Roadmap
🛠 DevOps Engineer
Linux → Docker → Kubernetes → CI/CD → AWS → IaC.
What you'll learn
Build production infrastructure: containerize apps, orchestrate them with Kubernetes, automate CI/CD, and manage AWS with Terraform.
Who this is for
Backend engineers, sysadmins and SREs who want to own the production stack.
After completion you can
- Containerize and orchestrate any app
- Build CI/CD pipelines
- Manage AWS infrastructure as code
- Monitor & alert on production systems
Industry demand
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
Prerequisites
✅ Required
- • Comfortable with the command line
- • Basic networking
⚡ Helpful
- • Some programming experience (Python or Bash)
Beginner · Month 1–2
Foundations
0/4 topics
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Intermediate · Month 3–5
Containers & Orchestration
0/3 topics
0%
Advanced · Month 6–9
CI/CD & Cloud
0/4 topics
0%
Projects to build
Project 1
Dockerized Multi-Service App
Frontend + API + DB + Redis.
Docker Compose
View project guide →
Project 2
K8s Microservices Deploy
Production-style cluster.
Kubernetes + Helm
View project guide →
Project 3
Full CI/CD Pipeline
Auto-deploy on merge to main.
GitHub Actions + ArgoCD
View project guide →
Project 4
AWS Infra in Terraform
Reproducible infra stack.
Terraform + AWS
View project guide →
Project 5
Monitoring Stack
Dashboards & alerting for all services.
Prometheus + Grafana
View project guide →
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate
Career & salary
Junior DevOps Engineer
₹6L – ₹12L /yr
DevOps Engineer (Mid)
₹15L – ₹30L /yr
SRE / Senior DevOps
₹30L – ₹70L /yr
Platform / Cloud Architect
₹40L – ₹90L /yr