Focused hands-on problems designed to help you hone your DevOps or Server Side skills. Some challenges are more educational, while others are based on real-world scenarios. The platform provides hints and feedback for each challenge, including automated solution checks.
Challenges crafted by iximiuz Labs to help you master DevOps and Server Side topics.
Sometimes an image needs to be removed from a registry - because it was pushed by mistake, contains sensitive data, or simply should no longer be available. Practice purging a container image properly: remove the tag, trace it to the manifest and blobs behind it, and make sure the image can no longer be pulled - even by digest.
Practice discovering what has been published to a remote container repository by listing its tags using crane, regctl, or a direct call to the registry HTTP API.
Set up your own OCI-compatible container registry with username/password authentication and HTTPS - the kind of protection you'd expect before using a registry in production.
Stand up a self-hosted container registry so you can push and pull images without relying on a third-party registry. Useful for tests, internal services, air-gapped environments, or just for poking at the OCI Distribution API.
Challenges from outstanding independent authors proudly hosted by iximiuz Labs.
Did you know that pods can become invisible? Can you figure out how?
In this challenge, you’ll debug and fix a deliberately “broken” eBPF program, then prove it’s running by identifying its program and map IDs. Along the way, you’ll explore bpftool, check which helpers are supported, and dig into details like the UID of the loader. Finally, you’ll test your knowledge of eBPF maps by recalling the flag that only inserts a key if it doesn’t already exist.
Get hands-on with reading secrets from different providers and using them in your Dagger pipelines.
Learn how to install, update and uninstall Dagger module dependencies.
Challenges contributed by the community members sharing their knowledge and expertise.
Make sure the Klustered deployment is running the v2 tag and that you can visit the application to see a lovely quote and a video of me dancing.
Create a Kubernetes Job template for Team Aurora that runs a busybox command across multiple completions in parallel, with specific pod labels and container configuration.
Use emptyDir volumes to share data between containers, understand the volume lifecycle across container restarts and pod deletion, and explore memory-backed ephemeral storage.
Master **sed**, the essential stream editor for Linux SysAdmins. Progress through 10 tasks: simple & global substitution, regex patterns, line ranges, deletion, insertion, ... Work with realistic Rocky Linux system files in /home/laborant/sed_challenge/.
