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Pick up some required reading

A well-written and thorough book can be an amazing path to build deeper understanding on DevOps and also act as a handbook as you discover the internet's vast resources.

Many resources around the web are based on these books, so they are a great place to start.

Consult places like Goodreads and Amazon to get the widest possible selection, as well as input from other peers on which books to pick.

Work with one of our 85 DevOps mentors available

Self-teaching is a great tool, but working with an experienced mentor can accelerate your learnings by 10x.

Our mentors are hand-picked DevOps experts who will help you learn DevOps and guide you towards your goals.

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I’m Cam, a data architect with over 8 years of experience in the data + analytics field. My journey began in consulting, where I honed my skills and advanced to an architect role over five years. Seeking new horizons, I transitioned to tech, finding my calling at Databricks, where I’ve …

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I am a pragmatic software engineer with 20+ years of experience, passionate about simplicity, operational and engineering excellence, DevOps, distributed systems and computer science. I am also a teacher and mentor at heart, which allows me to connect with software engineers, managers and tech product leaders of all levels of …

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With 17+ years of experience in the industry, I have worked as a tester, a lead/manager, and as a developer. I have worked on large teams (OneDrive, Power Automate), as well as taking a v1 product from inception to running at a global scale. Delivering interviews, designing systems to work …

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As a Senior Software Engineer at GitHub, I am passionate about developer and infrastructure tools, distributed systems, systems- and network-programming. My expertise primarily revolves around Go, Kubernetes, serverless architectures and the Cloud Native domain in general. I am currently learning more about Rust and AI. Beyond my primary expertise, I've …

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I help to learn how to use the cloud, run kubernetes clusters, monitor things with prometheus and family, code simple tools for cloud (simple python, simple go), create helm charts. Get ready to creating things from scratch from coding to packaging into docker to writing k8s manifests to creating helm …

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Amrit Sarkar is working in the tech space for the last 8+ years in developer and managerial roles, currently as Engineer at Apple. Amrit has contributed more than 30+ patches in ASF projects. He has trained more than 500 peers in Search space in Lucene, Solr, Docker and Kubernetes in …

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Akram RIAHI is a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with an interest in all things Cloud Native. He is passionate about kubernetes resilience and chaos engineering at scale and is Litmus Chaos leader. A curator of quality tech content, he is the author of several blog posts and organizer of the …

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πŸ‘‹ I'm Faizan, a full-stack engineer and self-proclaimed magician with Typescript. I've spent the past 7+ years in Silicon Valley building robust applications, hacking on small projects, and everything in between. I've likely run into your scenario/bug and can solve it. 🌏 Background: Ever seen the hit TV show Silicon …

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Courses to deepen your DevOps skills.

These days, courses are no longer a sequence of videos. They are usually accompanied by projects and a learning community, keeping you accountable and on the path.

Our experts recommend these courses, from free selections to paid programs.

DevOps on AWS

DevOps on AWS

DevOps on AWS specialization teaches you how to use the combination of DevOps philosophies, practices and tools to develop, deploy, and maintain applications in the AWS Cloud. Benefits of adopting DevOps include: rapid delivery, reliability, scalability, security and improved collaboration.

The first course introduces you to essential AWS products, services, and common solutions. The course covers the fundamental concepts of compute, database, storage, networking, monitoring and security that learners and professionals will need to know when working with AWS.

Introduction to DevOps

Introduction to DevOps

DevOps skills are in demand! DevOps skills are expected to be one of the fastest-growing skills in the workforce. This course can be a first step in obtaining those skills.
Introduction to DevOps explores DevOps as a cultural movement, including building a business case for DevOps, the essentials of DevOps, and a brief history of DevOps. You will learn new ways of thinking, working, organizing, and measuring to fully gain the benefits of DevOps.

DevOps 101

DevOps 101

This free course is designed to introduce you to the world of DevOps and explain the very basics of CI/CD, pipelines, automation, and more. Whether you're a rookie engineer dreaming of becoming a DevOps pro, or you're an IT professional who's tired of not knowing what this "DevOps" thing your colleagues are talking about is - this course is for you.
You don't have to have any engineering background to learn from this course! Naturally, since we're talking about automating software development, some tech-talk is involved. But don't worry, this course won't ask you to know Python, Ruby, Kubernetes, or Docker. In fact, you don't need to know any programming language, there aren't any prerequisites* - just watch and learn!

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

This exam is an online, proctored, performance-based test that requires solving multiple tasks from a command line running Kubernetes.
Candidates have 2 hours to complete the tasks.

Candidates who register for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam will have 2 attempts (per exam registration) to an exam simulator, provided by Killer.sh.

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