The DevOps & Cloud trek
Linux, containers, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, IaC, CI/CD, observability, and SRE. Everything it takes to build and operate reliable production infrastructure.
Linux administration
The Linux skills that all DevOps work builds on: processes, networking, storage, shell scripting, and systemd. You cannot operate systems you don't understand at this level.
Docker & containers
Containers from first principles. Namespaces, cgroups, image layers, and building production images that are small, secure, and reproducible.
Cloud platforms — AWS & GCP
The core cloud primitives that underpin modern infrastructure: compute, networking, storage, IAM, and the managed services you'll use daily.
Kubernetes
Pods, Deployments, Services, Ingress, RBAC, and the operational knowledge to run production workloads without getting paged at 3am.
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform and OpenTofu for managing cloud resources reproducibly. State management, modules, workspaces, and drift detection.
CI/CD pipelines
GitHub Actions, deployment strategies, secrets management, and the pipelines that let teams ship multiple times a day with confidence.
Monitoring & observability
The three pillars: metrics, logs, and traces. Prometheus, Grafana, the ELK stack, OpenTelemetry, and building alerting that pages the right person for the right reason.
Networking in the cloud
VPCs, peering, VPNs, service meshes, DNS, and load balancing. The network is where production incidents are born.
Security in DevOps
Secrets management, container security, supply chain security, SAST/DAST in CI, and the compliance frameworks DevOps engineers encounter.
GitOps & platform engineering
ArgoCD, Flux, internal developer platforms, golden paths, and the discipline that lets teams self-serve infrastructure without becoming an ops bottleneck.
SRE practices
Error budgets, toil reduction, capacity planning, chaos engineering, and the operational discipline that keeps services running at scale.
Cost optimization & FinOps
Cloud cost visibility, rightsizing, reserved capacity, and the organizational practices that prevent runaway cloud bills.
Capstone — design and operate a production platform
Apply everything: design, build, and operate a production-grade platform for a multi-team organization. Write the runbook. Own the on-call.
Trek complete. What's next?
You've walked the full roadmap. Now ship the capstone, write about it, and share the path with the next engineer who needs it.