feat(curriculum): add RootNode learning path, student roster, and scenario isolation metadata

Pre-Phase-1 platform work, approved and tested earlier but not yet committed: - Terminal banner: "RootNode Academy Lab — node: k8s-lab", upstream KubeKosh attribution left untouched in footer/README/LICENSE. - RootNode curriculum mode: scenarios/rootnode-path.json (Foundation -> Workloads -> Networking -> Configuration -> Troubleshooting -> Real Ops -> Capstone), built from existing scenario content grouped by category, no new scenarios invented. New GET /api/curriculum/path endpoint. - Student roster + per-student progress: instructor-roster, pick-your-name login (no password), students/environments-adjacent progress table migrated to a (student_id, scenario_id) composite key so practice progress and exam sessions are isolated per student instead of one global bucket. New /api/roster, /api/login endpoints. - scenarios/data/*.json: added isolation_type metadata (shared_namespace vs ephemeral_cluster) from an audit of which scenarios execute cluster-scoped or node-level commands. This was Tier-1-isolation groundwork that got superseded same-day by the full-ephemeral-per-student architecture (see docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md) — the field is kept as descriptive metadata only, per the note now in scenarios/SCHEMA.md. Not wasted: it's an accurate audit of which scenarios touch cluster-scoped resources, useful independent of isolation model. - .gitignore added (node_modules/, frontend/dist/, *.db, /data/, .env) — none existed before; without it, npm installs during testing would have landed in a commit. Known limitation still open: no frontend UI for any of this yet (login screen, roster-add form, curriculum view) — API-only. No auth on the roster-add endpoint. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-18 01:21:16 -05:00
parent 6ddfb1cbde
commit 60fbf0c385
105 changed files with 4643 additions and 55 deletions
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+node_modules/
+frontend/dist/
+*.db
+*.db-journal
+/data/
+.env
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, '../frontend/dist')));

 const SCENARIOS_DIR = path.join(__dirname, '../scenarios/data');
 const BUNDLES_DIR   = path.join(__dirname, '../scenarios/bundles');
+const CURRICULUM_PATH_FILE = path.join(__dirname, '../scenarios/rootnode-path.json');
 const DB_FILE = process.env.PROGRESS_DB || '/data/progress.db';

 // ── SQLite progress store ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -55,6 +56,51 @@ function getDb() {
    console.error('Failed to run schema migrations on progress table:', e.message);
  }

+  // ── Students / roster ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+  // ponytail: pick-your-name login, no password — instructor adds students to the
+  // roster, student just selects their name. Trust model is "supervised classroom
+  // device", same as Clever/ClassLink instant login. Upgrade to per-student PIN
+  // if remote/unsupervised access is ever needed.
+  _db.exec(`
+    CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS students (
+      student_id     TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
+      display_name   TEXT NOT NULL,
+      cohort         TEXT NOT NULL,
+      created_at     TEXT NOT NULL,
+      last_active_at TEXT
+    )
+  `);
+
+  // Migrate progress table to a per-student composite key (student_id, scenario_id).
+  // SQLite can't ALTER a primary key, so this rebuilds the table. Rows that predate
+  // student accounts are kept under student_id='unassigned' rather than dropped.
+  try {
+    const progressCols = _db.prepare("PRAGMA table_info(progress)").all().map(c => c.name);
+    if (!progressCols.includes('student_id')) {
+      console.log('Migrating progress table to per-student schema...');
+      _db.exec(`
+        CREATE TABLE progress_new (
+          student_id         TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT 'unassigned',
+          scenario_id        TEXT NOT NULL,
+          status              TEXT,
+          attempts            INTEGER DEFAULT 0,
+          last_validated      TEXT,
+          completed_at        TEXT,
+          started_at          TEXT,
+          notes               TEXT,
+          time_spent_seconds  INTEGER,
+          PRIMARY KEY (student_id, scenario_id)
+        );
+        INSERT INTO progress_new (student_id, scenario_id, status, attempts, last_validated, completed_at, started_at, notes, time_spent_seconds)
+          SELECT 'unassigned', scenario_id, status, attempts, last_validated, completed_at, started_at, notes, time_spent_seconds FROM progress;
+        DROP TABLE progress;
+        ALTER TABLE progress_new RENAME TO progress;
+      `);
+    }
+  } catch (e) {
+    console.error('Failed to migrate progress table to per-student schema:', e.message);
+  }
+
  _db.exec(`
    CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS sessions (
      id            TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
@@ -75,6 +121,9 @@ function getDb() {
    if (!cols.includes('scenario_ids')) {
      _db.exec(`ALTER TABLE sessions ADD COLUMN scenario_ids TEXT`);
    }
+    if (!cols.includes('student_id')) {
+      _db.exec(`ALTER TABLE sessions ADD COLUMN student_id TEXT`);
+    }
  } catch (e) {
    console.error('Failed to migrate sessions table:', e.message);
  }
@@ -94,9 +143,26 @@ function getDb() {
  return _db;
 }

