Course catalogue
Each RunBook Academy course teaches the technology and how to operate it safely in production: how it fails, how to troubleshoot it, how to back it up, how to recover it, how to observe it, and how to secure it.
A newcomer who follows the cross-course recommendations in this order gets the dependencies right: every later course can be read with the production Linux background an earlier one assumed.
operating-system · security · storage
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
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
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
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
Safely design, implement, review, operate, troubleshoot and recover production Terraform infrastructure across business-critical environments.
observability
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
Design, deploy, secure, operate, troubleshoot and recover OPNsense firewalls and OPNsense HA clusters supporting mission-critical production networks.
networking · security · operating-system
Design, deploy, secure, automate, operate, troubleshoot and recover VyOS routers and routing clusters supporting mission-critical production networks.
containers · automation · cloud · networking · storage
Design, deploy, secure, operate, monitor, troubleshoot, upgrade and recover Kubernetes clusters supporting business-critical production workloads.
storage · security · cloud
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
Use Git safely, design production CI/CD pipelines, secure software and infrastructure supply chains, and operate GitOps workflows for business-critical infrastructure.
security · automation
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
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 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.