Blended · 5 weeks · blended
Containers on Admin Metal
Podman workflows for admins who live outside Kubernetes dashboards.
BRL 980 · informational only
Responsible mentor
Bruno Teixeira
Systems mentor who still carries a battered field laptop.
Program narrative
Build rootless habits, map cgroups v2 quirks, and practice explaining resource limits to skeptical peers. Labs stay close to bare-metal hosts you might actually touch.
Included drills
- Rootless volume mapping drills
- cgroups v2 limit experiments
- Image inspection without pulling everything
- Networking parallels to bridge admin tasks
- Mentor critiques of your runbooks
- Cleanup rituals to avoid orphaned units
- Comparison grid: podman vs legacy chroots
Outcomes we expect you to evidence
- Defend a rootless deployment choice to a lead
- Predict cgroup pressure symptoms
- Ship a teardown checklist for interns
FAQ for this track
Mentioned for vocabulary only; clusters are not provisioned in this track.
Experience notes
“Containers on Admin Metal kept pulling me back to systemd slices—exactly the bridge I needed.”
— Patricia L. , Ops trainee · survey · 4/5
“Voice notes on my cgroup graphs were quick and sarcastic—useful combo.”
— Leo · Natal