Platform Engineering and Kubernetes Roadmap

Learn to build the internal tooling and Kubernetes foundations that let other developers ship safely.

10 milestones · ~157 hours total

1. 1

   Linux, networking and shell

   ~20h

   Processes, permissions, systemd, DNS, TCP basics and Bash scripting for daily operations.

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2. 2

   Containers with Docker

   ~12h

   Images, layers, volumes, networks and Docker Compose. Understand what a container actually is.

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3. 3

   Kubernetes core objects

   ~25h

   Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets and namespaces using a local kind or minikube cluster.

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4. 4

   Kubernetes networking and storage

   ~18h

   Ingress, DNS inside the cluster, NetworkPolicies, PersistentVolumes and StatefulSets.

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5. 5

   Helm and Kustomize

   ~10h

   Package and template manifests, manage values per environment and read other teams' charts.

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6. 6

   Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

   ~20h

   Providers, state, modules and remote backends. Provision a small cluster on a cloud account.

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7. 7

   GitOps with Argo CD

   ~12h

   Declarative deployment from Git, sync policies, drift detection and rollbacks.

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8. 8

   CI/CD pipelines

   ~12h

   GitHub Actions or GitLab CI: build, test, scan and push images, then promote through environments.

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9. 9

   Developer platforms and self-service

   ~10h

   Golden paths, templates, service catalogs such as Backstage, and treating the platform as a product for developers.

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10. 10

    Cluster operations and troubleshooting

    ~18h

    Resource requests and limits, autoscaling, RBAC, upgrades and debugging CrashLoopBackOff and pending pods.

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