-function loadProgress() {
+// Resolves the acting student for a request. No session tokens yet (see students
+// table comment) — frontend just sends back the student_id it got from /api/login.
+// Falls back to 'unassigned' so the app still works before any student logs in
+// (dev/test use, and pre-migration progress lives there too).
+function getStudentId(req) {
+  return req.get('x-student-id') || req.query.studentId || 'unassigned';
+}
+
+function touchStudent(studentId) {
+  if (!studentId || studentId === 'unassigned') return;
  try {
-    const rows = getDb().prepare('SELECT * FROM progress').all();
+    getDb().prepare(`UPDATE students SET last_active_at = datetime('now') WHERE student_id = ?`).run(studentId);
+  } catch (e) {
+    console.error('Failed to update student last_active_at:', e.message);
+  }
+}
+
+function loadProgress(studentId = 'unassigned') {
+  try {
+    const rows = getDb().prepare('SELECT * FROM progress WHERE student_id = ?').all(studentId);
    return Object.fromEntries(rows.map(r => [r.scenario_id, {
      status: r.status,
      attempts: r.attempts,
@@ -109,13 +175,13 @@ function loadProgress() {
  } catch { return {}; }
 }

-function saveProgress(progress) {
+function saveProgress(studentId, progress) {
  try {
    const db = getDb();
    const upsert = db.prepare(`
-      INSERT INTO progress (scenario_id, status, attempts, last_validated, completed_at, started_at, notes, time_spent_seconds)
-      VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
-      ON CONFLICT(scenario_id) DO UPDATE SET
+      INSERT INTO progress (student_id, scenario_id, status, attempts, last_validated, completed_at, started_at, notes, time_spent_seconds)
+      VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
+      ON CONFLICT(student_id, scenario_id) DO UPDATE SET
        status = excluded.status,
        attempts = excluded.attempts,
        last_validated = excluded.last_validated,
@@ -127,6 +193,7 @@ function saveProgress(progress) {
    const tx = db.transaction((entries) => {
      for (const [id, p] of entries) {
        upsert.run(
+          studentId,
          id,
          p.status || null,
          p.attempts || 0,
@@ -153,11 +220,15 @@ function loadJsonDir(dir) {

 let scenariosCache = [];
 let bundlesCache = [];
+let curriculumPathCache = null;

 function reloadCache() {
  try {
    scenariosCache = loadJsonDir(SCENARIOS_DIR);
    bundlesCache = loadJsonDir(BUNDLES_DIR);
+    curriculumPathCache = fs.existsSync(CURRICULUM_PATH_FILE)
+      ? JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(CURRICULUM_PATH_FILE, 'utf8'))
+      : null;
    console.log(`Loaded ${scenariosCache.length} scenarios and ${bundlesCache.length} bundles into cache.`);
  } catch (e) {
    console.error('Failed to reload cache:', e.message);
@@ -175,6 +246,10 @@ function loadBundles() {
  return bundlesCache;
 }

+function loadCurriculumPath() {
+  return curriculumPathCache;
+}
+
 async function runCommand(cmd, timeoutMs = 15000) {
  try {
    const { stdout } = await execAsync(cmd, {
@@ -223,9 +298,55 @@ function refreshPrompt(delayMs = 80) {

 // ── Routes ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

+// ── Roster / student login ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+// POST /api/roster — instructor adds a student to a cohort
+app.post('/api/roster', (req, res) => {
+  const { display_name, cohort } = req.body;
+  if (!display_name || !cohort) {
+    return res.status(400).json({ error: 'display_name and cohort are required' });
+  }
+  try {
+    const db = getDb();
+    const count = db.prepare('SELECT COUNT(*) AS n FROM students').get().n;
+    const studentId = `student-${String(count + 1).padStart(3, '0')}`;
+    db.prepare(`INSERT INTO students (student_id, display_name, cohort, created_at) VALUES (?, ?, ?, datetime('now'))`)
+      .run(studentId, display_name.trim(), cohort.trim());
+    res.json({ student_id: studentId, display_name: display_name.trim(), cohort: cohort.trim() });
+  } catch (e) {
+    res.status(500).json({ error: e.message });
+  }
+});
+
+// GET /api/roster/cohorts — distinct cohort names, for the login cohort picker
+app.get('/api/roster/cohorts', (req, res) => {
+  const rows = getDb().prepare('SELECT DISTINCT cohort FROM students ORDER BY cohort').all();
+  res.json(rows.map(r => r.cohort));
+});
+
+// GET /api/roster?cohort=root-fall-2026 — student names for the pick-your-name dropdown
+app.get('/api/roster', (req, res) => {
+  const { cohort } = req.query;
+  const db = getDb();
+  const rows = cohort
+    ? db.prepare('SELECT student_id, display_name, cohort, last_active_at FROM students WHERE cohort = ? ORDER BY display_name').all(cohort)
+    : db.prepare('SELECT student_id, display_name, cohort, last_active_at FROM students ORDER BY cohort, display_name').all();
+  res.json(rows);
+});
+
+// POST /api/login — student picks their name; no password (see students table comment)
+app.post('/api/login', (req, res) => {
+  const { student_id } = req.body;
+  const student = getDb().prepare('SELECT student_id, display_name, cohort FROM students WHERE student_id = ?').get(student_id);
+  if (!student) return res.status(404).json({ error: 'Student not found' });
+  touchStudent(student.student_id);
+  res.json(student);
+});
+
 // POST /api/progress/reset — reset progress for scenario | category | bundle
 app.post('/api/progress/reset', (req, res) => {
  const { scope, scenarioId, category, bundleId } = req.body;
+  const studentId = getStudentId(req);
  const db = getDb();
  const resetProgressStmt = db.prepare(`
    UPDATE progress
@@ -233,21 +354,21 @@ app.post('/api/progress/reset', (req, res) => {
        attempts = 0,
        completed_at = NULL,
        last_validated = NULL
-    WHERE scenario_id = ?
+    WHERE scenario_id = ? AND student_id = ?
  `);

