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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, Medium, on Kubernetes

Debug and Resolve RBAC Failures for Two Deployments

by Omkar Shelke

Two monitoring applications are failing due to missing RBAC permissions. Fix both by creating ServiceAccounts, Roles, and RoleBindings.

rbac serviceaccount troubleshooting ckad 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

Grant a ServiceAccount Access to a Specific Secret Using RBAC

by Omkar Shelke

Create a ServiceAccount with permissions to access only that specific Secret using RBAC resourceNames restriction.

cka ckad rbac serviceaccount pod

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

Troubleshoot RBAC Permissions for a Failing Deployment

by Omkar Shelke

A Deployment is failing because its ServiceAccount lacks permissions to list pods. Fix the issue by binding an existing Role to the ServiceAccount.

rbac serviceaccount troubleshooting ckad cka