Topic-First Index¶
Find content by topic regardless of domain. Search for what you need.
Linux¶
/proc Filesystem (procfs, proc, proc-pid, proc-meminfo)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| /proc Filesystem | Topic Pack | L2 |
Bash / Shell Scripting (bash, shell, scripting, shell-scripting) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Bash Exercises (Quest Ladder) (CLI) | Exercise Set | L0 |
| Linux Ops | Topic Pack | L0 |
| Linux Ops Drills | Drill | L0 |
| Skillcheck: Bash | Assessment | L0 |
| Track: Foundations | Reference | L0 |
| Advanced Bash for Ops | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Bash Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Cron & Job Scheduling | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Environment Variables | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Linux Text Processing | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Make & Build Systems | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Pipes & Redirection | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Process Management | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Regex & Text Wrangling | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Terminal Internals | Topic Pack | L1 |
| awk: The Record/Field Processor | Topic Pack | L1 |
| find | Topic Pack | L1 |
| grep & Regular Expressions | Topic Pack | L1 |
| sed: The Stream Editor | Topic Pack | L1 |
| xargs | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Fleet Operations at Scale | Topic Pack | L2 |
| LPIC / LFCS Exam Preparation | Topic Pack | L2 |
| RHCE (EX294) Exam Preparation | Topic Pack | L2 |
Binary & Number Representation (binary, integers, floats, bitwise)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Binary Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Binary and Floats | Topic Pack | L1 |
Cron & Job Scheduling (crontab, systemd-timers, cronjob, at)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Cron & Job Scheduling | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Cron Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
DNF Package Manager (dnf5, yum4, dnf-automatic, versionlock)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| DNF Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| DNF Package Manager | Topic Pack | L2 |
Debian & Ubuntu Ecosystem (debian, ubuntu, apt, dpkg) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Debian & Ubuntu Ecosystem | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Debian Ubuntu Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Linux Distribution Comparison | Topic Pack | L1 |
Disk & Storage Ops (fdisk, parted, lvm, mdadm)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Disk & Storage Ops | Topic Pack | L1 |
Environment Variables (env, env-vars, PATH, export)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Environment Variables | Topic Pack | L1 |
Filesystems & Storage (ext4, xfs, btrfs, file-systems) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Case Study: Disk Full Root Services Down | Case Study | L1 |
| Case Study: Runaway Logs Fill Disk | Case Study | L1 |
| Disk & Storage Ops | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Inodes | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Inodes Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Linux Filesystem Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Runbook: Disk Full | Runbook | L1 |
| Case Study: NVMe Drive Disappeared | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: Stuck NFS Mount | Case Study | L2 |
| Deep Dive: Linux Filesystem Internals | Deep Dive | L2 |
| Deep Dive: Linux Performance Debugging | Deep Dive | L2 |
| Runbook: PostgreSQL Disk Space Critical | Runbook | L2 |
| Storage Operations | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Kernel Troubleshooting | Topic Pack | L3 |
Kernel Troubleshooting (dmesg, kernel-panic, crash-dump, kdump)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Kernel Troubleshooting | Topic Pack | L3 |
LPIC / LFCS Exam (lpic, lfcs, lpic-1, lpic-2)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| LPIC/LFCS Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| LPIC / LFCS Exam Preparation | Topic Pack | L2 |
Linux Boot Process (boot, grub, initramfs, uefi)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Boot Process | Topic Pack | L1 |
Linux Data Hoarding (data-hoarding, snapraid, jbod, par2)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Data Hoarding Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Linux Data Hoarding | Topic Pack | L2 |
Linux Distribution Comparison (distro, distros, linux-distributions, rhel-vs-ubuntu)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Distribution Comparison | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Linux Distros Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Linux Fundamentals (linux, linux-basics, filesystem, permissions) → full page¶
Linux Hardening (os-hardening, cis-benchmark, system-hardening) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Security Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Linux Users & Permissions | Topic Pack | L1 |
| SSH Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Compliance & Audit Automation | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Deep Dive: Systemd Service Design Debugging and Hardening | Deep Dive | L2 |
| Infrastructure Forensics | Topic Pack | L2 |
| LDAP & Identity Management | Topic Pack | L2 |
| SELinux & AppArmor | Topic Pack | L2 |
| SELinux & Linux Hardening | Topic Pack | L2 |
Linux Kernel Tuning (sysctl, kernel-tuning, tcp-tuning, ulimit)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Kernel Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Linux Kernel Tuning | Topic Pack | L2 |
Linux Logging (syslog, rsyslog, journald, journalctl)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Logging | Topic Pack | L1 |
Linux Memory Management (memory, oom-killer, swap, vmstat) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Memory Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Linux Memory Management | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Runbook: OOM Killer Activated | Runbook | L1 |
Linux Ops Performance Triage (perf-triage, linux-perf-triage, ops-triage)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Performance Tuning | Topic Pack | L2 |
Linux Ops Storage (linux-storage-ops, disk-ops, storage-triage)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Ops Storage | Topic Pack | L1 |
Linux Ops systemd (systemd-ops, systemd-triage, service-management)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Ops Systemd | Topic Pack | L1 |
Linux Performance Tuning (perf, flamegraph, sysctl, strace) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Memory Management | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Linux Performance Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Runbook: High CPU (Runaway Process) | Runbook | L1 |
| /proc Filesystem | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Linux Kernel Tuning | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Linux Performance Tuning | Topic Pack | L2 |
Linux Signals & Process Control (signals, sigterm, sigkill, kill)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Signals & Process Control | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Runbook: Zombie Processes Accumulating | Runbook | L2 |
Linux Text Processing (sort, uniq, cut, tr)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Text Processing | Topic Pack | L1 |
Linux Users & Permissions (chmod, chown, acl, sudo)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Users & Permissions | Topic Pack | L1 |
Mounts & Filesystems (alias) (mount-ops, filesystem-ops, fstab-ops)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Mounts Filesystems | Topic Pack | L1 |
Package Management (apt, yum, rpm, dpkg) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Ops | Topic Pack | L0 |
| Skillcheck: Linux Fundamentals | Assessment | L0 |
| Debian & Ubuntu Ecosystem | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Package Management | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Package Management Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Pipes & Redirection (pipes, redirection, stdin, stdout)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Pipes & Redirection | Topic Pack | L1 |
Process Management (signals, zombie, orphan, nohup) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Processes Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Process Management | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Runbook: High CPU (Runaway Process) | Runbook | L1 |
| Runbook: Zombie Processes Accumulating | Runbook | L2 |
SSH Deep Dive (ssh, sshd, ssh-keygen, ssh-agent)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| SSH Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L1 |
| SSH Hygiene Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Terminal Internals (terminal, tty, pty, shell)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Terminal Internals | Topic Pack | L1 |
cgroups & Linux Namespaces (cgroups, namespaces, cgroup-v2, unshare)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| cgroups & Linux Namespaces | Topic Pack | L2 |
eBPF (bpftrace, bcc-tools, kernel-tracing, tcplife) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| eBPF Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Cilium & eBPF Networking | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Linux Performance Tuning | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Deep Dive: eBPF Explained | Deep Dive | L3 |
| eBPF & Modern Linux Observability | Topic Pack | L3 |
iptables & nftables (iptables, nftables, firewall, netfilter)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| iptables & nftables | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Case Study: Ansible Playbook Hangs — SSH Agent Forwarding Blocked by Firewall | Case Study | L2 |
perf Profiling (perf, profiling, performance, tracing)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Performance Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| perf Profiling | Topic Pack | L2 |
rsync (rsync, file-sync, delta-transfer, backup)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| rsync | Topic Pack | L1 |