  try {
    if (scope === 'scenario') {
-      resetProgressStmt.run(scenarioId);
+      resetProgressStmt.run(scenarioId, studentId);
    } else if (scope === 'category') {
      const scenarios = loadScenarios();
      const ids = scenarios.filter(s => s.category === category).map(s => s.id);
-      const tx = db.transaction(ids => ids.forEach(id => resetProgressStmt.run(id)));
+      const tx = db.transaction(ids => ids.forEach(id => resetProgressStmt.run(id, studentId)));
      tx(ids);
    } else if (scope === 'bundle') {
      const bundle = loadBundles().find(b => b.id === bundleId);
      if (!bundle) return res.status(404).json({ error: 'Bundle not found' });
-      const tx = db.transaction(ids => ids.forEach(id => resetProgressStmt.run(id)));
+      const tx = db.transaction(ids => ids.forEach(id => resetProgressStmt.run(id, studentId)));
      tx(bundle.scenario_ids);
    } else {
      return res.status(400).json({ error: 'Invalid scope' });
@@ -285,9 +406,10 @@ app.post('/api/sessions', (req, res) => {
  db.prepare(`UPDATE sessions SET status='abandoned', submitted_at=datetime('now')
              WHERE status='active'`).run();
  const id = `sess_${Date.now()}_${Math.random().toString(36).slice(2, 8)}`;
-  db.prepare(`INSERT INTO sessions (id, bundle_id, started_at, status, exam_minutes, scenario_ids)
-              VALUES (?, ?, datetime('now'), 'active', ?, ?)`)
-    .run(id, bundleId, mins, JSON.stringify(sessionScenarioIds));
+  const studentId = getStudentId(req);
+  db.prepare(`INSERT INTO sessions (id, bundle_id, started_at, status, exam_minutes, scenario_ids, student_id)
+              VALUES (?, ?, datetime('now'), 'active', ?, ?, ?)`)
+    .run(id, bundleId, mins, JSON.stringify(sessionScenarioIds), studentId);
  res.json({ id, bundleId, status: 'active', exam_minutes: mins, scenario_ids: sessionScenarioIds });
 });

@@ -380,7 +502,8 @@ app.post('/api/sessions/:id/submit', (req, res) => {
  for (const r of examProgressRows) examProgressMap[r.scenario_id] = r;

  // Also pull time_spent_seconds from global progress (tracked per scenario during the exam)
-  const globalProgress = loadProgress();
+  // Use the session's own student, not whoever's request is submitting it.
+  const globalProgress = loadProgress(session.student_id || 'unassigned');

  const snapshot = bundleScenarios.map(s => ({
    id: s.id, title: s.title, weight: s.weight,
@@ -396,9 +519,10 @@ app.post('/api/sessions/:id/submit', (req, res) => {
              duration_secs=?, snapshot=? WHERE id=?`)
    .run(durationSecs, JSON.stringify(snapshot), req.params.id);

-  // Reset timers of all scenarios in this bundle
-  const clearTimer = db.prepare(`UPDATE progress SET started_at = NULL, time_spent_seconds = 0 WHERE scenario_id = ?`);
-  const tx = db.transaction(ids => ids.forEach(id => clearTimer.run(id)));
+  // Reset timers of all scenarios in this bundle, for this session's student only
+  const clearTimer = db.prepare(`UPDATE progress SET started_at = NULL, time_spent_seconds = 0 WHERE scenario_id = ? AND student_id = ?`);
+  const sid = session.student_id || 'unassigned';
+  const tx = db.transaction(ids => ids.forEach(id => clearTimer.run(id, sid)));
  tx(bundle.scenario_ids);

  res.json({ ok: true, snapshot, durationSecs });
@@ -416,8 +540,9 @@ app.post('/api/sessions/:id/abandon', (req, res) => {
                             WHERE id=? AND status='active'`).run(req.params.id);

  if (bundle) {
-    const clearTimer = db.prepare(`UPDATE progress SET started_at = NULL, time_spent_seconds = 0 WHERE scenario_id = ?`);
-    const tx = db.transaction(ids => ids.forEach(id => clearTimer.run(id)));
+    const clearTimer = db.prepare(`UPDATE progress SET started_at = NULL, time_spent_seconds = 0 WHERE scenario_id = ? AND student_id = ?`);
+    const sid = session.student_id || 'unassigned';
+    const tx = db.transaction(ids => ids.forEach(id => clearTimer.run(id, sid)));
    tx(bundle.scenario_ids);
  }

