These are different methods that I have developed to rapidly learn technology.
Understand the business case as to what problem trying to solve and how you are trying to solve it. Ultimately in business, problems are usually tied to lowering the time and money of some goal, and a particular application or DevOps tool will help in dimensions.
Any particular solution in DevOps also incorporates a particular philosophy and thus embeds processes into the tool or system. This is important to understand. It is vital to not to be deep into the weeds of any particular implementation specifics, or else you won't be able to see the concepts behind the tool and the business problem that is trying to be understood.
