12-Week Intensive · Cohort 8 Open

You'll deploy to
production
by Week 3.

Not a metaphor. A real Kubernetes cluster. Real traffic. Monitored, rollback-ready, and explainable to any senior engineer on your team.

pipeline.yml — running
git pushdocker buildpytesttrivy scanstaging✓ production
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Which describes you best?

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847 engineers deployed to prod this cohort

Git WorkflowsDocker & ComposeTerraform IaCKubernetesCI/CD PipelinesAWS / GCP / AzureObservabilityIncident ResponseZero-downtime Deploys
Git WorkflowsDocker & ComposeTerraform IaCKubernetesCI/CD PipelinesAWS / GCP / AzureObservabilityIncident ResponseZero-downtime Deploys
§ 01 / Curriculum

12 weeks.
No fluff.

Every module ships something real. By Week 12 you have a portfolio of infrastructure, not slides.

Instructor live-coding a Terraform module on screen with terminal open
Live Coding

Week 5 Preview

"Let me show you why your Terraform state file is sacred"

Watch Marcus walk through a real remote state setup, explaining every decision aloud — the same way he'd explain it during a production incident.

12weeks
Intensive program
3wk
First prod deploy
94%
Job placement rate
6hrs
Weekly live sessions
Week 1–2

Linux & Git Foundations

File permissions, process management, shell scripting. Every command explained as it's typed.

bashgitvim
Week 3–4🚀 First prod deploy

Containers & Docker

Write your first Dockerfile. Build, run, push. Deploy a real multi-service app with Compose.

dockercomposeregistry
Week 5–6

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform from scratch. Provision a VPC, EC2, and RDS. Destroy it. Rebuild it. Own it.

terraformawshcl
Week 7–8🎯 EKS live demo

Kubernetes in Production

Pods, deployments, services, ingress. Deploy a multi-service app to EKS. Live demo required.

k8shelmeks
Week 9–10

CI/CD & GitOps

GitHub Actions pipelines. ArgoCD. Blue-green deploys. Feature flags. Zero downtime.

actionsargocdflux
Week 11–12✓ Incident-ready

Observability & Incident Response

Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty. Run a live incident drill. Write your first postmortem.

prometheusgrafanapagerduty
§ 02 / Instructors

Taught by engineers
with war stories.

Instructor at whiteboard with cloud architecture diagrams and infrastructure topology

# war story

"Brought down Cloudflare's EU edge at 3am. Wrote the postmortem that became their incident response playbook. Now teaches it."

Marcus Okafor
Priya Venkataraman
Jordan Kellerman

Combined: 23 years running production systems at Cloudflare, Stripe, and Datadog.

Not ex-professors. Engineers who were on-call last quarter.

§ 03 / Student Stories

The leap is real.
So are the outcomes.

94%
placed within 90 days
Tariq Osei, smiling engineer, headshot in office setting
Tariq Osei
Now: Platform Engineer at Shopify
Week 8
+$38k salary
Day 1

"Day 1: couldn't explain what a container is. Thought Docker was a cloud provider."

Role: Sysadmin, 4 yrs
Week 8

"Week 8: deployed a 5-service app to EKS live during demo. Got the Shopify offer two weeks later."

eks-deploy
Ananya Krishnamurthy, engineer, professional headshot with warm smile
Ananya Krishnamurthy
Now: DevOps Engineer at Atlassian
Week 12
First DevOps role
Day 1

"Bootcamp grad. Built a Rails app. Had no idea what happened after `git push`."

Role: Bootcamp grad
Week 12

"Week 12: authored the Terraform module that provisions our team's staging environment."

terraform-author
Brendan Fallon, smiling male engineer in casual shirt, professional headshot
Brendan Fallon
Now: SRE at Datadog
Week 10
+$52k salary
Day 1

"Backend dev, 3 yrs. Still SSH-ing into prod servers. No CI, just FTP deploys."

Role: Backend Dev
Week 10

"Week 10: zero-downtime blue-green deploy to prod. Ran the incident drill without flinching."

zero-downtime
Mei-Ling Zhao, engineer, professional headshot in modern office
Mei-Ling Zhao
Now: Cloud Engineer at Netflix
Week 6
Netflix offer
Day 1

"Network admin. Knew Linux cold. Had never touched a cloud console."

Role: Network Admin
Week 6

"Week 6: provisioned a full 3-tier AWS architecture with Terraform. Deleted it. Rebuilt it in 8 minutes."

terraform-rebuild
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847 engineers have made this same transition.

Same backgrounds. Same doubts. Different job titles now.

§ 04 / Tools

The exact stack
running in prod.

No toy environments. You'll use the same tools that power Netflix, Stripe, and Cloudflare — with a pre-configured cloud sandbox from Day 1.

sandbox.pipeline.sh — your environment

$ kubectl get nodes

NAME                 STATUS   ROLES    AGE   VERSION

pipeline-node-01   Ready    worker   3d    v1.29.0

pipeline-node-02   Ready    worker   3d    v1.29.0

pipeline-node-03   Ready    worker   3d    v1.29.0

$ terraform apply # your infrastructure, your commands

Apply complete! Resources: 12 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.

Containers & Orchestration
🐳
Docker
Build, ship, run
Kubernetes
Production orchestration
Helm
K8s package manager
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform
Cloud provisioning
Ansible
Config management
🔷
Pulumi
IaC in your language
CI/CD & GitOps
GitHub Actions
Pipeline automation
🔄
ArgoCD
GitOps deployments
🌊
Flux
Continuous delivery
Cloud Platforms
AWS
EC2, EKS, RDS, S3
🌐
GCP
GKE, Cloud Run
🔵
Azure
AKS, App Service
Observability
🔥
Prometheus
Metrics collection
📊
Grafana
Dashboards & alerts
🔭
OpenTelemetry
Distributed tracing
Security & Compliance
🛡
Trivy
Container scanning
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Vault
Secrets management
OPA
Policy as code

Pre-configured cloud sandbox included.

3-node K8s cluster + AWS account + Terraform backend. Ready on Day 1. No credit card. No setup.

Access Sandbox Free
§ 05 / Pricing

Start free.
Pay when you're ready.

Week Zero is permanently free. No credit card, no sales call. Experience the teaching style before you commit a dollar.

MonthlyAnnual −20%
Week Zero
Freeforever

Git workflows, Linux fundamentals, and a pre-configured cloud sandbox. No credit card. No catch.

What's included

  • Week Zero full module access
  • Pre-configured cloud sandbox
  • Linux & Git fundamentals
  • Community Slack access
  • Live cohort sessions
  • Instructor office hours
Start Week Zero Free
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Team Access
Custom

Upskill your entire engineering team. Custom cohorts, private Slack, dedicated instructor time.

What's included

  • Everything in Full Cohort
  • Private cohort for your team
  • Custom curriculum tracks
  • Dedicated instructor (yours)
  • Progress dashboards for managers
  • SOC2 / compliance audit trail
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