Challenges

Focused, hands-on DevOps and server-side problems with hints, feedback, and automated solution checks.

Challenge

Node Is Ready, but Pods Won't Schedule

node-02 is back from a kernel upgrade but still shows Ready,SchedulingDisabled, and the Pods that can only run on it are stuck in Pending. Bring the node back into service and get the workload running, without touching the workload itself.

Challenge

CKA Practice: Recover a NotReady Node After a Kubelet Configuration Error

A worker node dropped to NotReady and part of the workload went with it. The container runtime is fine and the control plane is healthy; the trail leads from kubectl symptoms down into systemd and the kubelet configuration. Diagnose the node and bring it back.