strace (strace, syscalls, tracing)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Strace Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| strace | Topic Pack | L1 |
systemctl & journalctl Deep Dive (systemctl, journalctl, unit-files, timer-units)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| systemctl & journalctl Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L1 |
systemd (systemctl, journalctl, services, units) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Ops | Topic Pack | L0 |
| Skillcheck: Linux Fundamentals | Assessment | L0 |
| Case Study: Systemd Service Flapping | Case Study | L1 |
| Cron & Job Scheduling | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Linux Boot Process | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Linux Logging | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Linux Systemd Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Ops Archaeology: The Service That Won't Start | Case Study | L1 |
| Runbook: Systemd Service Crash Loop | Runbook | L1 |
| systemctl & journalctl Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Deep Dive: Linux Boot Sequence | Deep Dive | L2 |
| Deep Dive: Systemd Architecture | Deep Dive | L2 |
| Deep Dive: Systemd Service Design Debugging and Hardening | Deep Dive | L2 |
| Deep Dive: Systemd Timers Journald Cgroups and Resource Control | Deep Dive | L2 |
| Deep Dive: Systemd Units Dependencies and Ordering | Deep Dive | L2 |
| LPIC / LFCS Exam Preparation | Topic Pack | L2 |
| RHCE (EX294) Exam Preparation | Topic Pack | L2 |
tar & Compression (tar, gzip, bzip2, xz)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| tar & Compression | Topic Pack | L1 |
tmux & screen (tmux, screen, terminal-multiplexer, detach)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| tmux & screen | Topic Pack | L1 |
Networking¶
ARP (arp-table, mac-address, neighbor-discovery) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| ARP | Topic Pack | L1 |
| ARP Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Case Study: ARP Flux Duplicate IP | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: Proxy ARP Causing Issues | Case Study | L2 |
BGP EVPN / VXLAN (evpn, vxlan, vtep, vni)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| BGP EVPN / VXLAN | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Case Study: API Latency Spike — BGP Route Leak, Fix Is Network ACL | Case Study | L2 |
Cisco CLI (ios, show-commands, cisco-basics, cisco-fundamentals-for-devops) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Cisco Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Cisco Fundamentals for DevOps | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Networking Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Scenario: VLAN Trunk Mismatch | Scenario | L2 |
DHCP & IP Address Management (dhcp, ipam, dhcp-relay, lease)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| DHCP & IP Address Management | Topic Pack | L1 |
| DHCP Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
DNS (domain-name-system, coredns, dig, nslookup) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Case Study: DNS Resolution Slow | Case Study | L1 |
| DHCP & IP Address Management | Topic Pack | L1 |
| DNS Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L1 |
| DNS Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Networking Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Networking Drills | Drill | L1 |
| Runbook: DNS Resolution Failure | Runbook | L1 |
| Skillcheck: Networking Fundamentals | Assessment | L1 |
| AWS Route 53 | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Case Study: CoreDNS Timeout Pod DNS | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: DNS Looks Broken — TLS Expired, Fix Is Cert-Manager | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: DNS Split Horizon Confusion | Case Study | L2 |
| DNS Operations | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Incident Simulator (18 scenarios) (CLI) | Exercise Set | L2 |
| Ops Archaeology: The 5% That Can't Resolve | Case Study | L2 |
| Scenario: DNS Looks Fine but App Fails | Scenario | L2 |
DNS Deep Dive (dns-internals, dig, zone-files, dns-resolution)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| DNS Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L1 |
DNSSEC & DNS Security (dnssec, dns-security, doh, dot)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Dnssec Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| DNSSEC & DNS Security | Topic Pack | L2 |
Email Infrastructure (spf, dkim, dmarc, smtp)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Email Infrastructure | Topic Pack | L1 |
Firewalls (firewall, iptables, nftables, ufw) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Firewalls | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Firewalls Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Case Study: Firewall Shadow Rule | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: IPTables Blocking Unexpected | Case Study | L2 |
| VPN & Tunneling | Topic Pack | L2 |
HTTP Protocol (http, https, web, apis) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| HTTP Protocol | Topic Pack | L0 |
| HTTP Protocol Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| gRPC & Protocol Buffers | Topic Pack | L2 |
LACP / Link Aggregation (link-aggregation, bonding, etherchannel, port-channel) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Case Study: Bonding Failover Not Working | Case Study | L1 |
| Cisco Fundamentals for DevOps | Topic Pack | L1 |
| LACP | Topic Pack | L1 |
| LACP Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Networking Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Case Study: LACP Mismatch One Link Hot | Case Study | L2 |
| Scenario: NIC Flapping / LACP Mismatch | Scenario | L2 |
Linux Networking Tools (ip-command, ss, tcpdump, ethtool) → full page¶
Linux Networking Tools (alias → linux_ops) (ip-command, ss, mtr, traceroute)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Ops | Topic Pack | L0 |
Load Balancing (load-balancer, haproxy, nginx-lb, reverse-proxy) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Load Balancing Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Nginx & Web Servers | Topic Pack | L1 |
| API Gateways & Ingress | Topic Pack | L2 |
| HAProxy & Nginx for Ops | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Runbook: Load Balancer Health Check Failure | Runbook | L2 |
MTU (mtu-blackhole, jumbo-frames, path-mtu, fragmentation) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| MTU | Topic Pack | L1 |
| MTU Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Networking Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Case Study: Jumbo Frames Partial | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: MTU Blackhole TLS Stalls | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: SSH Timeout — MTU Mismatch, Fix Is Terraform Variable | Case Study | L2 |
| Runbook: MTU Mismatch | Runbook | L2 |
| Scenario: MTU Blackhole | Scenario | L2 |
Mellanox Switches (mellanox, nvidia-networking, onyx, mlnx-os)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Mellanox Switches Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Mellanox Switches | Topic Pack | L2 |
NAT (snat, dnat, masquerade, port-forwarding)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| NAT | Topic Pack | L1 |
| NAT Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Network Automation (napalm, nornir, netmiko, network-automation)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Network Automation | Topic Pack | L2 |
Networking Troubleshooting (network-debug, connectivity-issues, packet-loss, latency) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Networking Troubleshooting | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Runbook: DNS Resolution Failure | Runbook | L1 |
| Runbook: Load Balancer Health Check Failure | Runbook | L2 |
| Runbook: MTU Mismatch | Runbook | L2 |
| Runbook: Network Partition (Split Brain / Partial Connectivity) | Runbook | L2 |
Networking Troubleshooting Tools (tcpdump, nmap, netcat, iperf3)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Networking Troubleshooting | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Tcpdump Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Packet Path (packet-flow, network-path, network-troubleshooting)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Packet Path Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Deep Dive: Linux Network Packet Flow | Deep Dive | L2 |
Routing (routes, gateway, bgp, ospf) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Networking Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Routing | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Routing Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Skillcheck: Networking Fundamentals | Assessment | L1 |
| Case Study: Asymmetric Routing One Direction | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: BGP Peer Flapping | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: Multicast Not Crossing Router | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: OSPF Stuck In Exstart | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: Proxy ARP Causing Issues | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: Source Routing Policy Miss | Case Study | L2 |
| Deep Dive: AWS VPC Internals | Deep Dive | L2 |
| Scenario: Asymmetric Routing | Scenario | L2 |
STP / Spanning Tree (spanning-tree, rstp, bridge-loops) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Cisco Fundamentals for DevOps | Topic Pack | L1 |
| STP (Spanning Tree) | Topic Pack | L1 |
| STP Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Subnetting & IP Addressing (subnetting, cidr, ip-addressing, subnet-mask)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Subnetting & IP Addressing | Topic Pack | L1 |
TCP/IP (tcp, ip, networking-fundamentals, osi-model) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| AWS Networking | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Case Study: Duplex Mismatch Symptoms | Case Study | L1 |
| DHCP & IP Address Management | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Networking Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Networking Drills | Drill | L1 |
| Networking Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Networking Troubleshooting | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Skillcheck: Networking Fundamentals | Assessment | L1 |
