Could You Recommend Some Training (For SRE/DevOps)

Stephane Maarek got me a great head start on AWS stuff, and he's articulate enough that I was able to do it at 2x speed and understand the concepts.

Unfortunately, or forutnately, the training is reflective of the multiple-choice questions that the certification is presented with - so there is little to no practical deep-learning of the concepts. However, this allows the training to be concise and a good high-level overview.


These guys were instrumental in my Kubernetes knowledge, and I've had other people take their docker & DevOps courses and were happy with those too. I like that they maintain a real-world terminal that they spin up for their courses.

The Best DevOps Online Training Courses | KodeKloud
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This is a free interactive course that I did pre-cert for k8s and I think it was both fun and a great exercise to speed up my troubleshooting of problems and implementation.

Kubernetes Challenges | KodeKloud
A set of fun challenges to learn and practice your skills on Kubernetes.

This is a great work of fiction that helped me better understand the role of DevOps in an organization.

The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
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This is the literal book on SRE.

Google - Site Reliability Engineering

And a TL;DR on implementing these bigger picture systems.

Table of Contents - Google SRE Book

I really like this format of a skill-layout. They've got others that are similar but this is specific to DevOps. Don't let your eyes cross, it's meant to be consumed one at a time

DevOps Roadmap: Learn to become a DevOps Engineer or SRE
Learn to become a modern DevOps engineer by following the steps, skills, resources and guides listed in our community-driven roadmap.

Finally and certainly not least: Looking up any GitHub hosted, community curated, "Awesome" list. These are curations of topics to learn or explore based on whatever tickles your fancy day to day. When in doubt, try googling "Github awesome list <query>"

GitHub - sindresorhus/awesome: 😎 Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics
😎 Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics - GitHub - sindresorhus/awesome: 😎 Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics