Certified Kubernetes Application Developer CKAD with Effective Exam Preparation

Seminarziel

• Develop in-house Kubernetes expertise.
• Enable efficient adoption of Kubernetes.
• Foster cloud-native application development.
• Improve application deployment and management.
• Facilitate continuous innovation and agility.
• Attract and retain top talent.
• Stay competitive in the industry.

Inhalt

• Application Design and Build
  • Define, build and modify container images
  • Choose and use the right workload resource (Deployment, DaemonSet, CronJob, etc.)
  • Understand multi-container Pod design patterns (e.g. sidecar, init and others)
  • Utilize persistent and ephemeral volumes
• Application Deployment
  • Use Kubernetes primitives to implement common deployment strategies (e.g. blue/green or canary)
  • Understand Deployments and how to perform rolling updates
  • Use the Helm package manager to deploy existing packages
  • Kustomize
• Application Observability and Maintenance
  • Understand API deprecations
  • Implement probes and health checks
  • Use built-in CLI tools to monitor Kubernetes applications
  • Utilize container logs
  • Debugging in Kubernetes
• Application Environment, Configuration and Security
  • Discover and use resources that extend Kubernetes (CRD, Operators)
  • Understand authentication, authorization and admission control
  • Understand requests, limits, quotas
  • Understand ConfigMaps
  • Define resource requirements
  • Create & consume Secrets
  • Understand ServiceAccounts
  • Understand Application Security (SecurityContexts, Capabilities, etc.)
• Services and Networking
  • Demonstrate basic understanding of NetworkPolicies
  • Provide and troubleshoot access to applications via services
  • Use Ingress rules to expose applications