| Adversarial Interview Gauntlet (30 sequences) | Scenario | L2 |
| Case Study: NAT Exhaustion Intermittent | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: TCP RST After Idle | Case Study | L2 |
| Deep Dive: TCP/IP Deep Dive | Deep Dive | L2 |
| Deep Dive: TLS Handshake | Deep Dive | L2 |
| TCP/IP Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L2 |
TCP/IP Deep Dive (tcp-states, tcp-handshake, congestion-control, bbr)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| TCP/IP Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L2 |
Tailscale & Zero Trust Networking (tailscale, wireguard, zero-trust, mesh-vpn)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Tailscale & Zero Trust Networking | Topic Pack | L2 |
VLANs (vlan, trunk, 802.1q, tagged) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Case Study: DHCP Relay Broken | Case Study | L1 |
| Case Study: VLAN Trunk Mistag | Case Study | L1 |
| Cisco Fundamentals for DevOps | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Networking Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Skillcheck: Networking Fundamentals | Assessment | L1 |
| VLANs | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Vlans Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Case Study: Backup Job Failing — iSCSI Target Unreachable, VLAN Misconfigured | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: Multicast Not Crossing Router | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: Network Loop Broadcast Storm | Case Study | L2 |
| Scenario: VLAN Trunk Mismatch | Scenario | L2 |
VPN & Tunneling (openvpn, ipsec, ssh-tunnel, overlay-network) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| VPN Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Tailscale & Zero Trust Networking | Topic Pack | L2 |
| VPN & Tunneling | Topic Pack | L2 |
Wireshark & Packet Analysis (wireshark, packet-capture, tshark, pcap)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Wireshark & Packet Analysis | Topic Pack | L2 |
gRPC & Protocol Buffers (grpc, protobuf, protocol-buffers, grpc-streaming)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| gRPC & Protocol Buffers | Topic Pack | L2 |
Datacenter & Hardware¶
BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) (baseboard-management-controller, bmc-firmware, bmc-network, bmc-reset) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Case Study: iDRAC Unreachable OS Up | Case Study | L1 |
| IPMI and ipmitool | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Redfish API | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Case Study: BMC Clock Skew Cert Failure | Case Study | L2 |
Datacenter RAID & Disk Failures (alias → disk_and_storage_ops) (raid-failures, disk-failures, raid-rebuild-ops)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Disk & Storage Ops | Topic Pack | L1 |
Firmware / BIOS / UEFI (bios, uefi, firmware-update, post) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Case Study: BIOS Settings Reset After CMOS | Case Study | L1 |
| Case Study: PXE Boot Fails UEFI Mismatch | Case Study | L1 |
| Datacenter & Server Hardware | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Dell PowerEdge Servers | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Firmware | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Firmware Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Redfish API | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Scenario: Server Won't Boot After Update | Scenario | L1 |
| Case Study: Firmware Update Boot Loop | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: HBA Firmware Mismatch | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: Node NotReady — NIC Firmware Bug, Fix Is Ansible Playbook | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: OS Install Fails RAID Controller | Case Study | L2 |
| Interview: Server Won't POST | Scenario | L2 |
Hardware Security (bmc-security, ipmi-security, cipher-suite, rakp)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| IPMI and ipmitool | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Redfish API | Topic Pack | L1 |
IPMI / ipmitool (ipmitool, ipmi-protocol, rmcp, lanplus)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| IPMI and ipmitool | Topic Pack | L1 |
Out-of-Band Management (idrac, ilo, ipmi, bmc) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Case Study: Serial Console Garbled | Case Study | L1 |
| Case Study: Server Remote Console Lag | Case Study | L1 |
| Case Study: iDRAC Unreachable OS Up | Case Study | L1 |
| Datacenter & Server Hardware | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Datacenter Drills | Drill | L1 |
| Datacenter Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Dell PowerEdge Servers | Topic Pack | L1 |
| IPMI and ipmitool | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Redfish API | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Scenario: Server Won't Boot After Update | Scenario | L1 |
| Skillcheck: Datacenter | Assessment | L1 |
| Bare-Metal Provisioning | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Case Study: BMC Clock Skew Cert Failure | Case Study | L2 |
| Deep Dive: Dell Linux PowerEdge | Deep Dive | L2 |
| Scenario: OOB Unreachable but Host Responds | Scenario | L2 |
PXE / Provisioning (pxe-boot, imaging, golden-image, kickstart) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Case Study: PXE Boot Fails UEFI Mismatch | Case Study | L1 |
| Datacenter & Server Hardware | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Bare-Metal Provisioning | Topic Pack | L2 |
Power & UPS (ups, pdu, power-redundancy, power-management) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Case Study: Power Supply Redundancy Lost | Case Study | L1 |
| Case Study: Rack PDU Overload Alert | Case Study | L1 |
| Power | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Case Study: Server Intermittent Reboot | Case Study | L2 |
RAID (raid-levels, raid-rebuild, disk-arrays, megaraid) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Datacenter & Server Hardware | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Dell PowerEdge Servers | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Disk & Storage Ops | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Scenario: RAID Array Degraded | Scenario | L1 |
| Skillcheck: Datacenter | Assessment | L1 |
| Case Study: Database Replication Lag — Root Cause Is RAID Degradation | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: OS Install Fails RAID Controller | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: RAID Degraded Rebuild Latency | Case Study | L2 |
| Deep Dive: RAID and Storage Internals | Deep Dive | L2 |
| Storage Operations | Topic Pack | L2 |
Rack & Stack (racking, cabling, labeling, airflow) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Case Study: Cable Management Wrong Port | Case Study | L1 |
| Case Study: Link Flaps Bad Optic | Case Study | L1 |
| Case Study: Rack PDU Overload Alert | Case Study | L1 |
| Datacenter & Server Hardware | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Datacenter Drills | Drill | L1 |
| Scenario: Thermal Throttling | Scenario | L1 |
| Skillcheck: Datacenter | Assessment | L1 |
Redfish API (redfish-api, dmtf-redfish, rest-bmc, redfish-v1)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Redfish API | Topic Pack | L1 |
Server Hardware (dimm, cpu, nic, hba) → full page¶
Storage (SAN/NAS/DAS) (san, nas, das, iscsi) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Storage Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Case Study: Backup Job Failing — iSCSI Target Unreachable, VLAN Misconfigured | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: HBA Firmware Mismatch | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: NVMe Drive Disappeared | Case Study | L2 |
| Deep Dive: RAID and Storage Internals | Deep Dive | L2 |
| Storage Operations | Topic Pack | L2 |
VMware (vsphere, esxi, vcenter, vmware-ha)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| VMware Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| VMware | Topic Pack | L2 |
Virtualization (kvm, qemu, libvirt, hypervisor) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Virtualization Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| VMware | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Virtualization | Topic Pack | L2 |
Kubernetes¶
API Gateways & Ingress (kong, traefik, api-management, rate-limiting)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Api Gateway Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| API Gateways & Ingress | Topic Pack | L2 |
Argo Workflows (argo-workflows, dag-workflows, workflow-engine, argo-events)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Argo Workflows | Topic Pack | L2 |
Cilium & eBPF Networking (cilium, hubble, cilium-cni, ebpf-networking)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Cilium Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Cilium & eBPF Networking | Topic Pack | L2 |
Container Base Images (base-image, distroless, scratch, alpine-container)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Container Base Images Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Container Images | Topic Pack | L1 |
Container Image Optimization (alias → container_images) (distroless, multi-stage, slim-images, docker-slim)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Container Images | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Deep Dive: Docker Image Internals | Deep Dive | L2 |
Container Runtimes (containerd, cri-o, runc, cgroups) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Container Runtime Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Containers Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Interview: Docker Container Debugging | Scenario | L1 |
| Container Runtime Drills | Drill | L2 |
| Deep Dive: Containers How They Really Work | Deep Dive | L2 |
| Skillcheck: Container Runtime Debug | Assessment | L2 |
| cgroups & Linux Namespaces | Topic Pack | L2 |
CrashLoopBackOff (crashloop, crash-loop, pod-restart) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Runbook: Pod CrashLoopBackOff | Runbook | L1 |
| Incident Simulator (18 scenarios) (CLI) | Exercise Set | L2 |
| Kubernetes Ops (Production) | Topic Pack | L2 |
