Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

At Course Completion

• Deploy applications to a Kubernetes cluster
• Use Kubernetes primitives to implement common deployment strategies (e.g. blue/green or canary)
• Define, build and modify container images
• Implement probes and health checks
• Understand multi-container Pod design patterns (e.g. sidecar, init and others)
• Understand ConfigMaps
• Create & consume Secrets
• Troubleshooting and debugging tools
• Provide and troubleshoot access to applications via services
• Use Ingress rules to expose applications

Audience Profile

• Anyone who plans to work with Kubernetes at any level or tier of involvement
• Any company or individual who wants to advance their knowledge of the cloud environment
• Application Developers
• Operations Developers
• IT Directors/Managers

Outline

AI LLM Toolkit
•   Lecture + Lab: Large Language Model toolkit for AI Solution Assistance

From Containers to Kubernetes
•   Lecture: Kubernetes Architecture
•   Lecture: Pods and the Control Plane
•   Lecture + Lab: Define, build and modify container images
•   Lecture: Kubernetes the Alta3 Way
•   Lecture + Lab: Deploy Kubernetes using Ansible

Pod Basics
•   Lecture: YAML
•   Lecture: Manifests for Pods
•   Lecture + Lab: Create and Configure Basic Pods
•   Lecture: API Versioning and Deprecations

Cluster Basics
•   Lecture: Namespaces and Fundamental Kubectl Commands
•   Lecture + Lab: Creating and Configuring Namespaces
•   Lecture: Kubectl get and sorting
•   Lecture + Lab: Listing Resources with kubectl get

Container Health, Security, and Observability
•   Lecture: Kubectl port-forward
•   Lecture + Lab: Kubectl port-forward
•   Lecture: Kubectl exec and cp
•   Lecture + Lab: Performing Commands inside a Pod
•   Lecture: Readiness and Liveness Probes
•   Lecture + Lab: Implement Probes and Health Checks
•   Lecture: Pod Security Contexts
•   Lecture + Lab: Applying Security Contexts

Resource Management
•   Lecture: Limits, Requests, and Namespace ResourceQuotas
•   Lecture + Lab: Defining Resource Requirements, Limits and Quotas
•   Lecture + Lab: Kubectl Top and Application Monitoring
•   Lecture: Admission Controller
•   Lecture + Lab: Create a LimitRange AdmissionController

RBAC
•   Lecture: Role Based Access Control
•   Lecture + Lab: Service Accounts
•   Lecture: Contexts
•   Lecture + Lab: Cluster Access with Kubernetes Context

Logging
•   Lecture: Utilize Container Logs
•   Lecture + Lab: Kubectl Log Command
•   Lecture: FluentD and RsysLog

Ephemeral Storage
•   Lecture: ConfigMaps and Volume Mounting
•   Lecture + Lab: Persistent Configuration with ConfigMaps
•   Lecture: Secrets
•   Lecture + Lab: Create and Consume Secrets

Persistent Storage
•   Lecture: Persistent Volumes, Claims, and StorageClasses
•   Lecture + Lab: Using PersistentVolumeClaims for Storage
•   Lecture: Persistent Volumes with CSI
•   Lecture + Lab: CSI Storage Solution: NFS

Multi-Container Pod Design
•   Lecture: Multi-Container Pods
•   Lecture + Lab: Configuring a Fluentd Logging Sidecar
•   Lecture: Init Containers
•   Lecture + Lab: Using Init Container for Pod Initialization

Deployments
•   Lecture: Labels
•   Lecture + Lab: Labels and Selectors
•   Lecture: Annotations
•   Lecture + Lab: Insert an Annotation
•   Lecture: ReplicaSets
•   Lecture + Lab: Create and Configure a ReplicaSet
•   Lecture: DaemonSets
•   Lecture: Deployments - Purpose and Advantages
•   Lecture + Lab: Create and Configure a Deployment
•   Lecture: Deployments Rollout
•   Lecture + Lab: Performing Rolling Updates and Rollbacks
•   Lecture: Blue/Green and Canary Deployment Strategies
•   Lecture + Lab: Advanced Deployment Strategies
•   Lecture: Deployments - Horizontal Scaling
•   Challenge: Horizontal Pod Autoscaler

Jobs and CronJobs
•   Lecture: Jobs and CronJobs
•   Lecture + Lab: Running and Executing a Job
•   Lecture + Lab: Scheduling a CronJob

Affinity and Anti-Affinity
•   Lecture: Taints, Tolerations
•   Lecture + Lab: Tainted Nodes and Tolerations

NetworkPolicy
•   Lecture: NetworkPolicy
•   Lecture + Lab: Network Policy Basics
•   Lecture + Lab: Namespace Network Policy

Services and Ingress
•   Lecture: Networking with Services
•   Lecture + Lab: Expose Applications via Services
•   Lecture: Networking Plugins
•   Lecture: Ingress Controllers
•   Lecture + Lab: Expose Applications via Ingress Controllers

DNS
•   Lecture: Hostnames and FQDNs
•   Lecture + Lab: Utilizing FQDNs

The Helm Package Manager
•   Lecture: Helm
•   Lecture + Lab: Deploy Existing Packages via Helm

Extending Kubernetes
•   Lecture: Custom Resource Definitions
•   Lecture + Lab: Introduction to CRDs

Troubleshooting
•   Lecture + Lab: Troubleshooting
CKAD
•   Lecture: Tips to Pass your CKAD Exam!