Here's a complete DevOps Roadmap from Scratch to Advanced Proficient Level, broken into

stages:

Here’s a Beginner Roadmap for DevOps, designed to help

you go from zero to job-ready by understanding the tools,
concepts, and workflows used in modern DevOps
practices.

✅ DevOps Beginner Roadmap (Step-by-Step)

📍 Phase 1: Prerequisites

 Understand basic foundational knowledge needed before starting

DevOps.

1. Learn Linux Basics

File system, permissions, package managers

Commands: ls, cd, chmod, vim, apt/yum, etc.

Practice on Ubuntu (use WSL, VirtualBox, or cloud VM)

 2. Networking Basics

IP, DNS, Ports, HTTP/S

TCP/IP, firewalls, Load Balancers (LB)

Tools: ping, netstat, traceroute, curl

3. Basic Programming/Scripting

Bash scripting (loops, if-else, variables)

Python basics (optional but recommended)

Automation scripts (file handling, backups, cron jobs)

4. Version Control System (VCS)

Git fundamentals: clone, push, pull, merge, branches

Platforms: GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket
Understand Git workflow (feature branching, PRs)

📍 Phase 2: Core DevOps Concepts

 Understand the culture and practices of DevOps.

1. What is DevOps?

DevOps principles (CI/CD, automation, collaboration)

Agile vs DevOps

DevOps lifecycle

2. Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

Phases: Plan → Develop → Build → Test → Release → Deploy → Operate →

Monitor
📍 Phase 3: CI/CD Tools and Pipelines

 Set up basic automation pipelines.

1. Build Tools

Maven, Gradle, npm (depends on tech stack)

2. CI Tools

Jenkins (most common)

GitHub Actions (beginner-friendly)

Concepts: Jobs, Pipelines, Webhooks, Triggers

 3. Practice

Automate: Pull → Build → Test → Deploy (on local/VM server)

📍 Phase 4: Configuration Management & Provisioning

 Automate infrastructure setup.

1. Tools to Learn

Ansible (easiest to start with)

Others (Chef, Puppet – optional)

Concepts: Playbooks, Roles, Inventory

📍 Phase 5: Containerization

 Package apps to run anywhere.

1. Docker Basics

Images, Containers, Dockerfile, Volumes, Networks

Commands: docker build, docker run, docker-compose

2. Hands-on

Containerize a simple Node.js or Python app

📍 Phase 6: Orchestration
  Manage multiple containers.

1. Kubernetes Basics

Pods, Services, Deployments, Namespaces

Minikube for local practice

2. YAML Practice

Write basic deployment and service files

📍 Phase 7: Cloud Basics

 Understand DevOps in the Cloud.

 1. Choose One Cloud Platform

AWS (most popular)

Azure or GCP (optional)

2. Learn Core Services

EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, RDS

Deploy app on EC2

📍 Phase 8: Monitoring and Logging

 Ensure system reliability.

1. Monitoring Tools
Prometheus, Grafana (visualization)

CloudWatch (AWS)

2. Logging Tools

ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

📍 Phase 9: Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

 Manage infrastructure using code.

1. Terraform

Basics: Providers, Resources, Modules

Provision EC2, VPC, S3 using Terraform

📍 Phase 10: Final Projects & Resume Building

 Apply knowledge to real-world setups.

1. Sample Projects

CI/CD pipeline using GitHub + Jenkins + Docker + EC2

Deploy microservices with Docker Compose

Use Terraform to create cloud infrastructure

2. Create a Portfolio

GitHub Repositories with ReadMe

LinkedIn posts
Resume with DevOps tools listed

🎯 Tools to Learn (Beginner Level)

Category Tools

OS & Scripting Linux, Bash, Python

Version Control Git, GitHub

CI/CD Jenkins, GitHub Actions

Config Management Ansible

Containers Docker

Orchestration Kubernetes (basic)

Cloud AWS (EC2, S3, IAM)

IaC Terraform

Monitoring Prometheus, Grafana

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🎯 DevOps Roadmap for Beginners

📌 Stage 1: Understand the Basics

1. What is DevOps?
o Concepts: Dev + Ops, CI/CD, automation, collaboration
o Benefits: Faster delivery, reduced failures, scalable systems

2. Basic Software Development Concepts

o SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)
o Agile, Scrum, Kanban methodologies

3. Version Control Systems

o Git (Install, clone, commit, push, pull, merge)
o GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket basics
📌 Stage 2: Learn Programming & Scripting Basics

1. Recommended Language:
o Python, Bash, or Shell scripting

2. What to Learn:
o Variables, loops, conditions
o File manipulation and automation scripts

📌 Stage 3: Operating System & Networking Fundamentals

1. Linux Basics
o File system, permissions, package managers (apt, yum)
o Systemd, cron jobs, services

2. Networking Concepts
o IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, Ports
o Firewalls, proxies, SSH

📌 Stage 4: Understanding CI/CD (Core of DevOps)

1. CI/CD Pipeline Concepts

o Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Deployment
o Pipelines, triggers, build-test-deploy stages

2. Learn CI/CD Tools:

o GitHub Actions (beginner-friendly)
o Jenkins (open source)
o GitLab CI/CD

📌 Stage 5: Configuration Management Basics

1. Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

o Tools to Start With:
 Ansible (beginner-friendly)
 Terraform (start basics)
📌 Stage 6: Containers and Virtualization

1. Docker
o Images, containers, Dockerfile
o Docker Compose

2. Basic Kubernetes Concepts (optional at this stage)

o Pods, Services, Deployments
o Minikube or Kubernetes Playground

📌 Stage 7: Cloud Fundamentals

1. Pick One Cloud Provider:

o AWS (most popular), Azure, or Google Cloud

2. Learn Basics:
o EC2, S3, IAM, VPC
o Hands-on via Free Tiers

📌 Stage 8: Monitoring and Logging Basics

1. Learn Basic Tools:

o Prometheus + Grafana (metrics)
o ELK Stack or Loki (logs)

2. Know How to:

o Set up basic alerts and dashboards
o Visualize build and deployment metrics

📌 Stage 9: Practice and Projects

 Build your own CI/CD pipeline

 Create a Dockerized app
 Deploy to a cloud platform
 Setup Ansible playbooks for configuration
 Showcase on GitHub Portfolio
📌 Stage 10: Soft Skills & Certification (Optional)

1. Communication & Teamwork

o Understand team workflows, Agile ceremonies

2. Certifications (Optional):
o AWS Cloud Practitioner
o Docker Certified Associate
o Certified Jenkins Engineer
o Azure DevOps Fundamentals

🧰 Tools List for Beginners

Category Tools to Learn

VCS Git, GitHub

Scripting Bash, Python

GitHub Actions,
CI/CD
Jenkins

IaC Ansible

Containers Docker

Cloud AWS (EC2, S3, IAM)

Grafana,
Monitoring
Prometheus

OS/
Linux, DNS, SSH
Networking

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🟢 Stage 1: DevOps Fundamentals (Beginner Level)
🔧 1. Basics of DevOps

 What is DevOps?
 DevOps vs Agile vs SysAdmin
 DevOps Lifecycle (Plan, Develop, Build, Test, Release, Deploy, Operate,
Monitor)

📚 2. Linux & Scripting

 Linux Basics (Commands, Filesystem, Permissions)

 Shell Scripting (Bash)
 Networking Basics (Ports, Firewalls, DNS, SSH)

🔧 Tools:

 OS: Ubuntu/CentOS
 Editors: Vim, Nano, VSCode
 SSH, SCP, Rsync

✅ Output:

 You can work with terminal, scripts, and basic automation.

🟡 Stage 2: Version Control & CI/CD Foundations

(Intermediate Level)
📁 3. Git & GitHub

 Git Basics (Clone, Commit, Push, Pull, Branching)

 GitHub Repos, Issues, Pull Requests

🔄 4. Continuous Integration (CI)

 Concept of CI/CD
 Jenkins: Install, Configure, Build Jobs
  GitHub Actions (YAML workflows)

🔨 5. Build Tools

 Maven/Gradle (Java)
 NPM (Node)
 pip (Python)

✅ Output:

 Automate builds and push to CI pipelines using Git and Jenkins.

🟠 Stage 3: Configuration Management & Containerization

⚙️6. Configuration Management

 Ansible: Playbooks, Roles, Inventory, Modules

 Chef/Puppet (Optional)

📦 7. Docker (Containerization)

 Dockerfile, Images, Containers

 Docker Compose
 Docker Networking and Volumes

✅ Output:

 Deploy and configure environments using Ansible and Docker.

