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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
Pro

Phantom Capacity Incident

A guided production incident where instance builds fail for lack of capacity on a cloud that is barely a third used. Find the capacity that does not exist.

advanced· 40 minOpenStackNova
Pro

RabbitMQ Partition Incident

A guided production incident where the whole OpenStack control plane reports down while every workload keeps running. Work the evidence and find what is actually wrong.

advanced· 35 minOpenStackRabbitMQ

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

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