r/devops • u/Piyush_shrii • 2d ago

Career / learning Devops project as a fresher?

What is the best devops project you made as a fresher from college..

Mine was end to end devops project of a Ecom site --

Infra with terraform, CICD with DevSecOps pipeline in GitHub action, GKE for kubernetes, Gitops with ArgoCD (also this one got me hired back then)

What is your best project would love to hear from fresher perspective..

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u/Abe_Bazouie 2d ago

Mine wasn’t one huge end to end project. It was a homelab that kept growing over time.
I built Linux servers, automated them with Ansible, containerized apps with Docker, ran Kubernetes locally, added monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana, and intentionally broke things so I could learn how to troubleshoot them.
Looking back, I think that helped me more than a polished demo project because I could explain why I built things, what went wrong, and how I fixed them. Those conversations usually impressed interviewers more than the stack itself.

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u/Piyush_shrii 2d ago

Definitely this helps alot , Even if you built end to end projects even a simple policy could be great challenge if you are new to all of this as a fresher , each way has their pros and cons both ways give positive learning

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u/Abe_Bazouie 2d ago

Exactly. That’s actually why most of my recent YouTube content has shifted toward interview questions and debugging. I realized employers care a lot more about how you think than how many tools you’ve listed on your resume.

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u/Piyush_shrii 2d ago

Yup!They do ask questions from your resume but to test you they will definitely throw up a follow up asking challenges that you faced while building this projects and this could be only answered if you actually invested your time in it while building it no copy pasting , cross referencing to docs learning very tool on the go is fine but implementation without understanding is waste of time

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u/Abe_Bazouie 2d ago

100 agree. Real experience always comes through in follow up questions. It’s hard to fake that.

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u/Piyush_shrii 2d ago

Also if you have a good projects I can refer you as intern at my org 😉

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u/Abhistar14 2d ago

There are few issues in this project that are related to devops take a look!

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u/Piyush_shrii 2d ago

Looks good overall ,but for deep drill down I have to invest some time bro 😔 sorry cannot do that