Challenges

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.

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Challenge,  Medium

Canary Deployment Using Kubernetes Gateway API Traffic Splitting

Implement a canary deployment strategy using the Kubernetes Gateway API. Route the majority of traffic to a stable version of a service while gradually shifting a small percentage to a new canary version.

Submissions: 21/33
Challenge,  Medium

Cross-Namespace Gateway and HTTPRoute Binding with Kubernetes Gateway API

Configure a Kubernetes Gateway API setup with the Gateway in a dedicated infrastructure namespace and HTTPRoute in the application namespace, using path-based routing to expose railway platform services.

Submissions: 18/21
Challenge,  Medium

CKA Practice: Migrate an Ingress to Gateway API

An app in the web namespace is served over HTTPS by an ingress-nginx Ingress. Create a Gateway and HTTPRoute on a staging hostname, verify traffic, move the production hostname to the Gateway, and remove the Ingress without downtime.

Submissions: 5/7