Looking for Ideas for a DevOps Project

How about hosting your resume as a static website on Amazon S3? This way, you can showcase everything as code. If you're willing to spend a bit on it, consider a domain like youshouldhireYOURNAME.dev.

Just a heads up, homelabbing can become quite addictive! I started with a single server running Ubuntu and ended up spending sleepless nights building my DevOps setup. I'd recommend starting with a simple static portfolio website on S3, just like I did. If you're up for a challenge, consider gathering a few old PCs to create a multi-node Kubernetes cluster; you might find yourself wanting more!

Since you already know Kubernetes and have some AWS experience, try adding Terraform to your skillset. You could deploy an application on an EKS cluster. Many jobs in the field look for knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, and this project would be a great way to demonstrate that!

DevOps covers a lot of ground. What exactly are you hoping to achieve with your project? Specifying your goals will really help in shaping your idea.

Before diving into project ideas, it might be helpful to clarify what you want your project to demonstrate. Basically, anything you deploy on AWS can be classified as a DevOps project, but having a clear goal will guide your work.

You can start by deploying one of the many open-source apps from GitHub using Docker Compose, making sure to include a database as well. The more complex the project, the better!

For another project, take one of those GitHub apps and set up a CI/CD pipeline on your VMs using any Kubernetes distribution you prefer, like EKS or Rancher, to ensure any code changes are deployed automatically in the cluster.

Finally, if you haven't done so, consider deploying Grafana for monitoring metrics, or even Istio if your hardware can handle it.