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Reach a Distroless Container's Debug Endpoint From a Sidecar Container

A distroless container serves a debug interface on its own loopback address. Can you reach this debug endpoint using nothing but standard Docker commands?

#docker #namespaces #container-networking #debugging #distroless

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Challenge on Containers, Programming

Debug a Go Container Image That Fails to Start After a Recent Change

by Ivan Velichko

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.

#docker #container-image #distroless #debugging #go

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Challenge on Kubernetes

Inject an Ephemeral Container into a Distroless Pod and Test Cross-Namespace HTTP

by Omkar Shelke

A distroless pod running in the cherry namespace has no shell or debugging tools. Use kubectl debug to attach an ephemeral container, test connectivity to the request-logger service, and verify the request was received in its logs.

#cka #ckad #service #ephemeral-containers #distroless

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Challenge 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.

#namespaces #docker #debugging #distroless #nsenter

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Challenge on Containers, Kubernetes

Copy Files To/From a Running Kubernetes Pod: a Distroless Image Case

by Ivan Velichko

An ultimate Kubernetes troubleshooting challenge: can you copy files to/from a running Pod that doesn't have a shell or other command line tools installed?

#kubectl #distroless #troubleshooting