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World K8: Career Quest

Turn Kedai Kancil into a portfolio

You will learn: how a README, a diagram and a 2-minute video show off your capstone.

Checked with Kubernetes 1.37 on 31 Oct 2026

The problem

Kedai Kancil works. All six missions are done. But your repo page shows only a list of files. Will a busy reviewer get it?

Try it

Here is a strong portfolio: A few finished projects that prove what you can do. repo. A reviewer has one minute. Find the proof of all six missions.

Practice repo — not a real website
aina-codes / kedai-kancil
A tiny shop app: containerised, tested in CI, run on Kubernetes by GitOps.
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README.md

Kedai Kancil

A tiny shop app. Containerised, tested in CI, run on Kubernetes by GitOps.

Watch the 2-minute demo: video

How it fits together

Diagram code (Mermaid). Real sites draw it as a picture.
flowchart LR
  browser --> gateway --> web
  gateway --> api --> db

Run it

docker compose up

Proof

Every mission, with links: docs/missions.md

What I learned

Small images, green pipelines and pods that heal.

Try it

An architecture diagram: A map of your app's parts. Arrows show who talks to whom. is a map of your app’s parts. Arrows show who talks to whom. Put one order’s trip in order.

Start of the trip at the top. Put these in order. Use the arrows, or drag.

  • api pod: the small API cooks the answer
  • Gateway: the main entrance reads /api
  • Service: the order number for the API
  • Browser: a customer opens the menu
  • Postgres: the database holds the menu

Try it

GitHub draws Mermaid: Text in a mermaid code block that GitHub draws as a diagram. text as a diagram. Each --> is an arrow. Add the last arrow: from api to db.

Add the arrow api --> db inside the mermaid block.

Preview

How it fits together

Diagram code (Mermaid). Real sites draw it as a picture.
flowchart LR
  browser --> gateway
  gateway --> web
  gateway --> api

0 of 1 goals done

Watch

Tap each point on the timeline.

A 2-minute demo video: A short screen recording that shows your project working. shows it working. You don’t need to show your face. Your screen and your voice are enough.

Check

Judge each README line.

Swipe right for good, left for needs work. Or use the buttons.

1 / 5

"Kedai Kancil: a tiny shop app on Kubernetes, shipped by GitOps."

Check

You record your terminal for the demo. What must you check first?

You did it!

You can now turn Kedai Kancil into a portfolio piece.

Go deeper (optional)

GitHub draws Mermaid diagrams in Markdown files. Your diagram lives next to your code. Upload the video anywhere with a share link. Be honest in the README. Say it runs in a kind cluster, not a paid cloud. Honesty builds trust.