Cloud & VirtualisationIntermediate
Cloud Ops: Production Ready
EKS hardening, network policies, observability, and IaC patterns for teams shipping to production.
6 steps~12h
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- 1Read
EKS production checklist
Control plane, node groups, IRSA, and upgrade strategy before go-live.
Open chapter - 2Read
Kubernetes network policies
Default-deny posture, namespace isolation, and CNI interaction.
Open chapter - 3Lab
Lab - NetworkPolicy on kind
- —Spin a local kind cluster with two namespaces
- —Apply default-deny policies and verify blocked cross-namespace traffic
- —Allow only required pod-to-pod flows and test with curl/netcat
- —Rollback policies and document the diff
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Prometheus & Grafana stack
RED/USE signals, scrape architecture, and SLO alerting without fatigue.
Open chapter - 5Read
Terraform multicloud patterns
Module structure, state backends, and environment promotion.
Open chapter - 6Self-check
Self-check - cloud ops
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