Toolkit
Skills
Focused, practical skills for building reliable cloud platforms.
Core Stack
Azure
Google Cloud
AWS
Kubernetes
Terraform
Capabilities
Cloud Architecture
Designing resilient multi-cloud platforms with HA and DR
Platform Engineering
Platform-as-a-Product on AKS, GKE, and EKS
IaC & Automation
Terraform modules, GitOps workflows, drift control
DevSecOps
Policy enforcement, scanning, and secure defaults
Reliability Engineering
SLI/SLOs, incident response, capacity planning
Observability
OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, dashboards, alert routing
Networking & Service Mesh
Ingress/egress, WAF/CDN, Istio and mTLS
Identity & Governance
Cloud IAM, Entra ID, federation, and access reviews
Systems & Scripting
Linux/Windows, ESXi, Python, Bash, PowerShell
Toolbelt
amaresh@platform: ~/toolbelt
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list-tools --all --group-by=category# Containers & Kubernetes
- Docker
- Helm
- AKS
- GKE
- EKS
- Argo CD
- Argo Rollouts
- Istio
- NGINX Ingress
# CI / CD
- GitHub Actions
- Azure DevOps
- GitLab CI
- Jenkins
- Spinnaker
# Observability
- OpenTelemetry
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Loki
- Alertmanager
- Datadog
- New Relic
# Security & Policy
- Microsoft Sentinel
- Defender for Cloud
- Azure Policy
- OPA / Gatekeeper
- Kyverno
- HashiCorp Vault
- Azure Key Vault
- External Secrets Operator
- Cert-manager
- Checkov
- Trivy
- Terrascan
# Networking & Edge
- Azure Front Door
- Azure Application Gateway
- GCP Cloud Armor
- GCP Cloud Load Balancing
- AWS CloudFront
- Cloudflare
- NGINX
- Envoy
# Identity & Access
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Azure AD B2B / B2C
- OIDC
- SAML
# Cost Management
- Kubecost
- Azure Cost Management
# Scripting & Automation
- Python
- Bash
- PowerShell
- KQL
# Virtualisation
- VMware ESXi
- Linux
- Windows Server
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