Get certified as a Kubernetes Administrator with CKA 2024. Learn to manage, scale, and deploy containerized workloads using Kubernetes in a cloud-native environment.

Syllabus

Cluster Architecture, Installation & Configuration

In this track of the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) 2024 journey, the focus will be on the following: - Manage role based access control (RBAC) - Use Kubeadm to install a basic cluster - Manage a highly-available Kubernetes cluster - Provision underlying infrastructure to deploy a Kubernetes cluster - Perform a version upgrade on a Kubernetes cluster using Kubeadm - Implement etcd backup and restore

Storage, Services & Networking

In this track of the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) 2024 journey, the focus will be on the following: - Understand storage classes, 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 - Understand host networking configuration on the cluster nodes - Understand connectivity between Pods - Understand ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer service types and endpoints - Know how to use Ingress controllers and Ingress resources - Know how to configure and use CoreDNS - Choose an appropriate container network interface plugin

Workloads & Scheduling

In this track of the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) 2024 journey, the focus will be on the following: - Understand deployments and how to perform rolling update 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 - Awareness of manifest management and common templating tools