My Goals

Purpose of this blog

This blog intends to document my learning objectives, and set goals to be completed.

Some higher level goals are:

• Become more knowledgeable about DNS and security
• Become a better programmer
• How to do DevOps professionally
• Learn by doing
• Become an AWS Solutions Architect Professional
• Become an OpenBSD committer

Here are some learning goals for work:

• Renew AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification
  • Go through lectures
• Learn how Terraform works; read the Go source code
• Understand how to use its key features:
  • Workspaces
  • tfstate
  • taint
  • outputs
  • template files
• How to make Terraform source manageable in a team
• How to run Terraform in a CICD setup
• Learn about Ansible roles
• What is Ansible Galaxy?
• How to make Ansible source manageable in a team
• How to run Ansible in a CICD setup

Here are my OpenBSD learning goals:

• Learn how to write pf rules
• Setup Unbound and NSD
• Write C programs to interface with Kernel
  • Try to break OpenBSD by exploring security features
• Manage system (users, resources, network)
• How does OpenBSD use cryptography?
• What is meant by its security features?