Hi everyone,

I'm a BCA student from India and I'm considering a career in Cloud Computing, but I'm still unsure if it's the right path.

I'd love to hear from people who are already working in Cloud (Cloud Support, Cloud Engineer, DevOps, SRE, Solutions Architect, etc.).

A few questions:

How did you get your first cloud job?

Was it difficult to get hired as a fresher?

Do you still think Cloud is a good career in 2026?

What does your day-to-day work actually look like?

How much coding do you use?

What do you enjoy the most, and what do you dislike?

If you could start over today, would you still choose Cloud? If not, what would you choose instead?

What roadmap would you recommend to someone starting from scratch?

I'm looking for honest experiences, not YouTube hype. I want to understand what working in Cloud is really like before I commit to this career.

Please mention your role (Cloud Support, Cloud Engineer, DevOps, SRE, Solutions Architect, etc.) and years of experience, so I can understand your perspective.

Thanks in advance! 🙏

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Environment sustainability is really important for me, so I'm curious about which option produces less CO2. At home I have an old Raspberry Pi 3B+, an old-ish SSD and a few second hand HDDs. Or, I know that Hetzner uses often recycled servers, and powers them with 100% renewable energy (but they don't neccesarily produce 0% CO2), and they are based in Germany/Finland (I live in Italy). The cheaper option is probably the homelab, but what about in terms of CO2? Thanks!

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Hi everyone,

I'm currently working as a Cloud/DevOps Engineer, where I build and manage cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes environments, and observability platforms.

Over the past year, I've noticed something common among students and freshers in India.

Many spend ₹20k–₹80k on DevOps courses, complete hours of recorded videos, earn a certificate, and still struggle to crack interviews because they rarely get to build or troubleshoot real-world infrastructure.

So instead of creating another prerecorded course, I'm thinking about starting a small, live, hands-on mentorship focused on practical skills that companies actually expect.

What we'll cover

• Linux & Networking
• Git & GitHub
• AWS & GCP
• Docker & Kubernetes
• Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
• Jenkins & GitHub Actions
• GitOps with ArgoCD
• Monitoring with Prometheus & Grafana
• Logging with Loki
• Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry
• Messaging with Apache Kafka
• Infrastructure & Application Security using Trivy and SonarQube
• Real production-style deployments
• High Availability & Scalability concepts
• Debugging production issues
• Incident response & troubleshooting
• Resume reviews
• Mock interviews
• Career guidance for Cloud, DevOps & SRE roles

The goal is to build projects together, not just watch videos.

A few things upfront

• ❌ No placement guarantee
• ❌ No "Become a DevOps Engineer in 30 days" promises
• ❌ No fake marketing or prerecorded content
• ✅ Live interactive sessions
• ✅ Small batch so everyone gets individual attention
• ✅ Dedicated Discord community for doubts, projects, discussions, interview prep, and networking
• ✅ Lifetime access to the Discord community

Right now, I'm not collecting any money.

I'm simply trying to validate whether enough students are interested before investing time into creating detailed labs, projects, and course material.

If this sounds interesting, feel free to join the Discord community:

Discord: https://discord.gg/tMDyQ8879

I'd also love your honest feedback:

• What do you think most DevOps courses are missing?
• What would make a mentorship worth joining?
• If you've taken a DevOps course before, what disappointed you the most?

My goal isn't to sell another course—it's to create a community where college students and freshers can gain the practical skills needed to land Cloud, DevOps, and SRE roles.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

Hey folks I have been a cloud engineer with 1.5 yoe in industry worked in both fintech startup (product) and service based companies a lot of freshers and third year college students want to learn or break into these roles but the openings are very limited. So I have decided to teach folks cloud devops SRE in online classes 2 hours 5 days a week plus after training of 4 months I will be helping making your resume and will take your mock interviews plus would help you to get into companies. Thank you :)

I'm finishing my cloud and network engineering degree soon and I have the option of getting the AWS Cloudops Engineer cert as part of my curriculum, but I can also just go for my school's own equivalent course instead that's apparently not as hard.

I already have the certified developer, previously the solutions architect, completed the cloud resume challenge, and plan to fill out my project portfolio once I've graduated. I also will have 2.5 years of level 1 & 2 support by the time I graduate.

Is there anyone in this group who are using AWS or Azure and monthly spend of more than $3000USD in cloud spend ?

If yes, DM I can help you save upto 60% on your cloud bill for your startup.

Hello guys

Sorry for that long post but I need your help and expertise I am still learning

I have a very huge application that have these dockerized components

- Nodejs web app
- API application
- clickhouse
- neo4j
- posgresql
- redis
- Kafka
- minio s3
- zookeeper
- 3 different data prosessing containers

I used to deploy all that together on one vm that have 32gb ram and 8 cores along with 32 tb ssd storage, I know that this seems dump to do this but our applications where working with no problems till we decided to start collecting more data and processing more data so we need to have everything in place with no issues at all but to be honest idk what to search about in order to get the knowledge of how to deploy that correctly

I thought of having each thing on it's dedicated version of cloud like dedicated clickhouse cloud and so on but idk if that is the right thing or not

The architecture is built on easy horizontal scalability basis so the only problem is how to maximize the performance, deploy correctly and have the minimal cost

So please guys help me to figure this out and know what to do

Hello guys,

I've been looking into cloud certifications but I find myself stuck at this point where I don't know in what direction to proceed because I want to go towards a job that suits me but I don't know the cloud job market so well. I have a weakness in troubleshooting and client support and I would like a job that has lower levels of such. What would you recommend?

A bit specific for cloud infrastructure providers but my EU company has most of it applications hosted on Amazon AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service. It’s been working well.

Yesterday the CEO announced that any US based provider is to be replaced by the next best EU based alternative. I fully agree and support this but I want to make it as seamless as possible

Of course that applies to me and my team, the DevOps/Cloud Infra.

I will be the responsible of the migration project so I started looking at OVH and Scaleway for their managed solutions

Anyone on “the same boat”? Anyone else that did this? Would you care to share what was your experience?

Thank you !

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hello guys as the title said i want to start cloud engineering and I have zero knowledge about IT , I can give it all the time that it need and I need you to give me advices about it or a course if you got one and thank you all .