Who Should Attend

• Application Developers and Team Leaders who plan to work with Kubernetes at any level or tier of involvement

• Any company or individual who wants to achieve CKAD Certification

• Any Developer/Leader expanding their Kubernetes Learning

• Any company or individual who wants to advance their knowledge of deploying microservices

What You’ll Learn

• Initialize and manage a Kubernetes cluster using automation tools such as Ansible

• Build, configure, and deploy containerized applications using Kubernetes primitives

• Define, create, and modify Kubernetes resource manifests efficiently with YAML

• Implement resource requests, limits, and quotas for effective cluster resource management

• Configure health probes, security contexts, and observability for application reliability

• Manage access control using Contexts, ServiceAccounts, and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

• Create and consume ConfigMaps and Secrets for secure and dynamic application configuration

• Configure persistent and ephemeral storage using PersistentVolumes, Claims, and CSI drivers

• Deploy, scale, and update workloads using Deployments, ReplicaSets, DaemonSets, and Jobs

• Design multi-container Pods with init containers and sidecars for advanced application patterns

• Define and apply NetworkPolicies to control traffic flow between Pods and Namespaces

• Expose applications using Services (ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer) and Ingress controllers

• Template and manage deployments using Helm and Kustomize

• Extend Kubernetes functionality with Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs)

• Troubleshoot application and cluster issues using kubectl tools and debugging strategies

• Prepare for and confidently pass the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam

Prerequisites

• Kubernetes Fundementals

• Linux for Absolute Beginners

• Any other Formal Linux Training

Welcome to Alta3 Research Labs!

• ?? Exploring Your Lab Environment
• ?? Meet VIRGIL: Your AI Lab Coach
• ?? Register for Polls

Required Tools

• ?? Vim: A Modal Text Editor
• ?? Efficient CLI Usage with Tmux

Initialize Kubernetes

• ?? Kubernetes the Alta3 Way
• ?? Deploy Kubernetes using Ansible

Containers

• ?? Container Essentials
• ?? Creating a Docker Image

Pod Basics

• ?? Manifests for Pods
• ?? Create and Configure Basic Pods
• ?? CKAD Practice - Pod Basics

Resource Management

• ?? Limits, Requests, and Namespace ResourceQuotas
• ?? Defining Resource Requirements, Limits and Quotas
• ?? CKAD Practice - Resource Requirements

Container Health, Security, and Observability

• ?? Readiness and Liveness Probes
• ?? Implement Probes and Health Checks
• ?? CKAD Practice - Adding Probes

RBAC

• ?? Contexts
• ?? Cluster Access with Kubernetes Context
• ?? Role Based Access Control
• ?? Service Accounts
• ?? CKAD Practice - ServiceAccounts

Ephemeral Storage

• ?? ConfigMaps and Volume Mounting
• ?? Persistent Configuration with ConfigMaps
• ?? Secrets
• ?? Create and Consume Secrets
• ?? CKAD Practice - Secrets

Persistent Storage

• ?? Persistent Volumes, Claims, and StorageClasses
• ?? Using PersistentVolumeClaims for Storage
• ?? Persistent Volumes with CSI
• ?? CSI Storage Solution: NFS
• ?? CKAD Practice - Storage

Deployments

• ?? ReplicaSets
• ?? DaemonSets
• ?? Deployments - Purpose and Advantages
• ?? Create and Configure a Deployment
• ?? CKAD Practice - Deployments
• ?? Deployments Rollout
• ?? Performing Rolling Updates and Rollbacks
• ?? CKAD Practice - Rollbacks
• ?? Blue/Green and Canary Deployment Strategies
• ?? Advanced Deployment Strategies
• ?? Deployments - Horizontal Scaling
• ?? Mastery Challenge - Horizontal Pod Autoscaler

Multi-Container Pod Design

• ?? Multi-Container Pods
• ?? Configuring a Fluentd Logging Sidecar
• ?? Init Containers
• ?? Using Init Container for Pod Initialization
• ?? CKAD Practice - Multi-Container Pods

Jobs and CronJobs

• ?? Jobs and CronJobs
• ?? Running and Executing a Job
• ?? Scheduling a CronJob
• ?? CKAD Practice - Jobs and CronJobs

NetworkPolicy

• ?? NetworkPolicy
• ?? Network Policy Basics
• ?? Namespace Network Policy
• ?? CKAD Practice - Network Policies

Services and Ingress

• ?? Networking with Services
• ?? Expose Applications via Services
• ?? Networking Plugins
• ?? Ingress Controllers
• ?? Expose Applications via Ingress Controllers
• ?? CKAD Practice - Services

DNS

• ?? Hostnames and FQDNs
• ?? Utilizing FQDNs

Helm and Kustomize

• ?? Helm
• ?? Making Charts and Templates with Helm
• ?? Deploy Existing Packages via Helm
• ?? Using Kustomize
• ?? CKAD Practice - Helm

Extending Kubernetes

• ?? Custom Resource Definitions
• ?? Introduction to CRDs

Troubleshooting

• ?? Troubleshooting

CKAD

• ?? Tips to Pass your CKAD Exam!

Continuing Education

• ?? Continuing Education
• ?? Curriculum Path: ContainerOrchestration