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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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This challenge was created by a community author. Community content is reviewed by the iximiuz Labs team on a best effort basis.

Challenge, Easy, on Kubernetes

Keep Pods Healthy with Liveness and Readiness Probes

by Omkar Shelke

Add HTTP-based liveness and readiness probes to an existing Kubernetes Deployment and verify application health and availability.

kubernetes-101 probes liveness readiness ckad

This challenge was created by a community author. Community content is reviewed by the iximiuz Labs team on a best effort basis.

Challenge, Easy, on Kubernetes

Multi-Container Pod Security Design

by Omkar Shelke

Create a multi-container Pod with different user IDs per container while sharing a common group ID at the Pod level for collaborative file access.

kubernetes-101 security-context pod multi-container cka

This challenge was created by a community author. Community content is reviewed by the iximiuz Labs team on a best effort basis.

Challenge, Easy, on Kubernetes

Set and Use Secrets in a Kubernetes Deployment

by Omkar Shelke

Configure a Kubernetes Deployment to consume Secrets as environment variables and volume mounts.

kubernetes-101 secrets deployment ckad

This challenge was created by a community author. Community content is reviewed by the iximiuz Labs team on a best effort basis.

Challenge, Medium, on Kubernetes

Inspecting and Extracting Kubernetes Kubeconfig Data

by Omkar Shelke

Extract context names, the active context, and a decoded client certificate from a Kubernetes kubeconfig file and write the results to specific files.

kubernetes-101 kubeconfig client-cert k8s-context cka

This challenge was created by a community author. Community content is reviewed by the iximiuz Labs team on a best effort basis.

Challenge, Easy, on Kubernetes

Perform In-Place Updates on a Kubernetes Deployment

by Omkar Shelke

Update container images, container names, update strategy, and replica count in an existing multi-container Kubernetes Deployment.

kubernetes-101 deployment ckad multi-container

This challenge was created by a community author. Community content is reviewed by the iximiuz Labs team on a best effort basis.

Challenge, Easy, on Kubernetes

Set ConfigMap Environment Variables in a Pod

by Omkar Shelke

Inject ConfigMap values as environment variables into a Kubernetes Pod.

kubernetes-101 cka ckad configmap pod

This challenge was created by a community author. Community content is reviewed by the iximiuz Labs team on a best effort basis.

Challenge, Easy, on Kubernetes

Kubernetes Pod Lifecycle Fundamentals

by Adithya G

Practice the fundamental lifecycle of a Kubernetes Pod: creation, inspection (IP, node), interaction (executing commands, checking logs), and deletion.

kubernetes-101 pods kubectl