Make delivery repeatable
Build confidence with Linux and networking, then automate delivery, infrastructure, containers, orchestration, and observability.
The learning path
Do not treat the resource links as a reading list. Learn enough to produce the outcome, then move forward.
Milestone 1
Become comfortable navigating systems, automating repetitive work, inspecting processes, and collaborating safely through Git.
CheckpointAutomate a repeatable development environment and troubleshooting report.
Milestone 2
Understand DNS, TLS, load balancing, firewalls, virtual networks, compute, storage, and identity in modern cloud systems.
CheckpointDiagram and explain the request path through a secure production service.
Milestone 3
Package applications consistently, manage images and registries, compose dependencies, and control the runtime surface.
CheckpointContainerize a multi-service application with a secure, minimal production image.
Milestone 4
Turn every change into a repeatable sequence of builds, tests, security checks, releases, and safe rollbacks.
CheckpointCreate a gated pipeline that produces a traceable release artifact.
Milestone 5
Declare infrastructure, manage drift, schedule workloads, expose services, and design for controlled failure.
CheckpointProvision and deploy an application environment entirely from versioned configuration.
Milestone 6
Use metrics, logs, traces, service-level objectives, incident response, and capacity planning to operate responsibly.
CheckpointInstrument a service, define an SLO, and run a documented failure exercise.
Capstone project
Deploy a containerized service to Kubernetes through a tested CI/CD pipeline, provisioned with code and monitored against an SLO.