I wanted to find out what working on a real Linux server actually feels like — not a local VM, not a...
I wanted to find out what working on a real Linux server actually feels like — not a local VM, not a simulator.
So in May 2026, I spun up an Ubuntu 22.04 server on AWS EC2, connected via SSH, and spent the entire month doing real work on it.
Here's what I built.
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EC2 Essentials Compute · Storage · Networking · Security · Lifecycle · CLI Part of my...
Automation is the part of DevOps that actually earns the title. Day 6 was two of the most everyday...
Why I wrote this After the storage migration, I ran into the next very normal sentence...
Doing the work and being able to explain the work are two different skills. I've had the first one...
A password is a secret you type. An SSH key is a secret you never send. That gap is the whole reason...
My three-tier AWS architecture worked. VPC, subnets, bastion host, app server, RDS, all deployed and...
