Why Every DevOps Engineer Should Deploy Their First Portfolio on Killercoda
Most DevOps tutorials begin with AWS, GCP, or Kubernetes.
But here’s my honest advice:
Start with Killercoda’s Ubuntu playground instead.
🔗 https://killercoda.com/playgrounds/scenario/ubuntu
I recently deployed my full DevOps portfolio website using nothing but this environment and Nginx — and it was one of the most valuable hands-on exercises I’ve done.
Here is the live server running my site:
🔗 https://411913816ee7-10-244-13-238-80.spch.r.killercoda.com/
Why this matters
When you deploy on Killercoda, you learn the fundamentals that cloud providers hide behind fancy panels:
- creating and securing directories
- Configuring Nginx from scratch
- troubleshooting server errors
- managing processes manually
- deploying changes without automation crutches
It’s the closest experience to running a real Linux server — without paying for one.
My recommendation
If you're a beginner DevOps engineer or trying to build confidence:
Forget the cloud for a moment.
Deploy something raw.
Learn the ground truth.
Your terminal will become your greatest teacher.
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