@@ -475,7 +600,7 @@ app.post('/api/scenarios/:id/context', async (req, res) => {
 app.get('/api/bundles', (req, res) => {
  const bundles   = loadBundles();
  const scenarios = loadScenarios();
-  const progress  = loadProgress();
+  const progress  = loadProgress(getStudentId(req));
  const result = bundles.map(b => {
    const total     = b.scenario_ids.length;
    const completed = b.scenario_ids.filter(id => progress[id]?.status === 'completed').length;
@@ -484,10 +609,47 @@ app.get('/api/bundles', (req, res) => {
  res.json(result);
 });

+// GET /api/curriculum/path — the guided RootNode learning path, staged with completion status
+app.get('/api/curriculum/path', (req, res) => {
+  const path = loadCurriculumPath();
+  if (!path) return res.status(404).json({ error: 'Curriculum path not found' });
+  const scenarios = loadScenarios();
+  const progress = loadProgress(getStudentId(req));
+
+  let firstIncompleteStage = null;
+  const stages = path.stages.map(stage => {
+    const scenarioList = stage.scenario_ids.map(id => {
+      const s = scenarios.find(x => x.id === id);
+      return {
+        id,
+        title: s?.title || id,
+        difficulty: s?.difficulty || null,
+        status: progress[id]?.status || 'not_started'
+      };
+    });
+    const total = scenarioList.length;
+    const completed = scenarioList.filter(s => s.status === 'completed').length;
+    const isComplete = total > 0 && completed === total;
+    if (!isComplete && !stage.locked && firstIncompleteStage === null) {
+      firstIncompleteStage = stage.id;
+    }
+    return {
+      id: stage.id,
+      name: stage.name,
+      icon: stage.icon,
+      locked: !!stage.locked,
+      scenarios: scenarioList,
+      stats: { total, completed }
+    };
+  });
+
+  res.json({ id: path.id, name: path.name, tagline: path.tagline, stages, next_stage: firstIncompleteStage });
+});
+
 // GET /api/scenarios — list scenarios; optional ?bundle=<id> and ?session=<id> filter
 app.get('/api/scenarios', (req, res) => {
  const scenarios = loadScenarios()
-  const progress  = loadProgress()
+  const progress  = loadProgress(getStudentId(req))
  const { bundle, session: sessionId } = req.query

  // Session-scoped: return only session scenario_ids in their shuffled order
@@ -531,7 +693,7 @@ app.get('/api/scenarios/:id', (req, res) => {
  const scenarios = loadScenarios();
  const scenario = scenarios.find(s => s.id === req.params.id);
  if (!scenario) return res.status(404).json({ error: 'Scenario not found' });
-  const progress = loadProgress();
+  const progress = loadProgress(getStudentId(req));
  res.json({
    ...scenario,
    progress: progress[scenario.id] || { status: 'not_started', attempts: 0 }
@@ -556,7 +718,8 @@ app.post('/api/scenarios/:id/setup', async (req, res) => {
  }

  // Mark scenario as in-progress
-  const progress = loadProgress();
+  const studentId = getStudentId(req);
+  const progress = loadProgress(studentId);
  if (!progress[scenario.id] || progress[scenario.id].status === 'not_started') {
    progress[scenario.id] = {
      ...progress[scenario.id],
@@ -564,7 +727,7 @@ app.post('/api/scenarios/:id/setup', async (req, res) => {
      attempts: (progress[scenario.id]?.attempts || 0),
      started_at: progress[scenario.id]?.started_at || new Date().toISOString()
    };
-    saveProgress(progress);
+    saveProgress(studentId, progress);
  }

  res.json({ setup_results: results });
@@ -602,7 +765,8 @@ app.post('/api/scenarios/:id/validate', async (req, res) => {
  }

  // Update global practice progress
-  const progress = loadProgress();
+  const studentId = getStudentId(req);
+  const progress = loadProgress(studentId);
  const prev = progress[scenario.id] || { attempts: 0 };
  progress[scenario.id] = {
    ...prev,
@@ -611,7 +775,8 @@ app.post('/api/scenarios/:id/validate', async (req, res) => {
    last_validated: new Date().toISOString(),
    completed_at: allPassed ? new Date().toISOString() : prev.completed_at
  };
-  saveProgress(progress);
+  saveProgress(studentId, progress);
+  touchStudent(studentId);

