Concepts EVERY DevOps Engineer Should Know

A comprehensive overview of 10 essential DevOps concepts ranging from foundational to advanced topics. Covers version control workflows (Git Flow vs trunk-based), CI/CD deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling), cloud fundamentals, container optimization with Docker, Kubernetes orchestration, monitoring vs observability (metrics, logs, traces), configuration management with Ansible, infrastructure as code with Terraform, immutable infrastructure patterns, and GitOps declarative deployments. Includes real-world examples from Netflix, Spotify, and Google demonstrating how these concepts impact deployment speed, reliability, and cost efficiency.