DEVOPS MASTERY ROADMAP (Beginner Advanced)
Duration: 4–6 months (with 2–4 hours/day)
PHASE 1: Foundations (Weeks 1–2)
Concepts
What is DevOps?
DevOps vs Traditional IT
Benefits of DevOps
DevOps Lifecycle (Plan Code Build Test Release Deploy Operate Monitor)
Agile & DevOps
Tools Overview
Version Control: Git, GitHub
OS Basics: Linux (Ubuntu/CentOS)
Hands-On
Install Linux (VM/WSL)
Git basics: clone, commit, push, branch
Basic Shell scripting (loops, variables, conditionals)
PHASE 2: CI/CD & Automation (Weeks 3–6)
Continuous Integration
Jenkins (Pipeline-as-Code)
GitHub Actions (Basics to Advanced)
Build tools: Maven / Gradle
Continuous Delivery & Deployment
CI/CD Pipelines
Automated Testing (Unit & Integration)
Notification Integration (Slack, Email)
Hands-On
Create Jenkins Pipelines
GitHub Actions for Node/Java App CI
Auto-deploy to staging server
PHASE 3: Containerization & Orchestration (Weeks 7–10)
Docker
Images, Containers, Volumes, Networks
Dockerfile, docker-compose
Best Practices
Kubernetes (K8s)
Architecture: Pod, ReplicaSet, Deployment, Service
Helm Charts
Kustomize
Secrets & ConfigMaps
Horizontal & Vertical Autoscaling
Hands-On
Dockerize sample apps
Minikube/K3s local cluster
Deploy apps on Kubernetes using Helm
PHASE 4: Cloud & Infrastructure as Code (Weeks 11–14)
Cloud Platforms
AWS (primary), GCP/Azure (overview)
IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, CloudWatch, CloudTrail
DevOps tools in AWS: CodePipeline, CodeBuild
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Terraform (basic to advanced)
AWS CloudFormation (intro)
Pulumi (optional)
Hands-On
Deploy infrastructure using Terraform
CI/CD pipeline for deploying on AWS
IAM Role & Policy creation
PHASE 5: Monitoring, Logging & Security (Weeks 15–17)
Monitoring & Logging
Prometheus + Grafana
ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
Loki + FluentD
AWS CloudWatch
Security
DevSecOps principles
Secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
SAST & DAST tools (SonarQube, OWASP ZAP)
Hands-On
Set up monitoring dashboards
Alerting & log analysis
Static code analysis pipeline
PHASE 6: Advanced DevOps & SRE (Weeks 18–20)
GitOps
ArgoCD / Flux
Declarative Deployments
SRE Practices
SLAs, SLOs, SLIs
Error Budgeting
Chaos Engineering (Litmus, Gremlin)
Advanced Topics
Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd)
Serverless DevOps (AWS Lambda + CI/CD)
Multi-cloud strategies
Final Capstone Project
Build a complete CI/CD pipeline to:
Deploy a microservices-based app (Dockerized)
Use GitHub Actions Jenkins Terraform AWS EKS
Add monitoring dashboards, log aggregation, and auto-scaling
Daily Study Plan (Flexible Template – 3 Hours/Day)
Time Task
0–30 min Learn theory (video/book)
30–90 min Follow tutorials (hands-on)
90–180 min Build, break, fix your own setup
Resources
Courses
[Udemy]: DevOps Bootcamp, Kubernetes Mastery, Terraform on AWS
[FreeCodeCamp]: Docker, GitHub Actions
[KodeKloud]: Hands-on Labs for DevOps tools
Books
The Phoenix Project – Gene Kim
The DevOps Handbook – Kim, Debois, Willis
Site Reliability Engineering – Google SRE Team
Practice Platforms
KodeKloud (labs)
Katacoda (interactive DevOps scenarios)
GitHub Actions playgrounds
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