About the Dead Reckoning category

The Grand Fleet’s commission office is buried in complaints. Manifests are filed but nothing comes of them. Vessels that do sail arrive at port with the wrong cargo, and no one along the route can explain why. As the fleet’s engineer, your mission is to restore order from keel to quayside and find out what the records are hiding.

Technologies: Backstage, Gitea, Argo Workflows, Argo CD, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Kubernetes

The entire infrastructure is pre-provisioned in your Codespace You don’t need to set up anything locally. Just focus on solving the problem.

:rocket: Ready to Start?

Head over to the challenge docs for more information.

Rewards

Complete all levels and post your solution in the community before the deadline to be eligible.

1st place

50% voucher for a Linux Foundation certification

Top 3

Credly badge to showcase the achievement

Ranking is determined by total points across all three levels. Points per level are awarded by submission order within the active week (100 for the first valid solution, 95 for the second, and so on; late submissions still earn 60). See the points & ranking rules for the full breakdown.

Deadline: 28 July 2026 at 23:59 CET