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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, Easy, on Kubernetes, Networking

Kubernetes Ingress: Expose Multiple HTTP Backends the Imperative Way

by Kaloyan Preslavski

Managing HTTP routing with Kubernetes Ingress resources the imperative way - host-based routing across namespaces, path-based routing, and a catch-all rule.

ckad ingress

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, Networking

Configure Ingress Routing with Traefik for a Multi-Service Shop Application

by Omkar Shelke

Create an Ingress resource for a shop application with path-based routing to multiple backend services and configure /etc/hosts for local DNS resolution.

cka ckad ingress traefik routing

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

Challenge, Hard, on Kubernetes, Containers

Kubernetes - Build and Deploy a Production-Ready Container Image

by Kaloyan Preslavski

Combine multi-stage builds, build-time arguments, non-root users, and Pod security context into a single production-grade image pipeline.

dockerfile 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

Kubernetes - Proxy Outbound Traffic with an Ambassador Container

by Kaloyan Preslavski

Use an ambassador container to intercept and forward outbound requests from the main app container via localhost.

ambassador pod-patterns ckad

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