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DevOps Beginner
Step by step guide for DevOps or operations role in 2026
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This is the beginner friendly version of
the DevOps roadmap. Make sure to
At this point, you should have enough knowledge to find a
junior to mid-level (maybe even senior) DevOps position at any
company depending on the depth of your knowledge. Keep learning
and building projects till you find a job. Your job will teach
you a lot as well.
Continue learning with following roadmap
DevOps is all about bringing developers and operations
teams together to improve software delivery. The key
focus areas are automation, infrastructure and
monitoring.
Look at the FAQs below for more details
What is DevOps?
Pick any Programming Language
You can pick any programming language. The goal is
to learn the programming skills that you can use to
write automation scripts.
Learn about the file system, package managers,
managing services, checking logs, bash scripting,
permissions, pipes, output redirection, text
manipulation tools, process monitoring, networking
tools, CLI editors etc.
Pick Ubuntu if you have little to no experience.
Learn about DNS, TCP/IP Protocols, SSH, Ports,
Gateways, Routing, IP Addressing, and subnetting.
Handy with deployments & troubleshooting
Learn about containerization. Be comfortable writing
dockerfiles. Learn to troubleshoot. Get familiar with
Alpine Linux. Learn about security, network and
storage.
Learn docker, networking, storage, and security.
Pick one of the cloud providers AWS, GCP or Azure.
Start with core services e.g. AWS VPC, EC2, S3, IAM,
and then RDS, Route53, Cloudwatch and ECS.
DevOps teams usually practice "git ops" i.e.
making changes to any operations related activity
require a pull request against a git repository.
Learn about git, create your GitHub profile.
Create and deploy some application to AWS.
Learn what IaC means. Learn about terraform and how to
automate infrastructure creation.
If you deployed an application to AWS in previous
step, destroy the infrastructure and recreate it
using terraform.
Learn what is configuration management. Understand roles,
playbooks, inventory management and automation.
Write some automation scripts e.g. db backup
Learn about the concepts of CI/CD and how to implement in
your projects using some CI/CD tool. There are several
options available in this space, you can pick any one.
Integrate CI/CD into your app.
Nginx is commonly used for web servings, reverse
proxying, caching, load balancing, media streaming and
more.
Learn the basic config options, TLS setup, rate
limiting, caching etc.
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