DevOps Roadmap

Step by step guide to becoming a modern DevOps developer in 2025

Step 1

Learn a Programming Language

Python

Java

C

Rust

Step 2

Operating Systems

Linux

Windows

MacOS

Step 3

Learn to live in Terminal

Command Line Basics

Using the Command Line

Step 4

Version Control Systems

Introduction to Version Control

Using GitHub

Step 5

VCS Hosting

GitHub

Bitbucket

GitLab

Step 6

What is and how to setup a _____?

Docker Container

Terraform Infrastructure

Step 7

Containers

Introduction to Containers

Docker

Step 8

Cloud Providers

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Step 9

Networking, Security and Protocols

Web Security

HTTP/HTTPS

CORS

Step 10

Serverless

What is Serverless?

Azure Serverless

Step 11

Infrastructure Provisioning

Terraform

Ansible

Step 12

Configuration Management

Chef

Puppet

Step 13

Learn some CI/CD Tool

Jenkins

CircleCI

Step 14

Secret Management

HashiCorp Vault

AWS Secrets Manager

Step 15

Infrastructure Monitoring

Prometheus

Datadog

Step 16

Application Monitoring

AppDynamics

New Relic

Step 17

Logs Management

ELK Stack

Graylog

Step 18

Container Orchestration

Kubernetes

Docker Swarm

Step 19

Artifact Management

JFrog Artifactory

Nexus Repository

Step 20

GitOps

Introduction to GitOps

Step 21

Service Mesh

Istio

Linkerd

Step 22

Cloud Design Patterns

Azure Architecture Patterns