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 playServer 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 playDNS 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 playThe 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 playDocker 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 playBroken 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 playAWS 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 playDatabase 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 playKubernetes 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 playTerraform 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 playThe 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.