KubernetesAdvanced
Multi-region GitOps cluster
Provision, harden and operate a 3-region EKS fleet with ArgoCD, progressive delivery and zero-downtime upgrades.
EKSArgoCDFlagger
lab/001$ opsforge lab start multi-region-gitops-cluster
New · Agentic AI Lab v1.0 shippedBuild Real Production Systems
Build Real Production Systems
for the AI Era
Master DevOps, Kubernetes, MLOps, Agentic AI, DevSecOps, and cloud-native engineering through real-world infrastructure, production deployments, and modern platform engineering practices.
120+
Production Labs
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Cloud Stacks
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Engineers
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Uptime Mindset
opsforge ~ production-cluster · us-east-1● healthy
Kubernetes Nodes
42 / 42
3 zones · autoscaling
ML Inference QPS
12.4k
p99 87ms · GPU pool
Pipeline Success
99.7%
412 deploys / 24h
$ kubectl rollout status deploy/inference-gateway
deployment "inference-gateway" successfully rolled out
$ argocd app sync platform/observability --prune
Synced 14 resources · drift: 0 · health: ✓ Healthy
The stack we teach & ship
Built on the tools running modern production
Kubernetes
Docker
AWS
Azure
GCP
Terraform
GitHub Actions
ArgoCD
OpenAI
LangChain
Prometheus
Grafana
Kong
MuleSoft
Jenkins
NGINX
Vault
Istio
Kubernetes
Docker
AWS
Azure
GCP
Terraform
GitHub Actions
ArgoCD
OpenAI
LangChain
Prometheus
Grafana
Kong
MuleSoft
Jenkins
NGINX
Vault
Istio
Engineering Tracks
Eight tracks. One production-grade engineer.
Curated specializations covering the full surface of modern production engineering — from Linux primitives to autonomous AI systems.
01
DevOps Engineering
Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitOps, Terraform, and infrastructure automation at production scale.
KubernetesTerraformGitOpsArgoCD
02
Cloud & Platform
AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba and hybrid infrastructure with platform reliability and HA systems.
AWSAzureGCPHybrid
03
MLOps & AI Infra
AI deployment pipelines, GPU workloads, vector DBs, model serving, LLMOps and AI observability.
GPUVector DBLLMOpsServing
04
Agentic AI
Build AI agents with MCP, LangChain, memory systems, tool integrations and autonomous workflows.
MCPLangChainMemoryTools
05
DevSecOps
Cloud security, secure CI/CD, Zero Trust, IAM, runtime protection and security automation.
Zero TrustIAMRuntimeSAST
06
Middleware & APIs
MuleSoft, SAP, Kong API Gateway, NGINX, auth systems and enterprise API orchestration.
KongMuleSoftNGINXSAP
07
Production Engineering
SRE, scalable systems, monitoring, incident response and real-world deployment strategies.
SREObservabilityIncidentsPerf
08
Modern Web Deploy
Frontend, backend, CDN, edge, SSL, DNS, scaling architectures, cloud-native deployments.
EdgeCDNDNSScaling
Labs & Projects
Hands-on labs that mirror real production
AI InfraExpert
LLM inference platform
Ship a GPU-backed model serving stack with vLLM, autoscaling, semantic caching and full observability.
vLLMTritonProm
lab/002$ opsforge lab start llm-inference-platform
DevSecOpsAdvanced
Zero-Trust supply chain
Sigstore-signed builds, Kyverno policy gates, SBOM diffing and runtime detection with Falco.
SigstoreKyvernoFalco
lab/003$ opsforge lab start zero-trust-supply-chain
Agentic AIIntermediate
Production MCP agent
Design a multi-tool MCP agent with persistent memory, tracing and human-in-the-loop guardrails.
MCPLangGraphOTel
lab/004$ opsforge lab start production-mcp-agent
Learning Paths
Structured roadmaps. Real outcomes.
Track · 16 weeks
DevOps to Platform Engineer
- 01Linux & Networking
- 02Containers & K8s
- 03GitOps & IaC
- 04Platform Design
Track · 14 weeks
AI Infrastructure Engineer
- 01Cloud Foundations
- 02MLOps Pipelines
- 03Model Serving
- 04LLMOps & Agents
Track · 12 weeks
DevSecOps Specialist
- 01Threat Modeling
- 02Secure CI/CD
- 03Cloud & K8s Security
- 04Runtime Defense
Real-world Production Systems
We don't teach toy stacks.
We teach what runs at 3am.
Every track is built around the systems engineers actually operate — multi-region clusters, GPU inference fleets, signed supply chains, and platform internals that survive contact with reality.
SRE
Error budgets, SLOs, golden signals
Observability
Metrics, logs, traces, profiles
Incident
On-call rotations & blameless retros
Performance
p99 latency, capacity planning
Resilience
Chaos, failover, multi-AZ design
Cost
FinOps, autoscaling, right-sizing
incident-2147 · sev-2 · resolved
MTTR 04:1203:01ALERTp99 latency > 250ms · inference-gateway
03:02PAGEon-call: sre-primary acknowledged
03:04DIAGGPU node pool draining · zone us-east-1c
03:07ACTIONargo rollout abort · traffic shifted 100% → 1b
03:13RESOLVEp99 87ms · SLO restored · zone cordoned
SLO
99.95%
Burn
0.4x
Saved
$12.4k
ai-infrastructure / stack-view
Agents · MCP · LangGraph
● readyLLM Gateway · Routing · Cache
● readyModel Serving · vLLM · Triton
● readyGPU Scheduler · NVIDIA Operator
● readyVector Store · Postgres · Redis
● readyKubernetes · Cilium · Linkerd
● readyAI Infrastructure
The full stack behind production AI
From kernel-level GPU scheduling to agentic orchestration — learn every layer of the modern AI infrastructure stack and how to operate it under load.
- GPU pools, MIG slicing, fractional inference
- Vector databases, hybrid search, embeddings pipelines
- Model serving, autoscaling, request batching
- Agentic workflows with MCP, tracing & evals
DevSecOps
Security woven into every commit, every pod.
policy-as-code
Secure Supply Chain
Sigstore signing, SLSA attestations, SBOMs, signed container images and verified provenance from commit to cluster.
SigstoreSLSASBOMCosign
policy-as-code
Zero Trust & IAM
Identity-first architecture with workload identity, OIDC federation, fine-grained RBAC and just-in-time access.
OIDCSPIFFERBACJIT
policy-as-code
Runtime Defense
eBPF runtime security, network policies, admission control with Kyverno and live threat detection.
FalcoCiliumKyvernoeBPF
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