CAREER PATH

DevOps Engineer

Automate everything, deploy with confidence. This path covers the compute you're deploying to, the pipelines that get code there, and the identity model pipelines run under.

12 clusters 6 domains ~80 hours AZ-400 aligned

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Who this is for

You're comfortable with basic Azure compute and want to own the deployment pipeline end to end, not just the infrastructure it deploys to.

How this path works
Each cluster below links to its real lesson page. Go in order the first time through — later clusters assume the ones before them. Once you've done a full pass, use it as reference.

The path — in order

Stack Floor

01
PowerShell and Python — the baseline for automating anything.
Domain 0 · Stack Floor

Compute

02
What you're actually deploying to.
Domain 1 · Compute
03
Packaging applications for consistent deployment.
Domain 1 · Compute
04
Orchestrating containers at scale.
Domain 1 · Compute

Identity & Security

05
Managed identities — how pipelines authenticate without stored secrets.
Domain 4 · Identity & Security

Operations

06
Knowing a deployment worked, not just that it ran.
Domain 5 · Operations

IaC & DevOps

07
Native Azure infrastructure as code.
Domain 6 · IaC & DevOps
08
The multi-cloud IaC standard.
Domain 6 · IaC & DevOps
09
Azure Automation and runbooks.
Domain 6 · IaC & DevOps
10
The actual build-test-deploy pipeline.
Domain 6 · IaC & DevOps
11
Where code and build outputs live.
Domain 6 · IaC & DevOps

Hybrid & Workplace

12
Deploying to hybrid targets, not just pure cloud.
Domain 8 · Hybrid & Workplace

Certification this path maps to

AZ-400: DevOps Engineer Expert

AZ-400 requires AZ-104 (Azure Administrator) first as its prerequisite.

Where this leads

Platform Engineer is the natural next step — same toolset, aimed at building the internal platform other engineers self-serve from, not just one pipeline.

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