⚡ Quick Wins (5-minute tasks when motivation is low)

Pick one. Do it. Feel good. Come back for more.

🟢 Beginner (Chapters 1–3)

• Run kubectl get pods -A and identify every pod’s role
• Deploy nginx and curl it via kubectl port-forward
• List all containers in the kube-system namespace
• Inspect cluster events using kubectl get events --sort-by='.lastTimestamp'

🟡 Intermediate (Chapters 4–8)

• Scale a deployment from 1→5 and watch pods appear with kubectl get pods -w
• Create a Secret and mount it as a volume in a pod
• Create a PersistentVolumeClaim and verify it binds to local storage
• Create an Ingress rule with path routing and test with curl

🔴 Advanced (Chapters 9–18)

• Break a readiness probe and watch traffic stop routing to the pod
• Install a Helm chart, then inspect rendered templates with helm template
• Create a NetworkPolicy that blocks all ingress except from a specific namespace
• Query etcd directly to see raw serialized pod keys