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Kubernetes Administration
Install, run and troubleshoot clusters, on the CKA curriculum
A command-line classroom course in running Kubernetes. It covers the five domains of the Certified Kubernetes Administrator curriculum: troubleshooting, cluster architecture and installation, services and networking, workloads and scheduling, and storage. The CKA exam is performance-based, so every class is a lab.
11Modules
AdvancedLevel
3 monthsDuration
COURSE THUMBNAIL
What you will be able to do
Install and upgrade a Kubernetes cluster with kubeadm
Deploy, configure, scale and schedule workloads
Configure Services, Ingress, the Gateway API and Network Policies
Provision persistent storage for applications
Troubleshoot cluster, node and application failures from the command line
Attempt the CKA exam having practised every domain of its curriculum
Course outline
01
Kubernetes architecture and installing a cluster with kubeadm
02
Access control with RBAC
03
Workloads: Deployments, rolling updates and rollbacks
04
ConfigMaps, Secrets and autoscaling
05
Pod scheduling and admission
06
Services, CoreDNS and Pod connectivity
07
Ingress, the Gateway API and Network Policies
08
Storage: StorageClasses, PersistentVolumes and claims
09
Helm, Kustomize and cluster lifecycle management
10
Troubleshooting clusters, nodes, workloads and networking
11
Timed practice tasks
Tools you will use
KuberneteskubectlkubeadmHelmKustomizecontainerdCoreDNS
What you need
Comfortable at the Linux command line
Working knowledge of containers (Docker and Containers or equivalent)