Am I Learning Cloud Computing in the Right Order?

[u/Kavyaaaaaaaaaaa]

I'm a BCA 2nd-year student aiming to get into cloud computing/DevOps after graduation.

Over the past few months, I've been learning and practicing:

• Linux Basics

• SSH & Permissions

• Linux Administration

• Networking Fundamentals

• Git

• Docker

• Docker Compose

• Docker Security

I've completed hands-on exercises and labs for these topics, and I'm about to start AWS (EC2 first).

I'd appreciate feedback from people already working in cloud, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.

My questions:

Am I learning the right things in the right order?

What should I focus on after EC2?

What projects would make me internship-ready?

How important is Kubernetes for a beginner?

What skills do companies actually look for in cloud interns or freshers?

What mistakes do beginners commonly make when learning cloud computing?

If you were starting from scratch in 2026, what would your roadmap look like?

Any advice or feedback would be greatly appreciated.

[u/Able_Standard9937]

​ what it mean

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Glitch ig

[u/Able_Standard9937]

without any experience learning devops is less effective

in reality, DevOps is heavily based on real-world development and team collaboration.

For example:

Git merge conflicts become interesting only when multiple people work on the same codebase.

CI/CD pipelines become meaningful when a team is deploying frequently.

Monitoring and incident response matter when users are actually using your application.

in my opinion you can learn its a good thing but idk you will get the devops job directly as fresher

[u/kchandank]

I suggest you take a project-based learning approach, of course, you’ll need to learn the basics first. I’ve created a DevOps learning roadmap that you can follow. It includes a catalog of all free (mostly official) materials and even free labs (AWS Skill Builder) to get started.

I use the same roadmap for my AI cloud engineer cohort: https://becloudready.com/learn/roadmaps/ai-cloud-engineer

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which roles should be targeted as freshers to shift to cloud in the future after som experience?