Getting Started — First Steps in Frikiteam

Welcome to Frikiteam! This guide will help you get oriented and take your first steps in the world of DevOps and infrastructure. Whether you're a complete beginner or coming from another field, here you'll find a visual roadmap and practical examples to get started.

Visual roadmap: Your path in Frikiteam

graph TD
    A[🚀 New to DevOps?] --> B{What interests you?}
    B -->|Infrastructure| C[Proxmox/OpenStack]
    B -->|Containers| D[Docker/Kubernetes]
    B -->|Networking| E[Networking]
    B -->|Automation| F[Ansible/Terraform]
    B -->|Storage| G[Ceph]
    B -->|Load balancing| H[HAProxy]

    C --> I[Read the base guide]
    D --> I
    E --> I
    F --> I
    G --> I
    H --> I

    I --> J[Try practical examples]
    J --> K[Set up local environment]
    K --> L[Contribute or go deeper]

    style A fill:#e1f5fe
    style B fill:#f3e5f5
    style I fill:#e8f5e8
    style L fill:#fff3e0

Recommended reading order

1. Absolute beginners: Start with Docker → Kubernetes → Networking
2. From development: Terraform → Ansible → Docker
3. From systems: Proxmox → Ceph → OpenStack
4. From networking: Networking → HAProxy → Kubernetes

Quick guide: Real first steps

1. Install Docker (the foundation of everything)

# Check the installation
docker --version

# If you don't have Docker, install it:
# macOS: brew install docker
# Ubuntu: sudo apt install docker.io
# Windows: Download from docker.com

# Run your first container
docker run hello-world

2. Create your first containerized application

# Create a directory for your project
mkdir my-first-app && cd my-first-app

# Create a simple Dockerfile
echo 'FROM nginx:alpine
COPY index.html /usr/share/nginx/html/
EXPOSE 80' > Dockerfile

# Create a basic HTML page
echo '<h1>Hello from Docker!</h1><p>My first containerized app</p>' > index.html

# Build and run
docker build -t my-app .
docker run -p 8080:80 my-app

Open http://localhost:8080 in your browser. Congratulations! You've created your first containerized application.

Expected view: "Hello World" page served by your Nginx container

3. Explore Kubernetes locally

# Install minikube or kind to test locally
# macOS: brew install minikube
# Linux: curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64 && sudo install minikube-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/minikube

# Start a local cluster
minikube start

# Deploy a simple app
kubectl create deployment hello-minikube --image=k8s.gcr.io/echoserver:1.4
kubectl expose deployment hello-minikube --type=NodePort --port=8080

# Get the URL
minikube service hello-minikube --url

4. Automate with Ansible

# Install Ansible
pip install ansible

# Create a simple inventory
echo '[webservers]
localhost ansible_connection=local' > inventory.ini

# Create a basic playbook
cat > playbook.yml << EOF
---
- hosts: webservers
  tasks:
    - name: Install nginx
      apt:
        name: nginx
        state: present
      become: yes
EOF

# Run the playbook
ansible-playbook -i inventory.ini playbook.yml

Next steps

Once you've completed these first steps:

• Go deeper into the technology that interests you most by reading the specific guides
• Join the community on our [Discord/GitHub]
• Contribute improvements or fixes following CONTRIBUTING.md
• Practice more with the examples in the documentation sections

Additional resources

• 📚 Full documentation
• 🛠️ Quick recipes
• 🔍 Glossary
• 💬 Community forum

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