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Kubernetes Engineer roadmap

From your first pod to running production clusters: workloads, networking, storage, security, operations and extending the platform.

12 topics · 72 nodes · 59 covered · 7 partly · 6 planned · updated 2026-10-17

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Guided path: Kubernetes EngineerFrom your first pod to running production clusters: workloads, networking, storage, security, operations and extending the platform.15 stages
  1. 1.Linux for DevOps: The Command Line, Services and TroubleshootingBeginner
  2. 2.Networking for DevOps: From Packets to ProductionBeginner
  3. 3.Docker: Containers from First Run to ProductionBeginner
  4. 4.Docker: Containers from First Run to ProductionIntermediate
  5. 5.Kubernetes: Run and Operate Containerized ApplicationsBeginner
  6. 6.Kubernetes: Run and Operate Containerized ApplicationsIntermediate
  7. 7.GitOps: Declarative Delivery with Argo CD and FluxBeginner
  8. 8.Observability: Metrics, Logs, Traces and AlertingBeginner
  9. 9.Service MeshBeginner
  10. 10.GitOps: Declarative Delivery with Argo CD and FluxIntermediate
  11. 11.Observability: Metrics, Logs, Traces and AlertingIntermediate
  12. 12.Kubernetes: Run and Operate Containerized ApplicationsAdvanced
  13. 13.DevSecOps: Building Security into DeliveryIntermediate
  14. 14.Backup and Disaster RecoveryIntermediate
  15. 15.Service MeshAdvanced
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  • Planned

  1. 1. Core

    Containers first

    Kubernetes orchestrates containers, so understand them well.

    5 / 5 covered

  2. 2. Core

    Kubernetes core

    The mental model and the everyday objects.

    10 / 10 covered

  3. 3. Core

    Reliable workloads

    Making applications behave well under change and failure.

    5 / 6 covered

  4. 4. Core

    Storage and stateful workloads

    Data that outlives pods.

    5 / 6 covered

  5. 5. Core

    Networking

    How traffic reaches and moves between workloads.

    5 / 6 covered

  6. 6. Core

    Packaging and delivery

    Getting manifests onto clusters repeatably.

    6 / 6 covered

  7. 7. Core

    Security

    Hardening workloads, access and the cluster.

    6 / 6 covered

  8. 8. Core

    Scheduling and capacity

    Placing pods well and keeping the cluster healthy.

    5 / 5 covered

  9. 9. Core

    Operations and troubleshooting

    Running clusters in production.

    6 / 6 covered

  10. 10. Core

    Observability

    Seeing what the cluster and workloads are doing.

    5 / 5 covered

  11. 11. Recommended

    Managed Kubernetes and clusters at scale

    Providers, provisioning and fleets.

    1 / 6 covered

  12. 12. Optional

    Extending Kubernetes

    Custom resources, controllers and operators.

    0 / 5 covered