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 contributed by the community members sharing their knowledge and expertise.
A MariaDB deployment and its PVC were accidentally deleted. The PersistentVolume survived due to its Retain policy. Restore the database by rebinding the existing PV without losing any data.
Observe the Delete and Retain reclaim policies in action, recover a Released PV by patching claimRef, and recover data by creating a new PV pointing to the same storage directory.
Explore how the DefaultStorageClass admission controller injects storage classes, explicitly name a StorageClass, switch the cluster default, and inspect where local-path stores volumes on the node.
Learn the three static PV binding patterns - generic match, label selector, and bidirectional claimRef - then use a no-provisioner StorageClass with WaitForFirstConsumer to pin storage to a specific node.
Use emptyDir volumes to share data between containers, understand the volume lifecycle across container restarts and pod deletion, and explore memory-backed ephemeral storage.
Create a StatefulSet and a Headless Service for a distributed caching system. Verify that Pods are created with stable ordinal names.
