Embarking on DevOps Journey: Having a Roadmap

🚧 This post is a continuation of Embarking on My DevOps Journey. If you haven’t read that, check it out before diving into the roadmap below.

🗺️ My DevOps Learning Roadmap

This is the structured path I'm following as I learn DevOps, step by step. It’s also a reference guide for anyone starting from scratch who needs direction and wants to learn in public 🚀.

I'll update this roadmap with new milestones, resources, and tutorials (including one on setting up virtual machines manually and using Vagrant, which is coming soon!).

🔰 Phase 1: DevOps Fundamentals

🎯 Objectives

• Understand what DevOps is and why it matters


• Learn the DevOps lifecycle and key concepts (CI/CD, automation, collaboration)

📚 Resources

• What is DevOps – AWS

🧱 Phase 2: Virtual Machines & Vagrant

🎯 Objectives

• Learn how to create and manage VMs manually


• Use Vagrant to provision VMs consistently

🔧 Tools

• VirtualBox or VMware


• Vagrant

📚 Resources (and a tutorial from me coming soon!)

• Vagrant Docs


• Manual VM Setup using ISO + Ubuntu walkthroughs

🐧 Phase 3: Linux & Shell Scripting

🎯 Objectives

• Gain comfort with the command line


• Understand permissions, file systems, and process management


• Write basic bash scripts

🔧 Tools

• Ubuntu (via WSL or Virtual Machine)


• Bash

📚 Resources

• Linux For Beginners by Amigoscode


• Linux Journey


• Bash Scripting Tutorial


• Introduction to Linux (LFS101) by The Linux Foundation
  

🧬 Phase 4: Version Control with Git

🎯 Objectives

• Master Git basics: commit, push, pull, branch


• Understand merging and resolving conflicts


• Use GitHub for remote collaboration

📚 Resources

• Git and GitHub Tutorial For Beginners


• Git Handbook


• Learn Git Branching

📦 Phase 5: Containers with Docker

🎯 Objectives

• Understand containerization


• Create Docker images and manage containers


• Use Dockerfiles and Docker Compose

📚 Resources

• Docker Docs


• Docker Tutorial for Beginners [FULL COURSE in 3 Hours]

🔁 Phase 6: CI/CD Pipelines

🎯 Objectives

• Learn what CI/CD means in real projects


• Automate build, test, and deploy pipelines

🔧 Tools

• GitHub Actions


• Jenkins


• GitLab CI

📚 Resources

• GitHub Actions Docs


• Jenkins tutorial on the official site

☁️ Phase 7: Cloud Fundamentals

🎯 Objectives

• Understand cloud architecture (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)


• Launch and manage basic services (e.g. EC2, IAM)

🔧 Tools

• AWS (focus), Azure, or GCP

📚 Resources

• AWS Cloud Practitioner Training (Free)

🏗️ Phase 8: Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

🎯 Objectives

• Automate provisioning with code


• Learn how to manage infrastructure at scale

🔧 Tools

• Terraform


• Ansible

📚 Resources

• Terraform Getting Started


• Ansible Docs

🧭 Phase 9: Kubernetes for Container Orchestration

🎯 Objectives

• Understand why Kubernetes is needed


• Deploy and manage containerized apps in clusters


• Write Kubernetes manifests (pods, deployments, services)

🔧 Tools

• Minikube or Kind (for local practice)


• kubectl CLI


• Helm (for templating, optional)

📚 Resources

• Kubernetes Basics – Official Site


• Kubernetes Tutorial for Beginners [FULL COURSE in 4 Hours] - TechWorld with Nana


• Play with Kubernetes (browser playground)

📊 Phase 10: Monitoring & Logging

🎯 Objectives

• Track performance, detect issues, and visualize metrics

🔧 Tools

• Prometheus


• Grafana


• ELK Stack

🔐 Bonus: DevSecOps & Security Awareness

🎯 Objectives

• Learn security best practices in pipelines


• Understand secrets management and access control

📅 How I’ll Share My Progress

For each phase, I’ll post:

• ✅ What I learned


• ⚠️ What challenged me


• 🔧 What I built


• 🧩 What I still need to learn

🤝 Join Me!

If you’re on this journey too, whether you're just beginning or already deep in the field, I’d love to connect and hear how your roadmap compares.

Feel free to:

• Drop your roadmap link or repo in the comments


• Recommend resources


• Follow for weekly updates

✍️ Connect with me on LinkedIn or follow my journey here if you’d like to keep up with my DevOps series. I’ll be posting weekly updates, lessons learned, and the occasional “oops, I broke something” story. 😅

Thanks for reading! 🙌


Let’s keep learning and building.