Paths

Three ordered routes through the same 19 lessons. Not sure which fits? Answer 5 questions. Already know the basics? Go straight to the full syllabus. Aiming for a specific job? See the nine role tracks.

Foundations

Work in a Linux shell, build and run containers, then deploy and package workloads on Kubernetes with Helm.

About 39 minutes of reading across 4 lessons, plus lab time.

1. 01 Linux & Shell Scripting 8 min · Not started
2. 04 Docker & Containers 8 min · after Linux & Shell Scripting · Not started
3. 02 Kubernetes — Container Orchestration at Scale 10 min · after Docker & Containers · Not started
4. 03 Helm — Kubernetes Package Engineering 13 min · after Kubernetes — Container Orchestration at Scale · Not started

Cloud Engineer

Provision infrastructure as code with Terraform, configure hosts with Ansible, build on AWS, and ship through CI/CD and GitOps.

About 40 minutes of reading across 5 lessons, plus lab time.

1. 05 Terraform 8 min · Not started
2. 06 Ansible 8 min · after Linux & Shell Scripting · Not started
3. 11 AWS for DevOps Engineers 8 min · after Terraform · Not started
4. 07 CI/CD Pipelines 8 min · after Docker & Containers · Not started
5. 12 GitOps & Platform Engineering 8 min · after Kubernetes — Container Orchestration at Scale, CI/CD Pipelines · Not started

SRE

Monitor with Prometheus and Grafana, trace with OpenTelemetry, secure the pipeline, run incidents, and reason about cost and the platform.

About 2 hours of reading across 10 lessons, plus lab time.

1. 08 Prometheus & Alerting 8 min · Not started
2. 09 Grafana Dashboards & Observability 8 min · after Prometheus & Alerting · Not started
3. 17 OpenTelemetry & Observability 9 min · after Prometheus & Alerting, Grafana Dashboards & Observability · Not started
4. 10 DevSecOps & Security Hardening 8 min · after Docker & Containers, Kubernetes — Container Orchestration at Scale · Not started
5. 18 Istio & Service Mesh 8 min · after Kubernetes — Container Orchestration at Scale · Not started
6. 13 Production War Room & Interview Simulator 10 min · Not started
7. 19 SRE Playbooks & Toil Automation 13 min · after Prometheus & Alerting · Not started
8. 15 FinOps & Cloud Cost Engineering 13 min · after Kubernetes — Container Orchestration at Scale · Not started
9. 16 Platform Engineering & IDP 8 min · after Kubernetes — Container Orchestration at Scale, GitOps & Platform Engineering · Not started
10. 14 AI & LLMOps Infrastructure 8 min · after Kubernetes — Container Orchestration at Scale · Not started