CrashLoopBackOff (alias) (crash-loop-backoff, pod-crashloop)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| CrashLoopBackOff | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Crashloopbackoff Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Database Locking (row-lock, table-lock, deadlock, optimistic-locking)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Runbook: Long-Running Query / Lock Contention | Runbook | L2 |
Database Operations (statefulsets, database, mysql, backup-restore) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Fundamentals | Topic Pack | L0 |
| AWS Database Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Database Operations Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Database Operations on Kubernetes | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Database Ops Drills | Drill | L2 |
| PostgreSQL Operations | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Redis Operations | Topic Pack | L2 |
| SQLite Operations & Internals | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Skillcheck: Database Ops | Assessment | L2 |
| Interview: Database Failover During Deploy | Scenario | L3 |
Database Replication (db-replication, primary-replica, replication-lag)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Runbook: PostgreSQL Replication Lag | Runbook | L2 |
Docker / Containers (containers, dockerfile, docker-compose, images) → full page¶
Envoy Proxy (envoy-proxy, envoy-xds, l7-proxy)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Envoy Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Envoy Proxy | Topic Pack | L2 |
HPA / Autoscaling (horizontal-pod-autoscaler, autoscaling, metrics-server) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes Exercises (Quest Ladder) (CLI) | Exercise Set | L1 |
| Lab: HPA Live Scaling (CLI) | Lab | L1 |
| Skillcheck: Kubernetes | Assessment | L1 |
| Incident Simulator (18 scenarios) (CLI) | Exercise Set | L2 |
| Interview: HPA Not Scaling | Scenario | L2 |
| Kubernetes Ops (Production) | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Runbook: HPA Not Scaling | Runbook | L2 |
| Runbook: HPA Thrashing (Rapid Scale Up/Down) | Runbook | L2 |
HashiCorp Consul (consul, consul-connect, service-discovery, hashicorp-consul)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Consul Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| HashiCorp Consul | Topic Pack | L2 |
Istio Service Mesh (istio-mesh, istiod, istio-pilot)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Istio Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Istio Service Mesh | Topic Pack | L2 |
K8s Ecosystem (kubernetes-ecosystem, k8s-landscape, cncf) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| K8s Ecosystem | Topic Pack | L0 |
| Kubernetes Operators Drills | Drill | L3 |
| Skillcheck: Kubernetes Operators | Assessment | L3 |
K8s HPA (alias → k8s_ops) (horizontal-pod-autoscaler-ops, hpa-ops)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes Ops (Production) | Topic Pack | L2 |
K8s Probes (alias → k8s_ops) (liveness-readiness, probe-ops, health-probes)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes Ops (Production) | Topic Pack | L2 |
Kubernetes Concept Chain (concept-chain, k8s-concepts, k8s-architecture, why-kubernetes)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes Concept Chain | Topic Pack | L0 |
| Kubernetes Concept Chain Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Kubernetes Core (kubernetes, pods, deployments, services) → full page¶
Kubernetes Debugging (k8s-debug, pod-troubleshooting, kubectl-debug) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes Advanced Operations Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Kubernetes Troubleshooting Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Kubernetes Debugging Playbook | Topic Pack | L2 |
Kubernetes Networking (cni, network-policies, ingress, coredns) → full page¶
Kubernetes Operators (operators, crds, custom-resources, operator-sdk)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| K8s Ecosystem | Topic Pack | L0 |
| Kubernetes Operators Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Kubernetes Pods & Scheduling (pods, scheduling, affinity, taints)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes Pods & Scheduling | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Kubernetes Workloads Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Kubernetes Services & Ingress (services, ingress, clusterip, nodeport) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes Services & Ingress | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Kubernetes Services Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Runbook: Ingress 502 Bad Gateway | Runbook | L2 |
Kubernetes Storage (pv, pvc, storage-class, csi) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| K8s Storage | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Kubernetes Exercises (Quest Ladder) (CLI) | Exercise Set | L1 |
| Kubernetes Storage Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Runbook: PVC Stuck in Pending | Runbook | L1 |
| Track: Kubernetes Core | Reference | L1 |
| Case Study: Persistent Volume Stuck Terminating | Case Study | L2 |
| Database Operations on Kubernetes | Topic Pack | L2 |
Kustomize (kustomize, kustomization, overlays, patches)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Kustomize | Topic Pack | L1 |
Multi-Tenancy Patterns (tenant-isolation, noisy-neighbor, fair-scheduling, namespace-isolation)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Multi Tenancy Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Multi-Tenancy Patterns | Topic Pack | L2 |
Node Lifecycle & Maintenance (node-upgrade, node-drain, pdb, kubelet) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes Node Lifecycle Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Node Maintenance | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Runbook: Node NotReady | Runbook | L1 |
| Case Study: DaemonSet Blocks Eviction | Case Study | L2 |
| Kubernetes Node Lifecycle | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Kubernetes Ops (Production) | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Skillcheck: Kubernetes Under the Covers | Assessment | L2 |
OOMKilled (oom, out-of-memory, resource-limits, memory) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Lab: Resource Limits OOMKilled (CLI) | Lab | L1 |
| Runbook: OOMKilled Container | Runbook | L1 |
| Case Study: Node Pressure Evictions | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: Pod OOMKilled — Memory Leak in Sidecar, Fix Is Helm Values | Case Study | L2 |
| Incident Simulator (18 scenarios) (CLI) | Exercise Set | L2 |
| Interview: Pods OOMKilled | Scenario | L2 |
| Kubernetes Ops (Production) | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Ops Archaeology: The Session Store That Keeps Dying | Case Study | L2 |
OOMKilled (alias) (oom-killed, out-of-memory-killed)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| OOMKilled | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Oomkilled Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Policy Engines (opa, gatekeeper, kyverno, admission-control) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Policy Engines Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Interview: Kyverno Blocking Deploys | Scenario | L2 |
| Multi-Tenancy Patterns | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Policy Engine Drills | Drill | L2 |
| Policy Engines (OPA / Kyverno) | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Runbook: Kyverno Blocking Workloads | Runbook | L2 |
| Skillcheck: Policy Engines | Assessment | L2 |
Probes (Liveness/Readiness) (liveness, readiness, startup-probe, healthcheck) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes Exercises (Quest Ladder) (CLI) | Exercise Set | L1 |
| Lab: Readiness Probe Failure (CLI) | Lab | L1 |
| Runbook: Readiness Probe Failed | Runbook | L1 |
| Skillcheck: Kubernetes | Assessment | L1 |
| Track: Kubernetes Core | Reference | L1 |
| Incident Simulator (18 scenarios) (CLI) | Exercise Set | L2 |
| Interview: Deployment Stuck Progressing | Scenario | L2 |
| Kubernetes Ops (Production) | Topic Pack | L2 |
Progressive Delivery (canary, blue-green, argo-rollouts, flagger)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Progressive Delivery | Topic Pack | L2 |
RBAC (roles, clusterroles, service-accounts, rbac) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| K8s RBAC | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Kubernetes Exercises (Quest Ladder) (CLI) | Exercise Set | L1 |
| Kubernetes RBAC Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Kubernetes Security Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Track: Kubernetes Core | Reference | L1 |
| Interview: RBAC Forbidden | Scenario | L2 |
| Multi-Tenancy Patterns | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Policy Engines (OPA / Kyverno) | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Runbook: RBAC Forbidden | Runbook | L2 |
Service Mesh (istio, linkerd, envoy, sidecar) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Service Mesh Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Interview: Service Mesh 503s | Scenario | L3 |
| Runbook: Istio 503 Errors | Runbook | L3 |
| Service Mesh | Topic Pack | L3 |
| Service Mesh Drills | Drill | L3 |
| Skillcheck: Service Mesh | Assessment | L3 |
cert-manager (cert-manager, lets-encrypt, acme, tls-automation)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| cert-manager | Topic Pack | L1 |
etcd (etcd-backup, etcd-restore, etcd-cluster) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| etcd | Topic Pack | L1 |
| etcd Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Runbook: etcd Backup & Restore | Runbook | L2 |
| Skillcheck: etcd | Assessment | L2 |
| etcd Drills | Drill | L2 |
| Interview: etcd Space Exceeded | Scenario | L3 |
| Runbook: etcd High Latency / Slow Operations | Runbook | L3 |
| Scenario: etcd Troubleshooting | Scenario | L3 |
DevOps & Tooling¶
AI Tools for DevOps (ai, llm, chatgpt, claude) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| AI Tools for DevOps | Topic Pack | L1 |
| AI-Assisted DevOps Cookbook | Reference | L1 |
| Generativeai Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| The Ops of AI/ML Workloads | Topic Pack | L2 |
