Challenges

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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Challenge, Medium, on Containers

Transfer Container Images to an Air-Gapped Environment

by Ivan Velichko

Get container images onto a server that has no route to the Internet or access to a container registry.

docker container-image container-registry tar

This challenge was prepared for you by the iximiuz Labs team.

Challenge, Medium, on Linux

Extract a tar Archive with Permissions, Ownership, and Extended Attributes Preserved

by Ivan Velichko

Practice extracting a container-style rootfs tarball while preserving the original file permissions, ownership, and extended attributes (including Linux capabilities).

tar

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Challenge, Easy, on Linux

Archive and Extract Files and Directories with tar

by Ivan Velichko

Practice basic tar operations: extract an archive, create a compressed backup, and install software from a release tarball using the 'tar' command.

tar