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Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Cert Prep: The Basics

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Overview

Learn about the topics covered on the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification exam.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Get certified in Kubernetes and stand out professionally
  • What you need to know
1. Storage
  • Understand storage classes and persistent volumes
  • Understand volume mode, access modes, and reclaim policies for volumes
  • Understand persistent volume claims primitive
  • Know how to configure applications with persistent storage
2. Troubleshooting
  • Evaluate cluster and node logging
  • Understand how to monitor applications
  • Manage container STDOUT and STDERR logs
  • Troubleshoot application failure
  • Troubleshoot cluster component failure
  • Troubleshoot networking
3. Workloads and Scheduling
  • Understand deployments and how to perform rolling updates and rollbacks
  • Use ConfigMaps and Secrets to configure applications
  • Know how to scale applications
  • Understand the primitives used to create robust, self-healing, application deployments
  • Understand how resource limits can affect Pod scheduling
4. Cluster Architecture, Installation, and Configuration
  • Manage role-based access control (RBAC)
  • Manage a highly-available Kubernetes cluster
  • Perform a version upgrade on a Kubernetes cluster using kubeadm
  • Implement etcd back up and restore
5. Services and Networking
  • Understand connectivity between Pods
  • Understand ClusterIP, NodePort, and LoadBalancer service types and endpoints
  • Know how to use Ingress controllers and Ingress resources
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

David Davis

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