DevOps Learning Path

A structured roadmap from beginner to advanced DevOps practitioner.

Don't try to learn everything at once

Focus on one topic at a time. The goal is to say "I know what DevOps is and I can build anything with it." Learn the rest on demand.

Stage 1: Foundations (Weeks 1-4)

Topic	What to Learn	Resources
Version Control	Git	Git is used everywhere — master it first
Programming	Python or Go	Every DevOps engineer needs at least one language
Operating System	Linux	The backbone of cloud infrastructure
Networking	Networking Basics	DHCP, DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, SSH
Scripting	Bash	Automate everything from day one

Topic	What to Learn	Resources
Containers	Docker	Containerize applications
CI/CD	Jenkins, GitHub Actions	Automate build, test, deploy
IaC	Terraform	Infrastructure as Code
Config Mgmt	Ansible	Configuration management at scale
Cloud	AWS or Azure	Pick one cloud provider to start

Topic	Description
SRE Practices	SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, incident management
Platform Engineering	Internal developer platforms, golden paths
FinOps	Cloud cost optimization
Multi-Cloud	Architecting across cloud providers
Chaos Engineering	Resilience testing in production

Book	Author
The DevOps Handbook	Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis
The Phoenix Project	Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
Accelerate	Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
Site Reliability Engineering	Google (Betsy Beyer et al.)
Release It!	Michael Nygard

All DevOps content has been integrated into our comprehensive guides:

DevOps Fundamentals — Culture, CALMS, Three Ways, DORA metrics
DevOps Practices — CI/CD, deployment strategies, observability, incident management
DevOps Tools Overview — Tool landscape and selection
DevOps Interview Prep — Comprehensive interview Q&A