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, Medium, on Containers, Linux

Execute Host Commands Inside a Running Container

by Ivan Velichko

Leverage your knowledge of Linux namespaces to reach an application's internal debug interface without installing anything into the container.

docker debugging distroless nsenter

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

Challenge, Medium, on Containers, Linux

Run a Sidecar Container in the Namespace of Another Container

by Ivan Velichko

Learn how to run multiple Docker containers sharing the same PID, IPC, and network namespaces - a foundation of many advanced container use cases, including Kubernetes Pods construction and container debugging tools.

docker container-runtime namespaces debugging

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

Challenge, Easy, on Containers, Linux

Docker 101: Signal a Running Containerized Application

by Ivan Velichko

Practice using UNIX signals with containers for controlling application behavior: Send a SIGUSR1 to a containerized app to trigger its memory usage reporting.

docker containers-101 container-runtime os-signal

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

Challenge, Medium, on Containers, Linux

Free Up Disk Space by Removing Unused Docker Volumes

by Ivan Velichko

Your Docker host has been in use for a while. Anonymous and named volumes piled up, disk space is tight, and it's time to clean stuff up.

docker container-volume filesystem

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