Hands-on Kubernetes labs

Exam-style tasks for the performance-based certifications, run on a real kubeadm cluster on your own Mac with the GoldenKube CLI and graded locally. Each card shows the task's domain, the cluster topology it needs, the recommended time and its points; the detail page has the full task text.

DomainAll Cluster Architecture, Installation & Configuration Services & Networking Storage Troubleshooting Workloads & Scheduling

DifficultyAll Easy Medium Hard

TopologyAll Single node Two nodes Three nodes

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CKAStorageMedium

PVC with an explicit StorageClass and a consuming Pod

Create a PersistentVolumeClaim on a named StorageClass and mount it in a Pod.

Single node · ~7 min · 6 points · Storage

storage
pvc
storageclass
volume

goldenkube start cka-sto-001

CKAStorageMedium

Manual PersistentVolume and matching claim

Create a hostPath PersistentVolume and a PersistentVolumeClaim that binds to it.

Single node · ~7 min · 6 points

storage
pv
pvc
hostpath

goldenkube start cka-sto-002

CKAStorageMedium

Default StorageClass

Make an existing StorageClass the cluster default and provision a PVC without naming a class.

Single node · ~8 min · 6 points · Storage

storage
storageclass
default
pvc

goldenkube start cka-sto-003

Exams covered

CKA · Certified Kubernetes Administrator · scenarios verified on Kubernetes 1.37 · 37 published scenarios · mock exam: 15 tasks in 120 minutes, pass at 66%

How to run a lab

Install the CLI and Multipass, then run goldenkube doctor.
Sign in with goldenkube login (free account).
Start a scenario with its id, solve the task on the cluster, run goldenkube submit.

Grading happens on your machine and is practice feedback, not an official score. Tasks are public; hints, reference solutions and grader internals are not.