Ayush | Cloud Resume Challenge

What is the Cloud Resume Challenge?

The Cloud Resume Challenge is a hands-on project designed to help new cloud practitioners bridge the gap between cloud certification and landing a cloud job. It incorporates many of the skills that real cloud and DevOps engineers use in their daily work. The goal of this project is to publish a resume on the internet while fully building both the front-end and back-end using cloud resources.

Personally, I was introduced to HTML in sixth grade and have always wanted to build my own personal website. This challenge gave me the perfect opportunity to take that idea beyond a simple digital resume.

Project Accomplishment

I have worked on this project for the last year, and here's what I accomplished:

Certifications

Obtained the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certification

Front-End Development

Built an entire website framework using HTML

Styled the website’s front-end UI/UX using CSS

Published the website using static website hosting in Azure Storage Account.

Configured a custom domain and routed traffic to website.

Wrote a Javascript program to interact with API and display website visit count in webpage.

Back-End Development and Testing

Enabled HTTPS for enhanced security and accessibility using Azure Content Delivery Network.

Developed Python-based API in Azure Functions to log and obtain website visit counts.

Implemented tests for Backend Python code.

Configured and deployed Backend Infrastructure using ARM templates (Infrastructure as Code).

CI/CD and Automation

Set up CI/CD pipelines for Backend Infrastructure using GitHub Actions, automating testing and deployment to Azure.

Automated front-end deployment using Azure SDK and GitHub Actions as part of CI/CD workflow.

I have summarized the different components of this project in the Architecture Diagram below:

This project was a fantastic learning experience, giving me exposure to various Azure resources, while expanding my knowledge on HTML, CSS, Javascript and Python. I would highly recommend this challenge to anyone looking to break into cloud computing!

Resources

I would not have been able to complete this without these amazing free resources: