🚀 DevOps and Cloud Engineering Roadmap 2025

📋 Table of Contents

• About
• Learning Path
• Projects
• Resources

🎯 About

This repository contains a structured learning path for beginners entering the DevOps and Cloud Engineering field. The curriculum is designed for students, recent graduates, and career switchers, with an estimated completion time of 6-12 months of dedicated learning.

📚 Learning Path

Phase 1: Foundation (2-3 months)

Linux and Shell Scripting

# Topics:
├── Linux Administration
|   ├── Linux Installation
│   ├── Command Line Basics
│   ├── File System Management
│   ├── Process Management
│   ├── User Administration
│   └── Package Management
└── Bash Scripting
    ├── Variables and Data Types
    ├── Control Structures
    ├── Functions
    └── Automation Scripts

Programming Foundation

Choose one:

• Python (Recommended for beginners)
  • Basic syntax and data structures
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • File handling and automation
  • API integration
  • Libraries: requests, pandas, numpy
• Golang
  • Systems programming
  • Concurrent programming
  • Cloud-native development

Version Control

# Git & GitHub
├── Git Setup
├── Basic Commands
├── Branching Strategies
├── Git Flow
├── Pull Requests
├── Code Reviews
└── Collaborative Development

Phase 2: Core IT Skills (1 month)

Network Fundamentals

• OSI Model - In-depth
• TCP/IP Protocol Suite
• Internet Protocols ( HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, SMTP, ICMP, etc)
• How to analyze network packets using tools such as Wireshark
• DDOS attack and how to mitigate that
• CIDR and Subnetting Video Link
• DNS and DHCP Video Link
• Vertical V/s Horizontal Scaling
• SSL/TLS, symmetric vs asymmetric encryption and how it works : Video Link
• Reverse Proxy V/s Forward Proxy V/s load balancer
• Troubleshooting application slowness, latency, unavailability etc
• RAID
• NAS vs SAN storage
• SQL vs NoSQL
• DB Sharding, Caching etc

Phase 3: Cloud Computing (2-3 months)

Choose your cloud provider:

• Which Cloud Provider to choose? Confused? Watch the video below and you should be good Video link

Note: Got more questions about the Cloud/DevOps Certifications? Watch the video below:

Video Link

Phase 4: DevOps Tools (3-4 months)

1. Containerization (Docker)

# Docker Fundamentals
├── Container Basics
├── Dockerfile Creation, Multi-Stage Builds
├── Image Management
├── Docker Compose
├── Container Networking
├── Docker Best Practices
└── Volume Management

Checkout the free YouTube playlist 👉 here

2. Container Orchestration (Kubernetes)

Checkout the free YouTube playlist 👉 here

3. CI/CD Pipeline

• Jenkins ( Checkout the free Youtube video here)
• Modern CI/CD Tools(at least one from below)
  • GitHub Actions
  • Azure DevOps (Checkout the free Youtube Playlist here)
  • GitLab CI/CD (Checkout the free Youtube video here)

4. Infrastructure as Code

# Terraform
├── HCL Syntax
├── Resource Management
├── State Management
├── Modules
└── Cloud Provider Integration

Checkout the free Terraform playlist here

5. Monitoring & Logging

• Prometheus & Grafana
• ELK Stack
• Fluentd

Phase 5: 🛠️ Projects

• Check out the Repo here for #10weeksofcloudops projects

📚 Learning Resources

Official Documentation

• Docker Docs
• Kubernetes Docs
• Terraform Docs

YouTube Channels

• Tech Tutorials With Piyush

Practice Platforms

• Katacoda
• Play with Docker
• Play with Kubernetes

Made with ❤️ by [Piyush Sachdeva]
Last updated: December 2024