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Build Real Skills Through Hands-On Practice

Our programs focus on containerization and virtualization fundamentals. You'll work through structured exercises that mirror actual infrastructure challenges faced by Australian tech teams.

Next intake: September 2025

Choose Your Learning Path

Different people learn differently. Some need structure, others prefer flexibility. We've built three formats that work around your schedule and learning style.

Weekend Intensive

Saturdays and Sundays, 9am to 4pm. Six weekends total. Perfect if you work full-time and want to knock this out in under two months. Labs stay open until 6pm if you need extra time.

Evening Track

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30pm to 9pm. Runs for twelve weeks. Good option for parents or anyone who can't commit full days. Same content, just spread out more.

Self-Paced Access

Access to all materials, lab environments, and recorded sessions for six months. Book one-on-one sessions when you get stuck. Works if your schedule changes unpredictably.

Students working on virtualization labs in modern learning environment

Common Roadblocks and How We Handle Them

Most people run into the same issues when learning infrastructure tech. Here's what usually happens and what we do about it.

1

Setup Takes Forever

You get pre-configured environments from day one. No spending three hours installing dependencies. Just log in and start working.

2

Cryptic Error Messages

We maintain a troubleshooting database built from actual student questions. Search by error code and you'll find explanations in plain language, not documentation speak.

3

Falling Behind

Progress tracking shows exactly where you are. If you miss a session, recorded versions go up within two hours. Catch-up labs run every Saturday morning.

4

Theory Without Context

Every concept ties to a real scenario. When we cover Docker networking, you're building a multi-container app that actually needs service discovery.

5

Stuck After Hours

Private Discord with teaching assistants monitoring until 10pm weeknights. Most questions get answered in under twenty minutes. Weekend support runs noon to 6pm.

6

Information Overload

Each module has a single-page reference sheet. Just the commands and concepts you actually use. No thirty-page PDFs nobody reads.

What Previous Students Built

Final projects from recent cohorts. These are the kinds of things you'll be able to create by the end.

Container Orchestration

Automated Deployment Pipeline

Freya built a system that takes code from GitHub, runs tests in isolated containers, and deploys to staging if everything passes. She had zero DevOps experience before starting and now maintains the build infrastructure at her company.

Key Learning
Understanding how containers isolate processes made debugging so much easier. Once that clicked, everything else made sense.
Freya Vaskovic explaining her deployment pipeline project
Virtualization Architecture

Development Environment Cluster

Henrik set up a virtualized cluster that his team uses for testing. Developers can spin up exact copies of production without touching actual servers. Saves his company about six hours per week in environment setup time.

Key Learning
Resource allocation was trickier than expected. Had to learn how to balance performance across multiple VMs without overcommitting memory.
Henrik Dreyer demonstrating his virtualization cluster
Monitoring Solution

Container Health Dashboard

Salma created a monitoring system that tracks container metrics and sends alerts when something breaks. Started as a class exercise and evolved into something her workplace actually uses in production now.

Key Learning
Learning to read logs properly was half the battle. Once I knew what to look for, troubleshooting became much faster.
Salma Elridge working on her monitoring dashboard
Microservices Migration

Legacy System Containerization

Declan took an old monolithic application and broke it into containerized services. The project taught him how to handle data persistence, service communication, and gradual migration strategies without causing downtime.

Key Learning
Networking between containers was the hardest part. Spent two weeks just understanding how DNS resolution works in Docker.
Declan Thurn reviewing his microservices architecture

Applications Open for September Cohort

Classes fill up quickly because we cap enrollment at twenty students per instructor. Early applications get priority for schedule selection.

Application deadline: July 31, 2025