DevOps Engineer Roadmap
Follow this sequence to build a strong, hirable profile. Complete each step before moving to the next.
Linux fundamentals
file system, process management, networking commands, shell scripting (bash)
Version control
Git branching strategies (GitFlow, trunk-based), code review processes, merge conflicts
CI/CD pipelines
GitHub Actions or GitLab CI; stages: build, test, scan, deploy; artifact management
Docker
writing Dockerfiles, multi-stage builds, docker-compose for local development, image optimisation
Kubernetes
pods, deployments, services, ingress, ConfigMaps, secrets, RBAC, Helm charts
Cloud provider (AWS/GCP/Azure)
compute, storage, networking, IAM, managed databases, and cost management
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform for provisioning, Ansible for configuration management
Monitoring and observability
Prometheus + Grafana for metrics, ELK Stack or Datadog for logs, alerting
Security and compliance
secrets management (Vault), vulnerability scanning, network policies, SOC 2 basics
Site reliability practices
SLOs/SLAs, incident response runbooks, chaos engineering, postmortem culture
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