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Deploy a DigitalOcean Droplet with Terraform
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Short interactive quizzes across Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, networking, and more
Ansible Configuration Management Quiz
Configuration Management
Test your Ansible skills with playbooks, roles, inventory management, and automation scenarios for infrastructure configuration
GitOps with Argo CD: Multi-Environment Repository Structure Quiz
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Test your knowledge of structuring Git repositories for Argo CD deployments across dev, staging, and production environments. Covers repo layout patterns, ApplicationSets, Kustomize overlays, Helm value files, and sync policies.
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Back-of-the-Envelope Estimation Quiz
System Design
The napkin-math skill that makes or breaks a system design interview: turning users into QPS, data into storage, traffic into bandwidth, and knowing the latency numbers every engineer should have memorised.
CI/CD Fundamentals Quiz
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Master the basics of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, including pipelines, version control, automated testing, and deployment strategies
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Build an Everyday AI Assistant with DigitalOcean Inference
Build Daylight, a personal assistant that turns a brain dump into a realistic plan, adapts when your day changes, and saves the changes you accept.
cgroup v2 memory.high Throttles, memory.max Kills: Measured on a Host Without Swap
We ran one allocating workload under memory.max, memory.high and both on a Linux 6.8 host with no swap. memory.max killed it in under half a second. memory.high did not kill it: new allocations waited, once per 64-page batch at best and once per page next to a busy neighbour on the same CPU. Here are the numbers, the kernel formula behind them, and what systemd, Docker and Kubernetes write.
Alpine OpenSSH Password Bypass (CVE-2026-123158): Check and Fix
Alpine sshd without PAM could let an attacker into accounts that have no password. Check one host or all your containers, then upgrade and restart sshd.
OpenTelemetry Collector Custom Builds: 6.5x Smaller, and What Resource Detectors Cost at Startup
We built a small Collector with ocb and started it next to the contrib release on a droplet, in two network namespaces and on a Raspberry Pi, 5 times per case. The custom build is 6.5x smaller and holds under a quarter of the memory. Cloud detectors for clouds the host is not on held startup for the full 5 s timeout, even on another cloud, and one detector stopped the Collector from starting at all.
An Empty resources: {} Makes Kubernetes 1.34 to 1.36 Pods BestEffort
An empty pod-level block makes a pod with requests and limits BestEffort on Kubernetes 1.34 to 1.36. We measured what changes on the node, and what does not.
Can a Vision Model Read Your Grafana Panel? 100 Panels on DigitalOcean Inference
We drew 100 Grafana-style panels with known answers and asked NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and three other models on DigitalOcean Serverless Inference to read four facts from each. The best model read 65 of 100 fully right, and log axes broke all of them. Here is what a screenshot costs, where the reads go wrong, and a small bot that checks the model against the alert before it posts.
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Security Gates
What security gates are and how to add them to CI/CD: policy as code, CVE gates with KEV and EPSS, compliance checks and admission control, with real runs.
Introduction to Packer
Learn HashiCorp Packer 1.16: install it, write HCL2 templates, build AWS AMIs and Docker images, use provisioners and variables, and follow best practices.
Introduction to AWS
A beginner introduction to AWS: how AWS works (accounts, regions, APIs), then IAM, EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, load balancing, Lambda and cost control.
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DevOps Tools and Calculators
Free, browser-only utilities. CIDR, JWT, base64, UUID, cron, K8s sizing, YAML. No sign-up, no server.
CIDR Calculator
CIDR subnet calculator: parse a CIDR block to get network range, subnet mask, broadcast address, usable IPs, and check whether an IP belongs to the network.
JWT Decoder
JWT decoder that parses the header, payload, and signature in your browser. Shows human-readable expiry and issued-at, with no token sent to any server.
Base64 / URL
Encode or decode base64 and URL-safe strings. Handy for secrets, Kubernetes manifests, and API debugging.
UUID / Secret
Generate UUIDs (v4, v7), random hex tokens, and base64 secrets suitable for Kubernetes secrets or API keys.
Cron Parser
Cron expression parser that translates schedules into plain English and previews the next 5 run times in your local timezone. Validates 5 and 6-field syntax.
K8s Resources
Size CPU and memory requests / limits for a Pod based on workload characteristics, replicas, and headroom.
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