Extending My CNCF Ambassadorship
Continuing the work of growing Cloud Native adoption, education, and communities across Africa.
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Thousands Are Learning Cloud Native
What an intensive week of teaching revealed about the energy and scale of Cloud Native learning in Africa.
Read articleScaling Cloud Native Impact Through African Ambassadors
Celebrating new African CNCF Ambassadors and the people expanding Cloud Native impact across the continent.
Read articleKubernetes Certified: My KCNA Experience
Reflections on earning the Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate certification and helping others find similar opportunities.
Read articleDebugging an AWS CodeBuild Failure
My introduction to AWS CodeBuild was an error log sent to me by a software engineer. I saw in the...
Read articleBuilding Africa's Biggest Open Source Tech Conference
A reflection on bringing four communities together for 100 sessions, 1,000 attendees, and a celebration of African open source.
Read articlePutting Passion to Work: Building Africa's Cloud Native Community
From discovering Kubernetes to helping drive the growth of Cloud Native communities across Africa.
Read articleHosting Kubernetes Community Days at OSCAFEST 2025
Returning to OSCAFEST to host the Kubernetes Community Days cloud and containers track.
Read articleChampioning Cloud Native in Africa: 30,000 Learners
How an aligned mission with Andela and CNCF helped thousands of African technologists learn Cloud Native.
Read articleHow CNCF Lagos Became Africa's Largest Cloud Native Community
A story of passion, collaboration, courage, and creating opportunities through community.
Read articleA Badge for the CNCF Lagos Community
Dedicating a Linux Foundation organizer recognition to the volunteers behind CNCF Lagos.
Read articleSomething You Didn't Know About AWS Availability Zones
DataCenters An AWS region e.g. us-east-1 has physical data centers where the actual...
Read articleLearning GCP, Pragmatic GKE
I'm currently working on a project in GCP, even though I started with very little (stale) knowledge,...
Read article100% Off On The Kubernetes Certifications - CKAD, CKA & CKS
Free Kubernetes Certifications!!! Combined, the Kubernetes certifications will cost you about $1400....
Read articleUp and Running with AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) - Part 1
This post assumes at least a familiarity with building and running containers using Docker ...
Read articleAdding Free SSL/TLS on Kubernetes (using CertManager and LetsEncrypt)
You have a shiny new Kubernetes cluster. You deploy your hello-world app and can now reach it via a...
Read articleBe Kubectl Kompatible (1)
Did you know that “You must use a kubectl version that is within one minor version difference of your...
Read articleBecoming a Cloud Engineer in 2023 (A Roadmap)
Here is Simon Holdorf’s recommendation for becoming a Cloud Engineer in 2023. Step 1: The Role On a...
Read articleManaging Multiple Environments With Terraform
Managing Multiple Environments With Terraform If you want to manage multiple environments with...
Read articleSOME THOUGHTS ON TRAINING (An ingredient for effectiveness)
During a warming visit at my Pastor's, I volunteered to install the baby hanger. We laughed off the...
Read articleFree Cloud & DevOps Courses In 2022
Introduction to Cloud Computing https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-to-cloud Intro to...
Read articleMy First Introduction To The Cloud
While reading the book “Cloud Native Infrastructure”, and on getting to page 34-35, I read the words...
Read articleWhat Happens When You Visit http://localhost - A Closer Look
Say you're developing a web application or running an http server of some sort on your local...
Read articleWant a better Cloud Native career? It's more than just Kubernetes
Hi! I am a Cloud Native Engineer at Container Solutions, helping global companies become cloud...
Read articleCloud Computing Advice for Beginners
1. Learn You can learn from docs, articles, youtube, etc. But you learn by doing and you...
Read articleWant to become a successful DevOps Engineer?
DevOps is not just merging teams (developers, operations, and everything in between) into one,...
Read articleMardown Badges
Spice up your GitHub profile and projects with badges that communicate at a glance.
Read articleSetting Up a Continuous Deployment Workflow With Bitbucket and Linux Server
Configure Bitbucket Pipelines and SSH to continuously deploy an application to a Linux server.
Read articleDeploy Build-Only React Apps to Heroku
Serve a production React build with a small Node.js application and deploy it to Heroku.
Read articleConnect NodeJS App With MySQL Database Hosted on a Digital Ocean Droplet (Server)
Connect a Node.js application to a MySQL database hosted on a Linux server.
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