Cloudshalla Playground

Cloud & SRE Interactive Games

Stop studying static PDFs. Reinforce your muscle memory with gamified incident response rooms, cloud security challenges, and hands-on cloud labs.

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Interactive Terminals
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Kubernetes
Hard

Incident Commander

SEV-1 Outage Simulation

Experience the pressure of an on-call SRE. A critical alert fires, and you have exactly 5 minutes to restore the service using a live browser-based terminal.

Key Skills Built:
  • Debugging CrashLoopBackOff
  • Cache eviction & Redis limits
  • Rollback bad deployments
KuberneteskubectlDockerRedisSRE
Cloudshalla Reward
+50 XP
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Architecture
Easy

Architecture Sandbox

Visual Drag & Drop Designer

Design production-ready cloud architectures visually. Drag AWS, Azure, and GCP nodes on a canvas, connect services, and export diagrams.

Key Skills Built:
  • Reference architecture design
  • Component relationships
  • Multi-cloud planning
AWSAzureGCPCloud Architecture
Cloudshalla Reward
+30 XP
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Linux & SRE
Mixed

SadServers

LeetCode for Linux System Admins

Get hands-on troubleshooting practice in real-world servers. Diagnose port conflicts, identify resource hogs, and repair broken services.

Key Skills Built:
  • Linux file permissions & disk space issues
  • Port conflicts & network configuration
  • Service diagnostic tools
LinuxBashSystemdNginxNetworking
Cloudshalla Reward
+80 XP
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Security
Medium

flaws.cloud

AWS Security Challenge Levels

Learn common AWS security flaws through a series of hands-on levels. Learn S3 bucket configuration mistakes, IAM vulnerabilities, and EC2 exploits.

Key Skills Built:
  • Recognizing exposed S3 bucket policies
  • Analyzing instance metadata vulnerabilities
  • AWS credentials safety
AWSIAMS3EC2 SecurityOSINT
Cloudshalla Reward
+100 XP
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Kubernetes
Medium

Game of Pods

Gamified Kubernetes Quests

Embark on a fantasy quest where you deploy and manage Kubernetes workloads. Fix image issues, set configs, and expose service endpoints.

Key Skills Built:
  • Managing Pod spec definitions
  • Configuring ingress rules
  • Setting up Persistent Volumes
KubernetesYAMLDeploymentsConfigMapsIngress
Cloudshalla Reward
+120 XP
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AWS
Mixed

AWS Escape Room

Interactive Security Escape Gates

Unlock secure gates and escape the datacenter. Build VPC route tables, define security firewall groups, and authorize IAM policies.

Key Skills Built:
  • Architecting high availability solutions
  • Configuring subnets and route tables
  • Serverless API integrations
AWS ServicesVPCRDSServerlessDynamoDB
Cloudshalla Reward
+150 XP
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Google Cloud
Medium

Google Cloud Arcade

Gamified Lab Quests & Badges

Complete hands-on GCP arcade tasks, analyze dataset traffic in BigQuery, and block anomalous source IP address blocks.

Key Skills Built:
  • Processing datasets with BigQuery
  • Deploying containerized apps in GKE
  • Applying GCP IAM policies
GCPBigQueryGKEVertex AIIAM
Cloudshalla Reward
+100 XP
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Earn XP & Boost Your Leaderboard Rank

Every game you complete builds critical DevOps expertise and rewards you with profile XP. Conquer our native challenges or verify external runs to lock in your spot on the Global Leaderboard.

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