Seed to Series A (5–20 people)
Level 2 Unlock Criteria (70% Rule)
7 OF 10 + 1 BOSS REQUIREDSolve any 7 out of the 10 incidents (including at least 1 Boss incident) to automatically unlock Level 2.
Incidents & Requests (10)
Resolve ≥70% to unlock Level 2CrashLoopBackOff: Missing Required Environment Variable in Deployment
Production API pod in CrashLoopBackOff: 'FATAL: DATABASE_URL not set' — Siddharth Rao (DevOps Engineer)
OOMKilled Pod Crash: Insufficient Container Memory Limit
Worker pod terminated with exit code 137 (OOMKilled) — Lila Chen (Site Reliability Engineer)
Service Routing Blackhole: Selector Label Mismatch
HTTP 503 / Connection Refused: frontend Service has 0 endpoints — Devon Reed (Senior SRE)
Ingress SSL Warning: TLS Host Mismatch & Secret Misconfiguration
Browser SSL Warning: api.startup.io serving 'staging-tls-cert' self-signed cert — Maya Lin (CISO)
Liveness Probe Restart Loop: Wrong Health Check HTTP Path
Auth microservice restarting every 30 seconds due to failed liveness probe — Chloe Zhao (DevOps Engineer)
Bloated Container Image: Refactoring to Multi-Stage Build
Container image is 1.2 GB! Node pull latency is causing slow pod startup — Carlos Gomez (DevOps Engineer)
Pod Stuck in Pending: Node Capacity Overcommit & Impossible CPU Requests
Analytics pod stuck in 'Pending' forever: '0/3 nodes available: Insufficient cpu' — Elena Rostova (Senior Infrastructure Engineer)
Directory Wipe Outage: Missing subPath on ConfigMap Volume Mount
NGINX gateway fails to start: '/etc/nginx/mime.types not found' — Lucas Meyer (DevSecOps Lead)
Boss: Rolling Update Deadlock — Premature Readiness Probe Halts Deployment
SEV-1: Production rolling update completely stalled (0/3 replicas ready) — VP of Engineering (Incident Commander)
Boss: Security Vulnerability — Cleartext Database Password in Pod Manifest
P0 Audit Finding: Production Postgres master credentials committed in plain text in Pod env — Maya Lin (CISO)