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Path of the App Developer · CKAD-style

The Hospital Campaign

The town hospital is moving onto the cluster, and you're the developer on call. Apply blueprints for the admissions desk, wire ConfigMaps and Secrets into the pharmacy, cure Running-but-never-Ready monitors, survive your own rollout gone wrong — and hold the line when the outbreak hits.

Starring Dr. Iris, Devin the intern, and one extremely important gift shop.

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Mission 1

Code Blue at Admissions

The hospital goes digital — if the intern's blueprint compiles.

  • building apps from YAML
  • kubectl apply -f
  • Deployments & Services
Mission 2

The Pharmacy Formulary

Pills without config are just guesses — and the vault won't open without its Secret.

  • ConfigMaps & env variables
  • Secrets & secretKeyRef
  • debugging CrashLoopBackOff
Mission 3

The Heartbeat Monitors

Every monitor is green except the ones that matter — Running is not Ready.

  • readiness probes
  • Running vs Ready
  • logs, events & describe
Mission 4

The Records Rollout

You get to push the button this time. The button pushes back.

  • rollouts & rollbacks
  • set image / rollout undo / status
  • deploying critical apps safely
Mission 5

Outbreak Protocol

Everything you've learned, all at once, with the whole island coughing.

  • multi-fault incident response
  • Secrets under pressure
  • capacity triage for critical care