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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Official Collection

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

This challenge was prepared for you by the iximiuz Labs team.

Challenge, Easy, on Kubernetes, Containers

Mount Static Assets from an OCI Image into a Kubernetes Pod

by Ivan Velichko

Use Kubernetes image volumes to mount a static HTML artifact into an nginx Pod without an init container or a custom nginx image.

kubernetes-101 oci-image storage container-volume

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Challenge, Easy, on Kubernetes, Containers

Deploy a Pod with a Container Image from a Private Registry

by Ivan Velichko

Practice configuring Kubernetes to pull images from a private registry and run Pods with authenticated registry access.

kubernetes-101 container-registry container-image kubectl

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Challenge, Easy, on Kubernetes, Containers

Deploy a Resource-Greedy Pod Without Breaking the Kubernetes Cluster

by Ivan Velichko

Prove your SRE skills - deploy a resource-greedy application to a Kubernetes cluster and make it run for a while without disrupting the service.

kubernetes-101 pod-resources cgroups oom

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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

Community Collection

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, Easy, on Kubernetes

Create and Apply a Kubernetes Job with Completions and Parallelism

by Omkar Shelke

Create a Kubernetes Job template for Team Aurora that runs a busybox command across multiple completions in parallel, with specific pod labels and container configuration.

ckad cka jobs kubernetes-101

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

Challenge, Easy, on Kubernetes

Kubernetes Pod Lifecycle Fundamentals

by Adithya G

Practice the fundamental lifecycle of a Kubernetes Pod: creation, inspection (IP, node), interaction (executing commands, checking logs), and deletion.

kubernetes-101 pods kubectl

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

Challenge, Easy, on Kubernetes

Switch Live Traffic from Blue to Green Using Kubernetes Services

by Omkar Shelke

Perform a blue-green deployment by creating a new green version of a web application, then switch live traffic from blue to green with zero downtime by updating the Service selector.

ckad deployments services blue-green kubernetes-101

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

Challenge, Easy, on Kubernetes

Keep Pods Healthy with Liveness and Readiness Probes

by Omkar Shelke

Add HTTP-based liveness and readiness probes to an existing Kubernetes Deployment and verify application health and availability.

kubernetes-101 probes liveness readiness ckad

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