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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Challenges contributed by the community members sharing their knowledge and expertise.

This challenge was created by a community author. Community content is reviewed by the iximiuz Labs team on a best effort basis.

Challenge, Medium, on Kubernetes

Troubleshoot a Website That Is Not Accessible

by Omkar Shelke

A web application is deployed but the website is not accessible. Investigate and fix the issue.

ckad cka troubleshooting service debugging

This challenge was created by a community author. Community content is reviewed by the iximiuz Labs team on a best effort basis.

Challenge, Medium, on Kubernetes

Implement Canary Deployment Strategy

by Omkar Shelke

An existing application is running in Kubernetes. A new version must be rolled out using a canary deployment while ensuring traffic is properly distributed.

deployment canary traffic-splitting ckad service

This challenge was created by a community author. Community content is reviewed by the iximiuz Labs team on a best effort basis.

Challenge, Medium, on Kubernetes

Setup ConfigMap-Based Configuration Files with Validated Probes

by Omkar Shelke

Create a ConfigMap, mount it into a Deployment as individual files, and validate the mounted values using a readiness probe.

configmap deployment readiness-probe ckad

This challenge was created by a community author. Community content is reviewed by the iximiuz Labs team on a best effort basis.

Challenge, Medium, on Kubernetes

File-Aware Readiness Probe for Container Initialization

by Omkar Shelke

Create a Pod with a readiness probe that checks for the existence of a file inside the container to determine its ready state.

pod readiness-probe ckad probe