// the open software engineering universe
Your career is a system.
Operate it like one.
DevOpsSchool.org is the open community platform for every software engineer — 90-day learning paths, role roadmaps, a tools directory, an official certification registry, referral jobs, labs, and a glossary. Free, static, open to contributors.
# 42 disciplines · 15 roadmaps · 73 tool categories · 0 paywalls
$ init career --track=devops --days=90
42
90-day learning paths
15
career roadmaps
73+
tool categories
100%
free & open
// engineering-galaxy
Every Ops discipline. One map.
42 disciplines across 7 clusters — from DevOps and SRE to LLMOps and FinOps. Pick a star, get a 90-day flight plan.
Delivery & Platform 8 tracks
Reliability & Operations 10 tracks
Security & Governance 6 tracks
Business & People Ops 6 tracks
// learning-paths
Featured 90-day paths
Foundation → core → tools → projects → advanced → interview-ready. Two to three hours a day.
Delivery & Platform 90 days
DevOps
Ship faster and more reliably by uniting dev and ops practices.
GitHub ActionsJenkinsDockerKubernetes
$ start --day=1
Delivery & Platform 90 days
Platform Engineering
Build the golden paths that let developers ship without friction.
BackstageCrossplaneArgo CDTerraform
$ start --day=1
Reliability & Operations 90 days
SRE
Apply software engineering to operations and eliminate toil at scale.
PrometheusGrafanaPagerDutyOpsGenie
$ start --day=1
Reliability & Operations 90 days
Observability Engineering
Understand any system behavior through metrics, logs, and traces.
PrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetryJaeger
$ start --day=1
Cloud & Cost 90 days
CloudOps
Operate cloud infrastructure with automation, governance, and cost control.
AWS Cost ExplorerAWS Security HubAWS ConfigTerraform
$ start --day=1
Cloud & Cost 90 days
FinOps
Align engineering, finance, and business to maximize cloud value.
AWS Cost ExplorerGCP BillingAzure Cost ManagementInfracost
$ start --day=1
// career-roadmaps
Role-based roadmaps
Beginner → Intermediate → Advanced. Skills, tools, certifications, projects, and the mistakes to skip.
DevOps Engineer
Master CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containerization, and cloud platforms. A complete roadmap from Linux fundamentals to advanced GitOps workflows and multi-cloud architecture for aspiring DevOps engineers.
- Beginner: Build core foundations in Linux, networking,…
- Intermediate: Apply infrastructure as code, build producti…
- Advanced: Design multi-cloud architectures, implement …
Site Reliability Engineer
Learn SLOs, error budgets, incident management, and reliability engineering principles. This roadmap guides you from operations fundamentals to advanced production reliability practices used at scale.
- Beginner: Understand reliability concepts, on-call pra…
- Intermediate: Define and track SLOs in production, lead in…
- Advanced: Architect reliability programs across engine…
Platform Engineer
Build internal developer platforms that reduce cognitive load and accelerate software delivery. Learn Backstage, Kubernetes platform patterns, golden paths, and self-service infrastructure design.
- Beginner: Understand the platform engineering discipli…
- Intermediate: Design and build self-service platform capab…
- Advanced: Lead platform product strategy, architect mu…
Kubernetes Engineer
Go deep on Kubernetes — from cluster installation and workload management to multi-cluster federation, custom operators, and production-grade platform engineering with service meshes.
- Beginner: Master Kubernetes core concepts: pods, deplo…
- Intermediate: Operate production Kubernetes clusters with …
- Advanced: Build and manage multi-cluster platforms, wr…
MLOps Engineer
Productionize machine learning models with robust training pipelines, model registries, feature stores, and deployment patterns. Bridge data science and production engineering for reliable ML systems.
- Beginner: Understand ML development lifecycle, data ve…
- Intermediate: Build automated training pipelines, model re…
- Advanced: Architect enterprise ML platforms, manage mu…
Security Engineer
Build and operate application and infrastructure security programs. Learn vulnerability management, identity and access, cloud security posture, secure SDLC integration, and incident response for security events.
- Beginner: Build foundational security knowledge: netwo…
- Intermediate: Implement security controls across cloud inf…
- Advanced: Lead security architecture, design security …
// tools-directory
The tools, categorized and compared
73 categories — top 10 tools each, with honest pros, cons, and alternatives.
- CI/CD 10 tools compared
- Source Code Management 10 tools compared
- Build Tools 10 tools compared
- Artifact Registry 10 tools compared
- Infrastructure as Code 10 tools compared
- Configuration Management 10 tools compared
- Container Tools 10 tools compared
- Container Registry 10 tools compared
- Kubernetes Tools 10 tools compared
- Kubernetes Management 10 tools compared
- GitOps Tools 10 tools compared
- Monitoring 10 tools compared
// certification-registry
Official certifications only
A worldwide registry of real, official certifications — exam codes, formats, costs, renewal, and official links. No invented badges.
foundational CLF-C02
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
associate SAA-C03
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services
associate SOA-C02
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
Amazon Web Services
professional DOP-C02
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
Amazon Web Services
specialty SCS-C02
AWS Certified Security – Specialty
Amazon Web Services
associate MLA-C01
AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate
Amazon Web Services
// referral-jobs
Referral job board
Real referrals posted by employees who will walk your CV in the door. Community-curated, reviewed manually.
hybrid India
Senior DevOps Engineer
Acme FinTech · Bengaluru
AWSKubernetesTerraformJenkins
$ request-referral →remote India
Site Reliability Engineer II
Nimbus Cloud · Hyderabad
GCPKubernetesPrometheusGo
$ request-referral →remote Germany
Platform Engineer (IDP)
Orbital Software · Berlin
KubernetesBackstageArgo CDCrossplane
$ request-referral →// community
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