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milanm/DevOps-Roadmap
DevOps Roadmap for 2026. with learning resources
A structured learning roadmap for aspiring DevOps engineers, organized as a 12-step progression from Git basics through cloud providers, with links to mostly free resources at each step. It's a static reference document — no code, no tooling, just a curated list of what to learn and where. Best suited for developers transitioning into DevOps roles who need a map of the territory.
The sequencing is sensible — Git and Linux before containers, containers before Kubernetes, all before cloud — which is the actual learning dependency order most people discover the hard way. The resource lists skew heavily toward free content (official docs, YouTube, free books), which is honest about what's accessible. The DevSecOps bonus section treats security as a first-class concern rather than an afterthought, including supply chain and runtime security tools like Falco and Trivy. The roadmap image gives a fast visual overview that the text can't replace — useful for quickly seeing the full scope before committing to the detail.
The resource lists haven't aged well in places — some Udemy courses link to 2022 editions and the Pluralsight link points to content that may be behind a paywall. There's no opinionated guidance on what to skip or deprioritize: a junior developer reading this could spend months on Puppet and Chef when almost nobody greenfields with them anymore. Platform Engineering and developer portals (Backstage, etc.) are absent despite being where a lot of DevOps investment is going. The repo is essentially a README with images — no interactive tooling, no progress tracking, no way to know if links are still live, which means link rot is a slow-motion problem nobody will notice until someone files a PR.