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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 This was Tier-1-isolation groundwork that got superseded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

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{
"id": "deployment-strategy-mcq",
"title": "Deployment Update Strategies",
"category": "Workloads",
"isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
"difficulty": "Medium",
"type": "mcq",
"weight": 3,
"description": "## Deployment Update Strategies\n\nA production Deployment is being updated. The team requires that **at least 3 pods are always available** during the rollout, and at most **5 pods can exist at any one time** (the Deployment has 4 replicas).\n\nWhich `strategy` configuration achieves this?\n\n```yaml\nspec:\n replicas: 4\n strategy:\n type: RollingUpdate\n rollingUpdate:\n maxUnavailable: ???\n maxSurge: ???\n```",
"options": [
{
"id": "a",
"text": "`maxUnavailable: 1`, `maxSurge: 1` — at most 1 pod unavailable (3 always up), at most 5 pods total"
},
{
"id": "b",
"text": "`maxUnavailable: 0`, `maxSurge: 0` — ensures zero disruption with no extra pods"
},
{
"id": "c",
"text": "`maxUnavailable: 2`, `maxSurge: 2` — allows 2 pods down (2 available) and 6 total pods"
},
{
"id": "d",
"text": "`maxUnavailable: 4`, `maxSurge: 1` — replaces all pods at once before adding new ones"
}
],
"correct_option": "a",
"explanation": "With 4 replicas, `maxUnavailable: 1` means at most 1 pod can be unavailable → minimum 3 pods always running. `maxSurge: 1` means at most 1 extra pod can be created → maximum 5 pods total (4+1). This satisfies both constraints. Option B (`maxUnavailable: 0, maxSurge: 0`) is invalid — at least one of them must be non-zero. Option C allows only 2 available pods (violates the minimum-3 requirement). Option D would take all existing pods offline before any new ones are ready.",
"hints": [
{
"title": "Understanding maxUnavailable and maxSurge",
"body": "maxUnavailable: how many pods can be unavailable during an update (can be a count or %). maxSurge: how many extra pods above the desired count can exist simultaneously.",
"command": "kubectl explain deployment.spec.strategy.rollingUpdate"
},
{
"title": "Check the current strategy on a deployment",
"body": "Use jsonpath to inspect the rolling update config of any existing deployment.",
"command": "kubectl get deployment <name> -o jsonpath='{.spec.strategy.rollingUpdate}'"
}
],
"setup_commands": [],
"default_namespace": "default",
"teardown_commands": []
}