DevOps Learning Roadmap (3 Months)
Month 1: DevOps Fundamentals & Core Tools
Week 1: DevOps Basics & Git
- Day 1: DevOps Introduction - What, Why & Lifecycle
- Day 2: Software Development Models (Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban)
- Day 3: Git Basics - Commands, Branching, Merging, Rebase
- Day 4: Git Advanced - Git Flow, Conflict Resolution, Hooks
- Day 5: GitHub, GitLab & Bitbucket - Differences, Webhooks, PRs
- Day 6: Hands-on: Setting up a Git repository & collaborating
- Day 7: Mini-project - Implement a Git workflow with a real repo
Week 2: CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
- Day 8: CI/CD Concepts - Pipelines, Jobs, Artifacts
- Day 9: Jenkins Installation & Configuration
- Day 10: Creating Jenkins Jobs - Freestyle & Pipeline
- Day 11: GitHub Actions - Workflows, YAML, Triggers
- Day 12: Jenkins vs GitHub Actions - Best Use Cases
- Day 13: Hands-on: Build a CI/CD Pipeline (Jenkins/GitHub Actions)
- Day 14: Troubleshooting CI/CD Issues
Week 3: Linux & Shell Scripting
- Day 15: Linux Basics - File System, Users, Permissions
- Day 16: Linux Commands - grep, sed, awk, find, tar
- Day 17: Process Management, Systemd, Networking Commands
- Day 18: Bash Scripting - Loops, Functions, Arguments
- Day 19: Advanced Scripting - Automation Scripts
- Day 20: Cron Jobs & Scheduling Tasks
- Day 21: Hands-on: Write scripts for automation
Week 4: Docker & Containerization
- Day 22: Containers vs Virtual Machines
- Day 23: Docker Installation & Basic Commands
- Day 24: Docker Images, Containers & Volumes
- Day 25: Writing Dockerfiles - Best Practices
- Day 26: Docker Networking & Compose
- Day 27: Hands-on: Build & Deploy Apps with Docker
- Day 28: Docker Troubleshooting & Security
Month 2: Kubernetes, Terraform & Monitoring
Week 5: Kubernetes (K8s) Basics
- Day 29: Kubernetes Architecture - Nodes, Pods, Services
- Day 30: Setting up Minikube/Kubernetes Cluster
- Day 31: Deploying Applications on Kubernetes
- Day 32: ConfigMaps, Secrets & Persistent Volumes
- Day 33: Kubernetes Networking - Ingress, LoadBalancer
- Day 34: Helm Charts - Introduction & Usage
- Day 35: Hands-on: Deploying an App with Helm
Week 6: Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
- Day 36: What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?
- Day 37: Terraform Basics - Providers, Resources, Variables
- Day 38: Terraform Modules & State Management
- Day 39: Terraform on AWS - Deploying Infrastructure
- Day 40: Introduction to Ansible - Configuration Management
- Day 41: Writing Ansible Playbooks
- Day 42: Hands-on: Automating Server Configuration
Week 7: Monitoring & Logging (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
- Day 43: Why Monitoring is Important?
- Day 44: Setting up Prometheus & Node Exporter
- Day 45: Configuring Grafana Dashboards
- Day 46: Introduction to ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
- Day 47: Centralized Logging with Fluentd & ELK
- Day 48: Hands-on: Monitoring a Kubernetes Cluster
- Day 49: Incident Response & Alerting
Week 8: Cloud & Serverless (AWS/GCP/Azure Basics)
- Day 50: Cloud Basics - AWS, GCP, Azure Overview
- Day 51: IAM, S3, EC2 - AWS Hands-on
- Day 52: AWS Lambda & Serverless Concepts
- Day 53: Terraform with AWS/GCP
- Day 54: Cloud Security Best Practices
- Day 55: Multi-Cloud Strategy
- Day 56: Mini-Project - Deploying a Cloud App
Month 3: Security, GitOps, Advanced Topics & Capstone Project
Week 9: DevSecOps & Security Best Practices
- Day 57: Security in DevOps - DevSecOps Overview
- Day 58: Image Scanning (Trivy, Clair)
- Day 59: Secrets Management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
- Day 60: SAST & DAST (SonarQube, OWASP ZAP)
- Day 61: Zero Trust Security Model
- Day 62: Hands-on: Implementing Security in CI/CD
- Day 63: Security Audit & Compliance
Week 10: GitOps & Advanced CI/CD
- Day 64: What is GitOps?
- Day 65: ArgoCD & FluxCD Basics
- Day 66: Deploying with GitOps - Hands-on
- Day 67: Blue-Green & Canary Deployments
- Day 68: Feature Flags & Progressive Delivery
- Day 69: Hands-on: Advanced CI/CD Pipelines
- Day 70: Scaling CI/CD for Large Teams
Week 11: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Performance Optimization
- Day 71: What is SRE? SLOs, SLIs & Error Budgets
- Day 72: Performance Tuning & Optimization
- Day 73: Chaos Engineering Basics
- Day 74: Observability - Distributed Tracing (Jaeger)
- Day 75: Handling Outages & Incident Management
- Day 76: Hands-on: Performance Monitoring
- Day 77: Real-world SRE Case Studies
Week 12: Final Project & Certification Prep
- Day 78-82: Capstone Project - Build a full DevOps pipeline
- Day 83: Resume & Portfolio Building
- Day 84: Mock Interviews & DevOps Certifications
- Day 85: Final Review & Next Steps
