Welcome to the Playground
Explore real infrastructure in secure sandbox environments. Learn distributed systems, container orchestration, and DevOps practices by doing—not just reading.
Secure by Design
All playground environments are completely isolated from production infrastructure. Ephemeral containers auto-destruct after use. No data persists. Play freely.
Choose Your Playground
Each environment offers hands-on experience with real DevOps tools and techniques
Build Swarm Simulator
Watch distributed package compilation in action. See how 70 cores work together to compile Gentoo packages.
- Real-time visualization
- Drone orchestration
- Package queue management
- Failure recovery
apkg Tutorial
Learn Gentoo package management the easy way. Interactive tutorial for the Argo Package Manager.
- Step-by-step guide
- Command examples
- Binhost mode
- Nix integration
Terminal Sandbox
Explore a sandboxed Linux environment. Run commands, explore the filesystem, and learn CLI basics.
- Isolated environment
- Pre-configured tools
- Interactive tutorials
- Safe experimentation
Container Lab
Spin up ephemeral containers. Deploy web apps, databases, and microservices in isolated environments.
- Docker containers
- Pre-built images
- Network isolation
- Auto-cleanup
Infrastructure Explorer
Explore the dual-galaxy network topology. Discover how systems communicate across sites via Tailscale mesh.
- Network visualization
- System discovery
- Traffic simulation
- Failover demo
IaC Playground
Write and test Infrastructure as Code. Experiment with Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes manifests.
- Live validation
- Plan preview
- Template library
- Best practices
Monitoring Lab
Build observability dashboards. Create Prometheus queries, Grafana panels, and alerting rules.
- Metric exploration
- Dashboard builder
- Alert testing
- Log analysis
For Homelabbers
Curious how to build a distributed build system? Want to understand multi-site networking with Tailscale? Explore working examples of infrastructure patterns you can adapt for your own homelab.
What Powers This Playground
Ready to Explore?
Pick a playground and start learning. Everything here is designed to be broken, rebuilt, and explored.