DevOps Engineer Roadmap

Everything runs on Linux. Learn to navigate the filesystem, manage processes, write Bash scripts, and understand permissions before touching any tooling.

Understand TCP/IP, DNS resolution, HTTP, TLS, and common debugging tools like dig, curl, and traceroute. You cannot debug production issues without this.

Git is the backbone of every DevOps workflow. Master branching strategies, rebasing, conflict resolution, and hooks before automating anything.

Containers are the unit of deployment. Learn to write production Dockerfiles, manage images, use multi-stage builds, and compose multi-service stacks.

containers Docker 14h

Automate everything from lint to deploy. Build pipelines that test, scan, build container images, and deploy on every push with zero manual steps.

ci-cd GitHub Actions 12h

Learn core cloud services hands-on. Focus on compute (EC2/GCE), storage (S3/GCS), networking (VPC), and IAM. Avoid the console trap and use the CLI from day one.

cloud AWS 16h

Kubernetes is the industry standard for running containers at scale. Learn pods, deployments, services, ingress, ConfigMaps, and secrets before tackling Helm or operators.

orchestration Kubernetes 18h

Stop clicking in consoles. Define all infrastructure in code with Terraform. Learn state management, modules, workspaces, and plan/apply workflows.

infrastructure Terraform 16h

Security is not a phase, it is every phase. Learn image scanning, secret management, network policies, RBAC, and supply chain security to harden your entire delivery pipeline.