  // Also update exam_progress if there's an active session
  const db = getDb();
@@ -649,7 +814,8 @@ app.post('/api/scenarios/:id/answer', (req, res) => {
  const correct = selected === scenario.correct_option;

  // Update global practice progress
-  const progress = loadProgress();
+  const studentId = getStudentId(req);
+  const progress = loadProgress(studentId);
  const prev = progress[scenario.id] || { attempts: 0 };
  progress[scenario.id] = {
    ...prev,
@@ -659,7 +825,8 @@ app.post('/api/scenarios/:id/answer', (req, res) => {
    last_validated: new Date().toISOString(),
    completed_at: correct ? new Date().toISOString() : prev.completed_at
  };
-  saveProgress(progress);
+  saveProgress(studentId, progress);
+  touchStudent(studentId);

  // Also update exam_progress if there's an active session
  const db = getDb();
@@ -702,7 +869,8 @@ app.post('/api/scenarios/:id/time', (req, res) => {
  if (!activeSession) {
    return res.json({ ok: true, message: 'No active session' });
  }
-  const progress = loadProgress();
+  const studentId = getStudentId(req);
+  const progress = loadProgress(studentId);
  if (!progress[req.params.id]) {
    progress[req.params.id] = {
      status: 'in_progress',
@@ -714,14 +882,14 @@ app.post('/api/scenarios/:id/time', (req, res) => {
    progress[req.params.id].started_at = new Date().toISOString();
  }
  progress[req.params.id].time_spent_seconds = time_spent_seconds;
-  saveProgress(progress);
+  saveProgress(studentId, progress);
  res.json({ ok: true });
 });

 // GET /api/progress — full progress summary
 app.get('/api/progress', (req, res) => {
  const scenarios = loadScenarios();
-  const progress = loadProgress();
+  const progress = loadProgress(getStudentId(req));
  const total = scenarios.length;
  const completed = Object.values(progress).filter(p => p.status === 'completed').length;
  const totalWeight = scenarios.reduce((sum, s) => sum + (s.weight || 0), 0);
@@ -745,8 +913,8 @@ app.post('/api/progress/reset/:id', (req, res) => {
          attempts = 0,
          completed_at = NULL,
          last_validated = NULL
-      WHERE scenario_id = ?
-    `).run(req.params.id);
+      WHERE scenario_id = ? AND student_id = ?
+    `).run(req.params.id, getStudentId(req));
    res.json({ ok: true });
  } catch (e) {
    res.status(500).json({ error: e.message });
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ Scenarios are defined as JSON objects. A scenario can be either a hands-on conso
  "id": "unique-kebab-case-id",        // string — unique scenario identifier
  "title": "Human-readable Title",      // string — shown in sidebar list
  "category": "Workloads",             // string — groups scenarios in sidebar accordion
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace", // "shared_namespace" | "ephemeral_cluster" — see below
  "difficulty": "Easy",                // "Easy" | "Medium" | "Hard"
  "type": "task",                      // "task" | "mcq"
  "weight": 7,                         // number — points value (used for final grade scoring)
@@ -66,6 +67,18 @@ Scenarios are defined as JSON objects. A scenario can be either a hands-on conso

