📚 DevOps + Cloud Roadmap with Comprehensive
Learning Resources + Tools
This document organizes the 5 learning phases into digestible sections with curated, practical, and in-depth
resources (courses, books, exercises, and tools) to master DevOps and Cloud skills in the AI era.
Also included: - ✅ Gantt-style daily schedule (15 weeks) - ✅ Excel tracker (.xlsx) - ✅ Notion board layout
suggestion - ✅ Companion project list per phase
📍 Phase 1: Core Foundations (Weeks 1–3)
✅ Linux & Shell Scripting
• Course: Linux Command Line Basics – Coursera
• Book: "The Linux Command Line" by William Shotts
• Hands-on: OverTheWire – Bandit, Katacoda Linux Playground
• Project: Shell script to automate backups and system monitoring logs.
✅ Git & Version Control
• Course: Git and GitHub – Codecademy
• Book: "Pro Git" (Free): [Link]/book
• Practice: Git Exercises
• Project: Build a GitHub repo with GitHub Actions CI integration.
✅ Cloud Basics (Choose AWS/GCP/Azure)
• AWS:
• AWS Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Free Tier
• GCP: Google Cloud Fundamentals – Coursera
• Azure: AZ-900 Microsoft Learn
• Project: Launch a VM, configure firewall rules, SSH access.
✅ Docker Basics
• Course: Docker for Beginners – FreeCodeCamp YouTube
• Lab: Play with Docker
• Book: "Docker Deep Dive" by Nigel Poulton
• Project: Containerize a simple Python/Node app.
✅ DevOps Fundamentals
• Course: Intro to DevOps – edX by Microsoft
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• Book: "The Phoenix Project" by Gene Kim
• Concepts: DORA metrics, Agile, CI/CD, automation
📍 Phase 2: Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD (Weeks 4–7)
✅ Terraform (IaC)
• Course: Terraform for Beginners – Udemy
• Lab: Katacoda Terraform Playground
• Docs: Terraform Docs
• Project: Deploy a web server (e.g. EC2 instance) via Terraform.
✅ Kubernetes Fundamentals
• Course: Kubernetes for Developers – Udacity
• Interactive: Killer Shell Playground
• Book: "Kubernetes Up and Running" by Kelsey Hightower
• Project: Deploy a microservice using YAML manifests.
✅ Helm & K8s Package Management
• Docs: Helm Docs
• Tutorial: Bitnami Helm Tutorial
• Project: Package your app into a Helm chart.
✅ CI/CD Pipelines
• GitHub Actions: Docs, Video Tutorial
• GitLab CI: Docs
• Jenkins: Pipeline Tour
• Project: Create a full CI/CD pipeline with testing + deployment.
✅ GitOps
• Course: GitOps with ArgoCD – Udemy
• Docs: ArgoCD Docs
• Project: Automate k8s deployments using Git as the source of truth.
📍 Phase 3: Monitoring, Observability, and Reliability (Weeks 8–10)
✅ Metrics, Logs, Tracing
• Prometheus & Grafana: Prometheus Docs, Udemy Course
• Grafana: Tutorials
• ELK Stack: Elastic Docs, Crash Course
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• Project: Instrument app to collect metrics + logs
✅ Tracing & SLOs
• OpenTelemetry: [Link]
• Jaeger Tracing: Docs
• Book: "Site Reliability Engineering" by Google (Free)
• Tool: Nobl9
• Project: Create SLIs/SLOs and monitor them via dashboards
📍 Phase 4: AI-Augmented DevOps (Weeks 11–12)
✅ GitHub Copilot & Prompt Engineering
• Course: Copilot for Devs – YouTube
• Prompts: Awesome ChatGPT Prompts
• Project: Use AI to generate CI pipeline configs and Dockerfiles
✅ AI Infra Tools
• OpenAI CLI: [Link]
• PromptOps: [Link]
• Robusta: AI Alerts & Insights
✅ DevOps Copilot Projects
• Langchain + OpenAI Tutorial: Build your own DevOps chatbot
• Example: DevGPT
📍 Phase 5: Platform Engineering & Career (Weeks 13–15)
✅ Platform Engineering
• Tool: [Link]
• Tutorial: Backstage Quickstart
• Guide: Humanitec Blog
• Project: Build a basic internal developer portal with service templates
✅ Cost Optimization
• Guide: AWS Cost Optimization
• Tool: [Link]
• Course: YouTube – AWS Cost Explorer
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✅ Career & Portfolio
• Book: "Cracking the DevOps Interview" by Sumit Kumar
• Resume Help: Enhancv DevOps Samples
• Portfolio Ideas:
• CI/CD pipeline repo
• Multi-tier k8s deployment
• DevOps Copilot tool
• Backstage portal demo
✅ Tools for Tracking & Practice
• [Link] – DevOps
• [Link]
• Katacoda DevOps Labs
• Codecademy Kubernetes
• Awesome DevOps List
🗓 Want the Full Toolkit?
• ✅ Excel Gantt Tracker
• ✅ Notion Kanban Board Template
• ✅ Weekly Planner & Project Checklist (Printable PDF)
• ✅ Daily Timeboxed Study Guide
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