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Inside The AI Stack Academy

The Academy is built around learning paths rather than a library of tutorials. A path has an order, a set of outcomes, and a validation step at the end of each lesson. We launch a track when it is complete — not when its landing page is.

Available learning paths

We would rather ship three excellent paths than twelve shallow ones. Tracks in preparation are listed below without landing pages, because a course page for a course that does not exist is a lie with good typography.

OpenStack Production Engineer

A sequenced learning path for engineers who operate OpenStack in production — architecture, service-by-service depth, deployment, and troubleshooting under pressure.

intermediate· 5 minOpenStackNova

In preparation

  • Kubernetes Production Engineer
  • Docker Production Engineer
  • Terraform Infrastructure Engineer
  • AI Infrastructure Engineer

These have no pages yet, and will not get one until the modules behind them are written.

What a lesson contains

Every lesson follows the same shape. Consistency is what makes a path feel like a course rather than a folder.

The validation step is the part that matters. A lesson you cannot check yourself against is a lesson you cannot tell whether you learned.

  1. 01Objectives
  2. 02Architecture explanation
  3. 03Diagrams
  4. 04Commands and expected output
  5. 05Configuration examples
  6. 06Common failure modes
  7. 07Troubleshooting
  8. 08Hands-on exercise
  9. 09Validation
  10. 10Primary sources

Practice

Labs that pair with the Academy

Lessons teach the model of the system. Labs make you use it under uncertainty.

All labs

Lab: CrashLoopBackOff

A service crash-looping after a routine config change, with logs that show a normal startup and no error anywhere. Work out what is killing it.

intermediate· 25 minKubernetes

Lab: Nova NoValidHost

Instances stopped building on a cloud with visible free capacity. Work the evidence, form hypotheses, and find why the scheduler has no candidates.

expert· 35 minOpenStackNova

Lab: Destructive Plan Review

A routine-looking Terraform pull request. Find the changes that would destroy data before you approve it, and work out which one is not what it appears to be.

intermediate· 20 minTerraformAWS

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