Bertelsmann Technology Scholarship 💡

As I am receiving a lot of messages from my LinkedIn contacts about my journey of the scholarship, I thought it would be best to write a blog about my journey, topics covered in this nanodegree and project portfolio.

In October 2019, I came to know Udacity is coming up with tech scholarship in the field of Cloud, Data and AI which was powered by Bertelsmann & co. I applied for this scholarship(for Cloud track) and I was selected for phase one of this scholarship program. For phase-1 they selected around 50k students from around the world. We were given an introductory course about Cloud DevOps to learn and Slack channel was there to connect with everyone. I got the opportunity to connect with people around the world and get to know each other, which was the best part of phase one of this scholarship. I was also selected as a student leader and with the support of other students, we conducted various events in that slack channel. For my contributions in the community, I was also awarded Constant contributor award by Udacity’s scholarship team and in which winners were nominated by other students who were participating in this scholarship.

For the selection of phase-2, the criteria were completing the introductory course and the participation in the community.

Udacity Cloud DevOps Nanodegree Program

In this nanodegree, I learned many important concepts such as:

• Cloud Foundations
• Deploy Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
• Build CI/CD Pipelines
• Monitoring & Logging and Microservices at Scale using Kubernetes.

Projects completed during this program:

• Deploy Static Website on AWS — Create and configure the S3 bucket for website hosting and secure it using IAM policies and then deploy a website using AWS’s CDN, CloudFront.
• Deploy a high-availability web app using CloudFormation — Deployment of infrastructure using Infrastructure as code by writing CloudFormation scripts to deploy a highly available web app.
• Jenkins CI/CD Pipelines on AWS — Configure and setup Jenkins on EC2 instance, and create a pipeline to deploy a static website on S3 with automated testing, monitoring and logging.
• Operationalize a Machine Learning Microservice API — Operationalizing microservices by deploying an elastic and fault-tolerant Machine Learning inference API (Flask app) using Kubernetes.
• Capstone — Create a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins for a web app that deploys to a cluster in AWS EKS with rolling deployment.

Link to my Github repository: https://github.com/nilaychauhan/Cloud-Devops

After completing this program, I can say Udacity is providing a really great level of education and they are also helping students to get jobs by providing various career-related services.

I would highly recommend this Nanodegree to anyone interested in solidifying their skills in DevOps.

Thank you Udacity and Bertelsmann for providing me with this scholarship, which really helped me level up in the field of Cloud DevOps.

Thank you!!