🔵 Stage 4: Orchestration & Cloud (Advanced

Intermediate)
☁️8. Cloud Providers

 AWS: EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, VPC, Route 53

 Optional: Azure/GCP Basics
🔧 9. Kubernetes (K8s)

 Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps

 Helm Charts
 Minikube or k3s for local setup

✅ Output:

 Deploy Docker containers on Kubernetes in a cloud environment.

🟣 Stage 5: Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Monitoring &

Logging
10. Infrastructure as Code

 Terraform: Providers, Modules, Variables, State

 Use Terraform to deploy cloud infrastructure

📊 11. Monitoring and Logging

 Prometheus + Grafana for metrics

 ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
 Datadog / New Relic (Optional)

✅ Output:

 Build infrastructure automatically, monitor system health and logs.

🔴 Stage 6: Advanced DevOps Practices (Pro Level)

🧠 12. Advanced CI/CD

 Canary Deployments, Blue-Green Deployment

 Security in CI/CD pipelines
 GitOps using ArgoCD or Flux

🔐 13. DevSecOps

 Secrets Management: HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager

  Security Tools: Trivy, SonarQube, Snyk

⚙️14. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

 SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets

 Chaos Engineering: LitmusChaos

✅ Output:

 Design highly reliable and secure production systems.

📁 BONUS: Projects to Showcase

Project Tools

Git, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible,

CI/CD Pipeline for Web App
AWS

Kubernetes Deployment with

Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
Helm

Monitoring Stack Prometheus, Grafana, ELK

Terraform AWS Infra Terraform, AWS, Ansible

📚 Recommended Learning Resources

🔗 Free Platforms

 FreeCodeCamp
 Codecademy
 Kelsey Hightower's Kubernetes The Hard Way

🎓 Courses

 Udemy – “DevOps Bootcamp”, “Docker & Kubernetes Mastery”

 Coursera – Google Cloud DevOps & SRE Path
 YouTube – TechWorld with Nana, FreeCodeCamp.org
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Here is a DevOps Roadmap from Scratch to Advanced Proficient Level broken

down into 5 clear phases:

🚀 Stage 1: DevOps Fundamentals (Beginner)

 Duration: 1 month

Goal: Understand what DevOps is and the core concepts

✅ Concepts to Learn

What is DevOps?

SDLC & Agile

CI/CD Overview

Dev vs Ops vs DevOps

DevOps lifecycle: Plan → Develop → Build → Test → Release → Deploy →

Operate → Monitor
📚 Tools Introduction

Version Control: Git & GitHub

IDEs: VSCode

CLI Basics: Linux Shell, Bash

📘 Resources

YouTube: TechWorld with Nana – DevOps Basics

Course: Coursera – Introduction to DevOps

🔧 Stage 2: Core DevOps Tools (Intermediate)

 Duration: 2–3 months

Goal: Hands-on with CI/CD, Containers, Infrastructure as Code

✅ Skills and Tools

🔹 Version Control & Collaboration

Git Branching

Pull Requests

GitHub Actions (basics)

🔹 Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)

Jenkins (setup, pipelines)

GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD

🔹 Containerization

Docker: Images, Containers, Dockerfile

Docker Compose

🔹 Orchestration

Kubernetes (K8s): Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets

Minikube or Kind for local K8s practice

🔹 Infrastructure as Code

Terraform (basic syntax, provisioning cloud infra)

Ansible (configuration management basics)

🔹 Monitoring & Logging

Prometheus + Grafana

ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

🔹 Cloud Fundamentals

AWS Free Tier or Azure/GCP

Learn IAM, EC2, S3, CloudWatch

🧪 Projects to Build
CI/CD pipeline for a sample app using GitHub Actions + Docker + Jenkins

Deploy a containerized app on Minikube/Kubernetes cluster

🧠 Stage 3: Advanced DevOps Concepts

 Duration: 2–3 months

Goal: Secure, scale, and manage real-world production infrastructure

✅ Skills to Master

Advanced Kubernetes: Helm Charts, StatefulSets, RBAC, NetworkPolicies

Service Mesh: Istio or Linkerd

Advanced Terraform: Modules, State Management, Remote Backends

Monitoring: Distributed Tracing (Jaeger, OpenTelemetry)

Security in DevOps: DevSecOps, SAST, DAST, secrets scanning (Trivy, Aqua)

Container Security & Hardening

🛠 Tools

Helm

HashiCorp Vault

ArgoCD / FluxCD (GitOps tools)

Jenkins Shared Libraries

AWS CodePipeline / CodeDeploy (optional)

