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.
A Go service that has always been shipped as a static binary in a scratch-y image suddenly fails to start in a container, while the local build works as before. Find what recent changes caused it and fix the image without reverting them.
Practice optimizing applications' container images using multi-stage builds. Rewrite single-stage Dockerfiles for a Go backend and a TypeScript frontend to produce smaller, production-ready images without unnecessary build tools and dev dependencies.
Practice building and compiling applications inside their Dockerfiles by containerizing a Go backend and a TypeScript frontend.
Learn how to keep your container images lean by excluding development dependencies (linters, test frameworks, etc.) from the production build.
Practice installing OS-level packages during a Docker image build to satisfy system library requirements of your application.
Learn the absolute basics of Dockerfile authoring by containerizing a simplistic Node.js server application with just three instructions: FROM, COPY, and CMD.
Learn how to write a Dockerfile from scratch and build a working container image for a web server application with a simple set of dependencies.
Learn how to build a secure, lightweight, and production-ready Python container image for a FastAPI application by following this hands-on challenge full of practical tips and tricks. Solutions for pip + venv, poetry, and uv are included.
Learn how to build a secure, lightweight, and production-ready container image for a dynamically linked Go application by following this hands-on challenge full of practical tips and tricks.
Learn how to build a secure, lightweight, and production-ready container image for a statically linked Go application by following this hands-on challenge full of practical tips and tricks.
