The Beginners Guide to Starting a Career in DevOps.

Explore the core components of a typical tech stack, including infrastructure, cloud platforms, configuration management, automation, containerization, orchestration, CI/CD, version control, scripting, and programming.

Explore infrastructure as code on a cloud platform, declaring resources with Terraform to speed up spin-up and tear-down while keeping teams aligned, illustrated by a simple EC2 example on AWS.

Learn configuration management and automation with Ansible playbooks that install packages, apply security and network changes, and scale across servers from one to a thousand.

Discover how containerization and orchestration empower DevOps by running multiple applications on the host operating system with Docker, avoiding virtual machines, hypervisors, and overhead.

Learn how container orchestration manages thousands of containers, enabling scaling and simple networking, with Docker as the base layer and Kubernetes as the tool in a Terraform and Ansible stack.

Explore how Kubernetes wraps Docker containers into pods, scales them with replica sets, and manages updates with deployments, using YAML definitions to orchestrate this layered architecture.

Explore CI and CD concepts, including continuous integration, delivery or deployment, and learn how a pipeline builds and deploys small code changes with Jenkins.

Discover how Jenkins automates continuous integration in devops workflows by turning code commits into automated builds and tests for Java apps, using pipelines, Maven or Gradle, and GitHub or Bitbucket.

Explore continuous delivery and the automated CI/CD pipeline that speeds software delivery by building, testing, pushing Docker images, and deploying with Jenkins.

Master git branches to create separate streams of work, switch between master and test branches, and manage commits locally with git init, add, commit, and checkout, plus basic workflows.

Discover how branching strategies shape team collaboration, compare the two major git workflows including gitflow, and sound like an expert to accelerate your devops career.

Explore trunk flow, the most common git strategy where features and bug fixes go through pull requests on the master branch, highlighting its scalability challenges.

Git flow uses master and develop as core branches, with releases created from develop and merged into master to produce production-grade code; squash commits keep pull requests clean.

Discover the best DevOps career roadmap designed to get you into DevOps quickly by tackling the hard stuff first, so you can start applying for roles sooner.

Explore a pragmatic DevOps roadmap that avoids overwhelm, prioritizes infrastructure as the foundation, and covers Python, Go, JavaScript, containers, IaC, GitOps, and CI/CD for job readiness.

Explore the secondary skills of the DevOps roadmap, including Git and GitHub and a CI/CD solution, with optional tools like Helm, Ansible, Linux, and JavaScript.

Review sample CVs to identify what works and what doesn't. Prioritize core skills, certifications, and experience at the top, and tailor your CV for recruiters.

Update your resume to front-load key facts, boost visibility on LinkedIn, and showcase achievements with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes certifications. Leverage recruiters to negotiate higher salaries and maximize offers.

Explore common DevOps interview topics, from sharing experience with AWS and Docker to Kubernetes, Terraform basics, CI/CD, and agile versus waterfall strategies.

Navigate the first weeks of a devops role by mastering onboarding, tooling setup, paid bench time, and a buddy system, using simple tasks to build confidence.

Start a rewarding career in DevOps and master the key concepts behind one technology to learn the next quickly. Your feedback helps us improve the course and support future learners.