Linux Playgrounds by Muhammad Ibtisam
Remote sandboxes for learning and experimentation — fresh Linux VMs, Docker hosts, or Kubernetes clusters in seconds.
DevOps and cloud engineer. CKA and CKAD. Author of DebugBox, a Kubernetes debugging container in three size-scoped variants. This platform has been my working environment since August 2025: I build here, I learn here, I test here. Kubernetes clusters for whatever I am trying out, and my own Linux machine for everything else, a rootfs image with my tools already baked in, so there is nothing to set up and no reason to SSH out from my Mac. The work that holds up gets published here as playgrounds and tutorials.
SilverStack WordPress Server
Production-grade WordPress 7.1 on Ubuntu 24.04 - systemd-booted, Nginx FastCGI, PHP 8.3-FPM, MariaDB 10.11, Redis 7 Object Cache, WP-CLI, and Cloudflare-ready with zero manual setup.
SilverStack Guacamole Server
Production-grade Apache Guacamole 1.6.0 on Ubuntu 24.04 - systemd-booted, MariaDB-backed, Nginx-proxied, XRDP-connected, Cloudflare-ready, zero setup required.
SilverStack Dev Machine
A fully provisioned DevOps workstation on Ubuntu 24.04 - every tool pre-installed, every alias pre-wired, zero setup required.
SilverStack Nexus Server
Production-grade Nexus Repository Manager 3 Community Edition on Ubuntu 24.04 - systemd-booted, Cloudflare-ready, Nginx-proxied, zero setup required.
SilverStack SonarQube Server
Production-grade SonarQube 26.2 CE (LTA) on Ubuntu 24.04 - systemd-booted, PostgreSQL-backed, Nginx-proxied, Cloudflare-ready, zero setup required.
SilverStack Jenkins Server
Production-grade Jenkins LTS on Ubuntu 24.04 - systemd-booted, Nginx-proxied, Cloudflare-ready, zero setup required.
SilverStack CI/CD Stack
A fully composed 4-node CI/CD platform - Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus, and a Dev Machine, all running in a single Flexbox playground on a shared private network. Each service is Nginx-proxied and Cloudflare-ready. Zero setup required.