The engineers who ship and run software at scale. Go from zero to job-ready in about five months — with real pipelines, containers, and cloud deployments.
DevOps is learned by building pipelines, not reading about them. Everything below runs on free cloud tiers and ends in something deployed and automated.
Who it suits: You like automation and infrastructure, and take satisfaction in systems that just keep running.
Indicative 2026 starting ranges in India — actual pay varies widely by city, company, and skill. Salary is an outcome of skill and a strong project portfolio, not a guarantee.
The Linux, Git, and scripting base everything sits on.
Shell, files, permissions, processes.
DNS, HTTP, ports, load balancing.
Branches, PRs, merge strategies.
Bash and Python for automation.
Enough code to build tooling.
Package apps and ship them automatically.
Images, containers, Dockerfiles.
Multi-service local environments.
Pipelines with GitHub Actions.
Automated test-and-deploy workflows.
Push and pull container images.
Dockerize an app and auto-deploy it.
Run workloads on AWS and Kubernetes.
AWS core: EC2, S3, IAM.
VPCs, subnets, security groups.
Pods, deployments, services.
Replicas, autoscaling, config.
Terraform to define infrastructure.
Run your app on a K8s cluster.
Keep production healthy and secure.
Prometheus and Grafana dashboards.
Centralized logs with the ELK stack.
Secrets management, least privilege.
AWS Cloud Practitioner study.
CI/CD + IaC + K8s + monitoring, end to end.
Projects beat certificates. Do them in order — each builds on the last. Put every one on GitHub with a clear README.
Take any app and package it into a container that runs anywhere.
GitHub Actions that test and deploy on every push.
Host an app on EC2/S3 with proper IAM and networking.
Run a multi-service app on a cluster with scaling.
A fully automated, monitored platform defined in Terraform.
Click any resource to open it — free and well-known first, then build something with it.
Universal (any field): roadmap.sh · freeCodeCamp · GitHub Student Pack · Coursera
Free — your local container playground.
aws.amazon.com/free — enough to learn the core services.
docker run hello-world, then containerize a small app. Started.
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This roadmap is a free educational resource. Timelines are a guide — everyone learns at a different pace. Referenced resources (KodeKloud, freeCodeCamp, AWS Skill Builder, TechWorld with Nana (YouTube), Docker docs) are for learning only and are not affiliated with PathAhead.