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I think the first place you need to start is a deep dive into Unix (and Unix-like systems).

I spent the first decade of my career as a sysadmin -- and frankly, what's now known as DevOps is what good Unix sysadmins were doing anyway (albeit with homegrown tools).

Without the foundation of strong Unix-fu, all teh shiny tools and services everybody uses today will always seem like black magic.

hth