Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
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Curriculum
Cloud Computing
Delivery methods
On-Site, Virtual
Duration
1 day
This workshop is designed to help IT professionals prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam.
In this workshop, we help prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam. We review the exam guidelines and topics, and learn tips and tricks to help pass the exam.
This workshop assumes prior knowledge of Kubernetes and is not an introduction to Kubernetes.
Learning objectives
- Prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam
- Learn tips and tricks to help pass the exam
- Review the CKA exam topics
Who should attend
Architects, engineers, administrators, and developers who want to prepare for the Certified
Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam. This course assumes knowledge at the level of ROI
Training Course 960: Hands-On Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of kubectl CLI and basic Kubernetes objects such as Pods, Deployments, Services, Jobs, CronJobs, Daemonsets, etc.
- Experience with Docker and Helm
Course outline
- Overview of the CKA certification
- Understanding the exam format and requirements
- Resources available during the exam
- Exam tips and strategies
- Manage role-based access control (RBAC)
- Using Kubeadm to create a cluster
- Using Kubeadm to upgrade a Kubernetes cluster
- Managing a highly-available Kubernetes cluster
- Performing an etcd backup and restore
- Leverage Kubernetes ConfigMaps and Secrets
- Pod autoscaling with horizontal and vertical Pod autoscalers
- Performing rolling/recreate/blue-green update and rollbacks
- Deploying applications using YAML manifests and Helm charts
- Liveness and readiness probes
- Understanding impacts of pod resource limits
- Understanding host networking configuration on the cluster nodes
- Selecting a container network interface plugin
- Understanding connectivity between Pods
- Implementing network policies for cluster security
- Leveraging ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer service types and endpoints
- Identifying use cases for Ingress controllers and Ingress resources
- Configuring CoreDNS
- Leveraging Kubernetes storage objects: persistent volumes, persistent volumes
claims - Configuring applications with persistent storage
- Understanding volume plugins and data persistence options
- Identifying and resolving common cluster issues
- Troubleshooting networking problems
- Debugging application and container-related problems