AI/ML Infrastructure Ops (gpu-scheduling, model-serving, vllm, triton) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Datascience Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| MLOps Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| The Ops of AI/ML Workloads | Topic Pack | L2 |
Ansible (playbooks, roles, inventory, ansible-galaxy) → full page¶
Ansible Deep Dive (ansible-roles, ansible-vault, ansible-collections, jinja2) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Ansible Lab: Roles | Lab | L1 |
| Ansible Lab: Templates and Handlers | Lab | L1 |
| Break/Fix: Handler Name Mismatch | Scenario | L1 |
| Break/Fix: Jinja2 Syntax Error in Template | Scenario | L1 |
| Break/Fix: Undefined Variable + Bare Jinja2 | Scenario | L1 |
| Ansible Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Ansible Lab: Vault (Secrets Management) | Lab | L2 |
ArgoCD & GitOps (argocd, gitops, fluxcd, flux)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| ArgoCD & GitOps | Topic Pack | L2 |
Backstage & Developer Portals (backstage, spotify-backstage, developer-portal, software-catalog)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Backstage & Developer Portals | Topic Pack | L2 |
CI/CD (continuous-integration, continuous-delivery, pipelines, jenkins) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Mental Models (Core Concepts) | Topic Pack | L0 |
| CI Pipeline Documentation | Reference | L1 |
| CI/CD Drills | Drill | L1 |
| CI/CD Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| CI/CD Pipelines & Patterns | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Circleci Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| GitHub Actions | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Jenkins Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Runbook: Build Failure Triage | Runbook | L1 |
| Runbook: Container Registry Pull Failure | Runbook | L1 |
| Runbook: Deploy Rollback | Runbook | L1 |
| Runbook: Pipeline Stuck / Hung Job | Runbook | L1 |
| Skillcheck: CI/CD | Assessment | L1 |
| Zuul Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Adversarial Interview Gauntlet (30 sequences) | Scenario | L2 |
| Dagger / CI as Code | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Deep Dive: CI/CD Pipeline Architecture | Deep Dive | L2 |
| Interview: CI Vuln Scan Failed | Scenario | L2 |
| Platform Engineering Patterns | Topic Pack | L2 |
CI/CD Patterns (ci-cd-patterns, deployment-strategies, canary, blue-green)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| CI/CD Pipelines & Patterns | Topic Pack | L1 |
CI/CD Pipelines Realities (pipeline-realities, cicd-real-world, pipeline-gotchas)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| CI/CD Pipelines & Patterns | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Runbook: Build Failure Triage | Runbook | L1 |
CSS (css, frontend, web, stylesheets)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| CSS Fundamentals | Topic Pack | L0 |
| CSS Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Capacity Planning (forecasting, resource-modeling, growth-planning, trend-analysis)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Capacity Planning Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Capacity Planning | Topic Pack | L2 |
Career Engineering (resume, interview-prep, career-strategy, job-search) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Career Engineering for Ops People | Topic Pack | L0 |
| Corporate IT Fluency for Engineers | Topic Pack | L0 |
| Grokdevops Training Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Ceph Storage (ceph, cephadm, rook-ceph, rados)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Ceph Storage | Topic Pack | L2 |
Certificates (tls-certificates, ssl-certificates, pki, certificate-lifecycle)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Certificates | Topic Pack | L2 |
Change Management (change-window, rollback-plan, cab, change-freeze)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Change Management | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Change Management Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Chaos Engineering (chaos-mesh, litmus, fault-injection, game-day)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Chaos Engineering Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Chaos Engineering & Fault Injection | Topic Pack | L2 |
Claude Code (claude, claude-ai, ai-coding-assistant, claude-cli)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Claude Code Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Configuration Management (configuration-management, config-management, config-drift, infrastructure-as-code)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Automation | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Configuration Management | Topic Pack | L1 |
Containers Deep Dive (containers-internals, overlayfs, oci, buildkit) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Containers Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Docker Security Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Docker Storage Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Corporate IT Fluency (itsm, itil, cab, cmdb)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Corporate IT Fluency for Engineers | Topic Pack | L0 |
| Corporate It Fluency Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Crossplane (crossplane, k8s-iac, compositions, managed-resources)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Crossplane | Topic Pack | L2 |
DORA Metrics & DevEx (dora, deployment-frequency, lead-time, mttr)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| DORA Metrics & DevEx | Topic Pack | L1 |
Dagger / CI as Code (dagger, ci-as-code, pipeline-sdk, portable-ci)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Dagger / CI as Code | Topic Pack | L2 |
Data Modeling (data-modeling, schema-design, data-architecture, normalization)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Data Modeling | Topic Pack | L2 |
Database Internals (db-internals, storage-engine, write-ahead-log, mvcc)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Database Internals | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Database Internals Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Databases (database, rdbms, nosql, database-selection)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Databases | Topic Pack | L2 |
Debugging Methodology (systematic-troubleshooting, divide-and-conquer, hypothesis-testing, five-whys)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Debugging Methodology | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Debugging Methodology Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Deployments (deploy, release-engineering, rolling-update, blue-green)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Deployments | Topic Pack | L1 |
Distributed Systems Fundamentals (cap-theorem, raft, consensus, eventual-consistency)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Distributed Systems Fundamentals | Topic Pack | L2 |
Edge & IoT Infrastructure (edge-computing, iot, constrained-devices, ota-updates)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Edge IoT Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Edge & IoT Infrastructure | Topic Pack | L2 |
Elasticsearch (elastic, elk, opensearch, search-engine)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Elasticsearch | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Elasticsearch Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Feature Flags (feature-flags, openfeature, launchdarkly, flagsmith)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Feature Flags | Topic Pack | L1 |
FinOps (cost-optimization, cloud-billing, reserved-instances, spot) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Finops Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| FinOps & Cost Optimization | Topic Pack | L2 |
| FinOps Drills | Drill | L2 |
| Interview: Cost Spike Investigation | Scenario | L2 |
| Skillcheck: FinOps | Assessment | L2 |
Fleet Operations (fleet-management, fleet-automation, at-scale, parallel-execution)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Fleet Operations Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Fleet Operations at Scale | Topic Pack | L2 |
Git (version-control, branching, merging, rebase) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Git Drills | Drill | L0 |
| Git for DevOps | Topic Pack | L0 |
| Mental Models (Core Concepts) | Topic Pack | L0 |
| Skillcheck: Git | Assessment | L0 |
| Track: Foundations | Reference | L0 |
| Git Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Repository Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Git Advanced | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Interview: Secret Leaked to Git | Scenario | L2 |
| RHCE (EX294) Exam Preparation | Topic Pack | L2 |
Git Advanced (rebase, cherry-pick, bisect, reflog)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Git Advanced | Topic Pack | L2 |
Git Save Your Ass (git-recovery, git-reflog, git-rescue, git-undo)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Git Advanced | Topic Pack | L2 |
Git Workflows & Branching Strategies (branching-strategy, trunk-based, github-flow, gitflow)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Git Workflows Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Git Workflows & Branching Strategies | Topic Pack | L2 |
GitHub Actions (github-actions, gha, workflows, actions-runner)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub Actions | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Deep Dive: CI/CD Pipeline Architecture | Deep Dive | L2 |
GitOps (argocd, argo, flux, desired-state) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Argo Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| GitOps | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Gitops Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Runbook: Deploy Rollback | Runbook | L1 |
| Track: Helm & Release Ops | Reference | L1 |
| GitOps & ArgoCD Drills | Drill | L2 |
| Interview: Config Drift Detected | Scenario | L2 |
| Interview: GitOps Drift Detected | Scenario | L2 |
| Lab: GitOps Sync and Drift (CLI) | Lab | L2 |
| Runbook: ArgoCD Out of Sync | Runbook | L2 |
| Skillcheck: GitOps | Assessment | L2 |
GraphQL (graphql-api, gql, apollo, relay)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Graphql Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| GraphQL | Topic Pack | L2 |