🔧 Real-World Projects

End-to-end deployment pipeline: code → build → test → package → deploy →

monitor

Use IaC to provision and deploy infra on AWS + K8s + Jenkins + GitOps

💼 Stage 4: DevOps for Production (Proficient Level)

  Duration: 2+ months

Goal: Design fault-tolerant, secure, observable production systems

✅ Topics

High Availability (HA) Systems

Load Balancing and Auto Scaling

Disaster Recovery & Backup

Blue-Green / Canary Deployments

CI/CD for Microservices

Monitoring SLAs, SLIs, SLOs

Incident Management (PagerDuty, OpsGenie)

🧰 Real Tools Used in Production

Kubernetes on EKS/GKE/AKS

GitOps with ArgoCD + Helm

Observability with Prometheus + Grafana + Loki

NGINX / HAProxy Ingress Controllers

AWS IAM Roles for Service Accounts

📌 Stage 5: Portfolio & Certifications

 Duration: Ongoing

Goal: Prepare for job-ready interviews and certifications

🎯 Build a Portfolio

GitHub Repo with:

CI/CD Pipelines

Dockerized Apps

Kubernetes Manifests
Terraform IaC Projects

🎓 Certifications (Optional but Valuable)

Docker Certified Associate (DCA)

CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator)

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate

🧪 Practice Interview Questions

System Design for DevOps

CI/CD Scenario Questions

Shell scripting, YAML questions

Debugging deployment failures

📦 Final Deliverables (Checklist)

Skill Status

Git & GitHub ✅

CI/CD with Jenkins/GitHub Actions ✅

Docker & Kubernetes ✅

Terraform & IaC ✅

AWS Basics ✅

Monitoring & Security ✅

Build & Deploy Project ✅

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DevOps basics and wants to level up to confidently work on real-world CI/CD pipelines,
infrastructure automation, and container orchestration.

✅ Intermediate DevOps Roadmap (3–4 Months Plan)

1. Version Control & Collaboration

 ✅ Git Intermediate:
o Branching strategies: Git Flow, Feature Branching
o Cherry-pick, rebase, squash
 ✅ GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket:
o Webhooks
o GitHub Actions basics
o Protect branches, Code reviews

2. Linux and Shell Scripting

 ✅ Intermediate Linux:
o Permissions (chmod, chown)
o Networking (netstat, ss, iptables)
 ✅ Bash scripting:
o Loops, Conditions, Functions
o Automate log rotation, backups
3. CI/CD Tools & Pipelines

 ✅ Jenkins / GitHub Actions / GitLab CI:

o Create Multistage pipelines
o Automate builds, tests, and deployments
o Use shared libraries and credentials
 ✅ Pipeline Concepts:
o Triggers: push/PR, schedule
o Artifacts management
o Rollbacks & notifications (Slack/Email)

4. Containers (Docker)

 ✅ Intermediate Docker:
o Multi-stage builds
o Docker Volumes & Networks
o Docker Compose (multi-container apps)
 ✅ Secure Docker:
o Minimize image size
o Dockerfile best practices

5. Container Orchestration (Kubernetes)

 ✅ Kubernetes Core Concepts:

o Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets
o Namespaces and RBAC
 ✅ Intermediate K8s:
o Helm Basics
o Liveness/Readiness Probes
o Autoscaling and Rollouts
o Network Policies
 ✅ Tools: kubectl, k9s, Lens

6. Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

 ✅ Terraform Basics:
o Create EC2, S3, VPC
o Variables, Outputs, Modules
 ✅ Intermediate Terraform:
 o Remote state
o Workspaces
o Terraform Cloud (optional)

7. Monitoring & Logging

 ✅ Prometheus + Grafana for metrics

 ✅ ELK / EFK Stack for logs
 ✅ Alerting Rules and Dashboards

8. Cloud Platforms (Intermediate Level)

 ✅ AWS / Azure / GCP (pick one):

o EC2, S3, IAM, VPC
o Load Balancer, CloudWatch
o Deployment via CLI and SDK

9. Security Best Practices

 ✅ Secrets Management (Vault / AWS Secrets Manager)

 ✅ IAM Policies and Least Privilege
 ✅ SSL/TLS Certificates (Let’s Encrypt)
 ✅ Container and Code Scanning tools: Trivy, SonarQube

