0.2 DevOps Roadmap

The DevOps position implies being able to work with a wide range of technologies and being able to quickly acquire new skills. This roadmap is a good starting point to learn the basics.

Prerequisites

There are some things you need to learn in order get better at it:

1. How to work?

   • How to organize your work?

   • When something work? How to improve it?

   • When something doesn’t work? How to fix it?

2. How to learn?

   • There is limited time in our life? What to focus?

   • Trying out stuff

3. How to communicate?

   • Information technology is a team sport, how to work with others?

   • How to get and give feedback?

   • How to ask for help?

   • How to say no?

4. When to make a career change?

Important Knowledge

1. How stuff works? How code work? Where problems can occur?

2. Operating systems

   • Linux

   • Windows

3. Programming languages

   • Python

   • Go

   • Ruby

4. Networking and security

   • OSI Model

   • LAN and VPN

   • HTTP and HTTPS

5. Server and network management

   • Web servers vs Application servers

6. Databases

   • SQL vs NoSQL

7. Environments

   • BareMetal

   • Virtual Machines

   • Containers

   • Pods

   • Cloud

8. Orchestration and automation:

   • scripting: Powershell, Bash

   • configuration management: Ansible

   • container orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker

   • infrastructure as code: Terraform

   • CI/CD: Jenkins, Gitlab CI, GitHub Action

9. Monitoring

10. Software methodologies

DevOps Roadmap

But it’s too much! Where to start? What to learn first? What to learn next?

1. Business Knowledge & DevOps culture

2. Environments

3. Operating systems

4. Coding

5. Git

6. CI/CD

7. Containers

8. Automation

9. Cloud

Course Goals

1. Get comfortable with terminal and Linux

2. Learn how to code and find information

3. Learn how to work with others

4. Get knowledge and best practices

5. Build a portfolio and work on your resume