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

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

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🔧 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

🖥️ Stack Used:

Vagrant | VirtualBox | Ubuntu | Bash | SSH | Apache

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🐍 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

🔧 Tools Practiced:

chmod | wc | sys.argv | try/except | os.listdir() | Git patches

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📈 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. 🚀

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