Starting DevOps as a beginner can feel brutal. 😭

A month ago, I barely understood what a subnet was. Now I’ve built a complete deployment pipeline: Terraform provisioning Azure infrastructure, a Dockerized Flask app running on AKS, GitHub Actions automatically redeploying it on every push, and monitoring that emails me when something breaks.

And yes, I broke things. A lot. 😂

If you’re just starting DevOps, here are 10 things I wish someone had explained to me first.

Cloud is still just computers