The Ultimate Pathway to DevOps Revamped

Mohamed Abukar
22 min readJun 21, 2023

How to get started in DevOps? Resources, advice, and a pathway you can follow to get you started and find your foot as a DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, Cloud Engineer, or Infrastructure Engineer.

This pathway has been reviewed and backed by Engineers from Google, AWS, Microsoft, Apple and more!

Table of contents

  • Chapter 1: Introduction & My Journey 😃
  • Chapter 2: Why am I writing this? 💭
  • Chapter 3: Testimonials 🗣️
  • Chapter 4: What is DevOps/Platform Engineering? 🛠️
  • Chapter 5: How much do DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineers earn? 💰
  • Chapter 6: Pre-requisites & clarifications 💡
  • Chapter 7: The Pathway 🛣️

Level 1 (Fundamentals) — Cloud I (AWS or Azure), Linux, Git, Networking

Level 2 (Infrastructure & Containers) — Cloud II (AWS or Azure), Terraform, CICD, Docker, Kubernetes

Level 3 (Scripting & Coding) — Golang/Python

Level 4 (Monitoring & Infra Management) — Monitoring, Helm, Ansible, SRE

Level 5 (Advanced DevOps) — Testing infrastructure, Cloud Native CNCF, Security, Serverless, GitOps, Cloud-native networking, Advanced monitoring, Chaos Engineering and System design.

  • Chapter 8: Certifications 🎓

Different types of certs (hands-on or MCQ based)

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Mohamed Abukar

AWS Community Builder | Red Hat Accelerator | Platform Engineer @ Trainline