Building labs.iximiuz.com - a place to help you learn Containers and Kubernetes the fun way 🚀
Learning by doing with iximiuz Labs 🚀
Hello friends!
Ivan's back, and with some exciting news!
For years, I’ve been dreaming about interactive playgrounds to augment my blog and let readers play with Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes right in their browsers…
I started experimenting with different tech that could make it happen around mid-2021. I picked up some frontend development skills, played with Firecracker microVMs, skilled up in containers, and more.
And finally, after spending lots of evenings, weekends, and the good part of my PTOs, I’ve got something deployed…
Allow me to introduce you to iximiuz Labs 🚀
On labs.iximiuz.com you can fire up a disposable Linux playground in a matter of seconds:
- Ubuntu
- Alpine Linux
- Rocky Linux
- Kubernetes (K3s)
- Docker
- nerdctl + containerd + BuildKit
The above playgrounds should make experimenting with Docker and Kubernetes much simpler. One of the next steps is to integrate these capabilities directly with iximiuz.com so that you can play with the stuff you’re reading about right in the browser.
And, of course, it’s just the beginning - even more to come in the near future! For instance, one of my goals is to start producing courses leveraging the labs platform - an ideal mix of theory, juicy visuals, and interactivity.
The opportunities are endless, but I need your support! If you feel like this platform is something you could benefit from, please consider becoming a patron. And in addition to my sincere gratitude, you'll get free early access and a life-long discount when the platform graduates from alpha.
Happy learning!
Ivan
P.S. The detailed technical blogpost and/or email on the platform's internals is coming too :)
Ivan Velichko
Building labs.iximiuz.com - a place to help you learn Containers and Kubernetes the fun way 🚀
Hello 👋 It's this time of the month again! My traditional roundup of all things Linux, Containers, Kubernetes, and Server Side, delivered straight into your inbox 📬 What I was working on October was very productive for me - I shipped no major iximiuz Labs features (it's always hard to resist the temptation!) and instead dedicated all my available time to content work. The main focus was on Container Images. It's the subject of the first module of my "panoramic" Docker course, and it is almost...
Hey there, I’ve just finished putting together everything I know about Node.js container images and figured you might find the write-up useful. If you’re working with Node.js in Docker, chances are you’ve been hit by the dilemma of which base image to use. Do you go for the default node:latest, the slimmer node:22-slim, or something super minimal like a distroless image? What about Bitnami’s alternative — how does it stack up? Before you jump headfirst into your next build, you might want to...
Hello 👋 Ivan's here with a slightly delayed September roundup of all things Linux, Containers, Kubernetes, and Server Side 🧙 What I was working on This month, I worked on an assorted set of topics. Skill Paths First off, the skill paths! I finally finished the underlying machinery, and now iximiuz Labs supports a new type of content - short roadmaps that you can use to develop or improve a specific skill: how to debug distroless containers, how to copy images from one repository to another,...