Roadmap

Step by step guide for DevOps or any other Operations Role. This document was prepared as a starting point for TinkerHub DevOps Bootcamp

See roadmap.sh for a detailed roadmap

Devops roadmap

• ✅ - Learn this at this step

• 🟢 - Learn this, not necessarily now

• 🟡 - Learn this, but not mandatory to start with

✅ Learn a Programming language

You can pick a programming language of your choice. All you need is some programming knowledge for automation. Since I am coming from a Python background, I'm listing some Python resources here.

Python

Some other options are -

• Go

• Rust

• C

• C++

• Ruby

• Node.js

✅ Learn a version control system (VCS)

Git

🟢 Understand different OS concepts

Process ManagementThreads and ConcurrencySocketsPOSIXNetworkingI/O ManagementVirtualizationMemory/StorageFile Systems

✅ Learn about Managing Servers

This is one of the main tasks DevOps engineers are entitled to do. Knowing how servers work and how to manage them is must-have knowledge.

✅ Operating Systems

• Linux

• Unix

• Windows

Linux Administration

✅ Learn to feel home at the Terminal

• Sh/Bash/Zsh

• Shell Scripting

• Vim / Nano / Emacs

• Compiling from source (gcc, make etc)

• Text Manipulation (awk, sed, grep etc)

• Process Monitoring (ps, top, htop, lsof etc.)

• Network (nmap, ping, traceroute, dig etc.)

• System Performance (nmon, iostat, vmstat etc.)

• Others (df, history, uname etc.)

✅ Networking, Security and Protocols

• HTTP

• HTTPS

• FTP

• SSL/TLS

• SSH

• Port forwarding

• Emails (SMTP, IMAPS, POP3S, DMARC, SPF, Domain keys etc)

✅ How to setup a Web Server

Nginx

Other options are :

• IIS

• Apache

• Tomcat

• Caddy

✅ How to setup a Reverse Proxy

• Using Nginx

🟡 How to setup a Forward Proxy

🟢 How to setup a Caching Server

🟢 How to setup a Load Balancer

🟡 How to setup a Firewall

✅ Cloud Providers

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Other options are:

• Google Cloud

• Azure

• Heroku

• Digital Ocean

• Linode

• Vultr

✅ Learn CI/CD Tools

• Jenkins

• Gitlab CI

• Github Actions

• Circle CI

Other options are:

• Travis CI

• TeakCity

• Bamboo

• Azure Devops

✅ Learn Infrastructure as Code

✅ Containers

Docker

Other option:

• LXC

✅ Configuration Management

• Ansible

Other options:

• Chef

• Salt

• Puppet

✅ Container Orchestration

Kubernetes

Other options:

• Mesos

• Docker Swarm

• Nomad

✅ Infrastructure Provisioning

TerraformAWS Cloudformation

Other options:

• Pulumi

✅ Learn how to monitor software and infrastructure

✅ Infrastructure Monitoring

• Prometheus

• Grafana

Other options:

• Nagios

• Zobbix

• Monit

• Datadog

✅ Application Monitoring

• Gaeger

• New Relic

Other options:

• AppDynamics

• Instana

• OpenTracing

✅ Logs Management

Elastic Stack

Other options:

• Graylog

• Splunk

• Papertrail

✅ Cloud Design Patterns

• Availability

• Data Management

• Design and Implementation

• Management and Monitoring

And Keep Learning