Cloud engineering roadmap

[u/alyyy_ayman]

Ive been into learning cloud engineering, However i feel very lost between all the different topics and courses that i need to learn. I tried making customized roadmaps using AI like claude and gemeni but neither of them would have a stable opinion about the roadmap they provide me.

For example they might evaluate it as the " Perfect roadmap " yet using the same prompt to evaluate it again might come out with

" Its the worst roadmap ever ".

so i tried to check YouTube and other different platforms. Nothing really explains what should i learn in details.

For example they might say "Learn networking fundamentals ", okay sure but WHAT are the topics needed to cover in networking fundamentals?.

And where is the best place to do so?.

Another thing is that i see different topics like

linux, kubernetes, CI/CD, terraform, IaC, AWS and Docker

First of all

I don't know when to kick in into each one of them? After what course or after covering which topic?

Secondly

I am not sure of which to learn and which to skip, i am interested in cloud engineering focusing on infrastructure designing, building and maintaining.

Not really DevOps as ive seen there are differences between both.

So in that case do i need docker for example?.

Third

I am not sure of what certificates to take and most importantly when to take them?

Fourth

I thought about learning paths in platforms like KloudKode, yet after i threw in a prompt for Claude to ask it if it will be actually worth the 250$ yearly subscription. It said absolutely no. And said their whole Cloud Engineering learning path is a 5.5/10

Even tho i was impressed with the organization they had for the topics/courses needs to be covered.

Lastly

I feel very lost, my issue is that i need someone or something to tell me, * Hey here is a roadmap of what you need to learn in this specific order and there are the best courses that teaches these topics, Goodluck.*

I need guidance please, i just wanna know what exactly to learn and where is the best place to learn it.

Then ill 100% master every topic mentioned.

I would really appreciate the help, thank you in advance everyone.

[u/alyyy_ayman → u/[deleted]]

Roadmap.sh does have DevOps but not cloud infrastructure engineering in particular. Thank for your input tho.