DEV Community: Rishabh Lakhanpal

🚀 Week 2 Recap: DevOps + Python Automation Progress | Multi-VM Lab, Scripting, Log Analysis

Rishabh Lakhanpal — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 11:16:08 +0000

This week was all about building real-world DevOps setups from scratch, writing clean automation scripts, and preparing for bigger automation + QA challenges ahead.

🔧 1. Rebuilding the DevOps Multi-VM Lab from Scratch

Cleaned up and restructured my Vagrant-based multi-VM setup
Provisioned 2–3 Ubuntu machines using a single Vagrantfile
Installed and configured Apache, static site hosting, and SSH access
Started adding Bash provisioning scripts for reproducibility
Preparing this for full GitHub upload with README and instructions

🐍 2. Python Scripting Practice (Real World)

Practiced os, sys, argparse, subprocess, and logging modules
Wrote and patched scripts using diff, patch, and chmod +x
Used sys.argv and exception handling for CLI tools
Learned to automate tasks like file renaming, CPU checks, and more

📈 3. Python Log Analyzer Project (In Progress)

Started building a script to analyze /var/log/httpd/access_log
Extracts top IPs, most requested endpoints, status codes
Will output a clean report or CSV
Prepping this as a full GitHub project with CLI options

👨‍💻 Technologies:

Python | Regex | argparse | collections.Counter | CSV writing

🛠️ 4. Git + GitHub Mastery

Daily commits to GitHub with clean folder structures
Worked with:
- .gitignore
- git diff -u, patch, revert, reset
- git log, amend, and rebase basics

🧠 Key Concepts Practiced This Week

shebangs (#!/usr/bin/env python3)
File permissions (chmod +x, 755)
Linux utilities (wc, cat, ps, etc.)
Debugging via try/except, bash -x, set -e

If you're on a DevOps or QA automation journey, follow along!

Let’s keep building, learning, and sharing. 🚀

📌 Follow me on GitHub: github.com/Rishabh-lakhanpal

✅ Week 1 Done! Python Automation + Git + Scripting 🚀

Rishabh Lakhanpal — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 10:23:26 +0000

Hey Devs!
Here's a recap of my Week 1 progress from the DevOps + QA Automation journey I'm documenting!

📚 What I Covered This Week:
✅ Completed the Google IT Automation with Python certification

✅ Practiced real-world scripting with:

os, sys, shutil, subprocess, argparse, logging

File handling + text parsing

Permissions, environment variables, shebangs

✅ Hands-on Git and GitHub workflows:

Branching, commit history, patching (diff, revert, reset)

SSH setup and .gitignore usage

✅ Explored basic Linux + Bash tools: chmod, wc, ps, top, and redirections

🧪 What I Built:
🗂️ File Rearranger – Script to auto-organize files by type

📊 CPU Usage Monitor – Command-line tool to show system stats

🐍 Python scripts with CLI arguments, logging, and error handling

🎯 What's Next (Week 2 Preview):
🔧 Deep dive into Linux + Bash scripting

⚙️ Start DevOps: CI/CD, Docker, and GitHub Actions

✍️ More advanced scripting with subprocess and log parsing

💬 If you're learning Python or DevOps, let’s connect! I’d love to hear what you’re building and share ideas

🛠️ Rebuilding from Scratch: My DevOps + QA Automation Journey

Rishabh Lakhanpal — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 14:54:12 +0000

Hey Devs!
I'm kicking off a career-building challenge to level up my skills in:

🐍 Python automation
🧪 Pytest + Selenium testing
🐧 Linux/Bash scripting
🐳 Docker + CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
☁️ AWS + Terraform basics
📊 SQL + API testing

🎯 Why This Challenge?
After 1.6 years as a Junior Software Engineer, followed by a career gap, I’m rebuilding momentum and aiming for:

✅ QA Automation & DevOps roles
✅ Real-world projects to showcase on GitHub

🔨 What I’ll Be Building:
🔐 Login automation (Selenium + Pytest)

🔁 REST API testing suite (requests + Pytest)

🌐 Flask app deployed to AWS EC2 (via Docker + GitHub Actions)

🛠️ File organizers, CLI tools, and mini automation scripts

💬 I’ll be posting weekly progress updates and projects — follow along!

If you're on a similar path, drop a comment or connect — I’d love to share ideas and learn together 🚀