Hello,

This is the SadServers newsletter, introducing new challenges designed to improve your skills and grow your Linux and DevOps abilities.

It hasn't been that long since our last email but we already have five new scenarios we hope you enjoy :-)

New scenarios:

• "Nuuk": More SSH Troubles – Easy local SSH troubleshooting scenario.
• "Tigoni": Patch and Pray! – this is a pretty Hard challenge involving upgrading an application using Helm in Kubernetes.
• "Kilifi": Speculative Misallocation! – another Medium hard-ish Kubernetes and Helm scenario.
• "Cabedelo": Harbor full of issues – this is a Hard challenge using Harbor, an OS artifact repository application.
• "Cairo": Time for a Timer – an Easy to Medium scenario to get some practice with the systemd timer that replaces cron.

Our goal is to add a new challenge each week and send this newsletter out around once a month. We are aiming to have a bit over 100 total scenarios by the end of the year. If there are types of scenarios that you'll like to see, or new technologies involved (like for example: Kafka, MongoDB, Clickhouse), please let us know.

New:

Now that there's a significant number of scenarios, besides using tags to select a specific area or application (like say Nginx) , we have also grouped all the scenarios in nine major themes or topics (like for ex Web Servers). We hope this helps with practice plans for example.

Other:

In other news, to keep creating good scenarios and building new features, we’ll soon be raising the price of our Professional plan. Current subscribers — and anyone who subscribes at the current price — will not be affected; their subscription cost will remain the same for the duration of their plan. 

We also suggest you checkout the DevOps Bulletin , a great source for all things DevOps.

Cheers,

Fernando
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