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DevOps Architect

Field manual

DevOps Architect

Learn DevOps by doing it: read a field-manual lesson, decide what each command should do, run it in a simulated terminal, and check what you did.

Start lesson 01: Linux & Shell Scripting Not sure where to start? 5 questions

19 free lessons, about 3 hours of reading. Paths · Full syllabus

Simulated nothing runs on your machine

Goal: Create the cluster (takes ~2 min)

The 19 lessons

Foundations

Linux & Shell Scripting
8 min 6 sections
Not started Docker & Containers
8 min 7 sections
Not started

Infrastructure

Kubernetes — Container Orchestration at Scale
10 min 7 sections
Not started Helm — Kubernetes Package Engineering
13 min 7 sections
Not started Terraform
8 min 9 sections
Not started Ansible
8 min 7 sections
Not started AWS for DevOps Engineers
8 min 8 sections
Not started

Delivery

CI/CD Pipelines
8 min 7 sections
Not started GitOps & Platform Engineering
8 min 8 sections
Not started Platform Engineering & IDP
8 min 6 sections
Not started

Operations

Prometheus & Alerting
8 min 7 sections
Not started Grafana Dashboards & Observability
8 min 7 sections
Not started DevSecOps & Security Hardening
8 min 7 sections
Not started OpenTelemetry & Observability
9 min 6 sections
Not started Istio & Service Mesh
8 min 5 sections
Not started

Advanced

Production War Room & Interview Simulator
10 min 4 sections
Not started AI & LLMOps Infrastructure
8 min 6 sections
Not started FinOps & Cloud Cost Engineering
13 min 8 sections
Not started SRE Playbooks & Toil Automation
13 min 6 sections
Not started

How a lesson works

  1. ReadWork through the lesson: architecture, diagrams and production notes.
  2. ReasonBefore running a command, decide what it should do and why.
  3. RunType the lesson's command in the simulated terminal. Nothing runs on your machine.
  4. VerifyThis browser records the sections you reached and the lab steps you ran. Reading alone is never marked as mastery.

What you can study

  • Kubernetes and Helm 23 min reading
  • Terraform and AWS 16 min reading
  • GitOps 8 min reading
  • Observability 25 min reading

Questions

Is it free?

Yes. All 19 lessons and their labs are free.

Is there a Pro plan?

Pro is not on sale yet. See pricing for what is planned.

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