Im a fresher and I want to pursue a career in cloud/devops. But Im stuck and cant decide if I should choose the cloud path or devops path ?
Can anyone explain the learning paths and how to decide?
If you’re starting as a fresher, I would suggest choosing the Cloud Engineer path first.
As a Cloud Engineer, you mainly create and manage infrastructure in the cloud. You set up servers, networking, storage, and security. You also write Infrastructure as Code using tools like Terraform to manage everything properly.
This path is easier to start with compared to DevOps because DevOps includes many things at once, cloud, CI/CD, automation, containers, and scripting. It can feel confusing in the beginning.
But even if you choose cloud, you should still learn basic CI/CD and tools like Docker. That will help you move into DevOps later.
So simple idea: start with cloud, build strong basics, then grow into DevOps.