Deep dives into DevOps and server-side topics, combining theory with hands-on examples. Run every command in an attached remote playground, from your browser or local terminal over SSH — no setup required.
Tutorials crafted by iximiuz Labs to help you master DevOps and Server Side topics.
Learn how Linux containers are built from the ground up. Starting with the mount namespace and a root filesystem, see why PID, cgroup, UTS, and network namespaces naturally follow - and how this foundation makes concepts like bind mounts, volumes, and persistence in Docker or Kubernetes much easier to grasp.
Begin with the basics to understand Docker and Kubernetes networking: learn how to create and interconnect Linux network namespaces using only command-line tools.
How Virtual Machines were used to deploy services. What old problems containers solve and what new problems create. How Kubernetes used containers to recreate Virtual Machines in a better way?
Learn how servers actually work by building a tiny TCP server and client from scratch. A hands-on introduction to sockets, TCP, and the network programming model every backend, DevOps, and platform engineer should go through at least once.
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Learn how Inspektor Gadget pairs eBPF with WASM to process kernel events—and walk through the same idea yourself by implementing a minimal example.
Learn how to configure and use Kubernetes Runtime Classes to specify different container runtimes for your workloads. Explore different OCI runtimes and their scheduling constraints.
OpenScience Demo content: How to capture a massive piece of high-performance compute (HPC) code named Kaiju and Gamera in a Container
In this tutorial, we'll dive into the world of Docker Security, look at the attack surface of a Docker installation and show some straightforward container breakouts
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This tutorial will help you configure your rootless podman instance to pull from only from specific registries, using different OCI runtimes as well as configure all containers to have specific attributes all without any daemon restarts or sudo calls.
Follow along with Liz Rice's classic GOTO 2018 presentation and build your own container runtime in under 100 lines of Go using Linux namespaces, chroot, and cgroups.
A container image and a bootable root filesystem are not the same artifact. This tutorial builds both from the same Dockerfile so you can see exactly where they diverge: what a plain ubuntu:24.04 is missing, the five requirements an iximiuz Labs playground rootfs has to satisfy, and how to prove an image would boot without being able to boot it. Ends with the same image built the easy way, from the official rootfs base.
Take a stock Debian SSH server and harden it the way you would in production: replace passwords with public-key auth, disable root login, add a TOTP second factor with PAM, and move off port 22, then prove it works by logging in, all inside the playground.
Tutorials prepared by software vendors to help you learn and experiment with their products and services.
Deploy VictoriaMetrics on Kubernetes using the VM Operator, configure metrics scraping with CRDs, and query cluster metrics.
Learn how to create and manage a multi-machine Uncloud cluster from scratch. This hands-on tutorial walks you through initializing a cluster, adding machines, managing contexts, and deploying your first containerized service.
In this tutorial, we will learn how to use the new plugin system in Flux 2.9 to: validate manifests, mirror charts into local registries and deploy using Gitless GitOps principles.
Pomerium can be used as a native SSH reverse proxy, adding OAuth authentication and flexible Pomerium policy enforcement to standard SSH connections, without the need for tunnels, or custom clients or servers.
