Cloud & Linux Fundamentals
Basics of Cloud Computing (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS; public, private, hybrid),
Linux essentials & system boot process,
Access control & root management
What is DevOps in real life,
Continuous Integration & Delivery concepts,
Jenkins & GitHub Actions pipelines,
Infrastructure as Code principles
Infrastructure & Virtualization
Virtualization & hypervisors , Containers & Docker basics,
Kubernetes introduction & orchestration,
Filesystems, mounting, LVM
Cloud Platforms & Services
AWS, Azure, GCP overview,
Compute & storage services (VMs, databases, S3, RDS, DynamoDB),
Application & AI/ML services
Terraform basics (providers, resources, variables, state)
Configuration management with Ansible (YAML, playbooks, roles)
Automation of deployment & scaling
Advanced Container Orchestration
Kubernetes deep dive (Pods, ReplicaSets, Deployments, StatefulSets)
ConfigMaps, Secrets, Affinity/Tolerations
Docker Compose for multi-container apps
Cloud Operations & Security
Monitoring & logging (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana)
IAM, firewalls, encryption, compliance
Disaster recovery & business continuity
Cost optimization strategies
Networking & Observability
TCP/IP fundamentals, routing, DNS
Load balancing & firewalls
Observability tools: Graylog, Prometheus, Grafana
Case studies: multi-cloud & hybrid strategies