DevOps Learning Roadmap Beginner to Advanced

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Here’s a detailed DevOps learning roadmap with estimated hours for each section, guiding you from beginner to advanced level. This plan assumes 10-15 hours per week of study and hands-on practice.













1. Introduction to DevOps

✅ What is DevOps?
✅ DevOps principles and culture 
✅ Benefits of DevOps 
✅ DevOps vs Traditional IT Operations 

2. Linux Basics & Scripting

✅ Linux commands and file system 
✅ Process management & user permissions 
✅ Shell scripting (Bash, Python basics) 

3. Version Control Systems (VCS)

✅ Introduction to Git and GitHub 
✅ Branching, merging, and rebasing 
✅ Git workflows (GitFlow, Trunk-based development) 
✅ Hands-on GitHub projects 

4. Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)

✅ What is CI/CD? 
✅ Setting up a CI/CD pipeline 
✅ Jenkins basics
✅ GitHub Actions  CI/CD 
✅ Automated testing in CI/CD

5. Containerization & Orchestration

✅ Introduction to Docker 
✅ Building and managing Docker containers 
✅ Docker Compose & networking 
✅ Kubernetes architecture & components 
✅ Deploying applications on Kubernetes 

6. Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

✅ What is Infrastructure as Code? 
✅ Terraform basics 
✅ Writing Terraform scripts 
✅ AWS CloudFormation basics 

7. Configuration Management

✅ Introduction to Ansible, Chef, Puppet
✅ Writing Ansible playbooks
✅ Automating server configurations

8. Cloud Computing & Deployment

✅ Overview of AWS, Azure, GCP 
✅ Virtual machines & networking
✅ Serverless computing (Lambda, Azure Functions)
✅ Deploying applications on the cloud

9. Monitoring & Logging

✅ Why monitoring is important?
✅ Prometheus & Grafana
✅ ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) introduction
✅ Application performance monitoring (APM) tools like NewRelic etc.

10. Security in DevOps (DevSecOps)

✅ Introduction to DevSecOps
✅ Securing CI/CD pipelines
✅ Secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
✅ Compliance & Security best practices

11. Advanced DevOps Topics

✅ GitOps (ArgoCD, FluxCD) Introduction
✅ Service Mesh (Istio, Linkerd) Introduction
✅ Chaos Engineering (Gremlin, Litmus) 
✅ Kubernetes Operators Introduction

12. DevOps Interview Preparation & Job Readiness

✅ Resume building for DevOps roles
✅ Common DevOps interview questions 
✅ Hands-on project ideas 
✅ Contributing to open-source DevOps projects 

📅 Suggested Timeline:

  • 2 months (if studying 15+ hours per week and 6 hours of online training per week)

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