Kubernetes CKAD Professional

The training is meant for:

• Developers or DevOps Engineers who are responsible for developing, building, or rolling out applications that need to run on Kubernetes hosting. The entry-level level is from beginning to medium knowledge of Kubernetes.
• For anyone who aims to obtain certification as a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD). This training teaches the theory needed for the CKA Exam..

The starting points of this training are:

• Hands-on learning of Kubernetes in the basics and on bare metal. In accordance with the theory as expected by the Cloud Native Foundation for certification.
• After this training, the participant will be able to make a start with Kubernetes in his/her organization.
• After this training, the participant has the basic knowledge to set up and use Kubernetes on both on-premise and managed hosting.
• Learning the Kubernetes basis, as formulated by the CNCF, from a hands-on approach and based on the Kubernetes architecture (to provide understanding and context).
• This training lays the foundation needed for certification and deepening so that follow-up training can build on this.
• On the basis of this training the participant gets insight into Kubernetes and an overview of the level of application, microservice, and ‘modern application architecture’.
• Based on working and elaborated expert examples the participant can start with Kubernetes expert parts in their own organization after the training or build a solution based on obtained examples.

The fundamentals follow the content as prescribed for the CKAD exams for certification. The training consists of a part theory in presentation form plus performing some 30 to 40 detailed exercises. Topics that are passing by:

• A History IT
• Virtualization: What is a Virtual Machine and what is a Container. And what is the difference between the two?
• The Microservices paradigm
• What is Kubernetes, what is Cloud Native? And why is this development important
• Kubernetes architecture;
• Kubernetes principles
• Kubernetes components
• Kubernetes Resources (deployment, replicaset, pods)
• Basic concepts of Kubernetes: control plane, resources in detail, services, draining nodes, setting limits, tolerations, affinity/anti-affinity, horizontal scaling, deployments, release management & canary releases, startup/liveliness & readiness checks, rollbacks, configsmaps & secrets, lifecycle-hooks & init containers, logging, monitoring, troubleshooting, bootstrapping, DNS-networking, static pods, tls: communicating with apiserver, multi-containers, sidecar containers (adaptor pattern, ambassador pattern), pod-policies, application troubleshooting, service accounts, horizontal pod autoscaling on cpu
• Storage
• Kubernetes use principles: Helmet, Ingress Controller
• Kubernetes security: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

• Minimum dexterity/basic knowledge of Linux command-line (Bash, Linux commands), Private Keys and Public Keys are required to follow the pace of this training.

In this training, the basic knowledge required for the CKAD exam will be taught. The exam itself consists of assignments, which makes the exam a test for skills and speed of action.

When passing the exam is the starting point, a theoretical/comprehensive basis alone is not enough to successfully complete the CKAD exam. For this purpose the Kubernetes CKAD Exam Prep (GKKUBCKAD-E) is recommended.

The following courses are recommended for further study:

• Kubernetes CKAD Exam Prep (GKKUBCKAD-E)
• Kubernetes Developer Advanced (GKKUBCKADA)