Storage & Virtualization Engineer

Own the block layer, the filesystems and the isolation beneath everything else.

6 courses 175 hours of instructionBadge: Platform Engineer

Who it is for

Platform engineers responsible for storage performance and virtualisation.

The sequence

  1. 1
    STO-101 · The Linux Block Layer, Multiqueue & Device Mapper 4 days
  2. 2
    STO-110 · NVMe, NVMe-oF & Storage Acceleration 4 days
  3. 3
    STO-201 · VFS Internals, ext4 & XFS Architecture 5 days
  4. 4
    VRT-101 · KVM Internals & Hypervisor Architecture 4 days
  5. 5
    VRT-110 · VFIO Device Passthrough & virtio Drivers 4 days
  6. 6
    VRT-201 · Linux Containers from Scratch: Namespaces, cgroups & Runtimes 4 days

Capstone

Diagnose a storage or isolation problem end to end: trace it to the layer, fix it, and document the fix so the next engineer can reproduce it.

Start with the first course

Every course in the path can be taken on its own. Dates are on the course page.

STO-101