DevOps & Platform Engineering Roadmap

Each stage has a free path and a premium fast-track — your call.

1. 1 · Linux & Git foundations

   ~2 weeks

   You're fast on the command line and version everything with Git — the base every DevOps tool sits on.

   Topics to learn

   • Linux shell, files & permissions
   • Processes, services & logs
   • Git branching & merge conflicts
   • Bash scripting basics

   Hands-on practice

   • Live in a Linux terminal for a week
   • Resolve a real merge conflict by hand
   • Write a bash script that automates a setup task
   • Tail and grep logs to debug a failing service

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2. 2 · Containers & Kubernetes

   ~3 weeks

   You package apps in containers and orchestrate them on Kubernetes — the core skill of every platform role.

   Topics to learn

   • Docker images, layers & registries
   • Pods, deployments & services
   • ConfigMaps, secrets & volumes
   • Scaling, probes & rollouts

   Hands-on practice

   • Containerize an app and push it to a registry
   • Deploy it to a local kind/minikube cluster
   • Add liveness/readiness probes and scale it
   • Roll out a new version and then roll it back

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3. 3 · Infrastructure as code (Terraform)

   ~2 weeks

   You provision cloud infrastructure in code, reviewable and repeatable — no more console clicking.

   Topics to learn

   • Providers, resources & state
   • Variables, outputs & modules
   • Remote backends & locking
   • Plan / apply / destroy workflow

   Hands-on practice

   • Provision a VPC + compute stack in Terraform
   • Move state to a remote backend
   • Refactor repeated config into a module
   • Wire terraform plan into a PR check

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4. 4 · CI/CD pipelines

   ~2 weeks

   You build pipelines that test, build, and deploy automatically — the daily work of the job.

   Topics to learn

   • GitHub Actions / GitLab CI
   • Build, test & deploy stages
   • Container build & push
   • Environments, secrets & approvals

   Hands-on practice

   • Build a pipeline that runs tests on every PR
   • Add a stage that builds and pushes a container
   • Deploy to a Kubernetes cluster from CI
   • Add a manual approval gate before production

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5. 5 · Observability & SRE

   ~2 weeks

   You can see what production is doing and reason about reliability — what turns a DevOps engineer into an SRE.

   Topics to learn

   • Metrics, logs & traces
   • Prometheus & Grafana
   • Alerting & on-call basics
   • SLIs, SLOs & error budgets

   Hands-on practice

   • Scrape app metrics with Prometheus
   • Build a Grafana dashboard for your service
   • Define an SLO and an alert that fires on it
   • Write a short postmortem for a simulated incident

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6. 6 · Interview prep & portfolio

   ~1 week

   You package it all: a portfolio repo, a sharp cloud resume, and answers you can deliver.

   Topics to learn

   • Polish your IaC + pipeline repo + README
   • ATS-ready cloud resume
   • Mock interviews out loud
   • An architecture diagram of your platform

   Hands-on practice

   • Write a README that sells your DevOps project
   • Diagram your container → K8s → CI/CD → monitoring flow
   • Answer 10 DevOps interview questions out loud
   • Apply to 3 roles with your repo link on top

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