Preparing for the CKA Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam? Don't know where to start? This post is the CKA Kubernetes Administrator Certification Exam Preparation Study Guide (with links to each exam objective).
I have curated a list of articles from the Kubernetes documentation and other blogs on the web for each objective of the CKA Certification exam. Please share the post within your circles so it helps them to prepare for the exam.
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CKA Kubernetes Administrator Online Course
LinkedIn Learning [Free Trial] Certified Kubernetes Administrator Cert Prep Pluralsight [Free Trial] CKA Certificate Exam Learning Path Whizlabs Kubernetes Administrator Course Udemy CKA Preparation by Zeal Vora
Kubernetes Administrator Practice Test/Guide
Udemy Practice Test Kubernetes Administration Practice Test Amazon e-book (PDF) Hands-on Guide to CKA exam for Admins
CKA Kubernetes Administrator Other Materials
Linux Foundation Bootcamp Cloud Engineer Bootcamp [24 weeks] Coursera Fundamentals of Kubernetes Deployment
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CKA Curriculum Topics
Scheduling – 5%
Use label selectors to schedule Pods
Scheduling pods on nodes in Kubernetes using labels
Understand the role of DaemonSets
Understand how resource limits can affect Pod scheduling
How Pods with resource limits are run
Learn how resource limits can affect pod scheduling
Understand how to run multiple schedulers and how to configure Pods to use them
Advanced Scheduling in Kubernetes
Manually schedule a pod without a scheduler
Display scheduler events
Scheduling – Display scheduler events
Know how to configure the Kubernetes scheduler
Logging/Monitoring – 5%
Understand how to monitor all cluster components
Tools for Monitoring Resources
Monitoring in the Kubernetes era
Understand how to monitor applications
Logging and Monitoring applications
Manage cluster component logs
Cluster-level logging architectures
Manage application logs
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Application Lifecycle Management – 8%
Understand deployments and how to perform rolling update and rollbacks
Know various ways to configure applications
Know how to scale applications
Running Multiple Instances of Your App
Understand the primitives necessary to create a self-healing application
True reliability requires self-healing nodes & managing infrastructure
Cluster Maintenance – 11%
Understand the Kubernetes cluster upgrade process
Facilitate operating system upgrades
Safely Drain a Node while Respecting the PodDisruptionBudget
Implement backup and restore methodologies
Security – 12%
Know how to configure authentication and authorization
https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/rbac/
Understand Kubernetes security primitives
Know how to configure network policies
Kubernetes network policy recipes
Create and manage TLS certificates for cluster components
Manage TLS Certificates in a Cluster
Work with images securely
Specifying ImagePullSecrets on a Pod
Define security contexts
Configure a Security Context for a Pod or Container
Secure persistent key-value store
Storage – 7%
Understand persistent volumes and know how to create them
Understand access modes for volumes
Understand persistent volume claims primitive
Understand Kubernetes storage objects
Storage Object in Use Protection
Know how to configure applications with persistent storage
Troubleshooting – 10%
Troubleshoot application failure
Application Introspection and Debugging
Troubleshoot control plane failure
Troubleshoot worker node failure
Troubleshoot networking
Core Concepts – 19%
Understand the Kubernetes API primitives
Understand Kubernetes API Primitives
Understand the Kubernetes cluster architecture
Kubernetes cluster architecture
Components of a Kubernetes cluster
Understanding Kubernetes architecture with diagrams
Understand Services and other network primitives
Networking – 11%
Understand the networking configuration on the cluster nodes
Cluster Networking in Kubernetes
Understand Pod networking concepts
Understanding Kubernetes networking: pods
4 distinct networking problems in Kubernetes
Understand Service Networking
A look at Services in Kubernetes
Deploy and configure a network load balancer
Create an External Load Balancer
Services, Load Balancing, and Networking
Know how to use Ingress rules
Understanding Ingress Controllers
Set up Ingress on Minikube with the NGINX Ingress Controller
Know how to configure and use the cluster DNS
Understand CNI
Installation, Configuration & Validation – 12%
Design a Kubernetes Cluster
Tips for Designing a Kubernetes Cluster
Install Kubernetes Masters and Nodes
Installing the kubeadm toolbox
Creating a cluster with kubeadm
Configure secure cluster communications
Manage TLS Certificates in a Cluster
Manage TLS Certificates in a Cluster
Configure a highly-available Kubernetes cluster
Set up High-Availability Kubernetes Masters
Options for Highly Available topology
Creating Highly Available clusters with kubeadm
Know where to get the Kubernetes release binaries
Provision underlying infrastructure to deploy a Kubernetes cluster
Provision a GCP infrastructure
Provision and deploy applications to Azure Kubernetes Service
Choose a network solution
Comparative Kubernetes networks solutions
Choose your Kubernetes infrastructure configuration
Deploy an AKS cluster using the Azure portal
Cloud Infrastructure Provisioning – Google Cloud Platform
Run end-to-end tests on your cluster
Kubernetes End-to-end Testing for Everyone
Building Kubernetes and Running the Tests
Executing end-to-end tests in Kubernetes
Analyze end-to-end test results
Run Node end-to-end Tests
Install and use kubeadm to install, configure, and manage Kubernetes clusters
This brings us to the end of Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Exam Preparation Study Guide
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