Learn Linux, networking, CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and production operations.
Start with the operating system, version control, HTTP, DNS, SSH, and shell scripting.
Automate repeatable tasks with Bash, environment variables, pipes, and exit codes.
Understand TCP/IP, ports, DNS, TLS, proxies, firewalls, and request debugging.
Build pipelines that test, package, scan, and deploy applications consistently.
Run unit, integration, lint, and security checks before code reaches production.
Version releases, manage secrets, separate environments, and automate rollback plans.
Break and fix pipeline failures, image builds, environment variables, health checks, and rollback steps.
Package apps with Docker, run multi-service systems, and operate workloads on Kubernetes.
Run local service stacks with networks, volumes, health checks, and environment configuration.
Deploy, expose, scale, update, and debug apps through Kubernetes primitives.
Provision cloud resources, monitor systems, respond to incidents, and improve reliability.
Collect metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and dashboards that explain production behavior.
Prepare on-call playbooks for outages, failed deploys, high latency, rollback, escalation, and postmortems.
Containerize an app, create CI/CD, deploy to cloud, add monitoring, and document runbooks.