Learn DevOps from zero, one short episode at a time.

A free course that goes in the right order, from your first Linux command to running an app on Kubernetes. Every lesson uses the same small app, so you see how the pieces fit.

Start with episode 1 Download the roadmap (PDF)

12 lessons online now, 448 planned. New episodes every day on Instagram, YouTube and Threads.

DevOps never ends: you ship a small change, watch it run, learn, and go round again.

The whole course is one line

Sixteen stops. Each one adds a skill and moves our app, LoopNotes, one step closer to production. Pick a stop to see what's there.

What DevOps is, how apps reach users, servers, the terminal, files
LoopNotes: Run LoopNotes on Linux
You start here, with episode 1

Stop 1 of 16: Foundations

What DevOps is, how apps reach users, servers, the terminal, files

LoopNotes: Run LoopNotes on Linux

You start here, with episode 1

Every episode picks up where the last one stopped

Short videos are easy to forget. Ours are a story: each one answers the question the last one left open, so you always know why you're learning the next thing.

Ep 5Meet LoopNotes, our project appLoopNotes is the tiny notes app we take from a laptop to Kubernetes, one DevOps skill at a time.Ep 6Same recipe, different kitchenWhy code works on your machine but crashes on the server: different versions, settings and missing files.Ep 7Opening a website = sending a letterHow a browser reaches a server: the address, DNS as the address book, and the reply.Ep 8Dev, staging and productionThe three environments every team uses: test kitchen, dress rehearsal and the real restaurant.

One small app, all the way to production

LoopNotes is a tiny notes app. On its own it's boring, which is the point: you can see exactly what each DevOps tool changes. It's open source, so you build it with us.

About the project

loopnotes

$ git clone https://github.com/thedevopsloop/loopnotes.git
$ cd loopnotes
$ node server.js
LoopNotes (dev) listening on http://localhost:3000
$ curl localhost:3000/health
{"status":"ok","env":"dev"}

Lessons so far

Each lesson has the video, a short explanation, commands you can copy and the quiz answers.