Helm (helm-charts, helm-upgrade, helm-rollback, values-files) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Helm | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Helm Drills | Drill | L1 |
| Helm Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Lab: Helm Upgrade Rollback (CLI) | Lab | L1 |
| Runbook: Helm Upgrade Failed | Runbook | L1 |
| Skillcheck: Helm & Release Ops | Assessment | L1 |
| Track: Helm & Release Ops | Reference | L1 |
| Case Study: Pod OOMKilled — Memory Leak in Sidecar, Fix Is Helm Values | Case Study | L2 |
| Incident Simulator (18 scenarios) (CLI) | Exercise Set | L2 |
| Interview: Helm Upgrade Broke Prod | Scenario | L2 |
Homelab (proxmox, pihole, wireguard, self-hosted)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Homelab & Learning Infrastructure | Topic Pack | L0 |
| Homelab Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Incident Psychology (cognitive-bias, stress-response, communication-under-pressure)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Incident Psychology Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| The Psychology of Incidents | Topic Pack | L2 |
Incident Response (incidents, triage, forensics, rca) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Change Management | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Debugging Methodology | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Incident Response Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Runbook Craft | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Systems Thinking for Engineers | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Vendor Management & Escalation | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Chaos Engineering Scripts (CLI) | Exercise Set | L2 |
| Incident Command & On-Call | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Incident Simulator (18 scenarios) (CLI) | Exercise Set | L2 |
| Investigation Engine (CLI) | Exercise Set | L2 |
| Ops War Stories & Pattern Recognition | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Postmortems & SLOs | Topic Pack | L2 |
| The Psychology of Incidents | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Track: Incident Response | Reference | L2 |
Infrastructure Testing (terratest, inspec, conftest, rego)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure Testing | Topic Pack | L2 |
Kafka (message-queue, event-streaming, kafka-connect, kafka-streams) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Kafka | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Kafka Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| RabbitMQ & Message Queues | Topic Pack | L2 |
Legacy System Archaeology (inherited-systems, undocumented, reverse-engineering, tribal-knowledge)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Legacy System Archaeology | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Legacy Systems Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Load Testing (k6, gatling, locust, load-testing)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Load Testing | Topic Pack | L1 |
Make & Build Systems (make, makefile, gnu-make, just)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Make & Build Systems | Topic Pack | L1 |
Mental Models (Core) (mental-models, conceptual-models, mental-model-first) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Mental Models (Core Concepts) | Topic Pack | L0 |
| Mental Models (Core) Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L0 |
| Mental-Model-First Learning Guide | Reference | L0 |
Message Queues (message-queues, rabbitmq, kafka, amqp)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Message Queues Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Message Queues | Topic Pack | L2 |
MongoDB Operations (mongodb, mongo, replica-set, sharding)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| MongoDB Operations | Topic Pack | L1 |
MySQL / MariaDB Operations (mysql, mariadb, innodb, percona)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| MySQL / MariaDB Operations | Topic Pack | L1 |
Nginx & Web Servers (nginx, apache, httpd, reverse-proxy)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| NGINX Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Nginx & Web Servers | Topic Pack | L1 |
Nix / NixOS (nix, nixos, nix-flakes, nixpkgs)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Nix / NixOS | Topic Pack | L2 |
On-Call & Incident Command (pagerduty, opsgenie, incident-commander, escalation) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| On Call Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Runbook Craft | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Vendor Management & Escalation | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Incident Command & On-Call | Topic Pack | L2 |
| On-Call | Topic Pack | L2 |
| The Psychology of Incidents | Topic Pack | L2 |
OpenTofu & Terraform Ecosystem (opentofu, tofu, terraform-fork, bsl)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| OpenTofu & Terraform Ecosystem | Topic Pack | L2 |
Ops War Stories (pattern-recognition, differential-diagnosis, experience-transfer)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Operations War Stories Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Ops War Stories & Pattern Recognition | Topic Pack | L2 |
Packer (hashicorp-packer, image-builder, machine-images, ami-builder)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Packer | Topic Pack | L1 |
Performance (performance-engineering, performance-tuning, bottleneck-analysis, profiling)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Performance | Topic Pack | L2 |
Platform Engineering (internal-developer-platform, idp, golden-path, self-service) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Platform Engineering Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Backstage & Developer Portals | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Platform Engineering Patterns | Topic Pack | L2 |
PostgreSQL Operations (postgres, postgresql, pg, vacuuming) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| PostgreSQL Operations | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Runbook: Long-Running Query / Lock Contention | Runbook | L2 |
| Runbook: PostgreSQL Connection Exhaustion | Runbook | L2 |
| Runbook: PostgreSQL Disk Space Critical | Runbook | L2 |
| Runbook: PostgreSQL Replication Lag | Runbook | L2 |
Postmortems & SLOs (slo, sli, sla, error-budget) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Devops Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Postmortem SLO Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Postmortem & SLO Drills | Drill | L2 |
| Postmortems & SLOs | Topic Pack | L2 |
| SRE Practices | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Skillcheck: Postmortems & SLOs | Assessment | L2 |
PowerShell (pwsh, powershell-core, windows-scripting, powershell-automation)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| PowerShell | Topic Pack | L1 |
Pulumi (pulumi, iac-sdk, pulumi-python, pulumi-typescript)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Pulumi | Topic Pack | L2 |
Python Async & Concurrency (asyncio, threading, multiprocessing, async-await)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Python Async & Concurrency | Topic Pack | L2 |
Python Automation (python, scripting, automation, perl) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Python Drills | Drill | L0 |
| Python Exercises (Quest Ladder) (CLI) | Exercise Set | L0 |
| Skillcheck: Python Automation | Assessment | L0 |
| Perl Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Python Debugging | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Python Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Python for Infrastructure | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Software Development Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Python Async & Concurrency | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Python Packaging | Topic Pack | L2 |
Python Debugging (pdb, debugpy, py-spy, traceback)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Python Debugging | Topic Pack | L1 |
Python Packaging (pip, virtualenv, venv, pyproject-toml)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Python Packaging | Topic Pack | L2 |
RHCE (EX294) Exam (rhce, ex294, red-hat-certified-engineer, ansible-automation)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| RHCE Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| RHCE (EX294) Exam Preparation | Topic Pack | L2 |
RabbitMQ & Message Queues (rabbitmq, amqp, message-queue, message-broker)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| RabbitMQ & Message Queues | Topic Pack | L2 |
Redis Operations (redis, redis-cluster, redis-sentinel, caching)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Redis Operations | Topic Pack | L2 |
Reliability Patterns (reliability-patterns, circuit-breaker, bulkhead, graceful-degradation)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability Patterns | Topic Pack | L2 |
Runbook Craft (runbook-writing, decision-tree, escalation-docs, operational-docs)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Runbook Craft | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Runbook Craft Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
S3-Compatible Object Storage (minio, s3, object-storage, bucket)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| S3-Compatible Object Storage | Topic Pack | L1 |
SQL (sql, querying, select, databases) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Fundamentals | Topic Pack | L0 |
| Databases Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| SQL Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
SQLite Operations & Internals (sqlite, litestream, litefs, turso)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| SQLite Operations & Internals | Topic Pack | L2 |
SRE Practices (site-reliability, toil, error-budget, reliability-engineering) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Change Management | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Capacity Planning | Topic Pack | L2 |
| SRE Practices | Topic Pack | L2 |
