Learn by building
You provision the infrastructure, wire up the pipeline and deploy the thing. No slide decks, no read-only walkthroughs.
AliSkool · a learning platform and portfolio
Engineering,
built and taught.
I am Ali Albakri, a cloud-focused software developer working across AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD and DevSecOps. AliSkool is where that work becomes hands-on courses: small, real systems used to teach large engineering ideas, from cloud infrastructure and delivery pipelines through to electronics.
- 2 courses live
- 6 on the roadmap
- 5 Kubernetes certifications
- CNCF Kubestronaut
Course estate
aliskool.com
- s3.aliskool.com live
Each course gets its own subdomain and its own repository, so it can be built, versioned and deployed on its own. See the full catalogue
01 The approach
Small real systems, used to teach large ideas.
Every course here is built around something you deploy and can break. The application is kept deliberately boring, so what you actually learn is the engineering around it: the infrastructure, the delivery and the failure modes.
Understand the infrastructure
Knowing why a bucket policy is written that way is worth more than copying it. Each step explains what it is protecting you from.
Practical first
Manual first, so you see the moving parts. Then automated, so you see why the automation exists at all.
Software to silicon
Cloud, infrastructure, code and electronics are one continuum. The catalogue is built to cover all of it.
02 Featured courses
Start here.
One takes a plain static website from a laptop to a production platform on AWS, built by hand, rebuilt as code, then handed to a pipeline. The other prepares you for the CKS exam across all six curriculum domains, with ninety-six hands-on labs.
03 Learning pathways
A route through it, not a pile of tutorials.
Courses are grouped into pathways so each one has a place to lead. Live steps are linked; the rest is the published roadmap.
04 Selected work
Projects behind the teaching.
The courses come out of engineering work, not the other way round. These are the systems the material is drawn from.
05 Who is behind it
Ali Albakri
Cloud-focused Software Developer with experience across AWS, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, Symfony/PHP, Python automation and CI/CD.
5
CNCF Kubernetes certifications
Kubestronaut
Awarded by the CNCF
2018
Shipping software since
MSc
Electronics & Computer Engineering
Pick something and build it.
The AWS course is free, self-paced and runs inside the AWS free tier. Everything else on the roadmap is being built the same way.