Portal | Level: L2: Operations | Topics: Kubernetes Core, Linux Fundamentals | Domain: DevOps & Tooling
Ops Archaeology: The Job That Succeeded Wrong¶
| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
| briefing.md | Scenario briefing with artifacts |
| hints.md | Progressive hints (timed) |
| answer_key.md | Full solution and skills tested |
Ops Archaeology exercise — see ops-archaeology index for context.
Pages that link here¶
- Adversarial Interview Gauntlet
- Answer Key: The Job That Succeeded Wrong
- Ops Archaeology: Reverse-Engineering Production Systems
- Symptoms: HPA Flapping, Metrics Server Clock Skew, Fix Is NTP Config
- Symptoms: Job Queue Backlog, Worker Pod CPU Throttled, Fix Is cgroup Config
Wiki Navigation¶
Prerequisites¶
- Kubernetes Ops (Production) (Topic Pack, L2)
Related Content¶
- Adversarial Interview Gauntlet (30 sequences) (Scenario, L2) — Kubernetes Core, Linux Fundamentals
- Case Study: HPA Flapping — Metrics Server Clock Skew, Fix Is NTP (Case Study, L2) — Kubernetes Core, Linux Fundamentals
- Case Study: Job Queue Backlog — Worker Pod CPU Throttled by cgroup (Case Study, L2) — Kubernetes Core, Linux Fundamentals
- Mental Models (Core Concepts) (Topic Pack, L0) — Kubernetes Core, Linux Fundamentals
- /proc Filesystem (Topic Pack, L2) — Linux Fundamentals
- Advanced Bash for Ops (Topic Pack, L1) — Linux Fundamentals
- Bash Exercises (Quest Ladder) (CLI) (Exercise Set, L0) — Linux Fundamentals
- Case Study: Alert Storm — Flapping Health Checks (Case Study, L2) — Kubernetes Core
- Case Study: CI Pipeline Fails — Docker Layer Cache Corruption (Case Study, L2) — Linux Fundamentals
- Case Study: Canary Deploy Routing to Wrong Backend — Ingress Misconfigured (Case Study, L2) — Kubernetes Core