151 posts tagged with "DevOps"

You've decided to learn AWS. You've opened the AWS console, stared at 200+ services, and immediately felt overwhelmed. That's normal — AWS is massive. But here's the thing: you don't need to learn all 200 services. You need about 30 core services to be genuinely dangerous, and you can learn them in a structured 6-month plan. This roadmap gives you weekly goals, monthly checkpoints, certification guidance, and hands-on labs that build on each other.

You want to learn Azure, but the sheer number of services — over 200 — makes it feel like staring at a wall of fog. Where do you start? What do you skip? When are you ready for a certification? This roadmap gives you a structured 6-month plan that takes you from absolute beginner to Azure Solutions Architect level, with weekly goals, monthly checkpoints, certification guidance, and links to every Azure post we have published on Goel Academy. Print this page, pin it to your wall, and check things off as you go.

This is the final post in our 30-part DevOps series. Over the past year, we have covered everything from CI/CD pipelines to chaos engineering, from YAML syntax to supply chain security. This post ties it all together into a structured 12-month learning plan with clear milestones, certification paths, and career guidance.

Learning Docker is not about memorizing commands — it is about building a mental model of how containers work and developing the muscle memory to use them productively. This roadmap gives you a structured 4-month plan with weekly goals, hands-on exercises, self-assessments, and a clear progression from running your first container to operating production infrastructure. Every section references specific posts from this Docker series so you can dive deeper into each topic.

Learning Kubernetes without a roadmap is like navigating a city without a map — you will eventually get somewhere, but you will waste a lot of time going in circles. This is the plan I wish I had when I started. Six months of structured learning, from "what is a container" to passing the CKA exam and being confident enough to run production clusters.

A step-by-step roadmap to go from Linux beginner to production-ready SRE. No hand-waving, no "just practice more" -- a concrete month-by-month plan with specific skills, projects, and checkpoints. This roadmap is built from real hiring patterns at companies that run Linux in production.