Focused, hands-on problems for sharpening your DevOps and server-side skills. Some teach specific concepts while others mirror real-world scenarios. Every challenge includes hints, feedback, and automated solution checks.
The security team left five NetworkPolicy files on the workstation. Only one of them lets the frontend reach the backend while granting nothing more. Identify it and deploy it, unchanged.
A Deployment running a distroless Chainguard nginx image (cgr.dev/chainguard/nginx) is deployed in the namespace webapps, fronted by a ClusterIP Service. Port-forward that Service to localhost port 3333 on cplane-01, use curl to save the response body to /home/laborant/index.html, and verify the file is accessible and contains the expected content.
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.
This exercise tests your ability to configure kubernetes network policies to make sure only pods with specific labels can communicate with each other.