CKS Security Quest
Guardian · 1020 XP
Advance by completing real security operations. Accuracy earns progress; first-attempt mastery unlocks the next territory.
15Missions completed
2 / 4Cluster Hardening covered
2Clean wins
380 XP to rank: CKS Elite
Campaign map
Cluster Setup — complete
✓
1.1 NetworkPolicy
Covered after guided remediation; scheduled for later review.
✓
1.2 CIS benchmark
Covered after guided remediation; scheduled for later review.
✓
1.3 Ingress TLS
Covered; NGINX annotations remain an interleaved review target.
✓
1.4 Metadata protection
Mastered with a clean first-attempt transfer.
✓
1.5 Binary verification
Mastered with clean checksum transfer.
✓
2.1 Least-privilege RBAC
Learner-confirmed coverage; scheduled for interleaved review.
✓
2.2 Service accounts
Completed with assistance; verification review remains.
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2.3 API access
One-minute mastery gate: protect super-admin credentials.
Achievements
Policy TamerCompleted a multi-policy containment scenario.
Recovery OperatorRecovered API server and kubelet after hardening.
Clean SweepSolved CKS-012 with no correction.
Domain DefenderCompleted every Cluster Setup topic.