Resources

Updated Nov 22, 2023 ·

CSS

• Minify-CSS
• Flexbox Froggy
• CSS Browser Support Reference
• CSS transitions and transforms for beginners
• Can I use
• Should-I-Prefix
• Autoprefixer-Tool
• CSS Grid Cheat Sheet

CSS Tricks

• CSS-Flexbox-Resource
• auto-fill vs auto-fit
• Media Queries for Standard Devices

Bootstrap

• Mailchimp-Add an Embedded Signup Form to Your Website
• Free Bootstrap starter templates
• Creative Time - Bootstrap UI Kits
• Perfect Full Page Background Image
• Start Bootstrap
• Animate.css
• Bootstrap Expo
• Viewport meta tag
• What is meta tag
• What is UTF-8
• Bootstrap Flex

Linux

• Serious Shell Programming

• Unofficial Bash Strict Mode

• Filenames and Pathnames in Shell: How to do it Correctly

• ShellCheck - A shell script static analysis tool

Cloud Computing

• Becoming a Cloud Architect — Learn the Fundamentals

Amazon Web Services

• AWS Certified Security - Specialty

• Security - Specialty Certification Preparation for AWS

Microsoft Azure

• Learning About Azure

• AZ-900 Exam Preparation: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

• Microsoft Azure Administration

• Microsoft Learn - AZ-104 Labs

• Azure Networking

• AZ-400 Exam Prep: Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions

• Azure Services for Security Engineers

• Getting Hands-On with Azure CLI

Infrastructure as Code

• Terraformer

Data Engineering

Databases:

• Fundamentals of Database Engineering

• Getting Started with MongoDB and NoSQL LiveLessons

• MongoDB - The Complete Developer's Guide 2022

Courses on Databases:

• Fundamentals of Database Engineering

• Getting Started with MongoDB and NoSQL LiveLessons

• MongoDB - The Complete Developer's Guide 2022

Apache Flink:

• Understanding Apache Flink

• Conceptualizing the Processing Model for Apache Flink

• Exploring the Apache Flink API for Processing Streaming Data

• Processing Streaming Data Using Apache Flink

MongoDB:

• REST API Design, Development & Management
• What is an API? In English, please.
• REST (REpresentational State Transfer)
• What is "representation", "state" and "transfer" in Representational State Transfer (REST)?
• Roy Fielding's Thesis on Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures
• Types of APIs & Popular REST API Protocol

Jenkins

• Jenkins 2 Bootcamp: Fully Automate Builds to Deployment 2020

• Jenkins, From Zero To Hero: Become a DevOps Jenkins Master

• ACloud Guru: Certified Jenkins Engineer By Michael McClaren

• Installing Jenkins

• Ansible, right way to enable EPEL: yum_repository vs yum?

Containers and Kubernetes

Docker Courses:

• Docker in Production Using Amazon Web Services

• Building, Deploying, and Running Containers in Production

• Docker and Kubernetes: The Complete Guide

• Docker in Production Using Amazon Web Services

• The Complete Practical Docker Guide

• Complete AWS ECS Bootcamp (Beginner friendly)

Kubernetes Courses:

• Getting Started with Kubernetes LiveLessons, 2nd Edition

• Hands-on Kubernetes

• Learning Path - Kubernetes Administration

• Learning Path - Using Kubernetes as a Developer

• Learn DevOps: The Complete Kubernetes Course

• Cloud Native Fundamentals by SUSE

• Running Kubernetes on AWS (EKS)

• Hands-On Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) LiveLessons: Running Microservices

• Packaging Applications with Helm for Kubernetes

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Exam Preparation

Other resources on Docker:

• Dockerfile reference

• Best practices for writing Dockerfiles

• Docker Build command

• Docker Run command

• Introduction to Docker registry

• Docker Tag command

• Docker Push command

• Open Container Initiative (OCI) Specifications

• Buildpacks: An App’s Brief Journey from Source to Image

Other resources on Kubernetes:

• DNS for Services and Pods

• Custom Resources or CRDs

• Autoscaling in Kubernetes

• Kubernetes Components

• eksctl - Config file schema

Github repositories:

• Kubernetes Autoscaler

• kubernetes/kops

• wardviaene/kubernetes-course

• wardviaene/devops-box (devops box with pre-built tools)

• kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way

• mmumshad/kubernetes-the-hard-way

• yankils/Simple-DevOps-Project

• phcollignon/helm

• phcollignon/helm3

Metrics, Logging, Health Checks, and Tracing:

• Pattern: Health Check API

• Best Practice on Metric Naming

• How to Log a Log: Application Logging Best Practices

• log4j - Logging Levels

• Enabling Distributed Tracing for Microservices With Jaeger in Kubernetes

DNS

Free DNS Service using freedns

• Sign up at http://freedns.afraid.org/
• Choose for subdomain hosting
• Enter the AWS nameservers given to you in route53 as nameservers for the subdomain

Free DNS Service using dot.tk

• provides a free .tk domain name you can use
• you can point it to the amazon AWS nameservers

Free DNS Service using Namecheap

• often has promotions for tld’s like .co for just a couple of bucks

Certification Exams:

• Open Source Curriculum for CNCF Certification Courses

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)

• Important Instructions: CKA and CKAD

• Linux Foundation Certification Exam: Candidate Handbook

Project Management

• Free Project Management Courses