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 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

Pod, Service, and Cross-Namespace DNS Resolution

by Omkar Shelke

Create a Pod with ConfigMap volume mount, expose it via ClusterIP Service, and test connectivity from another namespace. This combines multiple Kubernetes concepts.

ckad pod service configmap dns

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

Scale Deployment and Expose via NodePort Service

by Omkar Shelke

An existing e-commerce frontend application is running in Kubernetes. Scale the deployment to handle increased traffic and expose it using a NodePort Service with proper labeling.

deployment scaling service nodeport 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

Troubleshoot a Website That Is Not Accessible

by Omkar Shelke

A web application is deployed but the website is not accessible. Investigate and fix the issue.

ckad cka troubleshooting service debugging