DevOps and CI/CD Workflows Learning Roadmap

A single-page map tying foundations to portfolio evidence—designed for English-speaking learners in Thailand balancing day jobs and study.

Skills map

Skills progression from version control to progressive delivery Versioning CI quality GitOps ops Progressive

Tool stack breakdown

We rotate exemplars across GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Flux, Argo projects, Terraform-family tooling, and observability stacks—always tied to a decision log so swaps do not erase learning.

  • CI: reusable workflows, OIDC trust sketches, cache hygiene
  • CD: Helm charts, progressive delivery controllers, rollback triggers
  • Evidence: structured logs, RED metrics, trace sampling literacy

Capstone project outline

  1. Pick a brownfield service narrative we provide (payments adjacency, not real PII).
  2. Implement pipeline gates with mentor-reviewed PRs.
  3. Add observability hooks and define two SLO drafts with explicit exclusions.
  4. Run a tabletop incident using your artifacts as evidence.
  5. Publish a five-page internal-style brief teammates could actually skim.
Abstract circuitry suggesting interconnected delivery tooling