Production-grade
Every lesson is verified against a specific software version. Every command is a real command, every output is either real or explicitly labelled illustrative.
Production infrastructure education
Operate production infrastructure
— not just use it.
RunBook Academy teaches infrastructure technologies and how to operate them safely in production. Every course emphasises how things fail, how to troubleshoot them, how to back them up, how to recover them, how to observe them, and how to keep them secure.
Available courses
All courses →operating-system · security · storage
Linux for Production Sysadmins
Operate Linux on production hardware and Linux server clusters safely: shell, storage, networking, security, performance, observability, backup, DR, high availability, and incident response.
containers · automation · security
Docker & Containers for Production Sysadmins
Operate Docker Engine in production: from namespaces and cgroups through security hardening, observability, backups, incident response, and a complete capstone environment.
virtualisation · storage · networking · security
Proxmox VE for Production Operators
Operate Proxmox VE in production: planning, installation, networking, ZFS, Ceph, clustering, HA, PBS, security, monitoring, performance, maintenance, troubleshooting, CLI & automation, migration, and ops practice.
automation · security · operating-system
Ansible for Production Sysadmins
Design, secure, test and operate Ansible automation against production Linux fleets: inventories, idempotent roles, secrets, blast-radius control, canaries, rolling change, patching, and recovery when a run stops halfway.
automation · cloud · security
Terraform for Production Sysadmins
Safely design, implement, review, operate, troubleshoot and recover production Terraform infrastructure across business-critical environments.
observability
Observability for Production Sysadmins
Design, deploy, secure, operate, scale, troubleshoot, and recover a production observability platform based on Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Tempo — and use it to operate the rest of production.
networking · security · operating-system
OPNsense for Production Network & Security Administrators
Design, deploy, secure, operate, troubleshoot and recover OPNsense firewalls and OPNsense HA clusters supporting mission-critical production networks.
networking · security · operating-system
VyOS for Production Network Engineers
Design, deploy, secure, automate, operate, troubleshoot and recover VyOS routers and routing clusters supporting mission-critical production networks.
containers · automation · cloud · networking · storage
Kubernetes for Production Sysadmins
Design, deploy, secure, operate, monitor, troubleshoot, upgrade and recover Kubernetes clusters supporting business-critical production workloads.
storage · security · cloud
Ceph & Distributed Storage for Production Sysadmins
Design, deploy, secure, operate, monitor, troubleshoot, scale, upgrade, and recover production Ceph clusters: RADOS, CRUSH, MON/MGR/OSD, RBD, CephFS, RGW, capacity, performance, recovery, Proxmox and Kubernetes integration.
automation · security · cloud
Git, CI/CD & GitOps for Infrastructure Engineers
Use Git safely, design production CI/CD pipelines, secure software and infrastructure supply chains, and operate GitOps workflows for business-critical infrastructure.
security · automation
Secrets, PKI & Certificate Management for Infrastructure Engineers
Operate credentials, keys, certificates and trust relationships safely: build and run a PKI, automate certificate issuance, manage secrets and short-lived credentials, and recover from compromise.
storage · operating-system · automation
PostgreSQL for Production Sysadmins
Operate PostgreSQL where availability, durability and recovery matter: architecture, MVCC and vacuum, locks, WAL, backup and point-in-time recovery, replication, failover and disaster recovery.
storage · security · operating-system
Backup, Restore & Disaster Recovery for Production Infrastructure
Backup is not the objective; recovery is. Design, secure, operate, test and execute the recovery of production infrastructure — from a deleted file to a lost datacentre.
Hands-on
Labs, break/fix drills, and runbooks build the muscle memory that you need when something is actually broken.
Static & open
The site is fully static. Course content is open (CC BY-SA 4.0), code is MIT, no account required.
Trademarks
Proxmox®, Proxmox Virtual Environment®, Proxmox Backup Server® and associated marks are trademarks of Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH. Docker® and the Docker logo are trademarks of Docker, Inc. Other product names are trademarks of their respective owners. RunBook Academy is an independent, unaffiliated educational project. All product names, commands, and configuration references are used for instructional purposes only.