thoughts

The DevOps course I keep recommending

Jul 25, 2026

People ask me where to start with DevOps, and I keep sending them to the same place: the AWS DevOps course from Cloud Native Base Camp. It is the one that turned a pile of buzzwords into a mental model I could actually use.

What I liked about it

  • It is hands on. You build and break real things instead of watching slides. That is the only way any of this sticks.
  • It connects the whole chain. CI/CD, containers, infrastructure as code, and the AWS services underneath, so you see how a change travels from your laptop to production.
  • It moves fast without skipping the why. You come out understanding the tradeoffs, not just the commands to copy.

I took it in 2024, and a lot of what I later shipped on real projects, Terraform, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions pipelines, Prometheus and Grafana monitoring, traces straight back to the way this course wired those ideas together in my head.

If you are a student or a developer who wants to stop being scared of the deploy step, start here: Cloud Native Base Camp, AWS DevOps.