Challenges

Focused, hands-on DevOps and server-side problems with hints, feedback, and automated solution checks.

Challenge

Fix a Deployment Stuck in ImagePullBackOff

A freshly rolled out Deployment has its Pods stuck in ImagePullBackOff, and the catalog page it serves returns 503. Read what the cluster reports about the failed pulls, find out why the image does not pull, and get the Pods running.

Challenge

Access the Kubernetes API Server via kubectl proxy

Use kubectl proxy to open a local, already authenticated HTTP endpoint to the Kubernetes API server, then use curl to list every Secret in the gliese-581 namespace and save the raw JSON response to /home/laborant/secret-list.json.

Challenge

Troubleshoot CrashLoopBackOff Caused by a Missing TLS Secret

A deployment is failing because the application cannot load its TLS certificate. Create the missing secret and mount it into the deployment so the Flask app can serve TLS traffic.