devops-basics

Roadmap

This document outlines the planned improvements and upcoming content for DevOps Basics. It reflects community requests and emerging industry trends.

Want to influence the roadmap? Open a topic request or vote on existing issues.

Recently Added ✅

Topic	Description
Grafana	Metrics visualization and dashboards
Vault	HashiCorp Vault secrets management
OpenTofu	Open-source Terraform fork (Linux Foundation)
Trivy	Container and IaC security scanning
GCP	Google Cloud Platform

Upcoming Topics 🔜

These are planned or in-progress based on community demand and industry relevance:

Topic	Category	Priority	Notes
FluxCD	GitOps / CI-CD	High	CNCF-graduated GitOps engine, complement to ArgoCD
Crossplane	IaC / Platform Eng	High	Kubernetes-native infrastructure management
Backstage	Platform Engineering	High	Developer portal framework by Spotify
Dagger	CI/CD	Medium	Portable CI/CD pipelines as code
Pulumi	IaC	Medium	IaC with real programming languages
Cilium / eBPF	Networking	Medium	eBPF-based networking and security for K8s
Kustomize	Kubernetes	Medium	Kubernetes-native config management
OPA / Gatekeeper	Security / Policy	Medium	Policy as code for Kubernetes
Tekton	CI/CD	Low	Kubernetes-native CI/CD pipelines
Podman	Containers	Low	Daemonless Docker alternative
Vault (Advanced)	Security	Medium	Advanced Vault patterns (PKI, dynamic secrets)
GCP (Advanced)	Cloud	Low	GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Build deep dives

Planned Improvements 🛠️

Content Quality

• Add more runnable advanced/ examples to topics that only have basics/
• Add video links for key topics (YouTube, official training)
• Add comparison guides: Docker vs Podman, Terraform vs OpenTofu, ArgoCD vs FluxCD
• Expand practice exercises for existing topics (aim for 5+ exercises each)

Website (devops-basics.thedevopshub.org)

• MkDocs Material theme setup
• Add search functionality
• Add dark/light mode toggle
• Improve mobile responsiveness
• Add topic difficulty tags (Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced)

Community & Discoverability

• GitHub issue templates (bug report, topic request, content improvement)
• GitHub Discussions for Q&A
• Learning paths for different roles (SRE, Platform Engineer, Developer)
• Monthly “New Topics” highlight in README
• Add repo to awesome-devops lists

Automation

• Automated broken link checker (weekly)
• Script linting for all .sh files in CI
• Auto-generate topics table in README from directory structure

Learning Paths (Planned) 🗺️

We plan to add structured learning paths for different DevOps roles:

• DevOps Beginner: Git → Shell → Docker → Kubernetes → CI/CD basics
• Platform Engineer: Kubernetes → Helm → Terraform → ArgoCD → Backstage → Crossplane
• SRE/Ops: Linux → Shell → Prometheus → Grafana → ELK → Kubernetes
• Cloud Engineer: AWS/Azure/GCP → Terraform → Kubernetes → CI/CD → Security

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Last updated: 2025 — This roadmap is a living document and will be updated as we grow.

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