# 🚀 Getting Started with My DevOps + Cloud Journey – 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.

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## 🔹 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.
    

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## 🔹 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.
    

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## 🔹 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.

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## 🔹 Documentation

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

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

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