My SCA Cloud School (Cohort 2) adventure: 2 Months In

My experience at the She Code Africa Cloud School Bootcamp in the past 2 months has been life-transforming 🙌🏽. From feeling super excited about being chosen to meeting my awesome teammates 😊😊 and then discovering we were assigned the most amazing human as a mentor 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

Meetings with our mentor happen during the weekends where we catch up on what we had worked on during the week and trash out any blockers we may have encountered . I absolutely looked forward to these meetings with so much joy in my heart especially when the week was tough🥺🥺

In the first week, we learned about Linux, Vagrant(absolutely loved working with it even though I struggled with it initially), then came my favorite: bash scripting

On one occasion, we(My teammates and our mentor) had a sit-out together at a really nice cafe 🥰🥰 because all work and no play ruins all the work in the first place 🌚🌚 . Amidst all the catching up and fun, we got to work on containerizing an Application using Docker and fixed some issues we encountered till it was time to go home.

Next came Nginx. Hmmm, I struggled greatly with this, and nothing I studied on this made sense to me initially🥺🥺 I had so many back and forths with this but eventually, things started making sense🥳🥳 And it made me so happy seeing that I was making progress.

In the second month, it was a smooth introduction to the cloud and cloud service models and deployment with Heroku, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment(CI/CD) with Circleci, Travisci and Jenkins (Found this very interesting😊). Next was Networking on the Google cloud platform where I learned about subnetting and setting up private servers with security using Basiton Hosts.

It has been an amazing rollercoaster ride of many emotions (which mainly comprised of shedding hot tears when things were not working) but it is one experience I would remain grateful to have been given an opportunity to get.

It’s my third month in the program and I am working on building and deploying a three-tier application to Google Cloud and this project affords me the opportunity to utilize all the knowledge that I have amassed over the past 2 months. Would most definitely share this once I’m finished with it.

Sincere thanks to Ada Nduka Oyom for this amazing initiative 🙏🏻🙏🏻 , the team at She Code Africa, My Amazing mentor, Onyedikachi Okorie, and my teammates.

This has truly been a rewarding experience and I’m super grateful.

Thank you so much for reading 😊