devops.msrashed.com

DevOps, SRE & Platform Engineering, taught from production, not slides.

A growing, free tutorial library for engineers learning DevOps, SRE and Platform Engineering — written by a Principal DevOps Engineer, tied to real production tradeoffs rather than certification-exam trivia. Tutorials today; field notes, cheat sheets and decision guides on the way — see the roadmap below.

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Tutorial series14
Chapters published75
Diagrams723
Content types live2
Content types planned4

What this site is

Tutorials

live

Deep, multi-part series — real production depth, not a syntax refresher. Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure, observability, incident response, databases and more.

Interview Prep

live

Every tutorial series ships with its own interview-question set — real questions with worked answers, not a flashcard deck.

Field Notes

planned

Real production war-stories — the cost cuts, the migrations, the 3am incidents — written up as decision guides, not marketing copy.

Cheat Sheets

planned

Quick-reference command and config pages per tool — kubectl, Terraform, AWS CLI — for when you already know it and just need the syntax.

Decision Guides

planned

“X vs Y” with real tradeoffs from having run both in production — ECS vs EKS, Kong vs Traefik, and more.

Glossary

planned

Every DevOps/SRE term defined once, cross-linked from every tutorial that uses it.

Roadmap

What's shipped, what's in progress, and what's planned next — updated as content ships, not on a fixed schedule.

SRE Fundamentals → AWS Cloud Architecture (13 series)shipped
GCP Cloud Architecturein-progress
Azure Cloud Architectureplanned
Docker & Container Fundamentalsplanned
Messaging & Event-Driven Architectureplanned
API Design & Managementplanned
Platform Engineering & Internal Developer Platformsplanned
Cloud Cost Optimization / FinOpsplanned
Zero Trust & Network Securityplanned
Field Notes (blog), Cheat Sheets, Decision Guides, Glossaryplanned

Latest tutorials

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Written by a practitioner

Mohamed Salah, Principal DevOps Engineer — 8+ years across AWS, Azure and GCP, Kubernetes, observability and incident response.

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