A couple of years ago, I was dabbling in the cloud at AWS, and I initially decided to run a MediaWiki server with its associated stack, such as MariaDB and Apache or something, on Debian. And I found a good Bitnami AMI to do it with.<p>But what I really wanted to do was to spin up Kubernetes and learn about microservices in some way. The techie guys I polled said I wouldn't need k8s at all for my use case and I should scrap trying to do k8s because it wouldn't do me any good. I'm still sort of miffed at that; I would've rather learned some Kubernetes in the first place rather than just become a petty sysadmin again, so a replacement project that actually did make use of k8s would've been helpful.<p>Anyway I chose to double down on my chosen career in the education industry, so I'm letting my sysadmin/DevOps skills lie fallow until retirement.