Learn about the topics covered on the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification exam.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Get certified in Kubernetes and stand out professionally
- What you need to know
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Understand connectivity between Pods
- Understand ClusterIP, NodePort, and LoadBalancer service types and endpoints
- Know how to use Ingress controllers and Ingress resources
- Next steps
Taught by
David Davis