DevOps Hive master plan for roadmap, mentorship, and bootcamp to start a DevOps Engineer career in the Agile way!
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A subset of the Cloud Native landscape in December 2023 (click for the full landscape)
The DevOps Engineer role remains one of the top 10 most in-demand jobs across all industries (not just the tech field!). However, starting that role is super challenging because the DevOps model has various patterns and topologies. Also, the Cloud Native landscape keeps expanding, and there is something new every day!
Simply, you cannot start a DevOps position by merely learning the tools! It's even more complicated if that's your first job without previous software industry experience (coming from either Dev or Ops).
For that reason, almost every day, I see people struggling on their way to start as fresh/junior DevOps engineers or even progress in their early career years in general. They usually follow some linear roadmap like roadmap.sh/devops. But still, they cannot land their first job or straggle a lot when they find one! And sadly, many of them eventually give up!
For more details about the problem aspects, please read: Your DevOps learning roadmap is broken! - Career.
Based on experience for years mentoring people in different stages (starting their first job, career shift, moving to another work style or company), using a dynamic MVP-style roadmap with hands-on projects designed by an experienced DevOps engineer has been highly successful.
That means first, understand the problem instead of just learning a bunch of tools then using iterative style each iteration will cover most DevOps areas used in the job to build a T-shaped skills profile from day one! It's also essential to set the targeted market and organizations because, with different DevOps topologies, the DevOps engineer role requirements vary a lot.
One essential aspect of this roadmap is using real hands-on industry-grad project to learn DevOps in pragmatic manner. The project is done in iterative phases where you learn as you go and cover the whole DevOps cycle like Code, Containers, Testing, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Observability, and Infrastructure.
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Each phase of this project is tackled gradually part of the roadmap modules. But it's also standalone, and you can work on it if you have the required knowledge for each phase.
Another critical aspect is that it utilizes Agile methodologies like Epics and Kanban board to implement the plan, incorporating real-world scenarios and best practices, which you will use in a real job when working in an Agile environment.
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Module 1: Welcome to the DevOps World
- 1.1 Introduction - What and Why DevOps?
- 1.2 Introduction - BSET Methodology and Focus Areas
- 1.3 Software Production - Software Development Life Cycle
- 1.4 Software Production - Agile Software Development
- 1.5 Software Production - J-Curve and Golden Triangle
- 1.6 DevOps Methodology - DevOps and DevSecOps Core Pillars
- 1.7 DevOps Methodology - DevOps, Cloud, Platform Engineer and SRE
- 1.8 DevOps Methodology - T-Shaped Skills DevOps Engineer
- 1.9 Project - HiveBox Phase 1
Module 2: Basics - DevOps Core
- 2.1 Code - Python Fundamentals
- 2.2 Code - Common Development Tools
- 2.3 Code - Git Basics
- 2.4 Operating System - Linux Fundamentals
- 2.5 Operating System - Common Tools and Commands
- 2.6 Operating System - Bash Scripting Basics
- 2.7 Containers - Docker Fundamentals
- 2.8 Containers - Docker CLI Basics
- 2.9 Project - HiveBox Phase 2
Module 3: Start - Laying the Foundation
- 3.1 Planning - Define Goals and Requirements
- 3.2 Code - Modularity and Reusability
- 3.3 Code - Testing and Quality Assurance
- 3.4 Code - Writing Unit Tests
- 3.5 Containers - Docker Best Practices
- 3.6 Continuous Integration - Introduction and Solutions in the Market
- 3.7 Continuous Integration - GitHub Actions Essentials
- 3.8 Continuous Integration - Pipelines and Quality Gates
- 3.9 Project - HiveBox Phase 3
Module 4: Expand - Constructing a Shell
- 4.1 Planning - Review the Goals and Requirements
- 4.2 Code - Twelve-Factor App Methodology
- 4.3 Code - REST API Best Practices
- 4.4 Continuous Integration - CI Best Practices
- 4.5 Containers - Kubernetes Architecture and Core Concepts
- 4.6 Observability - Monitoring Application and Infrastructure
- 4.7 Continuous Delivery - Introduction and Solutions in the Market
- 4.8 Infrastructure - Cloud Computing and Cloud Native Applications
- 4.9 Project - HiveBox Phase 4
Module 5: Transform - Finishing the Structure
- 5.1 Planning - Refine the Goals and Requirements
- 5.2 Code - Working with External Systems
- 5.3 Code - Writing Integration Tests
- 5.4 Infrastructure - Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management
- 5.5 Infrastructure - Terraform Essentials
- 5.6 Containers - Kubernetes Configuration Management
- 5.7 Observability - Log Aggregation Systems
- 5.8 Continuous Delivery - CD Best Practices
- 5.9 Project - HiveBox Phase 5
- 6.1 Planning - Agile Retrospective
- 6.2 Code - Performance Optimizations
- 6.3 Continuous Integration - Software Supply Chain Security
- 6.4 Infrastructure - Multi-environment Architecture
- 6.5 Continuous Delivery - End-to-End Release Automation
- 6.6 Continuous Deployment - Introduction and Solutions in the Market
- 6.7 Continuous Deployment - GitOps and Argo CD Essentials
- 6.8 Project - HiveBox Phase 6
- 7.1 Requirements
- 7.2 Plan
- 7.3 Implementation
- 7.4 Review
- Review - Write Your CV and Cover Letter
- Review - Build Your Skills Radar Chart
- Discussion - DevOps Certificates
- Discussion - Next Steps as a DevOps Engineer
This project by DevOps Hive, and it is licensed under the open-source license Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International. For more details, please review LICENSE.