Linux Kernel Courses and Certifications

Debugging Linux Memory Management Subsystem - Mentorship Session

A walkthrough of tracing a real Linux kernel memory-management bug to its root cause, using the tools and techniques applied along the way.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Getting Started with eBPF - Tutorial

Explore how eBPF works through hands-on labs for managing and observing programs and maps in the Linux kernel.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Containers - A Look Under the Hood

A hands-on look at how Linux namespaces, process roots, and capabilities create container isolation and help explain container behavior.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NDC Conferences

Strace - Monitoring the Kernel-User-Space Conversation

Learn to read strace’s symbolic view of system calls and use its options to focus on calls, signals, and file access.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Kunal Kushwaha

Cloud Native Observability With eBPF

Explore how eBPF enables cloud-native observability, including its monitoring applications and the fundamentals of groundcover.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NDC Conferences

Containers Unplugged - Understanding User Namespaces

A close look at user namespaces explains what superuser privileges mean inside them, how they relate to other namespaces, and their security implications.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

Diving Deeper into Control Groups - Cgroups V2

Explore cgroups v2 release notifications, delegation of subhierarchies to unprivileged users, and thread mode.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

An Introduction to Control Groups - Cgroups Version 2

Explore how cgroups v2 organizes processes and applies resource limits through configurable controllers.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

Asynchronous I/O and Coroutines for Smooth Data Streaming

Use C++20 coroutines with Linux io_uring to read asynchronous data in short loops that run without threading concerns.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

Sandboxing a Linux Application

Build a Linux sandbox with namespaces and filters to isolate applications, and see how Docker and Chromium use these mechanisms to protect the system.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

USENIX

5 Years of Cgroup v2 - The Future of Linux Resource Control

A production-hardened look at five years of Linux cgroup v2, its counter-intuitive resource-control effects, and lessons from running it on over a million machines.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

USENIX

When Linux Memory Accounting Goes Wrong

Debug Linux host outages caused by inaccurate cgroup memory accounting, using a real-world incident to trace, validate, and mitigate the failure.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Linux Memory Management at Scale - Under the Hood

Explore Linux memory management at scale, from cgroups, swap, and reclaim to PSI, memory protection, and reliable memory-heavy systems.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Stress-ng: How to Stress Test Your Computer (and Possibly Break It)

Explore how stress-ng exercises Linux kernels and hardware through CPU, cache, system call, scheduler, network, and virtual-memory stressors.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Linux on RISC-V with Open Hardware

Explore how Linux runs on RISC-V, from ISA and privileged architecture through boot flow, distributions, development boards, and open-source FPGA ecosystems.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk