● CAREER ROADMAP

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.

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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

Programming & Scripting

Bash / Shell Python YAML & JSON Go Ruby

Linux & Operating Systems

Linux fundamentals Process & memory mgmt systemd & services Filesystems & permissions Text processing (grep/sed/awk)

Networking

DNS HTTP / HTTPS TCP / IP Load balancing SSL / TLS Firewalls Proxies & reverse proxies VPN

Version Control

Git GitHub / GitLab Branching strategies Monorepos

Cloud Providers

AWS core (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC)Managed databases (RDS)Serverless (Lambda)Azure GCP

Containers

Docker Dockerfiles & images Docker Compose Registries Container security Podman / Buildah

Container Orchestration

Kubernetes Pods, Deployments, Services Ingress & networking Helm K8s security (RBAC)Service mesh (Istio)Operators

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform State & modules Ansible Packer Pulumi CloudFormation

CI/CD

GitHub Actions Pipeline design GitLab CI Jenkins GitOps (ArgoCD / Flux)Artifact management

Observability & Monitoring

Prometheus & Grafana Logging (Loki / ELK)Alerting (Alertmanager)Distributed tracing (Jaeger)Datadog / New Relic

SRE & Reliability

SLIs / SLOs / SLAs Incident response On-call & runbooks Capacity planning Chaos engineering

DevSecOps & Security

IAM & least privilege Secrets management (Vault)SAST / DAST Policy as code (OPA)Supply-chain security Compliance (SOC2 / ISO)

Cost & FinOps

Cost monitoring Tagging & budgets Right-sizing Reserved & spot instances

Get job-ready

Capstone: production-style deploy Portfolio System design basics Certifications (AWS / CKA)Interview prep

Tools & technologies

AWS / Azure / GCP Terraform Docker & Kubernetes GitHub Actions / GitLab CI Prometheus & Grafana Ansible Linux CLI Git

Free, open learning resources

Every topic and tool above links to our in-depth UstackSchool guide for Cloud & DevOps Engineering. To go wider for free, these open resources also help:

freeCodeCamp →roadmap.sh (open-source) →YouTube full course →More free resources →

Free resources build knowledge. UstackSchool adds the practical experience, evidence and support that get you hired.

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