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Tick as you go — visible progress is the best motivation to keep going. Update the chapter count below as you finish each one.

🧪 Labs Verified — Proof-of-Work (the table that matters most)

Ticks upar wale mood se lagte hain; ye table sirf script ke ✅ PASS se bharti hai. Kaise chalayein → 🎮 The Doer's Path. Script pass hone par jo PROOF LINE mile, usse Date column me paste karo.

# Check Module Verified? Proof line (script se copy karo)
1 check-m1-terraform.sh (real state + idempotency) M1 Terraform [ ]
2 check-m2-ansible.sh M2 Ansible [ ]
3 check-m3-docker.sh M3 Docker [ ]
4 check-m4-k8s.sh (live self-heal test!) M4 K8s Core [ ]
5 check-m6-cicd.sh (SHA-tag + scan gate) M6 CI/CD [ ]
6 check-m7-gitops.sh M7 GitOps [ ]
7 check-m7-incident.sh 🚨 (war story) M7 Lab 6 [ ]
8 check-m75-helm-kustomize.sh M7.5 Primer [ ]
9 check-m8-observability.sh M8 Observability [ ]

🔥 Streak: current: _ days · best: _ days · (rule: roz 1 proof, warna reset — 1 freeze/week allowed)

Overall

Chapters done: __ / 21

Milestone Badges

Badge ladder ka visual + criteria → Doer's Path

  • 🔨 First Blood (pehla check script PASS)
  • 🏗️ Toolchain complete (checks 1+2+3 PASS · after M6 — Week 6)
  • 🧠 Systems thinking (after Chapter 09 Connected System)
  • 🔁 GitOps Operator (checks 4+5+6 PASS — incident drill included)
  • 👁️ All-Seeing (check 7 PASS)
  • 🚀 First end-to-end deploy (Capstone I: URL Shortener done)
  • 💪 Battle-Tested (Gauntlet build + chaos done)
  • 🎯 Interview-ready (after Chapter 14 + 18)

🔥 10-Day Confidence Sprint

Concepts clear? Ab drill. Har din 3 lanes — see 29 — Confidence Sprint (ya interactive dashboard 10_Day_Confidence_Sprint.html). Tick karo, roz.

Day Focus ↩️ Revise ▸ Do (project) ✅ Prove
1 Linux · Git · Docker [ ] [ ] [ ]
2 K8s Core (self-heal, scale, rollout) [ ] [ ] [ ]
3 Config · Secret · Storage (break & fix) [ ] [ ] [ ]
4 Networking (Service · Ingress · DNS) [ ] [ ] [ ]
5 CI/CD (follow one commit) [ ] [ ] [ ]
6 GitOps + Helm (sync & drift) [ ] [ ] [ ]
7 Terraform · Ansible · AWS [ ] [ ] [ ]
8 Observability & SRE [ ] [ ] [ ]
9 Break & Fix (incident + chaos) [ ] [ ] [ ]
10 End-to-end + Interview (STAR) [ ] [ ] [ ]

Final proof (Day 10, no notes): [ ] 2 loops + 8 bridges + 5 threads blank-page · [ ] "git push → user" 10-min whiteboard talk · [ ] 3 STAR stories from VANTA + Billfree

Chapter Checklist

Sub-items: read · lab · quiz · flashcards. Tick each as done.

Part 0 — Pre-flight

  • 00a Pre-flight (~40 min + lab)
  • Read
  • Lab done (pre-flight checklist passed ✅)
  • Quiz answered from memory

  • Flashcards reviewed

  • 00b Setup Runbook (~60 min installs)

  • Read
  • All tools installed & verified
  • Quiz answered from memory
  • Flashcards reviewed

Part I — Core Modules

  • 01 M0 Foundations (~45 min)
  • Read
  • Lab done ✅
  • Quiz answered from memory

  • Flashcards reviewed

  • 02 M1 Terraform (~60 min + lab)

  • Read
  • Lab done (terraform apply succeeded ✅)
  • Quiz answered from memory

  • Flashcards reviewed

  • 03 M2 Ansible (~50 min)

  • Read
  • Lab done (playbook ran end-to-end ✅)
  • Quiz answered from memory

  • Flashcards reviewed

  • 04 M3 Docker (~60 min + lab)

  • Read
  • Lab done (image built + pushed ✅)
  • Quiz answered from memory

  • Flashcards reviewed

  • 05 M4 Kubernetes Core (~75 min + lab)

  • Read
  • Lab done (pod running, service exposed ✅)
  • Quiz answered from memory

  • Flashcards reviewed

  • 06 M5 Sizing & Cost (~50 min)

  • Read
  • Lab done ✅
  • Quiz answered from memory

  • Flashcards reviewed

  • 07 M6 CI/CD (~55 min + lab)

  • Read
  • Lab done (pipeline green ✅)
  • Quiz answered from memory

  • Flashcards reviewed

  • 08 M7 GitOps (~45 min + lab)

  • Read
  • Lab done (ArgoCD synced ✅)
  • Quiz answered from memory
  • Flashcards reviewed

Part II — Connected System

  • 09 Connected System (~40 min synthesis)
  • Read
  • Can explain the full tool chain from memory
  • Quiz answered from memory
  • Flashcards reviewed

Part III — Advanced

  • 10 M8 Observability & SRE (~55 min)
  • Read
  • Lab done (Prometheus + Grafana dashboard live, alert fires ✅)
  • Quiz answered from memory

  • Flashcards reviewed

  • 11 M9 Advanced K8s Internals (~75 min + lab)

  • Read
  • Lab done (RBAC + CRDs working ✅)
  • Quiz answered from memory
  • Flashcards reviewed

Part IV — Capstones

  • 12 Capstone I — URL Shortener (multi-day project)
  • Phase 1: App coded + Dockerised
  • Phase 2: Deployed to K8s
  • Phase 3: CI pipeline green
  • Phase 4: ArgoCD synced (GitOps)
  • Phase 5: Observability dashboard live

  • Phase 6: Rollback tested + cluster cleaned up

  • 13 Capstone II — Microshop (multi-day project)

  • Read + scoped
  • Multi-service app running
  • Full pipeline + GitOps
  • Observability across services
  • Project documented / portfolio-ready

Part V — Career & Reference

Spaced-Review Log

Fill in dates as you hit each review milestone. Format: DD MMM.

Chapter Learned Day-1 recall ✓ Day-3 flashcards ✓ Day-30 blank-page ✓
00a Pre-flight
00b Setup Runbook
M0 Foundations
M1 Terraform
M2 Ansible
M3 Docker
M4 Kubernetes Core
M5 Sizing & Cost
M6 CI/CD
M7 GitOps
09 Connected System
M8 Observability
M9 K8s Internals

Day-30 blank-page test: draw 2 feedback loops, 8 tool bridges, 5 threads — no notes allowed.

Capstone I Checklist

These are the concrete "done" criteria. Nothing counts until all 6 are ticked.

  • App runs locally — URL Shortener responds to requests, no errors in logs
  • Dockerised — docker build succeeds; container runs and serves traffic
  • Deployed to Kubernetes — Deployment + Service created; kubectl get pods shows Running
  • CI pipeline green — Push to main triggers pipeline; all stages pass ✅
  • ArgoCD synced — App synced from Git repo; Argo UI shows Healthy + Synced
  • Rollback tested — Introduced a bad deploy; ArgoCD / pipeline reverted successfully
  • Cluster cleaned up — Resources deleted; no orphaned namespaces or PVCs left behind