Certified Kubernetes Administrator v1.15

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator based on v1.15.0 (Jun 2019): https://github.com/cncf/curriculum/blob/master/CKAD_Curriculum_V1.15.0.pdf

Core Concepts (13%)

• Understand Kubernetes API primitives
• Create and configure basic Pods: kubectl create, kubectl apply

Configuration (18%)

• Understand ConfigMaps: kubectl describe configmaps
• Understand SecurityContexts: securityContext (Pod)
• Define an application's resource requirements
• Create & consume Secrets: kubectl create | get | describe
• Understand ServiceAccounts

Multi-Container Pods (10%)

• Understand Multi-Container Pod design patters (e.g. ambassador, adapter, sidecar) (Review: https://github.com/dgkanatsios/CKAD-exercises/blob/master/b.multi_container_pods.md)

Pod Design (20%)

• Understand how to use Labels, Selector and Annotations: kubectl label, kubectl annotate, NodeSelector
• Understand Deployments and how to perform rolling updates: kubectl rolling-update
• Understand Deployments and how to perform rollbacks: Kubectl rollout

State Persistence (8%)

• Understand PersistentVolumeClaims for storage

Services & Networking (13%)

• Understand Services
• Demonstrate basic understanding of NetworkPolicies

Observability (18%)

• Understand LivenessProves and ReadinessProbes
• Understand container logging
• Understand how to monitor applications in Kubernetes
• Understand debugging in Kubernetes

Activities

• https://medium.com/bb-tutorials-and-thoughts/practice-enough-with-these-questions-for-the-ckad-exam-2f42d1228552
• Review CKAD Exercises: https://github.com/dgkanatsios/CKAD-exercises

See also

• Kubernetes: distributions, tools, CKA, CKS, Kubernetes interfaces: CSI, CNI, installation, workloads, networking, kubeadm, Kubernetes API, Kubernetes API Server, kubectl, kubeadm, kubelet, kube-proxy, Cloud services: EKS, GKE, TKE, DKS, Helm, Kubernetes RBAC, Kubernetes deployments, Minikube, Rancher, OpenShift, Charmed Kubernetes, Ingress, Kubernetes scheduler, Kubernetes Finalizers, logging, Kubernetes operator, Orka, kind:, Kubernetes namespaces, Kubernetes dashboard, Kubernetes Metrics Server, Field Selectors, CoreDNS, CRI, Kubernetes Topology Manager, Kubernetes governance: (SIG, KEP), Kustomize, controllers, ReadinessProbe, LivenessProbe, KOPS, K9s, Kui, k3s, ImagePullBackOff, PDB, EndPoints, Kots, metadata, Karpenter, Replicated.com, Kubernetes Authenticating, Kubernetes timeline, Changelog/Versions, service accounts, Kubernetes Pod Lifecycle, Kubernetes Conformance Certified, Kubernetes backup, Kubernetes Pod Security Admission, tEKS, Kubernetes events, Kubernetes ports, Kubernetes policies, Connect, addons, DoKC, Kubernetes control plane, Kubernetes Federation, Kubernetes info, Kubetest2, Sidecar (Kubernetes)
• Kubernetes Certified Administrator Certification exam.
• Kubernetes playground
• Play with Kubernetes
• CKA: v1.28: API, Namespace, Pods, secrets, Services, deployments, nodes, Volumes, Ingress, CKS

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