Platform Engineering & AI Architecture
Master Platform Engineering, AI Systems, LLMs, and MLOps with comprehensive bootcamps, courses, and hands-on labs
All Bootcamps (3)
HashiCorp Vault Security Bootcamp
Comprehensive 3-week bootcamp mastering HashiCorp Vault from fundamentals to advanced operations. Learn secrets management, Kubernetes integration, enterprise deployment, and prepare for certification.
AI Platform Engineering Bootcamp
š” Beta bootcamp: hands-on labs, transcripts, and quizzes are ready for all 8 weeks. Video lessons are coming soon. Content may be refined as we iterate based on student feedback. An 8-week intensive program designed to transition Platform Engineers into AI Platform Engineering and LLMOps roles. Build production-ready AI systems using LLMs, RAG, agents, and MLOps practices on Kubernetes infrastructure. The 8 weeks build toward a capstone Platform Assistant: a production-ready AI system that combines the LLM integration, RAG, agent, MLOps, model serving, and observability layers introduced across each week. Each course advances one layer of that capstone so you finish with a single coherent system, not a pile of disconnected exercises.
Platform Engineering Bootcamp
š” Beta bootcamp: hands-on labs, transcripts, and quizzes are ready for all 21 weeks. Video lessons are coming soon. Content may be refined as we iterate based on student feedback. Comprehensive 21-week bootcamp equipping engineers with essential and advanced Platform Engineering and DevOps skills using industry-standard tools and best practices. All 21 weeks share a continuous project called TaskFlow: a full-stack application that grows progressively as you add each new technology. Each week starts from the TaskFlow state produced in the previous week and extends it with the new layer covered in that course (containers, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Vault, Istio, Backstage, and more). By the end you have built and operated a production-grade Internal Developer Platform end to end.
All Courses (49)
Backstage 101: Building Internal Developer Portals
Build Internal Developer Portals with Backstage and prepare for the CNCF Certified Backstage Associate (CBA) exam
HashiCorp Vault 101 (Exam 002) - Legacy
Master HashiCorp Vault fundamentals from basics to advanced concepts and prepare for the Certified Vault Associate exam.
Crossplane 101: Platform Engineering with Cloud-Native Infrastructure as Code
Build Internal Developer Platforms with Crossplane that enable self-service AWS infrastructure provisioning through Kubernetes APIs
Terraform Associate: AWS (Exam 004)
Master Terraform 1.14+ through hands-on labs. Build, test, and deploy infrastructure as code with AWS. Prepare for the Terraform Associate 004 certification.
Week 12: Ansible Configuration Management
Part of the Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Week 12 of 21. Master Ansible configuration management by automating TaskFlow deployment and server configuration.
Week 10: AWS Cloud Computing
Part of the Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Week 10 of 21. Master AWS cloud fundamentals by deploying TaskFlow to AWS infrastructure.
Week 4: AI Agents and Agentic Workflows
Part of the AI Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Week 4 of 8. The bootcamp follows an 8-week arc that culminates in a capstone Platform Assistant: a production-ready AI system you build by combining the LLM, RAG, agent, MLOps, model serving, and observability layers introduced across each week.
Week 1: AI Foundations for Infrastructure Engineers
Part of the AI Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Week 1 of 8. The bootcamp follows an 8-week arc that culminates in a capstone Platform Assistant: a production-ready AI system you build by combining the LLM, RAG, agent, MLOps, model serving, and observability layers introduced across each week.
Terraform Associate: Azure (Exam 004)
Master Terraform 1.14 through hands-on labs. Build, test, and deploy infrastructure as code with Microsoft Azure. Prepare for the Terraform Associate 004 certification.
All Labs (415)
Implementing Platform Cost Management with OpenCost
Deploy OpenCost in a Kubernetes cluster and gain visibility into workload costs across namespaces and teams.
CI/CD Security Scanning and Quality Gates
Add security scanning to your CI/CD pipeline, configure branch protection rules, and enforce quality gates that prevent merging broken or insecure code.
Git Fundamentals - Remote Workflows and History
Push and pull with remote repositories, inspect commit history, and search through your Git log with confidence.
Managed AI Routing and Serverless Endpoint
Build one production-style lab that combines managed AI routing, Lambda packaging, and an API Gateway endpoint with fallback behavior.
Advanced CI/CD Pipelines with Tekton
Build cloud-native CI/CD pipelines with Tekton - a key CNPA certification skill
Backstage Developer Portal
Build a developer portal with Backstage - a key CNPA certification skill
CI Pipeline Implementation
Implement CI pipelines with GitHub Actions - a key CNPA certification skill
Infrastructure Provisioning with Crossplane
Provision cloud infrastructure with Crossplane - a key CNPA certification skill
Declarative Resource Management with Kubernetes
Master declarative resource management patterns in Kubernetes - a core CNPA exam topic
All Puzzles (10)
Short, break-something-fix-it puzzles. Drop into a broken system, diagnose, fix, move on.
The Backup That Never Ran
The backup cron job "runs" every minute, but no files ever appear. Figure out why and make it work.
The Claim That Never Becomes Ready
A developer submitted a Crossplane claim two hours ago. It is still not Ready. Find out why and fix it.
Names Don't Resolve, But IPs Work
curl to 1.1.1.1 works, curl to cloudflare.com doesn't. Fix DNS resolution end-to-end.
The CrashLoopBackOff Trifecta
A pod is CrashLoopBackOff-ing for three different reasons stacked on top of each other. Fix all of them and get it Running.
Who Stole Port 80?
nginx won't start because something has port 80. Find the squatter, evict it cleanly, and get nginx serving again.
Runaway Process Eating Your Disk
/tmp is ballooning by the second and nobody knows why. Find the process responsible, kill it cleanly, and reclaim the space.
SSH Is Locked Out
A late-night sshd_config edit broke remote logins. Get SSH accepting connections again before the next on-call rotation.
Terraform State vs Reality
Someone renamed an S3 bucket and tagged an EC2 in the console. Now terraform apply fails. Reconcile state with reality without destroying the infrastructure.
Vault Policy Denies the App
The checkout app's Vault token can authenticate but can't read its own secret. Fix the policy.
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