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- root-01-m00-welcome-to-root: program overview + Lab-lifecycle orientation (disposable Labs, permanent progress, hints, reset/recreate, help-requests). - One short intro-lesson activity for each of the three bare practice-bank modules (root-06-m01, root-07-m01, root-10-m02), explaining what the bank is and why it has no per-scenario teaching of its own — the minimum real authoring needed for genuine self-paced readiness without reclassifying them optional (see the curriculum migrations). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
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# Welcome to ROOT_
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ROOT_ is RootNode Academy's path from "I can use a computer" to "I can run and repair real
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infrastructure." It's built for anyone roughly high-school age and up — including college
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students, career changers, help-desk technicians, junior sysadmins, and working developers who
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want to move into DevOps, cloud, or platform engineering. There's no strict age cutoff: what
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matters is whether you're ready for the material, not how old you are.
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## Where ROOT_ goes
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```
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ROOT 01 Computing & Linux Foundations
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ROOT 02 Linux Administration & Networking
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ROOT 03 Git & Collaborative Development
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ROOT 04 Containers & Docker
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ROOT 05 Kubernetes Foundations
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ROOT 06 Kubernetes Application Workloads
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ROOT 07 Kubernetes Networking & Configuration
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ROOT 09 Kubernetes Security
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ROOT 10 Kubernetes Troubleshooting & Observability
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ROOT 12 RootNode Real Ops
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CAPSTONE Operate and Recover a Production-Like Environment
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```
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Each course builds on real skill from the one before it — you won't be asked to use a tool or
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concept that a previous course didn't already teach you. By the end, you'll have operated a real
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Kubernetes cluster, diagnosed and fixed real incidents, and demonstrated it in a hands-on
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capstone — not answered multiple-choice questions about it.
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## How you'll actually learn
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Every module follows the same rhythm:
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**Learn → Practice → Lab → Troubleshoot → Validate**
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- **Learn** — a short lesson introduces one real concept, plainly, with no unexplained jargon.
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- **Practice** — a demonstration or guided exercise lets you see the concept applied before
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you're on your own with it.
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- **Lab** — you do the real thing yourself, in your own disposable Lab environment: a real
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Linux shell, real Git, real Docker, and (from ROOT 05 onward) a real Kubernetes cluster.
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- **Troubleshoot** — Labs are built to sometimes not go as planned on the first try, on purpose.
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Figuring out why something didn't work is as much the skill as doing it right the first time.
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- **Validate** — your Lab checks its own result. You'll know immediately whether you actually
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solved it, not just whether you think you did.
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## Self-paced or instructor-led
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ROOT_ is built to work either way. If you're going through it on your own, every module gives you
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everything you need without a teacher in the room. If you're in an instructor-led class or camp,
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your instructor can see your progress, help when you're stuck, and add their own pacing and
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discussion on top of the same real curriculum — nothing about the platform changes between the
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two, only who else is watching your progress.
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## Assessments and the Capstone
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A few courses end in a short formal assessment — a handful of real, timed Lab tasks (not a
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multiple-choice quiz) that check you can actually do what the course taught, not just recognize
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the right answer. The program ends with the **Capstone**: no more new teaching, just a
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production-like environment with real incidents to find and fix, the same way you would on the
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job.
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## Your progress is permanent — your Lab is not
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One thing to know before you start: the Lab environment you work in is disposable and can be
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recreated at any time. Your academic progress is not. The next module covers exactly what that
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means and why it's nothing to worry about.
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