Pricing for Trainers
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Run trainings without fighting infrastructure
iximiuz Labs lets you deliver hands-on Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and networking trainings without asking students to install anything or troubleshoot local setups.
Every student gets the same real environment, running on remote Linux VMs, accessible via browser or SSH. You teach. They practice. Nothing breaks on their laptops.
Built for hands-on teaching
Trainings on iximiuz Labs are centered around live playgrounds, not slides.
You can:
- Give students access to preconfigured single- or multi-node environments
- Prepare realistic setups (clusters, networks, storage, services)
- Let students experiment freely and recover safely
- Use Challenges, Tutorials, or just raw playgrounds
This works equally well for workshops, university courses, internal trainings, and self-paced programs.
Instructor control, student visibility
The Trainer Dashboard gives you:
- ✓ A training landing page with start/end dates
- ✓ Controlled enrollment and access
- ✓ Visibility into student progress
- ✓The ability to bundle content — or provide playground access only
You decide how structured the training should be.
Included with the Tinkerer plan
The Instructor experience is included in the Tinkerer plan.
Only the instructor needs a paid plan to create and run a training.
Students can join and participate using free accounts — no mandatory upgrades, no hidden paywalls.
If and when you want to give students more power, you can optionally assign Premium Seats (see below).
No setup. No cleanup. No surprises.
- ✓ No VM images to maintain
- ✓ No cloud accounts to provision
- ✓ No "it works on my machine" issues
- ✓ No last-minute demo failures
Students join with a click. Environments are ready in seconds.
Flexible for real-world teaching
iximiuz Labs is a good fit for:
- ✓ Live workshops and bootcamps
- ✓ University and vocational courses
- ✓ Internal company trainings
- ✓ Security and platform engineering labs
You can scale from a handful of students to dozens without changing your setup.
Premium seats, when you need them
Trainers can optionally assign Premium Seats to students to unlock:
- Bigger and longer-running playgrounds
- Persistent environments across sessions
- Access to Official learning materials (optional)
Seats are flexible and designed to match different training formats.
Focus on teaching, not tooling
If your training is supposed to be hands-on, your platform should be too. iximiuz Labs gives you production-like environments, predictable UX, and full control — so you can focus on teaching what actually matters.
Yearly plans are the best fit for long-term subscribers
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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 🚀
