DevOps Learning Roadmap (AWS & Azure)
1. Foundation Skills
- Linux (Ubuntu/CentOS), Shell scripting
- Networking basics (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S)
- Git and GitHub/GitLab
- Bash and Python scripting
2. Development Basics
- Understand SDLC, REST APIs, JSON/YAML
- Basic web development knowledge
3. CI/CD Tools
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
- Azure DevOps Pipelines
4. Containers and Orchestration
- Docker (build, run containers)
- Kubernetes (deployment, services, Helm)
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Amazon EKS
5. Infrastructure as Code & Configuration Management
- Terraform (AWS & Azure modules)
- Ansible
- Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
- AWS CloudFormation
6. Monitoring and Logging
- Prometheus + Grafana
- ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
- Azure Monitor & Log Analytics
- AWS CloudWatch & CloudTrail
7. Cloud Skills
- AWS: EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudWatch
- Azure: VMs, Blob Storage, IAM, VNet, Azure Functions, Monitor
8. Optional/Advanced Tools
- Vault (Secrets management)
- ArgoCD or FluxCD (GitOps)
- Nexus/Artifactory
- Service Mesh: Istio
9. Tips
- Focus on learning 1-2 tools per category
- Build hands-on projects
- Learn both AWS and Azure basics
- Practice CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes deployments