Resources to help prepare for the CKAD Exam and Kubernetes App Development in General.
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Covers full Environment Setup and Sample Exams
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Docker and Kubernetes Complete Guide
Covers production level application build and deployment to AWS. It's a little outdated but has some good practical references.
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Actual Test Scenarios and Sandbox
- 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
- 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
- Understand API deprecations
- Implement probes and health checks
- Use built-in CLI tools to monitor Kubernetes applications
- Utilize container logs
- Debugging in Kubernetes
- 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.)
- Demonstrate basic understanding of NetworkPolicies
- Provide and troubleshoot access to applications via services
- Use Ingress rules to expose applications
- Online Exam Delivery
- Exam 2 hours
- Certification Valid 2 Years
- 12 Month Exam Eligibility
- Includes One Retake
- Includes Exam Simulator on killer.sh
- Register @ https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification/certified-kubernetes-application-developer-ckad/