Hands-on

Hands-on DevOps Labs

Live incident practice for real infrastructure failures.

Deadnodes gives engineers hands-on DevOps labs with real outages, not scripted tutorials.

Live terminals
Real incident scenarios
Timed runs
Scoring and history

Guided labs

Step-by-step hints
Static environments
No time pressure
Low realism

Deadnodes labs

Live incidents
Production-like failures
Timed recovery
Root-cause focus

What you practice

Hands-on incident response for Linux, Kubernetes, Postgres, and networking.

Triage
Mitigation
Recovery

Built for DevOps teams

Use labs for hiring, training, and team readiness.

Interviews
Training
Team drills

Launch in minutes

No setup required. Everything runs in the browser.

No setup
Browser-based

Deadnodes: DevOps practice labs and technical interview platform

Deadnodes helps engineers and hiring teams practice and assess real DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering skills in live browser environments.

Hands-on troubleshooting labs for Linux, Kubernetes, Postgres, networking, and CI/CD.
Live terminal scenarios with timed runs, scoring, and run history.
Technical interview meetings with secure candidate links and a task picker.
Code Playbook exercises for live coding, pseudocode, debugging, and reasoning.
AI-assisted reports that summarize candidate actions, risks, and next questions.

Key pages: /en/for-ai-agents, /en/interview, /en/tasks/browse, /en/pricing.