Plans & Pricing
Your support now helps shape what comes next. The sale will continue until morale improves revenue recovers to a sustainable level.
Yearly plans are the best fit for long-term subscribers
Basic
Free forever
Get started with iximiuz Labs for free. Explore playgrounds, solve starter challenges, and learn on your own terms.
- 1 playground at a time
- 1 hour of daily playtime
- Basic VMs (2 CPU / 4 GB RAM)
- Community content access
- Some official tutorials & challenges
No credit card required
Complete Bundle
Get enhanced playgrounds, access to pro features, AND all current and future official learning materials.
- 5 concurrent playgrounds
- 120 hours of daily playtime
- More powerful VMs (4 CPU / 8 GB RAM)
- Persistent volumes
- All official learning materials
- Pro: Creator and Trainer modes
30-day money-back guarantee
Complete Bundle
Lifetime access
Limited time offer - pay once and benefit from the Complete Bundle access forever. No recurring charges.
- 5 concurrent playgrounds
- 120 hours of daily playtime
- More powerful VMs (4 CPU / 8 GB RAM)
- Persistent volumes
- All official learning materials
- Pro: Creator and Trainer modes
30-day money-back guarantee
What the Bundle Includes
Enhanced Playgrounds
Premium playground experience
Perfect for engineers who want to experiment freely, run complex setups, and practice without limitations. Get the most out of iximiuz Labs playgrounds with boosted resources and extended capabilities.
5 Concurrent Playgrounds
Run up to 5 playgrounds simultaneously instead of just 1
Unlimited Daily Playtime
No more 1-hour daily limit - practice as long as you need
2x More Powerful VMs
Get more CPU cores and RAM for demanding workloads
Full Internet Access
Access any destination from your playground, not just safe domains
Persistent Storage
Save your progress with up to 100GB of persistent drives
Custom Playgrounds
Create and share your own playground configurations
Official Content Collection
Premium learning materials
Unlock the full library of expertly crafted hands-on challenges, tutorials, courses, and skill paths. Learn from the platform author's years of experience in containers, Kubernetes, and Linux internals.
All Challenges + Solutions
100+ challenges with editorial solutions when you get stuck
Premium Tutorials
Expert-level tutorials with hands-on exercises and diagrams
Skill Paths
Guided learning sequences to master specific DevOps skills
Official Courses
A growing collection of courses on Linux, networking, and containers
Early Access
Get new content as soon as it's published
Future Content Included
All upcoming courses, tutorials, and challenges at no extra cost
Join Our Growing Community
Join thousands of software engineers, DevOps specialists, and SREs who chose to level up their skills with iximiuz Labs.
Frequently Asked Questions
From the Author
Hi there! It's Ivan, the creator of iximiuz Labs.
Since 2019, through my blog and newsletter, I've published more than 100 articles on Containers, Kubernetes, Linux, Networking, and Programming. I've also created several open source projects and spent countless hours answering questions on Twitter, Discord, and other platforms. All with a single goal: to help people master the Server Side craft.
A few years ago, when iximiuz.com started gaining traction, my dream evolved. I wanted to augment my static writing with a more dynamic experience — giving readers the ability to spin up carefully crafted remote sandbox environments right in their browser to experiment with Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes without needing to install anything on their local machines. This dream eventually led to the creation of iximiuz Labs.
The platform uses a Freemium model with a generous free tier. A large part of the content is (and will remain) free, and only a single-click signup is required to access the playgrounds. However, on the free tier, the daily playground time, the microVM's resources, and Internet egress traffic are significantly limited. This serves two purposes: keeps bots away and also incentivizes the most serious students to become paying members.
With upgraded iximiuz Labs membership students get virtually unlimited daily playtime, more powerful microVMs, and unrestricted Internet egress, allowing them to experiment with a much wider set of technologies in much more permissive environments. Trust me, you will notice the difference even if you find the free tier already good.
For the first couple of years, I was building iximiuz Labs alongside a full-time engineering job — nights, weekends, and whatever spare time I could find. These days, iximiuz Labs is my full focus. But "full focus" doesn't mean "easy mode": keeping a fleet of servers healthy, shipping new playground capabilities, and steadily growing the content catalog is still a lot of work for one person. The project is community-funded, and the revenue is (so far) just barely enough to sustain a single creator. That's why every purchase of the Official Content Pack or the Tinkerer plan makes a real difference — it keeps the free tier generous, funds infrastructure, and buys me more time to build, write, and improve the platform 🚀
