Understand
Documentation and foundations establish shared terminology and system understanding.
Orthevs Academy
Learn engineering. Deepen practice with a traceable structure.
The Academy organizes 15 technical workshops into consistent learning paths. Each workshop combines foundations, exercises, assessments and 31 practical modules with a fully traceable material structure.
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Technical workshop
One learning framework. Distinct technical subjects.
All workshops follow the same robust topology: central documentation, progressive workshop levels, exercises, assessments, runnable examples and supporting scripts. The Academy preserves this organization instead of dissolving the material into isolated articles or decorative course cards.
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Build knowledge before changing systems.
The Academy teaches technical foundations and practical exercises. Learning material supports engineering decisions but does not replace an approved Contract, validated Foundation or production capability.
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Learn foundations
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Practice in workshop
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Apply to project
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Verify outcome
Workshop structure
From understanding to verifiable application.
The shared structure separates explanation, guided learning paths, independent exercises, assessment and runnable references. This keeps the purpose of each artifact and its role in the learning process explicit.
Develop
Progressive workshop levels lead from entry topics to operations and security concerns.
Apply
Exercises and 31 structured practice modules make concepts traceable through concrete tasks.
Verify
Assessments, solutions and troubleshooting paths support verifiable evaluation.
Catalog
Orthevs Academy
The Academy organizes 15 technical workshops into consistent learning paths. Each workshop combines foundations, exercises, assessments and 31 practical modules with a fully traceable material structure.
Ansible
From agentless automation and inventories through playbooks, roles and collections to Vault, CI checks, controlled rollouts and operational evidence.
31 Practice modules
94 Wiki documents
Certificate Authority
From X.509 foundations through root and intermediate CAs, certificate chains and revocation to automation, audit, key compromise and recovery.
31 Practice modules
98 Wiki documents
containerd
Runtime architecture, OCI and CRI, content store, snapshotters, registry integration, Kubernetes nodes, rootless operation, hardening and incident response.
31 Practice modules
94 Wiki documents
DNS
Namespace and resolution, authoritative servers and resolvers, delegation, caching, DNSSEC, encrypted DNS models, CoreDNS, monitoring and incident analysis.
31 Practice modules
94 Wiki documents
Docker
Docker Engine, images and Dockerfiles, container lifecycle, networking, storage and Compose alongside registry, supply-chain and security topics.
31 Practice modules
94 Wiki documents
Git
Repository, working tree, index and history, branching and collaboration, recovery, signatures, credentials, secret leaks and safe team workflows.
31 Practice modules
94 Wiki documents
GitOps
Declarative desired state and reconciliation with Kustomize, Helm, Argo CD and Flux, plus promotion, secrets, policies, multi-tenancy and supply-chain protection.
31 Practice modules
94 Wiki documents
Kubernetes
From architecture and declarative resources through workloads, networking, storage and scheduling to observability, GitOps, multi-tenancy, hardening and incident response.
31 Practice modules
94 Wiki documents
OpenTofu
HCL, providers, resources and state, modules and refactoring, tests and CI/CD, plus policy as code, drift, state security and recovery.
31 Practice modules
94 Wiki documents
Shell Scripting
Bash and POSIX-adjacent foundations, quoting, streams, functions and CLI design, plus error handling, tests, safe input, permissions and destructive operations.
31 Practice modules
94 Wiki documents
SSH
Safe OpenSSH access, host and user keys, configuration and debugging, file transfer, tunneling, bastions, certificates, hardening and incident response.
31 Practice modules
94 Wiki documents
Terraform
Terraform language, providers and CLI workflow, state and backends, modules and registry models, plus CI/CD, HCP Terraform, policy, security and recovery.
31 Practice modules
94 Wiki documents
TLS
TLS 1.2 and 1.3, X.509 and OpenSSL, ACME and web-server TLS, Kubernetes ingress and mTLS, plus revocation, monitoring, hardening and key-compromise recovery.
31 Practice modules
94 Wiki documents
Ubuntu
Ubuntu releases, users and packages, systemd and journaling, networking and storage, cloud-init and baselines, plus monitoring, hardening and incident response.
31 Practice modules
94 Wiki documents
Vagrant
Repeatable team labs with Vagrantfiles, providers, networking, synced folders and provisioning, plus security review, lifecycle and troubleshooting.
31 Practice modules
94 Wiki documents
CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
Shared license
The same split license model applies to every workshop represented in the Academy. It is therefore stated once, centrally and authoritatively, in this section.
Copyright © 2026 Anastasios Karasakalidis <anastasios.karasakalidis@orthevs.com>
Educational material
Unless explicitly stated otherwise, the educational material is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This includes in particular Markdown documentation, exercises, assessments and exam questions, diagrams maintained as Markdown or Mermaid, example code and shell-command examples.
Conditions
- Give appropriate credit and link to the license.
- Indicate whether changes were made.
- Distribute adapted versions under the same license.
- Do not use the material for commercial purposes.
Suggested attribution
Based on "Orthevs Academy Workshops" by Anastasios Karasakalidis <anastasios.karasakalidis@orthevs.com>, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Images and media
The media directory and every image or visual medium contained in it are not part of the Academy integration. They are neither copied, displayed nor structurally indexed.
Trademarks and third-party names
Product and company names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Their mention is solely for educational and descriptive purposes and does not imply endorsement or partnership.
No warranty
The material is provided for educational purposes without warranty. Examples, commands and configurations must be used at your own risk and tested in a safe lab environment first.
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