Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Course number: CGICKA40
Kubernetes is a Cloud Orchestration Platform providing reliability, replication, and stability while maximizing resource utilization for applications and services. By the conclusion of this training, students will have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to design, implement, and maintain a production-grade Kubernetes cluster. The course prioritizes covering all objectives and concepts necessary for passing the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam. Students will be provided with the components necessary to assemble their own high availability Kubernetes environment, and to configure, expand, and control it to meet the demands made of cluster administrators.
Students will learn:
- Cluster architecture, installation, and configuration
- Rolling out and rolling back applications in production
- Â Scaling clusters and applications to best use
- How to create robust, self-healing deployments
- Networking configuration on cluster nodes, services, and CoreDNS
- Persistent and intelligent storage for applications
- Troubleshooting cluster, application, and user errors
- Vendor-agnostic cloud provider-based Kubernetes
Prerequisites
- This course is intended for students who have the basic knowledge of the core components of Kubernetes, such as Pods and Deployments.
Target Audience
- Professionals who need to maintain or set up a Kubernetes cluster
- Container Orchestration Engineers
- DevOps Professionals
Certification
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Exam
Certified Kubernetes Administrator Exam
Accreditation
Post course completion, students can appear for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam.
Course Content
Each student will be given an environment that allows them to build a Kubernetes cluster from scratch. After a detailed discussion on key architectural components and primitives, students will install and compare two production grade Kubernetes clusters.
After successfully instantiating their own Kubernetes Cluster, students will be guided through foundational concepts of deploying and managing applications in a production environment.
After establishing a solid Kubernetes command line foundation, students will be led through discussion and hands-on labs which focus on effectively creating applications that are easy to configure, simple to manage, quick to scale, and able to heal themselves.
Thoroughly understanding the underlying physical and network infrastructure of a Kubernetes cluster is an essential skill for a Certified Kubernetes Administrator. After an in-depth discussion of the Kubernetes Networking Model, students explore the networking of their cluster’s Control Plane, Workers, Pods, and Services.
Certified Kubernetes Administrators are often in charge of designing and implementing the storage architecture for their clusters. After discussing many common cluster storage solutions and how to best use each, students practice incorporating stateful storage into their applications.
A Certified Kubernetes Administrator is expected to be an effective troubleshooter for their cluster. The lecture covers a variety of ways to evaluate and optimize available log information for efficient troubleshooting, and the labs have students practice diagnosing and resolving several typical issues within their Kubernetes Cluster.
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