Systems Thinking (feedback-loops, emergent-behavior, coupling, cascading-failures) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Debugging Methodology | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Systems Thinking Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Systems Thinking for Engineers | Topic Pack | L1 |
Terraform (iac, infrastructure-as-code, hcl, tfstate) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Mental Models (Core Concepts) | Topic Pack | L0 |
| Skillcheck: Terraform / IaC | Assessment | L1 |
| Terraform / IaC | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Terraform Basics Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Terraform Drills | Drill | L1 |
| Track: Infrastructure | Reference | L1 |
| Case Study: SSH Timeout — MTU Mismatch, Fix Is Terraform Variable | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: Terraform Apply Fails — State Lock Stuck, DynamoDB Throttle | Case Study | L2 |
| Crossplane | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Deep Dive: Terraform State Internals | Deep Dive | L2 |
| OpenTofu & Terraform Ecosystem | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Pulumi | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Runbook: Cloud Capacity Limit Hit | Runbook | L2 |
| Runbook: Terraform Drift Detection Response | Runbook | L2 |
| Runbook: Terraform State Lock Stuck | Runbook | L2 |
| Terraform Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L2 |
Terraform Deep Dive (terraform-state, terraform-modules, terraform-import, hcl-advanced) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Terraform Modules Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Terraform Providers Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Terraform State Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Terraform Workflow Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Runbook: Terraform Drift Detection Response | Runbook | L2 |
| Terraform Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L2 |
Toil Reduction (toil-reduction, toil-elimination, operational-toil)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Toil Reduction | Topic Pack | L2 |
VS Code (visual-studio-code, editor, ide, remote-development)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| VS Code for DevOps | Topic Pack | L0 |
| VS Code Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Vendor Management & Escalation (tac-case, rma, support-tiers, vendor-escalation)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor Management & Escalation | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Vendor Management Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
WebAssembly for Infrastructure (wasm, wasi, spin, wasmcloud)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| WebAssembly for Infrastructure | Topic Pack | L3 |
CLI Tools¶
Modern CLI Tools (bat, eza, zoxide, dust) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Modern CLI Drills | Drill | L0 |
| Modern CLI Tools | Topic Pack | L0 |
| Skillcheck: Modern CLI Tools | Assessment | L0 |
| CLI Tools Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Modern CLI Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Modern CLI Workflows (cli-workflows, modern-shell, terminal-workflows)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Modern Cli Workflows | Topic Pack | L1 |
Regex & Text Wrangling (sed, awk, grep, regex)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Regex & Text Wrangling | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Regular Expressions Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
YAML, JSON & Config Formats (yaml, json, toml, ini)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| YAML, JSON & Config Formats | Topic Pack | L1 |
awk (gawk, awk-scripting, record-processor, field-processor)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| awk: The Record/Field Processor | Topic Pack | L1 |
curl & wget (curl, wget, http-client, api-testing)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| curl & wget | Topic Pack | L1 |
fd (fd-find, fast-find, file-search) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Modern CLI Tools | Topic Pack | L0 |
| Skillcheck: Modern CLI Tools | Assessment | L0 |
| fd | Topic Pack | L1 |
| fd Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
find (find, file-search, find-exec, locate)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| find | Topic Pack | L1 |
fzf (fuzzy-finder, interactive-selection) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Modern CLI Drills | Drill | L0 |
| Modern CLI Tools | Topic Pack | L0 |
| Skillcheck: Modern CLI Tools | Assessment | L0 |
| fzf | Topic Pack | L1 |
| fzf Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
grep & Regular Expressions (grep, regex, regexp, egrep)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| grep & Regular Expressions | Topic Pack | L1 |
jq / JSON Processing (jq-filters, yq, json, yaml-processing) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Modern CLI Drills | Drill | L0 |
| Modern CLI Tools | Topic Pack | L0 |
| Skillcheck: Modern CLI Tools | Assessment | L0 |
| YAML, JSON & Config Formats | Topic Pack | L1 |
| jq | Topic Pack | L1 |
| jq Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
ripgrep (rg) (rg, fast-grep, code-search) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Modern CLI Drills | Drill | L0 |
| Modern CLI Tools | Topic Pack | L0 |
| Skillcheck: Modern CLI Tools | Assessment | L0 |
| Ripgrep Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| ripgrep | Topic Pack | L1 |
sed (gsed, stream-editor, sed-scripting, in-place-edit)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| sed: The Stream Editor | Topic Pack | L1 |
xargs (xargs, parallel-exec, pipe-to-args, batch-commands)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| xargs | Topic Pack | L1 |
Observability¶
Alerting Rules (alertmanager, alert-rules, pagerduty, on-call) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Alerting Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Alerting Rules | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Alerting Rules Drills | Drill | L2 |
| Case Study: Alert Storm — Flapping Health Checks | Case Study | L2 |
| On-Call | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Runbook: Alert Storm (Flapping / Too Many Alerts) | Runbook | L2 |
| SRE Practices | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Skillcheck: Alerting Rules | Assessment | L2 |
Continuous Profiling (pyroscope, parca, profiling, flame-graphs)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Continuous Profiling | Topic Pack | L2 |
Grafana (dashboards, panels, data-sources) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Grafana Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Monitoring Fundamentals | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Runbook: Grafana Dashboard Blank / No Data | Runbook | L1 |
| Lab: Prometheus Target Down (CLI) | Lab | L2 |
| Monitoring Migration (Legacy to Modern) | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Observability Architecture | Reference | L2 |
| Observability Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Skillcheck: Observability | Assessment | L2 |
| Track: Observability | Reference | L2 |
Log Pipelines (fluentd, fluentbit, vector, log-routing) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Log Pipelines Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Log Pipelines | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Runbook: Log Pipeline Backpressure / Logs Not Appearing | Runbook | L2 |
Logging (log-management, centralized-logging, log-pipeline)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Logging | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Log Pipelines | Topic Pack | L2 |
Loki (logs, log-aggregation, promtail, logql) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Loki Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Incident Simulator (18 scenarios) (CLI) | Exercise Set | L2 |
| Interview: Loki Logs Disappeared | Scenario | L2 |
| Lab: Loki No Logs (CLI) | Lab | L2 |
| Log Pipelines | Topic Pack | L2 |
| LogQL Drills | Drill | L2 |
| Observability Architecture | Reference | L2 |
| Observability Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Observability Drills | Drill | L2 |
| Runbook: Log Pipeline Backpressure / Logs Not Appearing | Runbook | L2 |
| Runbook: Loki No Logs | Runbook | L2 |
| Skillcheck: Observability | Assessment | L2 |
| Track: Observability | Reference | L2 |
Monitoring Fundamentals (nagios, zabbix, snmp, cacti)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Monitoring Fundamentals | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Monitoring Migration (Legacy to Modern) | Topic Pack | L2 |
Monitoring Migration (nagios-to-prometheus, zabbix-migration, monitoring-modernization)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Monitoring Migration (Legacy to Modern) | Topic Pack | L2 |
Observability Deep Dive (observability-deep-dive, o11y-deep-dive)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Mental Models (Core Concepts) | Topic Pack | L0 |
| Observability Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
OpenTelemetry (otel, otel-collector, instrumentation, unified-observability)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| OpenTelemetry | Topic Pack | L2 |
Prometheus (metrics, promql, service-monitor, alertmanager) → full page¶
Prometheus Deep Dive (prometheus, promql, alertmanager, scrape)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Prometheus Stack Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Prometheus Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L2 |
SLO Tooling (sloth, pyrra, openslo, slo)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| SLO Tooling | Topic Pack | L2 |
Synthetic Monitoring (blackbox-exporter, synthetic-monitoring, checkly, probe)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Synthetic Monitoring | Topic Pack | L1 |
Tempo (traces, distributed-tracing, spans) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Tempo Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Observability Architecture | Reference | L2 |
| Observability Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Runbook: Tempo No Traces | Runbook | L2 |
| Skillcheck: Observability | Assessment | L2 |
| Track: Observability | Reference | L2 |
