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7 layers explained with real-world DevOps context
How data travels across the internet — packets, headers, ports
Domain resolution, record types, TTL and DNS debugging
Request/response cycle, status codes, headers and REST APIs
Certificates, handshakes, Let's Encrypt and HTTPS setup
IPv4, IPv6, CIDR notation and address classes
Subnet masks, VLSM, calculating hosts per subnet
Well-known ports, UDP vs TCP and protocol selection
Round-robin, least connections, HAProxy and Nginx LB
iptables, ufw, security groups and network ACLs
OpenVPN, WireGuard, site-to-site and remote access VPNs
Nginx/Apache as reverse proxy, SSL termination and caching