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> The GitOps with Argo CD Patterns cohort killed our ‘kubectl hotfix’ habit before it reached production. The drift lab felt like our last outage, but safer.

Thao — infra engineer, SaaS billing squad

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Hero base stays readable even if the overlay image fails—grid gradient remains underneath.

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112

Cohorts facilitated

since 2019

18h

Median mentor response

weekdays

99.2%

Lab uptime target

rolling quarter

37

Partner org touchpoints

across VN + SG

EN + VI

Languages supported

materials primarily EN

Satisfaction snapshots vary by survey channel—ask admissions for the latest breakdown.

Inclusions that survive audits

We optimize for traceable diffs, not slide decks. Each bullet below maps to something reviewers can click.

Pipeline design tied to tickets

Every exercise maps to a change record you could file tomorrow—no abstract homework.

Container + observability labs

Short bursts of hands-on work with mentor sign-off on probes, limits, and trace fields.

Blended HCMC presence

Office hours at 466 Hong Bang Street for learners who want whiteboard time between async modules.

01 — Delivery spine

Five beats, not a perfect circle diagram. Each beat ends with an artifact you can paste into Confluence if you must.

01

Intake diagnostics

We review your stack context and pick a lab track that matches your release maturity.

02

Guided build weeks

You ship incremental changes with review comments anchored to real pipeline files.

03

Architecture critique

Mentors challenge blast radius, rollback paths, and telemetry gaps in a 90-minute session.

04

Handoff package

You leave with checklists, dashboards stubs, and comms templates your team can reuse.

05

Lightweight follow-through

Two async check-ins help you apply the playbook inside your employer constraints.

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Featured cohort tracks

Full listing →
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Linux automation

Linux Automation for Delivery Teams

Shell-to-systemd workflows, package baselines, and idempotent configuration patterns for release engineers.

5.200.000 ₫ Inspect
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CI/CD pipelines

CI/CD Pipelines with GitHub Actions

Reusable workflows, environment promotion, and artifact hygiene for teams standardizing on GitHub.

6.800.000 ₫ Inspect
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Containers

Containers on Kubernetes Essentials

Image contracts, workload identities, and pragmatic kubectl workflows without YAML soup.

9.200.000 ₫ Inspect
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Observability

Observability Handoffs for Platform Teams

Trace, metrics, and log contracts that survive on-call rotations and vendor changes.

7.400.000 ₫ Inspect

Cohort whispers (verified formats mixed)

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Khoa · Release technician

Linux Automation for Delivery Teams made systemd timers click. I stopped masking failures with cron retries; the mentor markup on my unit file was blunt and useful.

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Mai · Da Nang

Short, sharp. Observability Handoffs forced us to name log fields before we touched Grafana.

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Client in logistics software

Their CI/CD Pipelines with GitHub Actions module exposed a cache issue we had ignored for months.

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Hien · 4.8 out of 5 · client survey

Not magic—just disciplined YAML reviews. Still exactly what our retail squad needed.

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