Focused, hands-on problems for sharpening your DevOps and server-side skills. Some teach specific concepts while others mirror real-world scenarios. Every challenge includes hints, feedback, and automated solution checks.
Learn how to configure a Kubernetes CronJob to automatically take etcd snapshot backups every 6 hours — a critical skill for cluster disaster recovery and operational health.
Learn how to reconfigure the Kubernetes cluster DNS domain by updating CoreDNS ConfigMap and kubelet configuration on all nodes, a critical skill for custom cluster networking and CKA exam preparation.
The production "Calendar Todo" web application has been deployed in the prod namespace but all pods are stuck in Pending. Investigate the cluster, identify why the application cannot run, fix the underlying node issue, and verify the app is serving traffic on NodePort 31777.
Practice real-world disaster recovery — restore a deleted production workload by restoring an etcd snapshot and reconfiguring the etcd static pod to use the recovered data directory.
A web application is deployed but the website is not accessible. Investigate and fix the issue.
Make sure the Klustered deployment is running and that you can browse to it and see the counter increase with each refresh.
Configure the kube-scheduler static pod with CPU resource requests based on node allocatable, and disable the NodePort access to the Kubernetes API server so it is only reachable via ClusterIP.
Combine multi-stage builds, build-time arguments, non-root users, and Pod security context into a single production-grade image pipeline.
Did you know that pods can become invisible? Can you figure out how?
Hack your way through this challenge making the OOM kills invisible again.