 ---

+### `isolation_type` — informational, not a security boundary
+
+Earlier draft of this schema used `isolation_type` (`shared_namespace` | `ephemeral_cluster`)
+to decide which scenarios could safely run under shared-cluster RBAC. That namespace-isolation
+approach was superseded before it shipped — see `docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md`. Every student now
+gets a fully separate disposable environment with its own nested cluster, so no scenario
+content is unsafe for any other student's environment; the field no longer gates anything.
+It's kept on scenario records as descriptive metadata only (which scenarios exercise
+cluster-scoped/node-level operations), not read by any authorization logic.
+
+---
+
 ### Hints Schema
 Each hint is rendered as a collapsible card inside the Hints tab of the UI:
 ```jsonc
@@ -149,6 +162,7 @@ Renders a questionnaire block. No terminal is shown. The user answers by selecti
  "id": "scale-deployment",
  "title": "Scale a Deployment",
  "category": "Workloads",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 4,
@@ -187,6 +201,7 @@ Renders a questionnaire block. No terminal is shown. The user answers by selecti
  "id": "service-types-mcq",
  "title": "Kubernetes Service Types",
  "category": "Networking",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "mcq",
  "weight": 3,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "annotate-resource-basics",
  "title": "Annotating Kubernetes Resources",
  "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 3,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "broken-deployment",
  "title": "Debug a Failing Deployment",
  "category": "Troubleshooting",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 8,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cks-apparmor-profile",
  "title": "AppArmor Profiles",
  "category": "Workload Security",
+  "isolation_type": "ephemeral_cluster",
  "difficulty": "Hard",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 5,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cks-audit-policy",
  "title": "Write a Kubernetes Audit Policy",
  "category": "Cluster Setup",
+  "isolation_type": "ephemeral_cluster",
  "difficulty": "Hard",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 7,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cks-automount-token",
  "title": "Disable ServiceAccount Token",
  "category": "Workload Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 3,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cks-drop-capabilities",
  "title": "Drop Linux Capabilities",
  "category": "Workload Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 5,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cks-egress-namespace",
  "title": "Restrict Egress to Namespace",
  "category": "Network Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Hard",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 6,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cks-image-pull-secret",
  "title": "Private Registry Image Pull Secret",
  "category": "Supply Chain Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 4,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cks-immutable-secret",
  "title": "Immutable Secrets",
  "category": "Cluster Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 3,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cks-mcq-api-server",
  "title": "API Server Authentication",
  "category": "Cluster Setup",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "mcq",
  "weight": 2,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cks-mcq-audit-policy",
  "title": "Kubernetes Audit Logging Levels",
  "category": "Cluster Setup",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "mcq",
  "weight": 3,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cks-mcq-image-footprint",
  "title": "Minimizing Image Footprint",
  "category": "Supply Chain Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "mcq",
  "weight": 2,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cks-mcq-kubelet-auth",
  "title": "Securing the Kubelet",
  "category": "Cluster Setup",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "mcq",
  "weight": 2,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cks-mcq-psp-replacement",
  "title": "Pod Security Evolution",
  "category": "Cluster Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "mcq",
  "weight": 2,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cks-mcq-runtime-security",
  "title": "Runtime Security Tools",
  "category": "System Hardening",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "mcq",
  "weight": 2,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cks-mcq-sandboxing",
  "title": "Container Runtime Sandboxing",
  "category": "System Hardening",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Hard",
  "type": "mcq",
  "weight": 3,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cks-network-policy-metadata",
  "title": "Block Cloud Metadata",
  "category": "Network Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Hard",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 6,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cks-network-policy",
  "title": "Default Deny Network Policy",
  "category": "Network Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 5,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cks-non-root-enforce",
  "title": "Enforce Non-Root Container",
  "category": "Workload Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 5,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cks-pod-security-context",
  "title": "Pod Security Context",
  "category": "Workload Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 5,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cks-psa-namespace",
  "title": "Pod Security Admission",
  "category": "Cluster Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 4,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cks-rbac-clusterrole",
  "title": "Cluster-Level RBAC",
  "category": "Cluster Security",
+  "isolation_type": "ephemeral_cluster",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 5,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cks-rbac-least-privilege",
  "title": "RBAC Least Privilege",
  "category": "Cluster Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 4,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cks-readonly-filesystem",
  "title": "Read-Only Root Filesystem",
  "category": "Workload Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 4,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cks-runtime-class",
  "title": "RuntimeClass for Sandboxed Workloads",
  "category": "System Hardening",
+  "isolation_type": "ephemeral_cluster",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 5,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cks-seccomp-profile",
  "title": "Seccomp Profiles",
  "category": "Workload Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Hard",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 6,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cks-tls-ingress",
  "title": "Secure Ingress with TLS",
  "category": "Network Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Hard",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 7,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cluster-upgrade-mcq",
  "title": "Cluster Upgrade Order",
  "category": "Cluster Administration",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Hard",
  "type": "mcq",
  "weight": 5,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "configmap-volume",
  "title": "Mount ConfigMap as Volume",
  "category": "Configuration",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 7,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "container-logging-mcq",
  "title": "Container Logging and Monitoring",
  "category": "Troubleshooting",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "mcq",
  "weight": 3,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "crashloop-fix",
  "title": "Fix a CrashLoopBackOff Pod",
  "category": "Troubleshooting",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 7,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "cronjob-task",
  "title": "Create a CronJob",