10. Projects to Practice

 CI/CD Pipeline for Flask/Node.js App using Jenkins or GitHub Actions

 Dockerize and deploy app to Kubernetes with Helm
 Terraform project to provision VPC + EC2 + S3
 Monitoring Kubernetes app using Prometheus + Grafana
 End-to-End DevOps pipeline on AWS
📁 Bonus Tools to Learn
Tool Purpose

Configuration
Ansible
Management

SonarQube Code Quality

Nexus/Artifactory Artifact Repositories

HashiCorp Vault Secrets Management

Postman & REST

API Testing
APIs

📌 Outcome After Intermediate Level

You should now be able to:

 Build CI/CD pipelines from scratch

 Automate infrastructure with Terraform
 Deploy microservices on Kubernetes
 Monitor and secure your deployments
 Work confidently in a DevOps engineer role

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🧭 INTERMEDIATE DEVOPS ROADMAP (4–5 months plan)

🔹 Phase 1: Version Control & Branching Strategies

 ✅ Git Intermediate
o Rebase, Cherry-pick, Stash
 oTagging and Releases
 ✅ Branching Models
o Git Flow, GitHub Flow, Trunk-based Development
 ✅ Collaboration Tools
o GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket – PRs, Issues, Actions

🔹 Phase 2: Linux + Shell Scripting (Deep Dive)

 ✅ Bash scripting for automation (loops, conditionals, variables)

 ✅ CRON Jobs, Log Rotation
 ✅ Text processing tools (awk, sed, grep, cut, jq)
 ✅ Systemctl, journald, permissions, process mgmt.

🔹 Phase 3: CI/CD Pipelines (Intermediate Level)

 ✅ Jenkins (Pipelines as Code – Declarative + Scripted)

 ✅ GitHub Actions (Matrix builds, environments, secrets)
 ✅ GitLab CI/CD (Multi-stage pipelines, caching, runners)
 ✅ Concepts: Build Triggers, Artifacts, Notifications
 ✅ Security Scans: SonarQube, Trivy

🔹 Phase 4: Containers & Orchestration

 ✅ Docker Intermediate
o Multi-stage builds, networking, volumes
o Docker Compose with multiple services
 ✅ Kubernetes Basics to Intermediate
o Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets
o Helm Charts (templating K8s YAML)
o Namespaces, Probes, Labels, Taints/Tolerations

🔹 Phase 5: Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

 ✅ Terraform Intermediate
o Modules, Workspaces, State Management
o Terraform Cloud or Backend with S3 + DynamoDB
 ✅ Ansible Intermediate
 o Roles, Playbooks, Inventories, Templates (Jinja2)
o Idempotency, Handlers, Loops, Conditionals

🔹 Phase 6: Cloud Platforms (Hands-on Preferred)

 ✅ AWS (Core services)

o EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, ELB, EKS, CloudWatch, SSM
 ✅ IAM Policies, Roles, Profiles
 ✅ Basic Cost Management and Budgets

🔹 Phase 7: Monitoring, Logging, and Alerting

 ✅ Prometheus + Grafana
o Metrics, Alerts, Dashboards
 ✅ ELK/EFK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash/Fluentd, Kibana)
 ✅ Loki for log aggregation
 ✅ Health checks, Alertmanager setup

🔹 Phase 8: Security in DevOps

 ✅ Secret Management (Vault, SOPS, AWS Secrets Manager)

 ✅ Container Scanning: Trivy, Clair
 ✅ SBOM and Dependency Scanning (Syft, Grype, OWASP Dependency-
Check)

🔹 Phase 9: DevOps Best Practices

 ✅ GitOps (ArgoCD or Flux)

 ✅ Blue-Green & Canary Deployments
 ✅ Feature Flags
 ✅ SRE Principles (SLI/SLO/Error Budget)
 ✅ Chaos Engineering (Litmus, Gremlin)
📁 Bonus: Intermediate DevOps Project Ideas

 🌐 CI/CD pipeline for Docker + Kubernetes deployment

 ☁️Provision infrastructure using Terraform + Ansible on AWS
 📦 Build a complete monitoring stack using Prometheus + Grafana +
Loki
 🔐 Secure DevOps pipeline with Trivy + Vault

🔧 Recommended Tools to Learn:

 VSCode, Postman, HTTPie, jq, curl

 Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
 Jenkins/GitHub Actions/GitLab
 Terraform, Ansible
 AWS CLI, eksctl
 Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK
 Trivy, Vault, ArgoCD

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mastering DevOps tools, practices, and cloud-native deployments in real-
world scenarios.

