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 crafted by iximiuz Labs to help you master DevOps and Server Side topics.

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Challenge, Hard, on Containers, Kubernetes

Copy Files To/From a Running Kubernetes Pod: a Distroless Image Case

by Ivan Velichko

An ultimate Kubernetes debugging challenge: can you copy files to/from a running Pod that doesn't have a shell or other command line tools installed?

kubectl distroless debugging

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Challenge, Easy, on Containers, Kubernetes

Copy Files To/From a Running Kubernetes Pod: a Simple Case

by Ivan Velichko

Practice copying files to/from running Kubernetes Pods to become a Kubernetes troubleshooting ninja.

kubernetes-101 kubectl debugging

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Challenge, Hard, on Containers, Kubernetes

Edit a File in a Running Kubernetes Pod: a Tricky Case

by Ivan Velichko

Can you edit a file in a running Kubernetes pod? What if there is no shell inside and the container's user lacks the write permission?

debugging slim-image distroless kubectl

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Challenge, Medium, on Kubernetes, Containers, Networking

What Port Does This Kubernetes Pod Listen On?

by Ivan Velichko

Be a networking Sherlock Holmes - find out which port a Kubernetes app uses and send a request to it.

debugging slim-image distroless socket ss

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