DevOps Learning Roadmap

Master the command line and system administration for production environments

Collaborative workflows, branching strategies, and repository management

TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, and troubleshooting network issues

Write production-grade scripts for task automation and system management

Containerization concepts, image building, and container orchestration basics

Understand continuous integration and delivery principles with hands-on pipeline creation

EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS — the building blocks of cloud infrastructure

Declarative infrastructure management with state, modules, and workspaces

Deploy, scale, and manage containerized applications on Kubernetes

Template, version, and distribute Kubernetes applications

VPN, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, and network security architecture

Monitor, analyze, and reduce cloud spending without sacrificing performance

Design self-service platforms that accelerate developer productivity

Build service catalogs, documentation hubs, and scaffolding tools

Declarative, Git-driven deployment workflows for Kubernetes

Kubernetes-native infrastructure provisioning and composition

Enforce governance, compliance, and security policies programmatically

Implement Istio/Linkerd for observability, security, and traffic management

Integrate automated security testing throughout the development lifecycle

Protect build pipelines, dependencies, and artifact integrity

Define reliability targets and make data-driven operational decisions

Proactively discover system weaknesses through controlled experiments

Structured processes for detecting, responding to, and learning from incidents

Distributed tracing, custom metrics, and correlation across the stack