DevOps Labs

DevOps Troubleshooting Labs

Practice real production incidents in live Linux environments.

Deadnodes gives engineers a live terminal to diagnose and fix outages across infrastructure, not toy labs.

  • Live VMs and real failures
  • Linux, Kubernetes, Postgres
  • Timed runs with scoring
  • No hints or tutorials

Traditional labs

  • Guided tutorials
  • Static environments
  • No time pressure
  • No incident realism

Deadnodes labs

  • Live terminals
  • Production-like outages
  • Timed scenarios
  • Real debugging workflows

What you practice

Troubleshoot the same kinds of failures engineers see on-call: broken services, failed deploys, and networking issues.

  • Service recovery
  • Root-cause analysis
  • Log and metrics triage

Built for teams

Use Deadnodes to assess skills or run internal training with measurable results.

  • Scorecards
  • Run history
  • Repeatable incidents

Start fast

Launch a scenario in minutes and measure how engineers respond.

  • No setup required
  • Runs in the browser