Reusable, hands-on technical trainings for DevOps, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, databases, software development, and AI-assisted workflows.
Each training is an independent module with its own presentations, documentation, guided labs, runnable examples, and knowledge checks. Modules are technology-neutral, use placeholder credentials only, and are designed to be run locally or adapted for team enablement sessions.
- Engineers learning a new area through practical, self-paced material.
- Team leads and enablement facilitators who need ready-to-run session content.
- Interviewers and reviewers looking at how training material is structured, validated, and maintained.
- Practical labs and runnable examples, not just slides.
- Consistent module layout so a second module feels familiar after the first.
- Automated validation in many modules (
make validate,make test) and a repository-wide check that runs in CI. - Safe defaults: no real secrets, placeholder endpoints, and cleanup notes for anything that provisions local resources.
| Training | Description | Automation |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud Computing: Fundamentals | Vendor-neutral cloud concepts: service and deployment models, reliability, security, networking, storage, databases, observability, IaC, FinOps, and the core services of AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. | make |
| Linux Administration: Basics | Vendor-neutral Linux administration: system architecture, command-line tools, package management, filesystems, users, services, networking, security, and shell scripting, aligned to LPIC-1 (101-500 and 102-500). | make |
| OpenStack Infrastructure: Basics | OpenStack architecture and core services, Kolla-Ansible deployment, Neutron networking, Ceph storage, operations, troubleshooting, scaling, and high availability. | make |
| Terraform: Fundamentals | Infrastructure as Code with Terraform: HCL, providers, resources, variables, outputs, state, modules, lifecycle rules, backends, testing, refactoring, and CI/CD. | make |
| Training | Description | Automation |
|---|---|---|
| Virtualization & Container Technologies: Basics | Virtual machines, hypervisors, container images and runtimes, registries, Docker, Podman, Compose, isolation, and hybrid infrastructure patterns. | make |
| Kubernetes & Cloud Native Associate | KCNA-oriented preparation: Kubernetes fundamentals, container orchestration, cloud native delivery, architecture, observability, security, storage, and the CNCF ecosystem. | make |
| Training | Description | Automation |
|---|---|---|
| Jenkins Pipelines: Basics | Jenkins and CI/CD workflows: Declarative and Scripted pipelines, agents, plugins, Jenkinsfiles, and pipeline practices. | — |
| JFrog Artifactory: First Steps | Artifact repositories: repository types, upload and download workflows, publishing, metadata, and automation. | — |
| GitOps: Fundamentals | GitOps principles and declarative delivery: reconciliation, repository strategies, Argo CD, Helm, Kustomize, ApplicationSet, Flux, promotion, CI integration, and troubleshooting. | make |
| Training | Description | Automation |
|---|---|---|
| Prometheus & Grafana: Basics | Metrics monitoring: Prometheus architecture, Node Exporter, PromQL, Grafana dashboards, provisioning, alerting, and multi-host Linux monitoring. | make |
| Zabbix Monitoring: Basics | Zabbix architecture and server components, Agent 2, templates, Kubernetes monitoring, alerting, access control, and troubleshooting. | — |
| Training | Description | Automation |
|---|---|---|
| Bash Scripting: Fundamentals | Shell fundamentals, variables, parameters, conditions, loops, functions, arrays, text processing, files, error handling, debugging, security, testing, and reusable automation. | make |
| Python Scripting: Basics | Python scripting and automation: functions, modules, file processing, CLI tools, logging, testing, and object-oriented design. | make |
| Ansible First Steps | Ansible automation: inventories, ad-hoc commands, playbooks, facts, handlers, and common operational tasks. | — |
| Training | Description | Automation |
|---|---|---|
| PL/SQL & T-SQL Database Programming: Fundamentals | Database programming with Oracle PL/SQL and SQL Server T-SQL: procedural SQL, control flow, cursors, stored procedures, packages, transactions, error handling, triggers, dynamic SQL, security, and performance. | make |
| Training | Description | Automation |
|---|---|---|
| AI Agents & Workflows: Basics | Practical introduction to AI agents and workflows: tools, memory, prompt engineering, LangChain, LangGraph, and LangSmith, with hands-on notebooks. | — |
Automation indicates whether the module ships a
Makefilewithvalidate/testtargets. A dash means the module is presentation- and reference-driven.
Every module is self-contained. Open its README.md and follow the getting-started
section — that is all you need.
git clone https://github.com/VLD62/technical-trainings.git
cd technical-trainingsModules that ship a Makefile expose the same core targets:
cd bash-scripting-fundamentals # or any module with a Makefile
make help# list available targets
make validate # structure, content, and syntax checks
make test# dependency-free behavior tests
make clean # remove generated outputFrom the repository root:
make validate # run repository-wide checks# or, without make:
python3 scripts/validate_repo.pyThis checks for broken relative links, unresolved clone-URL placeholders, missing required files, and accidental organization-specific terms. The same checks run in CI on pull requests.
Improvements are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for how to propose changes, and docs/adding-a-training-module.md for the module conventions and a ready-to-copy README template.
For the top-level layout and the anatomy of a training module, see docs/repository-structure.md.
This repository uses a dual-license model, mirrored in each module's LICENSE.md:
- Source code, scripts, configuration, and executable examples — MIT License.
- Educational content (presentations, documentation, diagrams, quizzes, and exercises) — Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.
- Third-party images, trademarks, and referenced materials remain subject to their respective owners and licenses.
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