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DevOps Architect

Syllabus

Outcomes below are the original subtitles, not new curriculum copy. A lock means the extra commands are not on the public page.

Foundations

Lx 01 Linux & Shell Scripting

Master the operating system that powers 95% of cloud workloads. File systems, processes, systemd, bash scripting, hardening, and production-grade automation on WSL2.

8 min. Free labs: 1. Quizzes in source: 0.

Pro: 70 more lab commands.

Dk 04 Docker & Containers

Master container fundamentals that power modern platforms. Build lean, secure images. Orchestrate multi-service apps. Enforce security at every layer from development to production.

8 min. Free labs: 1. Quizzes in source: 0.

Pro: 14 more lab commands.

Infrastructure

K8 02 Kubernetes — Container Orchestration at Scale

From Pod scheduling internals and eBPF networking to RBAC hardening, HPA, and production multi-node clusters. Learn on Kind locally, graduate to EKS on AWS.

11 min. Free labs: 1. Quizzes in source: 0.

Pro: 46 more lab commands.

Hm 03 Helm — Kubernetes Package Engineering

Master Helm chart anatomy, Go templating with 100+ Sprig functions, values schema validation, release hooks, OCI registries, and production packaging patterns. Zero to chart publisher.

14 min. Free labs: 1. Quizzes in source: 0.

Pro: 41 more lab commands.

Tf 05 Terraform

Define your entire cloud estate as code. Learn the plan/apply lifecycle, state management, module composition, remote backends, and how to run production-grade multi-account environments.

8 min. Free labs: 1. Quizzes in source: 0.

Pro: 13 more lab commands.

An 06 Ansible

Push-based, agentless automation over SSH. Write idempotent playbooks and roles. Encrypt secrets. Manage fleets from 1 server to hundreds with Tower or AWX.

8 min. Free labs: 1. Quizzes in source: 0.

Pro: 5 more lab commands.

Aw 11 AWS for DevOps Engineers

Build reliable, secure systems on AWS. EKS, ECR with scanning, IAM/IRSA, VPC design, ALB Ingress Controller, CloudWatch, and multi-account architectures.

8 min. Free labs: 1. Quizzes in source: 0.

Pro: 13 more lab commands.

Delivery

Ci 07 CI/CD Pipelines

Automate from commit to production. Master GitHub Actions, Docker builds, Helm deployments, ArgoCD GitOps, manual approvals, and safe rollback strategies.

8 min. Free labs: 1. Quizzes in source: 0.

Pro: 2 more lab commands.

Go 12 GitOps & Platform Engineering

Git is the source of truth. Declarative. Versioned. Automated. Reconciled. Learn ArgoCD, Flux, Crossplane, and how to build self-service Internal Developer Platforms.

8 min. Free labs: 1. Quizzes in source: 0.

Pro: 9 more lab commands.

Pe 16 Platform Engineering & IDP

The Senior DevOps Engineer of 2026 is a Platform Engineer. Build Internal Developer Platforms that abstract cloud complexity so 200 developers can self-serve. Master Backstage catalog, Crossplane XRDs for database-as-a-service, golden-path scaffolding, and DORA metrics dashboards. Reduce Mean Time to Onboard from 2 weeks to 2 hours.

8 min. Free labs: 1. Quizzes in source: 0.

Pro: 17 more lab commands.

Operations

Pm 08 Prometheus & Alerting

Pull-based time series database. Master PromQL, recording rules, alerting rules, AlertManager, exporters, and production SLO-based monitoring on Kubernetes.

8 min. Free labs: 1. Quizzes in source: 0.

Pro: 1 more lab commands.

Gf 09 Grafana Dashboards & Observability

Build beautiful, actionable visualizations. Master variables, transformations, provisioning, Loki for logs, and Tempo for distributed tracing correlation.

8 min. Free labs: 1. Quizzes in source: 0.

Sc 10 DevSecOps & Security Hardening

Security at every stage. Scan images in CI. Enforce policies at admission time. Detect runtime anomalies. Encrypt secrets. Implement zero-trust networking.

8 min. Free labs: 1. Quizzes in source: 0.

Pro: 3 more lab commands.

Ob 17 OpenTelemetry & Observability

Stop flying blind in microservices. Master OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation, Collector pipeline design, Grafana Tempo distributed tracing, Loki log correlation, eBPF zero-code observability with Beyla, and span-level SLOs. From "we have logs" to "we have answers in 30 seconds" for any production incident.

9 min. Free labs: 1. Quizzes in source: 0.

Pro: 1 more lab commands.

Sm 18 Istio & Service Mesh

Secure, observe, and control every byte of east-west traffic in your Kubernetes cluster. Master Istio mTLS enforcement, progressive delivery via VirtualService weight-shifting, circuit breakers with DestinationRule, Ambient Mesh sidecar-less architecture, and Kiali for real-time traffic topology during incidents.

8 min. Free labs: 1. Quizzes in source: 0.

Pro: 8 more lab commands.

Advanced

Wr 13 Production War Room & Interview Simulator

Step into the shoes of a 15+ Years Experience Principal Platform & SRE Architect. Triage live P0 outages, resolve complex kernel & distributed system disasters, design 99.999% SLA multi-region platforms, and master high-demand 2026 Staff+ interview scenarios.

11 min. Free labs: 1. Quizzes in source: 0.

Pro: 18 more lab commands.

Ai 14 AI & LLMOps Infrastructure

Scale generative AI models from prototype to enterprise production. Master Kubernetes GPU scheduling, vLLM continuous batching, PagedAttention, Karpenter Spot GPU pooling, KubeRay, and OpenTelemetry LLM tracing.

8 min. Free labs: 1. Quizzes in source: 0.

Pro: 9 more lab commands.

Fo 15 FinOps & Cloud Cost Engineering

Stop guessing and start governing. Master Kubecost per-namespace chargeback, Infracost PR cost gates, Karpenter Spot automation, right-sizing with VPA, Reserved Instance strategy, and real enterprise techniques that save $100K+/month. Every command, every query, every decision a senior engineer makes.

13 min. Free labs: 1. Quizzes in source: 0.

Pro: 36 more lab commands.

Sr 19 SRE Playbooks & Toil Automation

The best incident is the one that never pages you. Master LitmusChaos experiments to find failure modes before production does, automated OOMKill remediation runbooks, error budget burn-rate alerting, PagerDuty escalation policies, chaos game days, and blameless postmortem culture that actually improves reliability over time.

14 min. Free labs: 1. Quizzes in source: 0.

Pro: 12 more lab commands.