Day 37Control plane vs nodeapiserver, etcd, scheduler, controller-manager, kubelet, runtime. What kubectl apply does.Planned
Day 38Pod YAML, no-AIImagePullBackOff on purpose.Planned
Day 39Deployment + rolloutrollout and undo.Planned
Day 40Service selector mismatchEmpty Endpoints. Fix. First apply gate.Planned
Day 41ClusterIP / NodePort / LBWhy ClusterIP is the default.Planned
Day 42ConfigMap + SecretWhy a Kubernetes Secret is not Key Vault. Rollout after a CM change.Planned
Day 43Namespaces + quotaPending because of quota, not nodes.Planned
Day 44ProbesRunning but not Ready.Planned
Day 45Requests, limits, OOMKilledWhat the kubelet actually does with numbers you set.Planned
Day 46HPAStuck because metrics-server is missing - that is the lesson.Planned
Day 47Ingress 404 vs 502Trace the path before you change YAML.Planned
Day 48PV / PVC / StorageClassAzure Disk vs Files as a table. PVC Pending.Planned
Day 49RBACcan-i. Forbidden on deploy.Planned
Day 50NetworkPolicyDefault-deny plus allow from ingress.Planned
Day 51PDB + drainDrain stuck. Why disruption budgets exist.Planned
Day 52Taints, tolerations, affinityPending unschedulable.Planned
Day 53Job / CronJobWhen the thing is not a Deployment.Planned
Day 54Cluster DNSCoreDNS path. Break a Service name.Planned
Day 55CrashLoopBackOff cataloguelogs --previous. Rank hypotheses.Planned
Day 56ImagePullBackOff catalogueName, tag, registry, auth.Planned
Day 57Pending catalogueCPU, taint, PVC, quota.Planned
Day 58Ingress 502, scale-to-zeroIngress → Service → Endpoints → Pod.Planned
Day 59Local capstone deployDeploy, Service, Ingress, ConfigMap, probes.Planned
Day 60Kubernetes interview gate60-minute broken namespace. Re-score Kubernetes.Planned
Day 61QoS classesEviction vs OOM.Planned
Day 62Topology / AZ intentAll replicas on one node as the failure mode.Planned