PlatformEngr Learn
Free, hands-on courses where you run real infrastructure, break it on purpose and fix it from Git.
Course 1 · start here
Install Argo CD on a real cluster and run it from Git: Applications, sync and self-heal, Helm and Kustomize, three repositories, private repos and sealed secrets, projects and RBAC as team boundaries, hooks and sync waves. Then debug seven failures on purpose and onboard a second team on your own.
Course 2 · after Argo CD
Run a fleet of Kubernetes clusters the way platform teams do: clusters from Terraform, a hub running Argo CD, add-ons and guardrails everywhere, products onboarded with one file, and every change, including production, through issues, pull requests and approvals. Then break it on purpose.
Backstage · part 1
Go from clicking around Backstage to running it: create the app, keep secrets out of Git, model teams and services in a true catalog that finds repos on its own, sign in with GitHub, build golden-path templates with your own TypeScript action, put docs next to the code, and ship it as an image you upgrade.
Backstage · part 2
Build a production-readiness scorecard as a real Backstage plugin: a backend with its own database, config and schedule, tests, an extension point other teams extend with modules, a frontend plugin on the new frontend system, an entity card, and permissions.
These courses began as hands-on workshops I ran for PlatformEngr. The people who attended kept asking for the material, so I turned it into a course anyone can follow and put it online. Nothing is gated and there is no sign-up.
I would rather you learn this properly and tell me where it breaks than keep it behind a form. Found a gap? Open an issue on the course's reference repo: argocd-gitops or fleet-gitops.
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