Linux 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.

Pro Tip: Filter the list by tags, category, and difficulty to find challenges that match your proficiency level and interests, or explore our Skill Paths for a more guided learning experience.

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Challenge, Hard, on Linux

Split a Drive into Multiple Partitions And Format Them as Ext4 and Btrfs

Create two partitions on a blank disk: one smaller ext4 for service logs and the rest btrfs for service data. Mount both and prove they work.

storage drive partition-table mount filesystem

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Challenge, Hard, on Kubernetes, Containers, Linux

Make a Kubernetes Pod Survive an OOM Event Without Restarting

Hack your way through this challenge making the OOM kills invisible again.

pod-resources cgroups oom

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Challenge, Hard, on Linux, Networking

Forward a Port Without Starting a Proxy Process

Prove your networking skills by mapping one network address to another without starting any additional processes.

port-forwarding iptables socket

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Challenge, Hard, on Linux, Containers, Networking

Reproduce a Docker Bridge Network Using Basic Linux Commands

The culmination of the Docker networking challenges series. Can you create a Docker-like bridge network from scratch and using nothing but basic Linux commands.

netns iptables bridge nat ip

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Challenge, Hard, on Linux, Containers, Networking

Connect Multiple Network Namespaces

Prove your mastery of Linux and containers by connecting multiple network namespaces into a single network.

netns veth bridge ip

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Challenge, Hard, on Linux, Containers, Networking

Network Access to a Container Started by ctr

Learn a bunch of Linux networking tricks while trying to access an Nginx server running inside a container started with ctr and a bare containerd daemon.

containerd ctr docker

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