Cloud Roadmap (2026) โ๏ธ
If I had to start cloud today, Iโd go like this:
1. ๐ง Fundamentals
What is cloud? IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS
Regions, AZs, pricing basics
2. ๐ Networking
VPC, Subnets, Routing, NAT, DNS
(Security Groups vs NACLs is a must)
3. ๐ฅ๏ธ Compute
EC2 / VMs, Autoscaling, Load Balancers
(How apps actually run in cloud)
4. ๐๏ธ Storage
S3 / Blob storage, EBS, Lifecycle policies
When to use what
5. ๐ข๏ธ Databases
RDS, NoSQL (DynamoDB / Firestore)
Backups, replication, scaling
6. ๐ IAM & Security
Users, Roles, Policies
Least privilege mindset
7. โ๏ธ Cloud CLI SDKs
AWS CLI / gcloud
Automate infra interactions
8. ๐๏ธ Infrastructure as Code
Terraform / CloudFormation
(No manual clicking)
9. ๐ณ Containers in Cloud
ECS / EKS / GKE
Deploy containerized apps
10. ๐ Monitoring & Logging
CloudWatch / Stackdriver
Alerts, metrics, logs
11. ๐ฐ Cost Optimization
Billing dashboards, budgeting, rightsizing
(Cloud gets expensive fast)
12. โก High Availability & Scaling
Multi-AZ, failover, caching, CDNs
13. ๐งฉ Real Projects
Host a full-stack app CI/CD monitoring
Donโt try to learn all clouds.
Pick one (AWS is safest), go deep, then expand.
Whatโs the hardest part of cloud for you right now
DevOps Roadmap (2026) ๐
If I had to start today, Iโd go like this:
1. ๐ง Basics First
Linux, Networking, HTTP, DNS, OS fundamentals
(You canโt debug what you donโt understand)
2. ๐งโ๐ป Scripting
Bash Python
Automate everything early
3. ๐๏ธ Version Control
Git GitHub (branching, PRs, workflows)
4. โ๏ธ CI/CD
GitHub Actions / GitLab CI
Build -> Test -> Deploy pipelines
5. ๐ณ Containers
Docker (images, volumes, networking)
6. โธ๏ธ Orchestration
Kubernetes (pods, services, deployments)
7. โ๏ธ Cloud
AWS / GCP basics (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC)
8. ๐๏ธ Infrastructure as Code
Terraform (provision infra like code)
9. ๐ Monitoring & Logging
Prometheus Grafana ELK
(If you canโt observe, you canโt scale)
10. ๐ DevSecOps
Secrets, IAM, vulnerability scanning
11. โก Scaling & Reliability
Load balancing, autoscaling, caching
12. ๐งฉ Real Projects
Deploy apps end-to-end (this is where it clicks)
Most people get stuck in tutorials.
The real growth starts when things break in production.
What would you add/remove from this road