Cloud & DevOps Roadmap

The practical path from Linux basics to deploying and monitoring containers on the cloud.

10 milestones · ~143 hours total

1. 1

   Linux and the shell

   ~20h

   Files, permissions, processes, package managers, pipes and basic shell scripting.

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2. 2

   Networking fundamentals

   ~12h

   IP, DNS, ports, HTTP/HTTPS, firewalls, load balancers and how a request travels.

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3. 3

   Git and branching workflows

   ~6h

   Feature branches, pull requests, tags and release practices.

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4. 4

   Docker

   ~15h

   Images, containers, Dockerfiles, volumes, networks and docker compose.

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5. 5

   CI/CD pipelines

   ~12h

   Automate build, test and deploy with GitHub Actions or similar; understand artifacts and environments.

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6. 6

   Cloud fundamentals (AWS, Azure or GCP)

   ~25h

   Compute, storage, networking, IAM and managed databases; learn one cloud properly.

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7. 7

   Infrastructure as Code

   ~15h

   Describe infrastructure in Terraform; plan, apply, state and modules.

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8. 8

   Kubernetes basics

   ~20h

   Pods, Deployments, Services, config and secrets, and how scaling and rollouts work.

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9. 9

   Monitoring, logging and alerting

   ~10h

   Metrics, logs, traces and SLOs; build a dashboard and an alert that matters.

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10. 10

    Security and cost awareness

    ~8h

    Least privilege, secrets management, patching and keeping the cloud bill under control.

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