  "category": "Workloads & Scheduling",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 4,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "daemonset-mcq",
  "title": "Understanding DaemonSets",
  "category": "Workloads",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "mcq",
  "weight": 3,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "delete-by-label-basics",
  "title": "Bulk Deletion by Label",
  "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 3,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "deploy-nginx",
  "title": "Deploy and Expose Nginx",
  "category": "Workloads",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 5,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "deployment-rollback",
  "title": "Rolling Back a Deployment",
  "category": "Workloads & Scheduling",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 5,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "deployment-strategy-mcq",
  "title": "Deployment Update Strategies",
  "category": "Workloads",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "mcq",
  "weight": 3,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "dns-resolution-mcq",
  "title": "Kubernetes DNS Resolution",
  "category": "Services & Networking",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "mcq",
  "weight": 3,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "dry-run-manifest-basics",
  "title": "Generating YAML Manifests",
  "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 4,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "edit-deployment-basics",
  "title": "Updating Deployments",
  "category": "Workloads",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 4,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "emptydir-pod",
  "title": "Shared emptyDir Volume Between Containers",
  "category": "Storage",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 5,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "endpoint-fix-task",
  "title": "Fix a Broken Service Selector",
  "category": "Troubleshooting",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 7,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "env-vars-configmap",
  "title": "Environment Variables from ConfigMap",
  "category": "Configuration",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 4,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "etcd-backup-mcq",
  "title": "etcd Backup and Restore",
  "category": "Cluster Administration",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Hard",
  "type": "mcq",
  "weight": 5,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "exec-command-basics",
  "title": "Execute Commands in Pods",
  "category": "Troubleshooting",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 3,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "expose-service-basics",
  "title": "Exposing an Application",
  "category": "Services & Networking",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 4,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "extract-logs-basics",
  "title": "Extract Container Logs",
  "category": "Troubleshooting",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 4,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "field-selector-basics",
  "title": "Filtering Resources with Field Selectors",
  "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 4,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "ingress-task",
  "title": "Create an Ingress Resource",
  "category": "Services & Networking",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 7,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "init-container-task-basics",
  "title": "Pod with Init Container",
  "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 5,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "init-containers-mcq",
  "title": "Init Containers Behaviour",
  "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "mcq",
  "weight": 3,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "job-task",
  "title": "Create a One-Shot Job",
  "category": "Workloads & Scheduling",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 4,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "jobs-cronjobs-mcq",
  "title": "Jobs vs CronJobs",
  "category": "Workloads",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "mcq",
  "weight": 3,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "jsonpath-basics",
  "title": "JSONPath Data Extraction",
  "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 5,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "kubectl-cp-basics",
  "title": "Copy Files to Containers",
  "category": "Troubleshooting",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 4,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "kubectl-diff-basics",
  "title": "Previewing Changes with kubectl diff",
  "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 4,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "kubectl-essentials-mcq",
  "title": "Essential kubectl Commands",
  "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "mcq",
  "weight": 2,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "kubectl-explain-basics",
  "title": "Exploring the API with kubectl explain",
  "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 3,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "kubectl-output-format-mcq",
  "title": "kubectl Output Formats",
  "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "mcq",
  "weight": 2,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "kubectl-patch-basics",
  "title": "Patching Resources with kubectl patch",
  "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 5,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "labels-selectors-mcq",
  "title": "Labels and Selectors",
  "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "mcq",
  "weight": 3,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "limitrange-task",
  "title": "LimitRange for Default Container Limits",
  "category": "Workloads & Scheduling",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 6,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "liveness-probe-task",
  "title": "Configure a Liveness Probe",
  "category": "Workloads",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 6,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "multi-container-pod-basics",
  "title": "Create a Multi-Container Pod",
  "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 5,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "namespaces-basics",
  "title": "Working with Namespaces",
  "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 4,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "network-policy",
  "title": "Isolate Traffic with NetworkPolicy",
  "category": "Networking",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Hard",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 9,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "networkpolicy-egress",
  "title": "Egress NetworkPolicy",
  "category": "Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Hard",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 8,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "node-cordon-basics",
  "title": "Cordoning and Uncordoning a Node",
  "category": "Cluster Management",
+  "isolation_type": "ephemeral_cluster",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 4,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "node-label-selector",
  "title": "Node Labels and nodeSelector",
  "category": "Cluster Administration",
+  "isolation_type": "ephemeral_cluster",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 5,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "node-taint-toleration",
  "title": "Taints and Tolerations",
  "category": "Cluster Administration",
+  "isolation_type": "ephemeral_cluster",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 7,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "nodeport-task",
  "title": "Expose a Deployment via NodePort",
  "category": "Services & Networking",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 5,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "pod-affinity-mcq",
  "title": "Pod Affinity vs Anti-Affinity",
