DevOps Projects (Real Systems, Real Portfolio)

Strong DevOps projects look like real ops work. These are real systems you fix in a live cloud workspace - a broken reverse proxy, a crash-looping pod, Terraform drift, a failing pipeline - each one a portfolio piece.

Why these beat a homelab screenshot

A homelab shows interest; fixing real broken systems shows capability. The second is what a hiring manager can open and evaluate, and what these give you.

18 projects to start with

Ship a Zero-Downtime Blue-Green DeployDevOps · Senior Package an App as a Helm ChartDevOps · Senior Move Secrets Into HashiCorp VaultDevOps · Senior Trace an Nginx 503 CascadeDevOps · Mid Plug a Postgres Connection Pool LeakDevOps · Mid Index a Slow Postgres Search QueryDevOps · Mid Configure an Nginx Rate LimitDevOps · Mid Make an App Wait for Postgres on StartupDevOps · Mid Refactor Terraform Into a Reusable ModuleDevOps · Mid Reconcile Terraform State DriftDevOps · Mid Repair a Broken Prometheus Scrape ConfigDevOps · Mid Write an Idempotent Ansible PlaybookDevOps · Mid Design an Observability StackDevOps · Mid Speed Up a Slow GitHub Actions PipelineDevOps · Mid Migrate a Postgres Database With Zero DowntimeDevOps · Mid Wire Up an AWS SQS Dead-Letter QueueDevOps · Mid Load Config From AWS SSM Parameter StoreDevOps · Mid Provision an AWS VPC and Security GroupDevOps · Mid

Pick by the role you want

Platform-leaning? Do the Kubernetes and pipeline ones. Infra-leaning? Terraform and networking. Each finished fix is evidence on your portfolio.

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