Updated for 2026

DevOps Roadmap

A step-by-step, community-driven guide to becoming a DevOps Engineer in 2026. Master Linux, Git, CI/CD, Containers, Cloud, IaC and Monitoring.

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1. Foundation
Linux / Unix Fundamentals
Windows Server Basics
Bash / Shell Scripting
PowerShell
Networking Basics
TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S
SSH & Security Concepts
2. Version Control
Git (Branches, Merge, Rebase)
GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket
Git Workflows (GitFlow, Trunk)
Code Review & PRs
3. CI/CD Pipelines
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI/CD
Jenkins
CircleCI
Build & Test Automation
Artifact Management
Blue/Green Deployments
Canary Releases
4. Containers
Docker
Docker Compose
Container Registries (ECR, DockerHub)
Kubernetes (K8s)
Pods, Deployments, Services
Helm Charts
ArgoCD / Flux (GitOps)
5. Cloud Providers
AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS)
Azure
Google Cloud (GCP)
Cloud Networking & VPCs
IAM & Security Policies
Managed Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE)
6. Infrastructure as Code
Terraform
Pulumi
CloudFormation (AWS)
Ansible
Chef / Puppet
7. Monitoring & Observability
Prometheus
Grafana
Alertmanager
ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
Loki
Datadog / New Relic
Distributed Tracing (Jaeger, Zipkin)
AWS CloudWatch
8. DevSecOps & Security
Secrets Management (Vault, AWS Secrets)
SAST / DAST Tools (Snyk, SonarQube)
Container Security (Trivy, Clair)
Zero Trust Architecture
Compliance (SOC2, PCI-DSS)
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