Containers, cloud platforms, and the infra underneath them
Four topics, one lesson each: a short primer, links to primary documentation, and exercises to prove the concept has stuck. Start with Containers & Orchestration.
Images vs. containers, core Kubernetes objects, and the failure modes you’ll actually see in production.
Start lessonAWS/GCP/Azure equivalents, CI/CD pipeline stages, and the Linux/networking fundamentals underneath both.
Start lessonTerraform, Pulumi, and CloudFormation — declarative infra, state, and diagnosing drift.
Start lessonLeast-privilege access, secrets handling, and what changes when a customer needs an on-prem or air-gapped install.
Start lessonWhat building this project taught me.
Containers & Orchestration is sequenced first because it was the #1 self-identified gap from a scan of 30+ job descriptions — not because it’s the easiest starting point. Expect it to take longer than the others.
Each topic card only becomes clickable when its lesson page ships, matching the convention set by TSE Onboarding — the trail stays honest about what’s actually built versus what’s still planned.
