Challenges

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.

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Category
Difficulty
Challenge,  Hard

Troubleshoot Why the Calendar Todo App Pods Are Stuck in Pending

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.

Submissions: 7/11
Challenge,  Hard

Disable API Server NodePort and Configure kube-scheduler Resource Requests

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.

Submissions: 21/28