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DevOps Learning Journey

🔹 Phase 1: Fundamentals of DevOps
✅ 1️⃣ Understand DevOps Concepts

What is DevOps?
DevOps vs Traditional IT
DevOps lifecycle (CI/CD, automation, monitoring, etc.)
✅ 2️⃣ Learn Linux & Shell Scripting

Basic Linux commands (ls, cd, grep, sed, awk, etc.)
User & file permissions
Writing Bash scripts
✅ 3️⃣ Networking & Cloud Basics

HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, DNS, Load Balancers
Basic understanding of AWS, Azure, or GCP
Virtual Machines vs Containers
✅ 4️⃣ Version Control with Git

Git basics (clone, commit, push, pull)
Branching & Merging
Working with GitHub/GitLab
🔹 Phase 2: DevOps Tools & CI/CD
✅ 5️⃣ Learn Containerization with Docker

Docker installation & basic commands
Creating and managing Docker containers
Writing Dockerfiles
✅ 6️⃣ Container Orchestration with Kubernetes

Kubernetes architecture (Pods, Deployments, Services)
Running applications on Kubernetes
ConfigMaps & Secrets
✅ 7️⃣ CI/CD with Jenkins & GitHub Actions

What is CI/CD?
Setting up a Jenkins pipeline
Automating builds with GitHub Actions
✅ 8️⃣ Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - Terraform & Ansible

Writing Terraform scripts for cloud infrastructure
Automating server configurations with Ansible
🔹 Phase 3: Advanced DevOps & Cloud
✅ 9️⃣ Monitoring & Logging

Setting up Prometheus & Grafana for monitoring
Logging with ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
✅ 🔟 Security & Performance Optimization

DevSecOps principles
Load testing with JMeter
Securing CI/CD pipelines
✅ 1️⃣1️⃣ Cloud Services & Serverless Computing

Deep dive into AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudFormation)
Deploying serverless applications
🔹 Phase 4: Real-World Projects & Certifications
✅ 1️⃣2️⃣ Hands-on Real-World Projects

Build a CI/CD pipeline for a real application
Deploy Kubernetes clusters on AWS/GCP
Automate infrastructure provisioning with Terraform
✅ 1️⃣3️⃣ Get Certified (Optional but Recommended)

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate
💡 Bonus Tips for Success
✅ Follow DevOps blogs & YouTube channels (KodeKloud, DevOpsToolkit, etc.)
✅ Join DevOps communities (Reddit r/devops, LinkedIn groups)
✅ Contribute to open-source projects on GitHub

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