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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, on Kubernetes

Deploy a Pod with a Sidecar Log Shipper Using Init Container Pattern

by Omkar Shelke

Create a Pod with a main application container and a sidecar container that continuously streams shared logs. Kubernetes implements sidecar containers as a special case of init containers.

#ckad #cka #init-container #sidecar #volumes

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Challenge, Medium, on Kubernetes, Containers

Kubernetes Pod With a Faulty Init Sequence

by Ivan Velichko

Identify what causes the Pod initialization to fail and fix it while keeping the Pod images unchanged.

#sidecar #init-container

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Challenge, Medium, on Kubernetes, Containers

Kubernetes Pod With a Sleepy Init Sequence

by Ivan Velichko

Identify what causes the Pod initialization to fail and fix it while keeping the Pod images unchanged.

#sidecar #init-container