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DevOps 10–14 months Intermediate to Pro

DevOps Engineer Career Path

Bridge the gap between development and operations. Learn CI/CD automation, virtualization, cloud, and infrastructure management.

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1. Shell, Scripting & Linux Mastery

Understand operating systems, process models, SSH tunneling, file systems, permissions, and network sockets.

Skills to master

Capstone Challenge

Write a system audit shell script that records disk utilization, reports failing processes, and dispatches an alert payload.

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2. Virtualization & Containers (Docker)

Package applications with all dependencies into lightweight, isolated immutable container layers.

Skills to master

Capstone Challenge

Containerize a full-stack Node.js and PostgreSQL app, ensuring proper environment variables and persistent database volumes.

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3. Continuous Integration & Delivery (CI/CD)

Build automated build, test, and release pipelines using modern integration platforms.

Skills to master

Capstone Challenge

Build a GitHub Actions workflow that executes PHPUnit on branch push, builds a Docker image on merge, and publishes it.

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4. Container Orchestration (Kubernetes)

Scale, monitor, heal, and coordinate distributed containers across multi-node cluster networks.

Skills to master

Capstone Challenge

Deploy a high-availability microservices application into a local Minikube cluster, exposing it behind an Nginx Ingress Controller.

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5. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Telemetry

Define server environments programmatically and configure real-time monitoring and alerting.

Skills to master

Capstone Challenge

Provision an AWS EC2 instance using Terraform, install Nginx via Ansible, and monitor metrics on a Grafana dashboard.