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Missions

Mission games.

Story-driven missions you play in a real browser terminal. Each one drops you into a broken system with a goal and the commands to fix it — no slides, no multiple choice — and pairs with a Mission 90 review day so the theory sticks under pressure.

10 playable now · 0 in production

All missions

  • week1-server-down

    Week 1

    Ready to play

    Server Down!

    The web server died at 2 a.m. and you're the only one awake — find it, fix it, bring it back.

    • No setup — runs in your browser
    • No programming required
    Start mission
  • week2-dns-detective

    Week 2

    Ready to play

    DNS Detective

    Users swear the site is "sometimes down" — follow the DNS trail until the story makes sense.

    Start mission
  • week3-locked-file

    Week 3

    Ready to play

    The Locked File

    The deploy script won't run and nobody will admit to touching it — permissions, git and cron all have alibis.

    Start mission
  • week4-docker-rescue

    Week 4

    Ready to play

    Docker Rescue

    A containerized app is crash-looping on a fresh host — get the stack up without touching the source code.

    Start mission
  • week6-broken-pipeline

    Week 6

    Ready to play

    Broken Pipeline

    The release pipeline went red on Friday afternoon — trace the failure through secrets, matrices and a bad tag.

    Start mission
  • week7-aws-bill-shock

    Week 7

    Ready to play

    AWS Bill Shock

    The monthly AWS bill just tripled — hunt down what's burning money before finance hunts you.

    Start mission
  • week8-database-recovery

    Week 8

    Ready to play

    Database Recovery

    Someone dropped a production table — you have RDS snapshots, a tense hour, and no room for a second mistake.

    Start mission
  • week11-kubernetes-chaos

    Week 11

    Ready to play

    Kubernetes Chaos

    One pod is stuck starting, the rest are CrashLoopBackOff — read the events and restore order.

    Start mission
  • week12-terraform-trouble

    Week 12

    Ready to play

    Terraform Trouble

    A teammate ran apply from their laptop and now state disagrees with reality — reconcile it without breaking prod.

    Start mission
  • final-midnight-outage

    Week 13

    Ready to play

    The Midnight Outage

    Everything you've learned, one pager at midnight — a full-stack outage across DNS, containers, K8s and AWS.

    Start mission

Each mission caps the week it reviews — built and tested against exactly the skills that week teaches, and unlocked once you reach its day. Every mission in the program is live and free to play now; there is nothing left to wait for.