In my many years working in the field, I have noticed a range of challenges and problems that people face when trying to start a DevOps, SRE, platform or cloud engineering career.

🔴The current challenges of careers in Tech - where to start ?

DevOps has its challenges:

There is no simple starting point to start learning about DevOps
DevOps requires a very broad range of skills that can be very overwhelming for new people to learn
DevOps is often treated as "Dev" and "Ops" which means you need understanding of two very broad fields
DevOps technologies are littered with buzz words, such as cloud, AI, machine learning, CI/CD, scalability, immutable infrastructure, automation, security and it never ends

Qualifications have its challenges:

Universities or Colleges offer IT degrees or courses, which often only cover traditional & "legacy" IT knowledge.
They do not cover real world challenges faced when working with the cloud, or working with popular open source technologies or modern challenges that businesses face these days
These technologies are often evolving at a rapid pace and traditional Universities cannot keep up with these.

Cloud certifications have its challenges:

Cloud certifications often only focus on a specific cloud provider which can build bias
Often only solve really specific problems, and miss real world problems
Develop very narrow focussed problem solving skill
Miss out on powerful open source skills
Vendor locking: Often stuck only specialising in one vendor's product

🎯 Course Goals & Expectations

This course provides a practical hands-on roadmap into the world of DevOps, SRE and platform engineering.
It will set you up with all the fundamentals required for successful future learning.
During this course you will apply a wide range of DevOps principles and use modern technologies in a real world hands-on manner to create yourself a personal website.
While building your website, we will cover topics such as:

Source Control
Developer Tools
Operating Systems
Servers & Virtualization
Web technology
Monitoring, Logging, Metrics
Observability
Command line and automation scripting
CI / CD Pipelines
Infrastructure as Code
Basics of Cloud
Cloud deployments

The personal website created throughout this course will become your marketing tool for your career to demonstrate all your newly obtained above-mentioned skills and abilities.
You will build the ultimate foundation and be equipped to make more informed decisions on what you want to focus on next in your career.

🛠 System Requirements

Operating System: Windows (Pro and Enterprise ), Linux or MacOS
- note: You'll need Pro or Enterprise Windows to support Virtualization
You will need at least 2GB EXTRA RAM and 25GB of hard disk space to complete modules related to virtualization.
- These numbers are early access guide only and may be reviewed and adjusted based on course feedback

📖 Table of Contents

📖 Where to find the full course

The course will have a free summarised and editted version which touches on each topic for you to get started so you can benefit from the roadmap

However, the YouTube videos are in shorter, edited, summarised form. So although you may benefit from the content, if you are a beginner, you may prefer the long form content where I elaborate, provider more in-depth explanations and cover more examples
The paid course will also provide some bonus content

If you are a beginner, I highly recommend you checkout the full course on your favourite platform below:

🚧Coming soon Udemy
🚧Coming soon Teachables
🚧Coming soon Youtube Membership
🚧Coming soon Patreon

README.md

🎓 The Ultimate DevOps Course (early access 🚧)

🚀 Introduction

🔴The current challenges of careers in Tech - where to start ?

🎯 Course Goals & Expectations

🛠 System Requirements

📖 Table of Contents

📖 Where to find the full course

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