  "category": "Workloads & Scheduling",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "mcq",
  "weight": 4,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "pod-basics-mcq",
  "title": "Pod Lifecycle States",
  "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "mcq",
  "weight": 3,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "pod-disruption-budget-task",
  "title": "Configure a PodDisruptionBudget",
  "category": "Cluster Administration",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 6,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "pod-env-vars-inline",
  "title": "Pod with Inline Environment Variables",
  "category": "Configuration",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 4,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "pod-labeling-basics",
  "title": "Labelling Resources",
  "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 3,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "pod-node-assignment-mcq",
  "title": "Assigning Pods to Nodes",
  "category": "Scheduling",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "mcq",
  "weight": 3,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "pod-security-context",
  "title": "Pod Security Context",
  "category": "Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 6,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "priority-class-task",
  "title": "Pod Priority and PriorityClass",
  "category": "Workloads & Scheduling",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 6,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "pv-pvc-mount",
  "title": "Persistent Storage with PV and PVC",
  "category": "Storage",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 7,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "pvc-dynamic-task",
  "title": "Dynamic PVC Provisioning",
  "category": "Storage",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 6,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "rbac-clusterrole",
  "title": "ClusterRole and ClusterRoleBinding",
  "category": "Cluster Administration",
+  "isolation_type": "ephemeral_cluster",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 8,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "rbac-role",
  "title": "RBAC: Create Role and RoleBinding",
  "category": "Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Hard",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 9,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "readiness-probe-task",
  "title": "Configure a Readiness Probe",
  "category": "Workloads & Scheduling",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 6,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "resource-limits-task",
  "title": "Resource Requests and Limits",
  "category": "Configuration",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 5,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "resource-quota-ns",
  "title": "ResourceQuota for a Namespace",
  "category": "Cluster Administration",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 7,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "restart-policy-mcq",
  "title": "Pod Restart Policies",
  "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "mcq",
  "weight": 3,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "rolling-update-task",
  "title": "Perform a Rolling Update",
  "category": "Workloads",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 5,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "rootnode-enforce-limits",
  "title": "Stop the Next Outage: Enforce Resource Defaults",
  "category": "Observability & Ops",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Hard",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 10,
@@ -24,7 +25,9 @@
    }
  ],
  "setup_commands": [
-    { "command": "kubectl create namespace workloads --dry-run=client -o yaml | kubectl apply -f -" }
+    {
+      "command": "kubectl create namespace workloads --dry-run=client -o yaml | kubectl apply -f -"
+    }
  ],
  "validation": {
    "description": "Checks that the LimitRange exists with the correct default values.",
@@ -63,7 +66,11 @@
  },
  "default_namespace": "workloads",
  "teardown_commands": [
-    { "command": "kubectl delete limitrange resource-defaults -n workloads --ignore-not-found" },
-    { "command": "kubectl delete namespace workloads --ignore-not-found --wait=false" }
+    {
+      "command": "kubectl delete limitrange resource-defaults -n workloads --ignore-not-found"
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "kubectl delete namespace workloads --ignore-not-found --wait=false"
+    }
  ]
 }
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "rootnode-probe-port-mismatch",
  "title": "Stuck Not-Ready: The Probe Port Mismatch",
  "category": "Observability & Ops",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 8,
@@ -24,8 +25,12 @@
    }
  ],
  "setup_commands": [
-    { "command": "kubectl create deployment api-gateway --image=nginx:1.25 --replicas=2" },
-    { "command": "kubectl patch deployment api-gateway --type='json' -p='[{\"op\":\"add\",\"path\":\"/spec/template/spec/containers/0/readinessProbe\",\"value\":{\"httpGet\":{\"path\":\"/\",\"port\":8080},\"initialDelaySeconds\":3,\"periodSeconds\":5}}]'" }
+    {
+      "command": "kubectl create deployment api-gateway --image=nginx:1.25 --replicas=2"
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "kubectl patch deployment api-gateway --type='json' -p='[{\"op\":\"add\",\"path\":\"/spec/template/spec/containers/0/readinessProbe\",\"value\":{\"httpGet\":{\"path\":\"/\",\"port\":8080},\"initialDelaySeconds\":3,\"periodSeconds\":5}}]'"
+    }
  ],
  "validation": {
    "description": "Checks that the probe port is corrected and both replicas are Ready.",
@@ -52,6 +57,8 @@
  },
  "default_namespace": "default",
  "teardown_commands": [
-    { "command": "kubectl delete deployment api-gateway --ignore-not-found" }
+    {
+      "command": "kubectl delete deployment api-gateway --ignore-not-found"
+    }
  ]
 }
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "rootnode-runaway-monitor",
  "title": "Recover the Monitoring Stack",
  "category": "Observability & Ops",
+  "isolation_type": "ephemeral_cluster",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 8,
@@ -24,9 +25,15 @@
    }
  ],
  "setup_commands": [
-    { "command": "kubectl create namespace monitoring" },
-    { "command": "kubectl create deployment node-metrics --image=nginx:1.25 --replicas=1 -n monitoring" },
-    { "command": "kubectl set resources deployment node-metrics -n monitoring --requests=memory=64Gi" }
+    {
+      "command": "kubectl create namespace monitoring"
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "kubectl create deployment node-metrics --image=nginx:1.25 --replicas=1 -n monitoring"
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "kubectl set resources deployment node-metrics -n monitoring --requests=memory=64Gi"
+    }
  ],
  "validation": {
    "description": "Checks that node-metrics is right-sized: scheduled, 1/1 Ready, and still declaring a memory request.",
@@ -53,6 +60,8 @@
  },
  "default_namespace": "monitoring",
  "teardown_commands": [
-    { "command": "kubectl delete namespace monitoring --ignore-not-found --wait=false" }
+    {
+      "command": "kubectl delete namespace monitoring --ignore-not-found --wait=false"
+    }
  ]
 }
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "scale-deployment",
  "title": "Scaling a Deployment",
  "category": "Workloads",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 4,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "secrets-basics",
  "title": "Creating and Using Secrets",
  "category": "Configuration",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 5,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "serviceaccount-pod",
  "title": "ServiceAccount for Pod API Access",
  "category": "Cluster Administration",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "type": "task",
  "weight": 7,
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  "id": "services-mcq",
  "title": "Kubernetes Service Types",
  "category": "Networking",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "type": "mcq",
  "weight": 4,
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