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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Challenge,  Medium

Enable Per-Pod DNS Records for a Deployment

A service in the mesh namespace returns only a single IP during DNS lookup, preventing the peer-server pods from finding each other. Investigate why DNS does not return one address per pod and change the service configuration so that peer discovery works correctly.

Submissions: 7/8
Challenge,  Medium

Extend the Cluster with an Additional Service CIDR for the dev Team

Add a new, separate Service CIDR range for the dev team using the ServiceCIDR API object — without touching or restarting the cluster's default Service CIDR — then create a Service with an explicit ClusterIP inside that new range and verify DNS resolution.

Submissions: 6/9
Challenge,  Medium

Pin a Client to the Same Pod Using Service Session Affinity

Configure a Kubernetes Service so that requests from the same client IP are always routed to the same backend Pod for a sustained period, using ClientIP-based session affinity.

Submissions: 4/5
Challenge,  Medium

Resolve a Container Port Conflict and Expose Multiple Ports Through a Single Service

A Deployment with two nginx containers has a port conflict — both containers use port 80. Fix the conflict by updating the ConfigMap, mounting it into the second container, updating the containerPort, and exposing both containers via a NodePort Service.

Submissions: 21/34