🔰 1. Prerequisites (Ensure before entering Advanced DevOps)

Linux Mastery – Bash scripting, permissions, cron jobs, systemctl, journald

Networking – DNS, Load Balancing, HTTP/S, Firewalls, NAT, VPN, Subnetting

Git & GitHub – Branching, PRs, GitFlow, Hooks

Programming – Python or Go (for automation, scripting & tool integration)

CI/CD Basics – Jenkins/GitHub Actions/Pipelines

🚀 2. Advanced DevOps Concepts

Skill Topics

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Terraform (modules, workspaces, state

management), Pulumi

Configuration Management Ansible (roles, playbooks, vault), Chef, Puppet

Advanced CI/CD Jenkins pipelines, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD,
Spinnaker

Containerization Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, Multi-stage builds, image

security

Container Orchestration Kubernetes (Helm, Operators, RBAC, Network

Policies, CRDs)

Service Mesh Istio, Linkerd, Envoy

Observability Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Loki, OpenTelemetry

Cloud Mastery AWS, Azure, or GCP (VPC, IAM, ECS, EKS, Lambda,
CloudWatch)

Monitoring & Logging Centralized logging, alerts, distributed tracing

Security (DevSecOps) Secrets Management (Vault, SOPS), Docker image

scanning, CI/CD security

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) SLOs, SLIs, Error Budget, Chaos

Engineering (Litmus, Gremlin)

Networking in K8s CNI plugins, Ingress Controllers, LoadBalancers, DNS

in K8s

Scaling & Auto-Healing HPA/VPA, Cluster Autoscaler, Custom Metrics Adapter

GitOps FluxCD, ArgoCD pipelines and progressive delivery

Serverless DevOps AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Serverless Framework

Backup & Disaster Recovery Velero, snapshots, etcd backup, restore

strategies

📁 3. Project-Based Learning & Hands-On Practice

Area Project Ideas

CI/CD Build an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and ArgoCD

Terraform Multi-environment infrastructure (dev/staging/prod) for AWS

Kubernetes Deploy microservices with Ingress, monitoring, logging

DevSecOps Integrate Snyk or Trivy + Vault + Ansible for secrets rotation

Monitoring Full observability stack with Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana

dashboards

Chaos Engineering Inject failures with LitmusChaos on a K8s cluster

Serverless CI/CD Deploy event-driven serverless apps with GitHub Actions

🧪 4. Certifications (Optional but Highly Valuable)

Certification Provider

✅ CKA (Kubernetes Administrator) CNCF

✅ CKS (Kubernetes Security Specialist) CNCF

✅ Terraform Associate HashiCorp

✅ AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional AWS

✅ Certified GitOps PractitionerOpenGitOps

✅ Azure DevOps Expert Microsoft

📚 5. Learning Resources

Topic Platform

Kubernetes Kelsey Hightower’s Kubernetes The Hard Way, KodeKloud

Terraform HashiCorp Learn, CloudSkills.io

GitOps ArgoCD & Flux docs, GitOpsAcademy

DevSecOps Aqua Security Academy, DevSecOps.org

Monitoring Prometheus.io docs, Grafana University

Advanced Cloud AWS Well-Architected Labs, ACloudGuru, Pluralsight

🛠️6. Tool Stack for Advanced DevOps

IaC: Terraform, Pulumi

CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, GitLab CI

Containerization: Docker, Buildah, Podman

Kubernetes: Helm, Kustomize, Lens

Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Loki

Logging: ELK Stack, Fluentd/FluentBit

Security: HashiCorp Vault, Trivy, Falco, Aqua

Cloud: AWS (EKS, ECS, Lambda), GCP (GKE, CloudBuild), Azure DevOps

Service Mesh: Istio, Linkerd

📌 7. Portfolio/Resume Must-Have Projects

Kubernetes-based microservice deployment with GitOps

CI/CD pipeline with security scanning and testing

Multi-cloud IaC using Terraform with modules and backends

Centralized monitoring/logging dashboard with Grafana/ELK

Serverless deployment + event triggers on AWS/GCP

Chaos engineering experiments with metrics before/after

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🌟 Advanced Proficient DevOps Roadmap

