Becoming a DevOps Engineer RoadMap

🎓 1. Fundamentals

1. ├──  Basics of Computers & How They Work

   ├──  Networking Fundamentals

   ├──  Linux Basics and Command Line

   └──  Scripting (Bash, Python, or Ruby)

   🧰 2. Version Control System (Manage and track changes to your code)

   └── 📚 Git

   ├── 📝 Basic commands

   ├── 🌿 Branching & Merging

   ├── 󰤬 Conflict Resolution

   └── 🌐 Git Workflows (e.g., GitFlow)

   🌍 3. Infrastructure as Code (Automate infrastructure provisioning)

   ├── ☁️ Cloud Computing Concepts

   ├── 📜 Infrastructure Configuration with YAML or JSON

   ├── ⚙️ Infrastructure Provisioning Tools (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation)

   ├── 🧩 Infrastructure Orchestration (AWS CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager)

   ├── 🚀 Configuration Management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)

   └── 🌐 Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)

   🐳 4. Containers and Containerization (Package applications and dependencies)

   ├── 🐳 Docker

   ├── 📦 Docker CLI and Dockerfile

   ├── 🧰 Docker Compose (Multi-container Applications)

   └── 🌐 Docker Registry (Docker Hub, AWS ECR)

   └── 🚀 Container Orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm)

   ├── 📖 Kubernetes Concepts

   ├── 🧰 kubectl (Kubernetes CLI)

   ├── ⚙️ Kubernetes Deployments and Services

   └── 🌐 Kubernetes Operators and Helm

   ⚙️ 5. Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code Tools

   ├── 🛠 Ansible

   ├── 📚 Ansible Playbooks and Roles

   └── 🌐 Ansible Tower or AWX

   ├── 🧩 Chef

   ├── 📚 Chef Cookbooks and Recipes

   └── 🌐 Chef Infra Server or Chef Automate

   └── 🤖 Puppet

   ├── 📚 Puppet Manifests and Modules

   └── 🌐 Puppet Enterprise

   🔧 6. Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

   ├── 🔄 Continuous Integration (CI) Concepts

   ├── 📝 CI Principles and Best Practices

   └── 🌐 CI Tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI)

   └── 🚀 Continuous Delivery (CD) Concepts

   ├── 🧪 Testing Automation (Unit, Integration, and End-to-End Testing)

   ├── 🧰 CD Tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Spinnaker)

   └── 🌐 Artifact Repositories (Nexus, JFrog Artifactory)

   🛡 7. Security and Compliance

   ├── 🚦 Infrastructure Security Best Practices

   ├── 🛡 Secure Configuration Management

   ├── 🚧 Security Testing and Scanning

   ├── 🔒 Identity and Access Management (IAM)

   ├── 📜 Compliance and Auditing (SOC 2, PCI-DSS, GDPR)

   └── 🔄 Infrastructure Hardening Techniques

   🌐 8. Monitoring, Logging, and Observability

   ├── 📈 Monitoring Concepts and Best Practices

   ├── 📊 Log Management (ELK Stack, Splunk)

   ├── 🚦 Metrics and Alerting (Prometheus, Grafana)

   ├── 📮 Tracing and Distributed Monitoring (Jaeger, Zipkin)

   └── 🧩 Application Performance Monitoring (APM) (New Relic, Dynatrace)

   🚀 9. Infrastructure Orchestration and Automation

   ├── ⚙️ Infrastructure Automation Scripts (Shell, Python, or Ruby)

   ├── 🌐 Infrastructure Orchestration (HashiCorp Terraform, AWS CloudFormation)

   ├── 🧰 Service Mesh (Istio, Linkerd)

   ├── 🛠 Infrastructure Provisioning (HashiCorp Packer)

   ├── 🧩 Infrastructure Testing (Serverspec, Testinfra)

   └── 🌐 Infrastructure Provisioning and Configuration Tools (HashiCorp Vagrant)

   🧩 10. Cloud-Native Architecture

   ├── 🚢 Cloud-Native Concepts and Principles

   ├── ⚓ Microservices Architecture

   ├── 🗂 Service Discovery (Consul, etcd)

   ├── 🧪 Service Mesh (Istio, Linkerd)

   ├── 🚀 Serverless Computing (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions)

   ├── 🔄 Event-Driven Architecture (Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis)

   ├── 🌩 Scalability and High Availability (Auto Scaling, Load Balancing)

   └── 🔀 Infrastructure as Code for Cloud-Native Applications

   🌪 11. High Availability and Disaster Recovery

   ├── ⏫ Scalability Strategies (Vertical and Horizontal Scaling)

   ├── 🔄 Load Balancing (AWS ELB, NGINX)

   ├── 🗃 Data Replication and Sharding (MySQL Replication, Redis Cluster)

   ├── 🌩 Disaster Recovery Planning (Backup and Restore, Multi-Region Deployment)

   ├── ⏳ Continuous Data Protection

   └── 🛡 Security and Compliance for High Availability

   🧪 12. Testing and Test Automation

   ├── 📝 Testing Strategies (Unit, Integration, System, and Performance)

   ├── 🤖 Test Automation Frameworks (Selenium, JUnit, PyTest)

   ├── 🔀 Test Orchestration (TestNG, Cucumber)

   ├── 📊 Test Coverage and Code Quality Analysis

   └── 🌐 Testing in Production (A/B Testing, Canary Deployments)

   🌐 13. Networking and Security in the Cloud

   ├── 🌐 Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Networking

   ├── 🔒 Network Security Groups (NSGs) and Firewalls

   ├── 📡 VPN and Direct Connect (Hybrid Cloud Networking)

   ├── 🔄 Content Delivery Networks (CDN) (CloudFront, Akamai)

   ├── 🛰 Secure Remote Access (Bastion Hosts, VPNs)

   └── 🚧 Network Monitoring and Security Tools (Nmap, Wireshark)

   📚 14. Continuous Learning and Collaboration

   ├── 📚 Stay Updated with the Latest DevOps Practices and Tools

   ├── 👥 Collaboration and Communication Tools (Slack, Jira, Confluence)

   ├── 🧩 DevOps Culture and Collaboration Principles

   └── 🚀 Community Involvement (Meetups, Conferences, Online Forums)