whoami
Real infrastructure,
built end to end.
I came into DevOps from sysadmin work and taught myself the rest of it. I still carry a pager. What I make here is AWS, Terraform, CI/CD and homelab Kubernetes, built on camera, with the parts that break left in.
Every video is one build, start to finish. There are enough lists of projects that will supposedly get you hired already.
ls ./topics
Three things I make
A narrow list, on purpose. I have done the work in these three areas myself.
the_real_job
On-call rotations, incident nights, and what the job looks like on an ordinary Tuesday. Tutorials tend to skip this part.
homelab_iac
Proxmox, Talos, Kubernetes and GitOps on hardware you own. All of it in Terraform.
ai_x_devops
MCP servers and agents that do real operations work against live infrastructure, well past the demo stage.
cat ./this-site
This site is a worked example
devopswithlijo.com runs on a private S3 bucket behind CloudFront, with a free ACM certificate and DNS in Route 53. Every resource is defined in Terraform. GitHub Actions deploys it over OIDC, so there are no AWS access keys stored anywhere.
The bill comes to about $0.51 a month. The Route 53 hosted zone is the only line item on it that isn't free.
The whole build is a video, including the certificate that has to live in us-east-1 and the cache invalidation everyone forgets the first time.
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