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Hey all,

Seems there’s a ton of DevOps training material out there but I’m looking for a thorough course that can offer any certification available and expand my knowledge here. My job has offered to pay for courses, so I’m wondering what some of you might recommend so I can learn the right way.

I am currently working with Linux, NGINX, Apache, MySQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Debian and CentOS. I hope to find a clear path to gain better knowledge of automation with Python as well as setting up servers with containers.

Appreciate any insight with this.

Will

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So you’ll probably need to choose whether you want a holistic “DevOps” course or if you want an industry respected certification. There a lot of bootcamps or online courses that can give you a certification, but it’s not really recognized by employers for more than just you did some learning outside of work. If you want something that your employer will recognize or will make you more marketable you’d want to get something from CNF or AWS.

That being said “TechWorld with Nana” on youtube probably has the most complete and useful DevOps tutorials and courses that I have seen. She also offers a bootcamp with certifications if that’s what you’re looking for. Other than that I’d say maybe look through DevOps Roadmap: Learn to become a DevOps Engineer or SRE for some other tools and such that you’d want to master.

If you’re looking for certifications that will propel your career in the areas that you mentioned above I’d look at the cloud native kubernetes admin, engineer, etc certification path. AWS certs are also never a bad idea or RHCSA for linux.

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DevOps is more of a methodology rather than products, and it’s really specific to each organization. It’s not even inherently technical, I’ve seen it used in accounting departments before; not niche.

What I would do if I were in your shoes, if you’re talking about software engineering, is take a certification approach to learn agile, then learn some technologies/tooling. The piece of paper the cert provides isn’t super meaningful, it’s mainly the methodology and theory behind it that I’ve found useful. https://www.pmi.org/certifications/agile-certifications

After that comes the various tooling products, which is a hundred miles long. Docker, K8s > OpenShift/Rancher/AKS/EKS/GKE, CircleCI, ArgoCD, Octopus Deploy, Azure DevOps, AWS Code > Deploy/Pipeline/Commit/etc, Git, Bash, Ansible. Then there are a ton of platform engineering tools such as Spacelift, Backstage, Morpheus, CloudBolt, etc, that you could then look into (it doesn’t replace DevOps, it serves a different purpose).

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DevOps is one of the most trending technology of 2024. If you are looking for a free resources then there are tons of tutorial videos available on youtube. If you want to learn live from the industry experts then you can go for DevOps training or DevOps masters program.

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Hey Will,
Since your company is covering training, I’d recommend:
Linux Foundation DevOps Bootcamp – Covers Linux, containers, automation + LFCS, CKA certs.
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional – If cloud-focused.
Python for DevOps – For automation & scripting.
HashiCorp Terraform Associate – Infrastructure as Code.

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