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DevOps Engineer Roadmap

A complete hands-on infrastructure journey across Linux, networking, CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, cloud, observability, security, SRE, and platform engineering.

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Roadmap nodes

78-108 weeks

Total duration

130+

Infra skills

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Hands-on labs

Infrastructure Architecture

Project-Based Learning Track

Every phase ends with hands-on infrastructure labs that combine servers, pipelines, containers, cloud, observability, security, and incident response.

Beginner
  • Linux Server Setup
  • Personal VPS Hosting
  • Nginx Reverse Proxy Setup
  • Automated Backup Script
Intermediate
  • CI/CD Pipeline
  • Dockerized Application
  • Terraform Infrastructure Deployment
  • Cloud Hosting Platform
Advanced
  • Kubernetes Cluster Deployment
  • Monitoring Stack Setup
  • GitOps Platform
  • Multi-Service Infrastructure
Expert
  • Production-Grade Kubernetes Platform
  • Multi-Cloud Infrastructure
  • Enterprise Observability Platform
  • Large-Scale Platform Engineering System

Vertical Infrastructure Journey

Expand each node for prerequisites, learning outcomes, resources, practice labs, mini projects, quizzes, bookmarks, and notes.

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Core Topics

How the Internet WorksDNSHTTP/HTTPSTCP/IPUDPPortsFirewallsLoad BalancersReverse Proxies

Skills Gained

  • Operate How the Internet Works in production-like environments
  • Connect DNS to infrastructure workflows
  • Troubleshoot failures with repeatable runbooks
  • Document operational tradeoffs and risks

Learning Outcomes

  • Explain how Internet & Networking Fundamentals impacts reliability and delivery
  • Build or configure a lab around How the Internet Works
  • Identify common failure modes and mitigation strategies

Practice Exercises

  • Complete a hands-on lab for How the Internet Works.
  • Write a troubleshooting checklist for How the Internet Works and DNS.
  • Automate one repeatable DevOps task connected to this topic.
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DevOps Resource Matrix

Official Docs

Cloudflare Learning CenterMDN HTTP overviewUbuntu Server docsBash manualGit docsPython docs

Certification Resources

KodeKloud Kubernetes labs

Labs & Sandboxes

Networking labsLinux JourneyShellCheckGitHub SkillsExercismPlay with Docker

Community Resources

The Linux Documentation ProjectBash GuideDemonTech Git roadmapOperating Systems: Three Easy PiecesBrendan Gregg systems performancePercona backup resources

Open Source Projects

Trivy docsBackstage docsOpenSLOSystem Design Primer

DevOps Career Paths

Pick a specialization across cloud operations, platform engineering, SRE, security, and infrastructure architecture.

Junior DevOps Engineer

Operate Linux servers, write scripts, support CI/CD, and document incidents with supervision.

Server setupBackup scriptNginx reverse proxy

DevOps Engineer

Own pipelines, containers, cloud deployments, IaC changes, and production release workflows.

CI/CD pipelineDockerized appTerraform deploy

Senior DevOps Engineer

Design resilient platforms, review infrastructure changes, lead incidents, and mentor teams.

Kubernetes platformObservability stackIncident review

Site Reliability Engineer

Define SLOs, manage error budgets, automate toil, and improve reliability with data.

SLO dashboardRunbooksError budget policy

Platform Engineer

Build internal developer platforms, golden paths, self-service infrastructure, and paved-road tooling.

Developer portalGolden path templatesSelf-service envs

Cloud Architect

Design secure, cost-aware cloud architecture across networking, identity, compute, data, and DR.

Architecture diagramsCost modelDR strategy

Cloud Certifications Tracker

Use certifications as structured validation for cloud, Kubernetes, Linux, and security skills.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Cloud architecture, networking, compute, databases, reliability, and cost controls.

AWS fundamentalsWell-Architected reviewResilient reference architecture

AWS DevOps Engineer

CI/CD, automation, monitoring, security, deployment operations, and incident readiness.

Pipeline designCloudWatch operationsDeployment automation

Azure Administrator

Azure identities, networking, compute, storage, monitoring, and governance.

Resource groupsAzure networkingBackup and monitor

Azure DevOps Engineer

Azure pipelines, GitOps, release practices, infrastructure automation, and test strategy.

Azure PipelinesIaC deploymentRelease gates

Google Professional Cloud Engineer

Google Cloud architecture, operations, networking, IAM, and reliability engineering.

GCP servicesOperations suiteCloud architecture

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Cluster administration, workloads, networking, storage, troubleshooting, and security.

Cluster opskubectl fluencyTroubleshooting drills

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

Kubernetes app design, configuration, observability, probes, and resource management.

Pod specsConfigMaps and secretsProbes and rollouts

Terraform Associate

Terraform workflow, state, modules, providers, planning, and infrastructure review.

Plan/apply workflowModulesRemote state

Learning Features

Hands-on Labs

Track Linux, pipelines, container, cloud, Kubernetes, and SRE labs as concrete milestones.

Achievement Badges

Unlock visible badges for Linux, pipelines, containers, cloud, Kubernetes, SRE, security, and platform mastery.

Incident Notes

Use notes and quizzes to record runbooks, failure modes, and postmortem lessons.