DevOps Engineer Roadmap
From container networking and infrastructure as code through orchestration, delivery automation, and observability, the core path for a working DevOps engineer, linked into Cloud Tech by Victor topic references.
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Before orchestrating containers across a cluster, understand how they talk to each other and the outside world on a single host.
Declarative, versioned infrastructure is the foundation everything downstream, clusters, networks, pipelines, eventually gets provisioned on top of.
Kubernetes builds directly on container networking concepts to keep a declared number of Pods running, healthy, and reachable across a cluster.
Once workloads are orchestrated across many nodes, load balancing is what keeps traffic distributed evenly as Pods come and go.
With infrastructure-as-code and orchestration in place, automate how code actually reaches that infrastructure, build, test, package, deploy.
Once deployments are automated and frequent, logs, metrics, and traces are what let you understand and debug what's running in production.