I'm kind of at a point where I don't know a lot of what to even search for.

we feel you 💗 , yes there still isn't a very good source of information on where to get started...
This is because the entire field is constantly changing and evolving, and one solution will usually only apply to specific use case...
I would start with the mlops community slack channel, and youtube talks (specifically those by companies describe how they built their own internal infrastructure, it is full of, lessons learned the hard way 🙂 )