DevOps Roadmap: How to Become a DevOps Engineer? What do you need to learn, and in what order?

Andrey Byhalenko
The DevOps Mindset
Published in
6 min readMar 24, 2024

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DevOps is a very broad concept, especially these days.

In different companies, the DevOps engineer may perform different tasks and be responsible for different fields. In some companies, a DevOps engineer is responsible only for CI/CD. In others, he is also responsible for security and, in some companies, for site reliability.

This article explains how to become a DevOps engineer from scratch, what to learn, and in what order.

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From the outside, the DevOps world may seem like chaos.

There are many tools, many processes, and many technologies.

Let’s start with the big picture: the periodic table of DevOps tools.

As you can see, it contains a huge number of tools. By the way, it’s even less than 30% of all existing tools.

Of course, it’s impossible to know everything. But if you become familiar with DevOps concepts, you will be able to learn any tool.

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Andrey Byhalenko
The DevOps Mindset

I'm a DevOps Engineer, Photography Enthusiast, and Traveler. I write articles aimed at junior DevOps engineers and those aspiring to become DevOps engineers.