Updated for 2026

Cloud Engineer Roadmap

Your step-by-step guide to becoming a Cloud Engineer — from Linux basics to multi-cloud architecture.

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1. Foundation (Same as DevOps)
Linux Fundamentals
Bash Scripting
Networking (TCP/IP, DNS)
Git & Version Control
Python / Go
2. Cloud Platform Deep Dive
AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, EKS)
Azure
GCP
Cloud Networking (VPC, Subnets, NAT)
Cloud Storage Types (Block/Object/File)
Cloud Cost Management
SLAs, Quotas & Limits
3. Infrastructure as Code
Terraform (State, Modules, Workspaces)
Pulumi
Ansible (Playbooks, Roles, Vault)
CloudFormation
4. Containers & Orchestration
Docker & Docker Compose
Container Security Best Practices
Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE)
Helm Charts
Kustomize
5. CI/CD & GitOps
GitHub Actions / GitLab CI
Jenkins
ArgoCD
Flux
Deployment Strategies
6. Monitoring & Observability
Prometheus + Grafana
CloudWatch
ELK / Loki (Logging)
OpenTelemetry (Tracing)
7. Cloud Security & Compliance
IAM Best Practices & Least Privilege
KMS & Secrets Management
SOC2 / PCI-DSS / ISO 27001
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
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