Operator
Day-to-day DNS, DHCP and IPAM work. Start here if you will allocate addresses, publish records and keep the network documented. Start here → Part 1 · about 4 hours.
SpatiumDDI Academy
Learn SpatiumDDI by building a real campus network — DNS, DHCP and IP address management in one control plane — in your own lab, one checked step at a time.
What you will build
Section titled “What you will build”You will bring Ridgeline College — the fictional campus from the official SpatiumDDI Getting Started guide — under management, exactly the way a real deployment goes: DNS servers and the corp.example.edu zone, the 10.20.0.0/16 campus address plan, a DHCP scope for the staff VLAN, and your first managed host, print-01, resolving forwards and backwards. Then you will run it like an administrator — access control, automation, backups, upgrades — and finish with the architecture knowledge to design a production estate.
Every lab runs against a real SpatiumDDI (release 1.0.0-beta.3, a pre-release of 1.0) on your own machine, with a BIND9 DNS server and a Kea DHCP server attached. Every lab has an auto-grader: ./lab/check.sh <n> tells you what is right and what to fix.
Choose your path
Section titled “Choose your path”Administrator
Everything an operator does, plus users and roles, single sign-on, the API, audit and recovery, monitoring, backups and upgrades. Part 1 → Part 2 · about 7 hours.
Architect
How SpatiumDDI works underneath and how to design it: agents, drivers, topologies, high availability, hardening and migration. Part 3 (after Parts 1–2) · about 3 hours.
MSP partner
Run SpatiumDDI for clients. Everything above and the Certified Operator practice exam. SpatiumNorth runs a separate half-day partner module for its partner MSPs.
How you learn here
Section titled “How you learn here”Narrated videos
Short, captioned walkthroughs recorded on the real product, with chapters and a searchable transcript.
Try-it-yourself walkthroughs
Click through the exact screens from each video — the next control is highlighted — before you do it for real.
Auto-checked labs
A pinned SpatiumDDI lab in Docker, and a checker that grades your work against the running system.
Tips, notes and knowledge checks
Tips drawn from the docs and from the issues real operators hit, architecture notes where they matter, and a knowledge check per module, leading to a practice exam.
Built for the way SpatiumDDI is built
Section titled “Built for the way SpatiumDDI is built”The Academy needs no account and collects nothing: no analytics, no tracking, no phone-home. Your progress lives only in your browser. That mirrors the product itself — self-hosted, air-gap friendly, Apache-2.0.
How this course worksPaths, conventions, and how to get the most out of each module.
What's new in this editionTook the 2026.9 edition? What changed for SpatiumDDI 1.0.0-beta.3: new videos and labs, and changed steps.
Field guideTips and tricks, a troubleshooting playbook, a quick reference and a glossary.
CertificationWhat the SpatiumDDI Certified Operator exam covers — and a practice exam.
Your progressModules completed, knowledge-check scores and practice-exam results.