✅ 1. Mastering Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

 Tools & Skills:

o Terraform (advanced modules, workspaces, remote state)
o AWS CloudFormation (optional)
o Pulumi (TypeScript/Python-based IaC)
 Concepts:
o Multi-cloud deployments (AWS + Azure + GCP)
o Secret management (HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
o Dynamic infrastructure scaling

✅ 2. Advanced CI/CD Pipelines

 Tools:
o Jenkins (shared libraries, pipeline as code)
o GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, ArgoCD
o Tekton (Kubernetes-native CI/CD)
 Concepts:
o Canary deployments, Blue-Green deployment, Rolling updates
o GitOps using FluxCD or ArgoCD
o Integration with Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd)
 Real-World Projects:
o End-to-end multi-branch pipeline with approval gates & testing
o GitOps deployment to Kubernetes

✅ 3. Deep Kubernetes & Container Orchestration

 Tools:
 o Kubernetes (Advanced: Operators, CRDs, Helm)
o Kustomize, Skaffold
o Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd)
 Concepts:
o Multi-cluster management
o Pod security policies, Network Policies
o Kubernetes Federation
 Projects:
o Build a secure, scalable multi-cluster setup with service mesh
o Design a production-ready monitoring stack for Kubernetes

✅ 4. Monitoring, Logging & Observability

 Tools:
o Prometheus, Grafana, Loki
o ELK/EFK Stack
o Jaeger/Zipkin (Tracing), OpenTelemetry
 Concepts:
o Distributed Tracing
o Alerting Rules, Dashboards, Health Checks
 Projects:
o Full observability pipeline for microservices on K8s

✅ 5. Advanced Cloud DevOps (AWS/Azure/GCP)

 AWS (or similar):

o EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM Policies
o Advanced: Auto-scaling, Load Balancing, Route 53, Security
Groups
 Concepts:
o VPC Design, Subnetting, Security Hardening
o Serverless CI/CD with Lambda + API Gateway + CodePipeline
 Certifications:
o AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional
o Google Professional DevOps Engineer
o Azure DevOps Expert
✅ 6. DevSecOps

 Tools:
o Trivy, AquaSec, Snyk
o SonarQube, Checkmarx, OWASP ZAP
 Concepts:
o Security as Code
o Static & Dynamic Application Security Testing (SAST & DAST)
 Project:
o Secure CI/CD pipeline with automated container scanning

✅ 7. SRE (Site Reliability Engineering)

 Concepts:
o SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets
o Chaos Engineering (Chaos Monkey, LitmusChaos)
o Capacity Planning, Load Testing
 Tools:
o K6, Locust, Gremlin
 Book:
o Google SRE Book: https://sre.google/books/

✅ 8. Automation & Scripting

 Languages:
o Python (API scripts, automation, testing)
o Bash (scripting + cron jobs)
o Go (for custom tools)
 Projects:
o Build a CLI tool to manage Kubernetes deployments
o Automation scripts for cloud cost optimization

✅ 9. Configuration Management

 Tools:
o Ansible (Advanced Playbooks, Roles, Galaxy)
o Chef / Puppet / SaltStack (optional)
 Project:
 o Automate provisioning and app deployment to multiple
environments

✅ 10. Soft Skills & Leadership

 Skills:
o System Design for DevOps Pipelines
o DevOps Evangelism & Mentoring
o Agile, Scrum, Kanban collaboration
 Extras:
o Lead a DevOps team, write documentation, manage
postmortems
o Train others using internal workshops or YouTube/Twitch

🧠 Certifications to Target at This Stage

 AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional
 Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
 Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
 Google Cloud DevOps Engineer
 Terraform Associate (Advanced level)
 GitOps Certification (Weaveworks)

💼 Portfolio / GitHub Ideas

 Multi-cloud Terraform setup
 Full CI/CD setup with GitOps to Kubernetes
 Monitoring/Alerting Dashboard with Grafana for Microservices
 DevSecOps pipeline with security scans and reports
 Write blog posts or record tutorial videos explaining your setups

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Engineer (SRE), or Cloud Infrastructure Engineer.
🔁 STAGE 1: RECAP CORE FOUNDATIONS

If you’ve done Intermediate DevOps, ensure you’re solid in:

 Linux Mastery: Bash scripting, Systemctl, Crontab, Permissions

 Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, Load Balancing
 Git/GitHub: Branching, PRs, GitFlow, GitOps basics
 CI/CD Basics: Jenkins/GitHub Actions pipelines
 Containers: Docker, Docker Compose
 Cloud Basics: IAM, EC2, S3, VPC, Security Groups (AWS)

