The Ultimate 6-Month DevOps & SRE Roadmap - Sellout Edition
Get ready for the most addictive, industry-grade DevOps program on the market! This isn't just a course—it's a transformation journey into the most sought-after skills, packed with real corporate scenarios, hands-on mastery, and associate-level tool certifications.
By the end, you'll not only ace interviews—you'll have a showstopping DevOps portfolio with 12 full-fledged, production-grade projects using the hottest tech in the field.
Months 1-5: Tool Mastery, Associate-Level Power
Month 1: AWS Cloud Wizardry
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA): Design scalable, resilient and secure cloud architectures: VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, Lambda, CloudFront.
- AWS SysOps Administrator Associate: Operational automation, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, blue/green deployments, provisioning, security controls.
- Mini-Projects: Launch auto-scaling apps, real-time monitoring dashboards.
Month 2: Container Engineering
- Docker Certified Associate: Multi-stage builds, registries, scanning, networking, Compose, Swarm.
- Kubernetes CKA & CKAD: Production cluster management, Helm, RBAC, secrets, persistent volumes, application rollout/rollback, chaos engineering.
- Mini-Projects: Secure microservice pipelines, Kubernetes self-healing apps.
Month 3: DevOps Automation
- Jenkins (CI/CD Guru): Advanced Pipelines, rollback/promotion flows, integrated security checks.
- GitLab CI / GitHub Actions: Multi-cloud deploys, dynamic environments, GitOps rollouts, parallel pipelines.
- Mini-Projects: Multi-cloud deploy pipeline, full Git-driven artifact promotion.
Month 4: Infrastructure as Code & Automation
- Terraform Associate: HCL modules, zero-downtime rollouts, remote state, DR, cloud-agnostic infra.
- Ansible Automation: Idempotent config, dynamic inventories, patch management, continuous compliance.
- Mini-Projects: Multi-cloud IaC portfolio, auto-patcher for production fleets.
Month 5: Corporate Observability
- Prometheus Certified Associate: PromQL, exporters, advanced alerting, custom dashboards, SLI/SLO tracking.
- Loki, Tempo, Alloy stack: Centralized logging, distributed tracing, unified telemetry.
- Mini-Projects: Trace-root cause pipeline, business-metric Grafana boards.
Month 6 (Weeks 21-24): Cloud-Native Security & Edge
- DevSecOps: Secure-by-design pipelines, vulnerability scans, secrets vaults, automated audits.
- Serverless & Innovation: Multi-cloud Lambda, event-driven workflows, auto-scaling, serverless CI/CD.
- Mini-Projects: Secure serverless CI/CD, event-driven end-to-end workflow.
Your Showstopper Month: 12 Corporate-Level Capstone Projects
End your journey with a hands-on capstone marathon—real projects, real tools, real cloud!
💥 Corporate-Grade Capstone Projects Lineup
- GitOps-powered Enterprise Platform: Cloud-native multi-env deployment to EKS with Argo CD, secure automated rollouts from Git to prod.
- Production Service Mesh with Istio & Kiali: Deploy secure microservices, visualize traffic and policies with Kiali, enforce mutual TLS and fine-grained policies.
- Canary & Blue/Green Automated Releases: Use Argo Rollouts & Istio for zero-downtime updates, automated metrics-triggered rollbacks, instant Slack alerts.
- Cloud Infrastructure as Code on Steroids: Terraform all the things: VPC, EKS, databases, IAM – reusable modules, secrets managed securely.
- Monitoring and Distributed Tracing at Scale: Full observability pipeline: logs with Loki, traces with Tempo, metrics with Prometheus, visualized in Grafana.
- Slack-Driven Incident Response (ChatOps): Integrate Slack alerts with Grafana & Prometheus, automate runbook tasks via chat commands, set up escalation policies.
- Enterprise-Grade CI/CD Security Pipeline: Secure every artifact: image scanning, secrets management, end-to-end compliance checks via Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo CD.
- Alloy-Powered Multi-Cloud Telemetry: Deploy Alloy for unified collection of logs, traces, and metrics from AWS/GCP/Azure, visualize on Grafana.
- Disaster Recovery & High-Availability Experiments: Automated cross-region replication, failovers, managed infra with Terraform, automated DR drills.
- Self-Healing, Auto-Remediating Production Environments: Monitor with Prometheus/Grafana and automate infrastructure patching, scaling, and recovery using Ansible or Lambda functions as triggers.
- Serverless Event-Driven App Suite: CI/CD for AWS Lambda functions, event logging in Loki, tracing with Tempo, real-time Slack notifications.
- Real-Time Business Metrics and Intelligence: Gather business KPIs using Alloy from app to infra, live dashboards in Grafana, predictive insights.
How You'll Learn & Build
- Every class = hands-on, every week = production-grade code.
- Live reviews, real teamwork, and expert mentorship in every sprint.
- Every project is portfolio-ready, documented, and demoed.
- Direct application of SRE and DevOps best practices—so you hit the ground running in any enterprise.
This is not just a course—it's the career accelerator.
Students don't just finish—they absolutely stand out in hiring pipelines. Your entry into the world of elite DevOps and SRE starts—and explodes—here.