Certified Kubernetes Administrator v1.18

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator based on v1.18.0 (March 2020): https://github.com/cncf/curriculum/blob/master/CKA_Curriculum_V1.18.pdf

Scheduling (5%)

• Use label selectors to schedule Pods
• Understand the role of DaemonSets
• Understand how resource limits can affect Pod scheduling
• Manually schedule a pod without a scheduler
• Display scheduler events
• Know how to configure the Kubernetes scheduler

Logging/Monitoring (5%)

• Understand how to monitor all cluster components.
• Understand how to monitor applications
• Manage cluster component logs
• Manage application logs

Application Lifecycle Management (8%)

• Understand deployments and how to perform updates and rollbacks
• Know various ways to configure applications
• Know how to scale applications
• Understand the primitives necessary to create a self-healing application

Cluster Maintenance (11%)

• Understand Kubernetes cluster upgrade process
• Facilitate operatig system upgrades
• Implement backup and restore methodologies

See also

• CKA: v1.28: API, Namespace, Pods, secrets, Services, deployments, nodes, Volumes, Ingress, CKS