For the last few years, FoggyKitchen has been mostly a course website.
You could buy a course, access the lessons, download the materials, and continue your cloud automation learning path from there. It worked, but it was still based on a classic WordPress/LearnPress setup. It was good enough to publish training content, but it was not designed for everything I want FoggyKitchen to become.
This is now changing.
FoggyKitchen Next App is moving FoggyKitchen into a dedicated learning application built around real cloud automation training workflows.
The first visible part of this change is the Private Workspace.
This is the place where each learner will be able to access courses, track progress, view certificates, manage billing, open support requests, access private assets, and use consulting-related features when available.
It is not only a new user interface.
It is a foundation for a different FoggyKitchen model.
Why I decided to build it
A course website is usually built around content.
A learning platform should be built around the learner.
This is an important difference.
When someone learns Terraform, OpenTofu, OCI, Kubernetes, DevOps, networking, or multicloud architecture, the course video is only one part of the journey. There are also repositories, examples, updates, support questions, private assets, certificates, consulting sessions, and sometimes team access.
I wanted all of this to live in one place.
That is why FoggyKitchen Next App is being built.
What will be waiting inside
The new Private Workspace will start with the most important learner features.
You will be able to continue your courses from one dashboard, see your learning progress, access certificates, review your entitlements, open support requests, and navigate to private assets when your plan includes them.
There will also be a clearer path from individual course access to membership and subscription-based access.
This matters because FoggyKitchen is no longer only about single course purchases.
The new model is designed to support individual learners, professionals who want continued access to updated cloud automation content, and eventually teams that need a structured way to learn and work with private repositories, blueprints, and support workflows.
Why this matters for FoggyKitchen
For me, this is one of the biggest changes since FoggyKitchen started.
The old platform helped me publish courses.
The new platform is designed to support the full learning workflow.
It gives me much more control over the learner experience, course structure, entitlements, certificates, support requests, billing, private assets, and future integrations.
It also gives FoggyKitchen a better technical foundation.
The application is being built with Next.js, a dedicated backend, Oracle Autonomous Database, OCI infrastructure, and a structure that can grow far beyond what was comfortable in WordPress.
What happens next
Soon, FoggyKitchen learners will receive an email with access instructions for the new Private Workspace.
The process should be simple.
You will sign in with the email address connected to your FoggyKitchen account. If you do not remember your password, you will be able to use password reset and get a fresh login link.
This first version is only the beginning.
More features will follow, including better course player experience, improved membership flows, team access, private assets, support workflows, and future assistant capabilities around FoggyKitchen cloud automation content.
FoggyKitchen is moving from a course website into a dedicated learning platform.
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