testing, and deployment.
Agile vs Waterfall: Learned the differences between traditional and Agile methods, and why Agile is preferred in modern DevOps practices.
DevOps Lifecycle: Explored the stages like plan, code, build, test, release, deploy, operate, and monitor.
Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Gained a basic understanding of how automation plays a big role in faster delivery.
Virtualization Basics: Learned about hypervisors (VirtualBox, VMware) and how they help in creating isolated environments.

🔹 Hands-On Practice

Installed and configured VirtualBox for virtualization.
Learned about Vagrant and its role in automating VM creation.
Practiced creating Ubuntu and CentOS VMs using Vagrant.
Understood how to write and use a Vagrantfile to define VM setup.

🔹 Why This Milestone Matters

This milestone gave me the foundation of DevOps concepts and the confidence to start practicing on my own. By learning virtualization and VM provisioning, I built the base for more advanced topics like Linux, Git, and automation tools.

🔹 Documentation

For those who want to check my full notes, commands, and detailed documentation, I’ve uploaded everything here:
👉 [ https://github.com/darshan090905/Devops-learning/tree/master/milestone-1 ]

💡 I’ll continue to share my DevOps + Cloud journey through milestones so that other beginners can learn along with me.

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