Tracing (distributed-tracing-concepts, trace-propagation, span) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Tracing | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Tracing Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| strace | Topic Pack | L1 |
| OpenTelemetry | Topic Pack | L2 |
| perf Profiling | Topic Pack | L2 |
Security¶
Audit Logging (auditd, audit-trail, security-logging) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Audit Logging | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Audit Logging Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Compliance & Audit Automation | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Infrastructure Forensics | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Runbook: Unauthorized Access Investigation | Runbook | L2 |
| SELinux & Linux Hardening | Topic Pack | L2 |
Backup & Restore (backup-recovery, disaster-recovery-drill, restore-test, backup) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Backup Restore | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Backup Restore Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Disaster Recovery & Backup Engineering | Topic Pack | L2 |
Compliance & Audit (openscap, inspec, stig, cis-cat) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Compliance Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Compliance & Audit Automation | Topic Pack | L2 |
| SELinux & Linux Hardening | Topic Pack | L2 |
Container Image Scanning (alias → container_images) (trivy, grype, syft, snyk)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Container Images | Topic Pack | L1 |
Disaster Recovery (dr-plan, rto, rpo, failover)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Disaster Recovery Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Disaster Recovery & Backup Engineering | Topic Pack | L2 |
HashiCorp Vault (vault, vault-secrets, vault-pki, vault-transit)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| HashiCorp Vault | Topic Pack | L2 |
Incident Triage (triage, incident-assessment, severity-classification) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Incident Triage | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Incident Triage Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Runbook: CVE Response (Critical Vulnerability) | Runbook | L2 |
| Runbook: Unauthorized Access Investigation | Runbook | L2 |
Infrastructure Forensics (post-breach, rootkit-detection, evidence-preservation, log-forensics)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure Forensics | Topic Pack | L2 |
LDAP & Identity Management (ldap, freeipa, active-directory, sssd)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| LDAP Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| LDAP & Identity Management | Topic Pack | L2 |
Least Privilege (principle-of-least-privilege, access-control, permissions-audit)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| LDAP & Identity Management | Topic Pack | L2 |
Offensive Security Basics (pentesting, red-team, offensive-security, ethical-hacking)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Offensive Security Basics | Topic Pack | L1 |
OpSec Mistakes (operational-security, opsec, common-mistakes)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Opsec Mistakes | Topic Pack | L1 |
Open Policy Agent (opa, rego, gatekeeper, opa-gatekeeper)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Open Policy Agent Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Open Policy Agent | Topic Pack | L2 |
Runtime Security with Falco (falco, falcosidekick, runtime-security, kernel-security)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Runtime Security with Falco | Topic Pack | L2 |
SELinux & AppArmor (selinux, apparmor, mac, mandatory-access-control) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Selinux Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| RHCE (EX294) Exam Preparation | Topic Pack | L2 |
| SELinux & AppArmor | Topic Pack | L2 |
Secrets Management (sealed-secrets, external-secrets, sops) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Secrets Management Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| HashiCorp Vault | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Interview: Secret Leaked to Git | Scenario | L2 |
| Interview: Vault Token Expired | Scenario | L2 |
| Runbook: Credential Rotation (Exposed Secret) | Runbook | L2 |
| Runbook: Secret Rotation | Runbook | L2 |
| Secrets Management | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Secrets Management Drills | Drill | L2 |
| Skillcheck: Secrets Management | Assessment | L2 |
Security Scanning (trivy, vulnerability-scan, security, cyber-security) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Lab: Trivy Scan Remediation (CLI) | Lab | L1 |
| Security Basics (Ops-Focused) | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Security Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Security Scanning | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Interview: CI Vuln Scan Failed | Scenario | L2 |
| Runbook: CVE Response (Critical Vulnerability) | Runbook | L2 |
| Security Drills | Drill | L2 |
| Skillcheck: Security (Expanded) | Assessment | L2 |
Supply Chain Security (sbom, sigstore, cosign, slsa)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Supply Chain Security | Topic Pack | L2 |
TLS & Certificates Ops (tls-ops, certificates, x509, openssl)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| TLS & Certificates Ops | Topic Pack | L1 |
TLS & PKI (pki, certificates, x509, ca-chain) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| HTTP Protocol | Topic Pack | L0 |
| Case Study: SSL Cert Chain Incomplete | Case Study | L1 |
| Networking Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Nginx & Web Servers | Topic Pack | L1 |
| TLS & Certificates Ops | Topic Pack | L1 |
| TLS Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Case Study: BMC Clock Skew Cert Failure | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: DNS Looks Broken — TLS Expired, Fix Is Cert-Manager | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: Deployment Stuck — ImagePull Auth Failure, Vault Secret Rotation | Case Study | L2 |
| Case Study: User Auth Failing — OIDC Cert Expired, Cloud KMS Rotation | Case Study | L2 |
| Deep Dive: TLS Handshake | Deep Dive | L2 |
| Interview: Certificate Expired | Scenario | L2 |
| Ops Archaeology: The Certificate That Works Sometimes | Case Study | L2 |
| Runbook: Certificate Renewal Failed | Runbook | L2 |
| Runbook: TLS Certificate Expiry | Runbook | L2 |
| Scenario: DNS Looks Fine but App Fails | Scenario | L2 |
| Skillcheck: TLS & PKI | Assessment | L2 |
| TLS & PKI Drills | Drill | L2 |
Cloud¶
AWS CloudWatch (cloudwatch, cw-logs, cw-metrics, cw-alarms)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| AWS CloudWatch | Topic Pack | L2 |
AWS EC2 (ec2, instances, ami, ebs)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| AWS Compute Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| AWS EC2 | Topic Pack | L1 |
AWS ECS (ecs, fargate, task-definition, ecs-service)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| AWS ECS | Topic Pack | L2 |
AWS IAM (iam, aws-iam, iam-roles, iam-policies)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| AWS IAM | Topic Pack | L1 |
| AWS Security Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
AWS Lambda (lambda, serverless, cold-start, event-driven)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| AWS Lambda | Topic Pack | L2 |
AWS Networking (vpc, aws-vpc, security-groups, nacl)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| AWS Networking | Topic Pack | L1 |
| AWS Networking Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
AWS Route 53 (route53, dns-aws, hosted-zone, alias-record)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| AWS Route 53 | Topic Pack | L2 |
AWS S3 Deep Dive (s3, buckets, objects, lifecycle)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| AWS S3 Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L1 |
| AWS Storage Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
AWS Troubleshooting (aws-debug, aws-issues, aws-ops)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| AWS Troubleshooting | Topic Pack | L1 |
| AWS Troubleshooting Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Azure Troubleshooting (azure-debug, azure-issues, azure-ops)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Azure Troubleshooting | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Azure Troubleshooting Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Cloud Deep Dive (multi-cloud, iam, vpc, aws) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| AWS Devops Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| AWS EC2 | Topic Pack | L1 |
| AWS General Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| AWS IAM | Topic Pack | L1 |
| AWS Networking | Topic Pack | L1 |
| AWS S3 Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L1 |
| Azure Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Cloud Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| Cloud Ops Drills | Drill | L1 |
| Skillcheck: Cloud Providers | Assessment | L1 |
| AWS CloudWatch | Topic Pack | L2 |
| AWS ECS | Topic Pack | L2 |
| AWS Lambda | Topic Pack | L2 |
| AWS Route 53 | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Cloud Deep Dive | Topic Pack | L2 |
| Cloud Deep Dive Drills | Drill | L2 |
| Runbook: Cloud Capacity Limit Hit | Runbook | L2 |
| Runbook: VPC IP Exhaustion | Runbook | L2 |
GCP Troubleshooting (gcp-debug, gcp-issues, gcp-ops) → full page¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| GCP Compute Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| GCP General Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| GCP Kubernetes Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| GCP Networking Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| GCP Security Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| GCP Troubleshooting | Topic Pack | L1 |
| GCP Troubleshooting Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
Serverless Computing (faas, function-as-a-service, scale-to-zero, cloud-functions)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Serverless Computing | Topic Pack | L2 |
Other¶
mergerfs (merger-fs, fuse-union, trapexit, union-filesystem)¶
| Asset | Type | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Mergerfs Flashcards | flashcard_deck | L1 |
| mergerfs | Topic Pack | L2 |