That a fair point, but the whole thing is "learn yourself some devops". If that list ends up building up to that, then you've not gotten the point of any of it

That a fair point, but the whole thing is "learn yourself some devops". If that list ends up building up to that, then you've not gotten the point of any of it and you can't honestly call that last section "devops". There's also some weird excursions on that list, like securing a CI/CD pipeline before we've even gotten to that or getting to k8s way too early. Spivak's approach is much more in line with what I'd suggest folks do: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33398284 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33398284