Virtualization & Containers

Both halves of the isolation story: hardware virtualisation with KVM and device passthrough, and the namespace and cgroup machinery containers are built from.

6 courses · available in all eight cities and live online

Virtualization3 courses

VRT-1014 days KVM Internals How Linux becomes a hypervisor: vCPU execution, memory virtualisation and the QEMU relationship. Advanced Practitioner-taught SAR 12,000Next 18 Oct VRT-1103 days VFIO & Device Passthrough Giving a guest direct access to real hardware — the mechanism behind GPU passthrough. Advanced Practitioner-taught SAR 9,000Next 15 Nov VRT-1203 days virtio Device Drivers The paravirtualised device model: virtqueues, transports and writing a virtio driver. Advanced Practitioner-taught SAR 9,000Next 1 Nov

Containers3 courses

VRT-2013 days Namespaces & cgroups from Scratch Build a container by hand with the primitives, so the abstraction stops being magic. Practitioner Practitioner-taught SAR 7,880Next 8 Nov VRT-2103 days Container Runtimes & the OCI Spec What runc, containerd and the OCI specifications actually define, and how images become running processes. Practitioner Practitioner-taught SAR 7,880Next 18 Oct VRT-2203 days Container Security & seccomp Making containers a real security boundary rather than an organisational one. Advanced Practitioner-taught SAR 9,000Next 22 Nov