ENGINEERING ROADMAP
DevOps, SRE, Kubernetes & Cloud Reliability Roadmap
Complete learning roadmap for Site Reliability Engineers and Cloud Architects building resilient, automated, observable infrastructure at Google, Amazon, and hyperscale SaaS companies. This roadmap covers the full journey from Linux fundamentals to multi-cluster Kubernetes fleet management and FinOps cost governance.
SRE & DevOps Engineering Milestones
- Phase 1Linux & Networking FundamentalsProcess scheduling, file descriptor limits, TCP/IP stack internals, iptables, and network namespace isolation for containers.
- Phase 2Docker & Container RuntimesMulti-stage Dockerfiles, layer caching optimization, containerd CRI, rootless containers, and image vulnerability scanning with Trivy.
- Phase 3Kubernetes Architecture & Fleet Managementetcd persistence, kube-scheduler predicates, kubelet lifecycle, HPA/VPA autoscaling, and PodDisruptionBudgets for zero-downtime rollouts.
- Phase 4Infrastructure as Code with TerraformTerraform state locking, remote backends, module composition, Atlantis GitOps workflow, and drift detection with Infracost.
- Phase 5CI/CD Pipeline EngineeringGitHub Actions matrix builds, reusable workflows, ArgoCD GitOps deployments, canary releases with Flagger, and SLSA provenance.
- Phase 6Observability & SLO EngineeringPrometheus recording rules, Grafana alert routing, distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry, error budget burn rate, and on-call runbooks.
- Phase 7Security & Compliance AutomationOPA/Gatekeeper admission control, RBAC least-privilege, secrets rotation with Vault, SOC 2 audit logging, and SBOM generation.