Kubernetes orchestration
If you like applying Kubernetes orchestration, every challenge here gives you a chance to practice it on a real industry brief.
- DesignIntermediateNew
Build a Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Foundation for Veterinary-Clinic SaaS
Using the provided tenant tier specification and tenant roster, design and prototype a multi-tenant model where each tenant gets its own Kubernetes namespace for compute, its ow…
- Kubernetes
- Multi Tenancy
- AWS
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Canary Rollout for a Production Recommender
Pick a serving stack (Triton, Seldon Core, KServe, or BentoML). Implement two-model traffic splitting with a configurable percentage (start at 5%). Wire up online metric collect…
- Canary Deployment
- Kubernetes
- Ab Testing
ML Engineering and Production ML - CodeIntermediateNew
Migrate Stateful Workloads to StatefulSets with Storage Class Tuning
Receive the current Redis Sentinel topology (3 nodes, ~120GB data), the EBS gp3 baseline performance requirements (3,000 IOPS, 125 MB/s), and the cluster (EKS 1.29 with the EBS …
- Kubernetes
- Statefulsets
- Storage Classes
Container Orchestration with Kubernetes - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a GitOps Rollout Pipeline with ArgoCD Progressive Delivery
Receive the current CI pipeline (GitHub Actions runs kubectl apply against EKS), one representative service (Go API, 8 replicas, 4ms p99 SLO, 0.1 percent error-rate SLO), and ac…
- Kubernetes
- Gitops
- Argocd
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Roll Out mTLS Across 80 Microservices with Istio
Install Istio (current LTS) in ambient mode where possible, sidecar mode where ambient is not yet supported by the service. Phase 1: enable PERMISSIVE mTLS namespace by namespac…
- Istio
- Mtls
- Kubernetes
Service Mesh and Microservices Networking - DesignIntermediateNew
Build a Multi-Region Online Inference Service with SLAs
Design the topology: model artifact storage, regional inference fleets (Triton, vLLM, or BentoML), traffic router, observability stack (Prometheus + Grafana). Pick a rollout str…
- Inference Serving
- Multi Region Deployment
- Kubernetes
Machine Learning Systems - CodeIntermediateNew
Containerized Model Inference on Kubernetes for a Fintech
You receive a pre-trained credit-risk model (a LightGBM model file) and a sample request payload. Containerize a FastAPI inference service, deploy to EKS or GKE (a single-zone c…
- Kubernetes
- Containerization
- Autoscaling
Cloud Computing for Data and ML - CodeIntermediateNew
Harden a Linux Container Runtime Against Privilege Escalation
Receive the pen-test report (with attack chain), the current cluster config (EKS 1.29, default Amazon Linux 2023 worker nodes), and 3 representative workload classes (web API, a…
- Os Security
- Linux Hardening
- Apparmor
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Stand Up a Backstage Developer Portal for a Frankfurt Fintech
Using the provided service inventory, ownership map, and rollout brief, build and deploy a Backstage portal on the company's existing Kubernetes platform and populate its catalo…
- Backstage
- Platform Engineering
- Service Catalog
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Cost-Optimize a Misshapen Kubernetes Cluster
Receive 30 days of cluster metrics (Prometheus + AWS Cost Explorer exports), Helm releases, and PodDisruptionBudgets per namespace. Profile: identify the top 3 cost drivers (lik…
- Kubernetes
- Cost Optimization
- AWS
Cloud Computing - DesignIntermediateNew
Stand Up a Self-Service Developer Platform on Backstage
Read the company case file, the squad-and-service inventory, and the Platform v1 postmortem, and consult the official Backstage software-templates documentation for the mechanic…
- Internal Developer Platform
- Backstage
- Terraform
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Migrating a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up to Cloud-Native Architecture
You are to create a detailed migration plan for TaskFlow. The plan must include breaking the monolith into at least 4 microservices, containerizing them with Docker, orchestrati…
- Microservices
- Docker
- Kubernetes
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Roll Out OpenTelemetry Tracing Across a Microservices Fintech
Receive an anonymized service map (90 services, payment-critical path of 12), a runtime mix (Node.js, Go, Java), and existing logging/metrics setup. Define: an OTel SDK adoption…
- Distributed Tracing
- Opentelemetry
- Sampling Strategies
Software Observability - CodeIntermediateNew
Design a Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Namespace-Provisioning Self-Service
Design and build a Backstage scaffolder that lets a squad request a namespace (specifying environment, owners, expected scale). The scaffolder generates a pull request to a GitO…
- Platform Engineering
- Kubernetes
- Self Service
Platform Engineering - DesignIntermediateNew
Design Multi-Tenant Network Policies with Calico Tier Enforcement
Receive the cluster topology (120 customer namespaces + 4 platform namespaces), the application traffic patterns (frontend talks to backend talks to its tenant's database), and …
- Kubernetes
- Network Policy
- Calico
Container Orchestration with Kubernetes - CodeIntermediateNew
Canary Deployments via Mesh Traffic Splitting for a Streaming Platform
Set up Flagger with Istio as the traffic provider. Define a canary policy for the playback-API service: 5 percent → 25 percent → 50 percent → 100 percent with 5-minute bake at e…
- Istio
- Flagger
- Canary Deployment
Service Mesh and Microservices Networking
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