Learn by Building with Real Tools

Every SkilDock course includes hands-on labs where you work with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka, Terraform, and the same production tools used by engineering teams worldwide. No toy environments. No simulations.

Three Lab Tiers

We match the lab environment to the technology being taught.

Docker Labs

Docker Lab

Run entirely on your local machine using Docker containers. No cloud account needed, no cost, no time limits. These labs spin up realistic environments with databases, message queues, and application servers in seconds. Perfect for practice and experimentation.

AWS Free Tier

AWS Free Tier

Use real AWS services within the Free Tier limits. You get hands-on experience with production cloud infrastructure without significant cost. We guide you through account setup, resource cleanup, and cost monitoring to ensure you stay within free limits.

Instructor Demo

Live Demo

Some labs involve expensive infrastructure (GPU clusters, enterprise tools) that would be impractical to replicate individually. The instructor demonstrates these live while you follow along and interact. You still learn the patterns and can replicate them when needed.

All Labs

Browse labs by course. Click any lab to see full details.

Cloud DevOps Engineering

Docker LabBeginner

Linux Server Setup & Hardening

Provision an Ubuntu server, configure SSH key authentication, set up firewall rules, and harden the system for production use.

Docker LabIntermediate

Containerize a Full-Stack Application

Write a multi-stage Dockerfile, build optimized images, and run a full-stack app with Docker Compose.

DockerDocker ComposeNode.js+1

AWS Free TierIntermediate

Provision AWS VPC with Terraform

Write Terraform modules to create a production-grade VPC with public/private subnets, NAT gateway, and security groups.

TerraformAWS VPCAWS IAM

Docker LabAdvanced

Deploy Microservices on Kubernetes

Create Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, and Ingress resources to run a microservices application on a local K8s cluster.

KuberneteskubectlHelm+1

Docker LabIntermediate

Build CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions

Design a complete CI/CD pipeline that builds, tests, scans, and deploys a containerized application.

GitHub ActionsDockerTrivy+1

Docker LabIntermediate

Production Monitoring with Prometheus & Grafana

Set up Prometheus for metrics collection, configure Grafana dashboards, and create alerting rules for a running application.

PrometheusGrafanaNode Exporter+1

Data Science

Docker LabBeginner

Data Cleaning & EDA with Pandas

Clean a messy real-world dataset, handle missing values, detect outliers, and create visualizations to extract business insights.

PythonPandasMatplotlib+2

Docker LabIntermediate

Build a Classification Model with Scikit-Learn

Train, evaluate, and tune a classification model. Compare algorithms, handle imbalanced data, and interpret results.

PythonScikit-LearnPandas+1

Python Backend Engineering

Docker LabIntermediate

Build a REST API with FastAPI

Design and implement a production-ready REST API with authentication, validation, database integration, and automatic docs.

PythonFastAPIPostgreSQL+2

Docker LabIntermediate

Testing Python Applications with Pytest

Write unit tests, integration tests, and API tests. Set up fixtures, mocks, and test coverage reporting.

PythonPytestCoverage.py+1

Generative AI Engineering

Docker LabAdvanced

Build a RAG Pipeline with LangChain

Implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation to build a chatbot that answers questions from your own documents.

PythonLangChainChromaDB+2

Live DemoAdvanced

Fine-Tune an LLM for Domain Tasks

Fine-tune a small language model on domain-specific data using LoRA and evaluate its performance against the base model.

PythonHugging FacePEFT/LoRA+1

System Design

Live DemoIntermediate

Design a URL Shortener System

Walk through the full system design process for a URL shortener: requirements, API, database, scaling, and trade-offs.

WhiteboardRedisPostgreSQL+1

Live DemoAdvanced

Design a Notification System

Design a multi-channel notification system handling email, SMS, push, and in-app notifications with delivery guarantees.

Message QueueRedisPostgreSQL+1

Java Backend Engineering

Docker LabIntermediate

Build a REST API with Spring Boot

Create a production-ready REST API using Spring Boot with JPA, validation, exception handling, and Swagger docs.

JavaSpring BootPostgreSQL+2

Full-Stack Python React

Docker LabIntermediate

Build a React Dashboard with Charts

Create an interactive admin dashboard with React, TailwindCSS, Recharts, and API integration for real-time data.

ReactTypeScriptTailwindCSS+2

Data Engineering

Docker LabAdvanced

Build a Streaming Pipeline with Kafka

Set up Kafka brokers, create producers and consumers, and build a real-time data pipeline for event processing.

Apache KafkaPythonDocker Compose+1

Docker LabIntermediate

Build an ETL Pipeline with Apache Airflow

Design and orchestrate a multi-step ETL pipeline with Airflow DAGs, task dependencies, and monitoring.

Apache AirflowPythonPostgreSQL+1

Data Analytics

Docker LabIntermediate

Advanced SQL Analytics Queries

Write window functions, CTEs, subqueries, and complex joins to answer business questions from a real dataset.

PostgreSQLDBeaverDocker

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