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Cloud & DevOps Engineering
Build, automate and run the infrastructure the internet depends on.
Cloud & DevOps Engineers design, automate and operate the systems that run modern software — from cloud infrastructure to deployment pipelines and reliability. It is one of the most in-demand, well-paid and remote-friendly paths in tech, and you can enter it without a computer-science degree.
The complete Cloud & DevOps Engineering field roadmap - everything worth learning, from fundamentals to advanced. Highlighted core topics are the ones we take you through in the UstackSchool programme.
Core - taught in the programmeRecommendedOptional / advanced
1
Programming & Scripting
Bash / ShellPythonYAML & JSONGoRuby
2
Linux & Operating Systems
Linux fundamentalsProcess & memory mgmtsystemd & servicesFilesystems & permissionsText processing (grep/sed/awk)
3
Networking
DNSHTTP / HTTPSTCP / IPLoad balancingSSL / TLSFirewallsProxies & reverse proxiesVPN
4
Version Control
GitGitHub / GitLabBranching strategiesMonorepos
5
Cloud Providers
AWS core (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC)Managed databases (RDS)Serverless (Lambda)AzureGCP
6
Containers
DockerDockerfiles & imagesDocker ComposeRegistriesContainer securityPodman / Buildah
7
Container Orchestration
KubernetesPods, Deployments, ServicesIngress & networkingHelmK8s security (RBAC)Service mesh (Istio)Operators
8
Infrastructure as Code
TerraformState & modulesAnsiblePackerPulumiCloudFormation
9
CI/CD
GitHub ActionsPipeline designGitLab CIJenkinsGitOps (ArgoCD / Flux)Artifact management
10
Observability & Monitoring
Prometheus & GrafanaLogging (Loki / ELK)Alerting (Alertmanager)Distributed tracing (Jaeger)Datadog / New Relic
11
SRE & Reliability
SLIs / SLOs / SLAsIncident responseOn-call & runbooksCapacity planningChaos engineering
12
DevSecOps & Security
IAM & least privilegeSecrets management (Vault)SAST / DASTPolicy as code (OPA)Supply-chain securityCompliance (SOC2 / ISO)
13
Cost & FinOps
Cost monitoringTagging & budgetsRight-sizingReserved & spot instances
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Get job-ready
Capstone: production-style deployPortfolioSystem design basicsCertifications (AWS / CKA)Interview prep
Tools & technologies
AWS / Azure / GCPTerraformDocker & KubernetesGitHub Actions / GitLab CIPrometheus & GrafanaAnsibleLinux CLIGit
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