Official Content Collection
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What's included in the Official Collection?
The Official Content Collection gives you full access to the learning materials authored by the iximiuz Labs team.
This content is built around one core idea:
You don't learn server-side skills by reading or watching videos — you learn by doing.
Hands-on first, always
Most learning platforms start with videos or theory and maybe add exercises later. iximiuz Labs does the opposite.
The Official Content Collection is centered around practical, hands-on Challenges that drop you into realistic environments and ask you to fix, build, or debug something — just like on the job.
You're given:
- A prepared Linux / Docker / Kubernetes playground
- A concrete problem to solve
- Freedom to choose your own approach
- Validation based on the final system state, not copy-pasted commands
No step-by-step hand-holding. No fake "type this command" labs. Just real problems and real systems.
Practical Challenges (the core format)
Challenges are the backbone of the Official content collection.
Challenges are:
- Short, focused, and realistic
- Designed to fit into daily practice sessions
- Ideal for building intuition and operational confidence
You'll work on things like:
- Linux process control, networking, and storage
- Docker images, containers, volumes, and registries
- Kubernetes workloads, scheduling, and failure scenarios
Many engineers use Challenges as:
- ✓ Daily practice reps
- ✓ Interview preparation
- ✓Validating what they think they know
Tutorials that support the doing
Official Tutorials are long-form, technical deep dives — but always tied to practice.
Tutorials:
- Explain why things work the way they do
- Include diagrams and reproducible setups
- Are usually paired with a playground so you can experiment immediately
You'll often encounter Tutorials naturally while solving Challenges, when a concept needs deeper explanation.
Courses (present, but limited)
There are Official Courses — but this part of the catalog is still growing.
Today, Courses are best thought of as:
- Structured bundles of Tutorials and Challenges
- A guided path through a specific domain
They are not the main value of the Official Content Collection yet, and that's intentional.
The focus remains on flexible, hands-on practice — not locking learning behind long curricula.
What's included — and what's not
The Official Content Collection includes:
- ✓Full access to Official Challenges, Tutorials, Skill Paths, Roadmaps, and Courses (authored by the iximiuz Labs team)
It does not include:
- ✗ Paid content by independent authors
- ✗ Private or commercial training materials
Important distinctions:
- Community content is always free
- Independent author content may require separate payment
- The Official Collection is strictly about materials authored by the iximiuz Labs team
This keeps things transparent and avoids bundling content you may not want.
A lot is already free — and that's on purpose
A large portion of the Official content is available for free, and that's a deliberate choice.
High-quality, hands-on learning shouldn't be locked away entirely.
But keeping it accessible takes time, infrastructure, and ongoing work.
By purchasing the Official Content Pack, you're not just unlocking everything — you're supporting the continued creation of free, high-quality learning materials for the entire community.
Who the Official Content Collection is for
- ✓ Engineers who learn best by solving real problems
- ✓ People tired of passive, video- or text-only learning
- ✓ Anyone using Playgrounds and wanting structured practice
- ✓ Learners who value depth, realism, and honesty over volume
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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 🚀
