About
Practice on real infrastructure
The Cloud Panda is one place for cloud and DevOps engineers to prepare for certifications on real infrastructure. Its first service, Labs, starts with the CKA.
Why Labs
The CKA is a hands-on exam, so practice for it should be hands-on too. The same is true of most cloud and DevOps work: you learn Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform or Linux by running them, not by reading about them.
The Cloud Panda is built by a cloud engineer and security lead in Vienna who works with Kubernetes, service mesh and cloud networking every day. Most practice material either explains Kubernetes or asks multiple-choice questions about it. The exam does neither: it hands you a cluster and a problem.
How the labs are made
- Every lab runs on a real kubeadm cluster with a control plane and a worker node.
- Every lab must fail before its solution and pass after it on a real cluster before it goes live, so a check can't pass by accident.
- Labs are mapped to the public curriculum's competencies and weighted like the exam.
- All tasks are original. We never use or reconstruct real exam questions.
How we run it
Our own servers in the EU
The labs will run on our own servers in the EU, not on someone else's free playground, starting with the CKA.
No trackers
We don't use advertising trackers, and this site sets no cookies. Read more about how labs are isolated.
What we won't do
Publish fake reviews, invented user numbers or logos of companies that aren't customers; promise you a pass; or sell or share your data.
Questions or feedback: hello@thecloudpanda.com.