DevOps Engineer Roadmap
Automate, deploy, and scale infrastructure
About This Roadmap
DevOps Engineering revolutionizes software delivery by bridging the gap between development and operations teams, focusing on automation, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. As a DevOps engineer, you will build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage infrastructure as code, orchestrate containers, monitor systems, and ensure high availability and scalability. This comprehensive roadmap covers Linux administration, scripting, version control, containerization with Docker, orchestration with Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), infrastructure as code with Terraform, and monitoring tools. DevOps engineers are critical in modern software companies, enabling rapid releases, reducing deployment failures, and improving system reliability. The role requires strong scripting skills, understanding of networking and security, knowledge of cloud platforms, and a problem-solving mindset.
Prerequisites
- Basic programming
- Linux fundamentals
- Networking basics
- Understanding of software development
What You'll Learn
Complete Learning Path
6-8 weeks
1Linux Administration
File system, permissions, processes, systemd
2Shell Scripting
Bash, automation, cron jobs, sed/awk
3Networking
TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, SSL/TLS, load balancing
4Git
Branching, merging, rebasing, workflows
6-8 weeks
1Jenkins
Pipelines, plugins, Jenkinsfile
2GitLab CI
Runners, pipelines, stages, artifacts
3GitHub Actions
Workflows, actions, secrets
4Build Tools
Maven, Gradle, npm, Docker builds
8-10 weeks
1Docker
Images, containers, Dockerfile, compose
2Container Registry
Docker Hub, ECR, GCR, artifact management
3Docker Networking
Bridge, host, overlay networks
4Security
Image scanning, secrets management
10-12 weeks
1Kubernetes Basics
Pods, services, deployments, namespaces
2K8s Advanced
StatefulSets, DaemonSets, ConfigMaps, Secrets
3Helm
Package management, charts, releases
4Service Mesh
Istio, traffic management, observability
8-10 weeks
1AWS
EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudFormation
2Terraform
Resources, modules, state management, workspaces
3Ansible
Playbooks, roles, inventory, automation
4Cloud Security
IAM, VPC, security groups, compliance
6-8 weeks
1Prometheus
Metrics, alerts, PromQL
2Grafana
Dashboards, visualization, alerting
3ELK Stack
Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana for logs
4Incident Management
On-call, postmortems, SRE practices
Tools & Technologies
Career Opportunities
- DevOps Engineer
- Site Reliability Engineer
- Platform Engineer
- Cloud Engineer
- Infrastructure Engineer
- Release Engineer