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Certified Kubernetes Administrator Overview
The Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) program provides assurance that CKAs have the skills, knowledge, and competency to perform the responsibilities of Kubernetes administrators.
CKA training is designed for individuals with varying levels of Kubernetes experience. Whether you are a beginner or have some familiarity, the training provides the necessary guidance and hands-on practice to build the skills required to pass the CKA exam.
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CKA certification enhances your career by demonstrating your proficiency in Kubernetes, a widely adopted container orchestration platform. It opens doors to job opportunities in DevOps, cloud engineering, and related roles as organizations increasingly rely on Kubernetes for deploying and managing containerized applications.
The Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification is designed to ensure that certification holders have the skills, knowledge, and competency to perform the responsibilities of Kubernetes Administrators. The CKA certification allows certified administrators to quickly establish their credibility and value in the job market, and also allowing companies to more quickly hire high-quality teams to support their growth.
If you are involved in containerized application development, operations, or infrastructure management, learning CKA is highly relevant. It equips you with the skills to effectively deploy and manage containerized applications, contributing to improved efficiency and scalability.
Learning CKA can be challenging, but it is also rewarding. The exam is hands-on, requiring practical experience in deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters. CubeSquare’s training provides a structured learning path and hands-on labs to help you build the necessary skills.
Course Content
- Syllabus
- Exam Details
- Prerequisites
Understanding Kubernetes Architecture
- Kubernetes Cluster Architecture
- Kubernetes API Primitives
- Kubernetes Services and Network Primitives
Introduction to Kubernetes
- Overview of Dockers and Containers
- What is Container Orchestration?
- Evolution of Kubernetes
- Differences between Kubernetes and Docker Swarm
- What is Kubernetes
- Kubernetes Use Cases
Managing the Kubernetes Cluster
- Upgrading the Kubernetes Cluster
- Operating System Upgrades within a Kubernetes Cluster
- Backing Up and Restoring a Kubernetes Cluster
- ETCD
- Kube-API Server
- Controller Manager Scheduler
- kubelet
- Installation of kubelet in worker nodes in kubeadm method kube proxy
- PODs
- Pods creation using yaml file ReplicaSets
- ReplicaSet creation using yaml file Deployments
- Deployment creation using yaml file Services, Service Cluser IP
- Service creation using yaml file Job Scheduling Using Kubernetes Scheduler
Working with Namespaces and Pods
- Overview of Namespaces and creating Namespaces
- Introduction to Pods
- Pods Lifecycle
- Working with YAML files
- Working with Pods to manage multiple containers
- Deploying Pods using kubectl run command.
Scheduling Pods
- Manual Scheduling
- Scheduling Pod using Binding Labels and Selectors
- Labels and Selectors in ReplicaSet Resource Requiments and Limits
- Create a POD with resource requirement & Limit DeamonSets
- Create DaemonSets Static Pods
- Multiple Scheduler
- Docker commands instead of kubectl commands in static POD Assisted Practice: Multiple Scheduler – Introduction
- Configure the POD with custom scheduler Assisted Practice: Create custom scheduler in Kubeadm Task Allocation Using Kubernetes Scheduler
Logging and Monitoring
- Monitor Cluster Components
- Install and configure Metric Server Managing Application Logs
- kubectl top commands
- Viewing logs in multicontainer POD Health Monitoring Using Kubernetes
Application Lifecycle Management
- Rolling Updates and Rollbacks
- Deployment rolling update with
kubectl rollout
(command) - Assisted Practice: Deployment rolling update by editing the Deployment file
- Assisted Practice: Rollout status check
- Rollout pause and resume
- Rollbacks with command and deployment file
- Assisted Practice: Updating the rollback deployment method
- Deployment rolling update with
- Configure Applications
- Commands and Arguments
- Scale up application with more replicas
- Assisted Practice: Scale down application with fewer replicas
- Assisted Practice: Scale up and down with
kubectl
command
- Multi-container PODs
- Create a multi-container pod that accesses the same volume
- Multi-container PODs Design Patterns
- InitContainers
- InitContainers Demonstration
- Self-Healing Applications
- Autoscaling and Cluster Resource Management
Cluster Maintenance
- OS Upgrades
- Drain node Assisted Practice: Cordon node Assisted Practice: Uncordon node Kubernetes Software versions Cluster Upgrade Process
- kube-apiserver Assisted Practice: kubelet and kube-proxy Backup and Restore Methods
- Backup Resource configs Assisted Practice: Backup etcd
- Restore etcd
- CICD (Continues Integration and Continues Deployment)
Managing Data in the Kubernetes Cluster
- Persistent Volumes
- Volume Access Modes
- Persistent Volume Claims
- Storage Objects
- Applications with Persistent Storage
Storage and Volumes
- Volumes
- Create a volume with Declarative (Yaml) Assisted Practice: Create a volume with Host path (Host Drive) Assisted Practice: Create a volume with Empty Dir (Auto deletion) Assisted Practice: Create a volume with nfs share
- Persistent Volumes
- Introduction to Persistent volume
- Create a persistent volume with declarative (yaml) Persistent Volume Claims
- Introduction to Persistent volume claims
- Create a persistent volume claims with declarative (yaml) Application Configuration
- Pod Creation with volumes
- Pod Creation with Persistent volume Claims Deploy Large scale Applications
Troubleshooting: Application Failures, Control Panel Failures, and Network Failures
- Application failure
- Application Failure – Check POD, Logs and Events Control Panel Failure
- Check controlplane failure status in POD and service Worker Node Failure
- Check Node status, describe node to know cause Assisted Practice: Top command to check node performance Assisted Practice: Connectivity with master and cert status Assisted Practice: Worker node failure checks
- Networking Failure
- Service connectivity check Assisted Practice: Nslookup check
- kube-proxy check and CNI plugin check Assisted Practice: Network failure check in above stuffs Debugging
Kubernetes Schedulings
- Overview of kube-scheduler
- Scheduling with kube-scheduler
- Scheduler Policies
- Horizontal Pod Autoscaling
- Affinity and Anti-Affinity
Troubleshooting in Kubernetes
- Troubleshooting Application Failure
- Troubleshooting Control Plane Failure
- Troubleshooting Worker Node Failure
- Troubleshooting Networking
This exam is an online, proctored, performance-based test that requires solving multiple tasks from a command line running Kubernetes.
Candidates have 2 hours to complete the tasks.
The exam is based on Kubernetes v1.29
The CKA exam environment will be aligned with the most recent K8s minor version within approximately 4 to 8 weeks of the K8s release date
We will guide to purchase the CKA certification coupon ( with available discounts if any )
There are no pre-requisites for this exam.
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- Duration of Exam 2 hours
- Certification Valid for 3 Years
- Includes 12 Month Exam Eligibility
- One Retake
- PDF Certificate and Digital Badge
- Software Version: Kubernetes v1.29
- Performance-Based Exam
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