🚀 STAGE 2: MASTER CLOUD ECOSYSTEM (AWS/ Azure / GCP)

Focus on one platform (AWS preferred)

✅ Key Topics:

 EC2, Auto Scaling, ALB/NLB

 IAM, Policies, STS, Organizations
 VPC, NAT Gateway, Transit Gateway
 S3, EFS, CloudFront, Route 53
 Lambda, SNS/SQS, CloudWatch, X-Ray
 ECS/EKS, Fargate, Step Functions

🛠 Tools:

 AWS CLI, Boto3 (Python SDK), Terraform with AWS provider

⚙️STAGE 3: INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE (IaC)

✅ Learn:

 Terraform (Advanced): Modules, Workspaces, State Management,

Backend, Cloud provisioning
 Pulumi (Optional, uses Python/TS)
 CloudFormation (for AWS-specific cases)
 Best practices for IaC pipelines
🐳 STAGE 4: ADVANCED CONTAINERIZATION & ORCHESTRATION
✅ Docker:

 Multi-stage builds, Custom Dockerfiles, Volumes, Networks

 BuildKit, Security Scanning (Trivy, Dockle)

✅ Kubernetes (K8s):

 Pods, Deployments, Services, Ingress

 ConfigMaps, Secrets, RBAC, Taints & Tolerations
 Helm Charts (Build & Deploy)
 Operators, CRDs
 Monitoring (Prometheus + Grafana)
 Logging (ELK/EFK stack)
 Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd)

🔁 STAGE 5: CI/CD SYSTEMS (Advanced)

Tools:

 Jenkins (Declarative Pipelines)

 GitHub Actions (Matrix builds, secrets, OIDC)
 GitLab CI/CD
 ArgoCD / FluxCD (GitOps)

Concepts:

 Multi-environment deployments
 Blue-Green / Canary Deployments
 Artifact versioning, caching strategies
 Secret management (Vault/SOPS)

🔐 STAGE 6: SECURITY IN DEVOPS (DevSecOps)

✅ Learn:

 Secrets Management: HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager

 Image Scanning: Trivy, Clair, Aqua
 SAST & DAST: SonarQube, OWASP ZAP
 SSO, MFA, RBAC
 Security in Pipelines: SBOM, Dependency Scanners
📈 STAGE 7: OBSERVABILITY & MONITORING
✅ Key Tools:

 Prometheus + Grafana Dashboards

 Loki for logging
 Jaeger/Zipkin for tracing
 ELK/EFK Stack for centralized logging
 Cloud-native tools: AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor

☁️STAGE 8: SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING (SRE)

✅ Learn:

 SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets

 Chaos Engineering (Gremlin, Litmus)
 Load Testing (k6, JMeter)
 Incident Management & On-Call Rotation
 Blameless Postmortems

📦 STAGE 9: ADVANCED AUTOMATION

✅ Tools & Techniques:

 Ansible (roles, playbooks, dynamic inventory)

 Chef/Puppet (optional)
 Python Scripting for automation
 GitOps & ChatOps integrations (Slack + CI/CD)

📁 STAGE 10: REAL-WORLD PROJECTS & PORTFOLIO

Sample Projects:

 Multi-tier K8s App with CI/CD + Helm + ArgoCD

 GitOps pipeline with Terraform + Vault + AWS
 Full Infra Deployment using Terraform modules
 DevSecOps pipeline with SonarQube + Trivy + Vault
 Real-time Monitoring Dashboard with Prometheus/Grafana
🧠 STAGE 11: INTERVIEW PREP & CERTIFICATIONS (OPTIONAL)
📜 Certifications:

 AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

 CKA/CKS (Kubernetes)
 Terraform Associate
 Azure DevOps Engineer Expert

Interview Topics:

 Design scalable CI/CD for microservices

 Troubleshoot K8s network issues
 Optimize Terraform state handling
 SRE-style questions: SLOs, On-call, RCA

✅ BONUS: DEVOPS TOOLSTACK TO MASTER

Category Tools to Know

Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI,

CI/CD
ArgoCD

IaC Terraform, Pulumi

Containers Docker, Podman

Orchestration Kubernetes, Helm

Monitoring Prometheus, Grafana, Loki

Logging ELK, EFK, CloudWatch

Security Vault, Trivy, SonarQube

Scripting Bash, Python

Cloud
AWS, Azure, GCP
Providers

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