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
✅ - 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.
pagePythonSome other options are -
Go
Rust
Ruby
Node.js
✅ Learn a version control system (VCS)
pageGit 🟢 Understand different OS concepts
pageProcess ManagementpageThreads and ConcurrencypageSocketspagePOSIXpageNetworkingpageI/O ManagementpageVirtualizationpageMemory/StoragepageFile 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
Unix
✅ Learn to feel home at the Terminal
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
pageNginxOther 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
pageAmazon 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
pageDockerOther option:
LXC
✅ Configuration Management
Ansible
Other options:
Chef
Salt
Puppet
✅ Container Orchestration
pageKubernetesOther options:
Mesos
Docker Swarm
Nomad
✅ Infrastructure Provisioning
pageTerraformpageAWS CloudformationOther 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
pageElastic StackOther options:
Graylog
Splunk
Papertrail
✅ Cloud Design Patterns
Availability
Data Management
Design and Implementation
Management and Monitoring
And Keep Learning
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