Clouds

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

$2895

5 days

2025-03-24

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Essential Skills Gained

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Deploy applications to a Kubernetes cluster

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Use Kubernetes primitives to implement common deployment strategies (e.g. blue/green or canary)

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Define, build and modify container images

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Implement probes and health checks

Format

5 day course with lecture and hands-on labs.

Audience

- Any company or individual who wants to advance their knowledge of the cloud environment

- Application Developers

- Operations Developers

- IT Directors/Managers

Description

This class prepares students for the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam. Kubernetes is a Cloud Orchestration Platform providing reliability, replication, and stability while maximizing resource utilization for applications and services. By the conclusion of this hands-on training you will go back to work with all necessary commands and practical skills to empower your team to succeed, as well as gain knowledge of important concepts like Kubernetes architecture and container orchestration. We prioritize covering all objectives and concepts necessary for passing the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam. You will command and configure a high availability Kubernetes environment (and later, build your own!) capable of demonstrating all “K8s'' features discussed and demonstrated in this course. Your week of intensive, hands-on training will conclude with a mock CKAD exam that matches the real thing.

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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

From Containers to Kubernetes

  • 💬 Kubernetes Architecture

  • 💬 Pods and the Control Plane

  • 💻 Define, build, and modify container images

  • 🚀💬 Kubernetes the Alta3 Way

  • 💻 Deploy Kubernetes using Ansible

Pod Basics

  • 💬 YAML

  • 💬 Manifests for Pods

  • 💻 Create and Configure Basic Pods

  • 💬 API Versioning and Deprecations

Cluster Basics

  • 💬 Namespaces and Fundamental Kubectl Commands

  • 💻 Creating and Configuring Namespaces

  • 💬 Kubectl get and sorting

  • 💻 Listing Resources with kubectl get

Container Health, Security, and Observability

  • 💬 Kubectl port-forward

  • 💻 Kubectl port-forward

  • 💬 Kubectl exec and cp

  • 💻 Performing Commands inside a Pod

  • 💬 Readiness and Liveness Probes

  • 💻 Implement Probes and Health Checks

  • 💬 Pod Security Contexts

  • 💻 Applying Security Contexts

Resource Management

  • 💬 Limits, Requests, and Namespace ResourceQuotas

  • 💻 Defining Resource Requirements, Limits and Quotas

  • 💻 Kubectl Top and Application Monitoring

  • 🚀💬 Admission Controller

  • 🚀 Create a LimitRange AdmissionController

RBAC

  • 💬 Role Based Access Control

  • 💻 Service Accounts

  • 💬 Contexts

  • 💻 Cluster Access with Kubernetes Context

Logging

  • 💬 Utilize Container Logs

  • 💻 Kubectl Log Command

  • 🚀💬 FluentD and RsysLog

Ephemeral Storage

  • 💬 ConfigMaps and Volume Mounting

  • 💻 Persistent Configuration with ConfigMaps

  • 💬 Secrets

  • 💻 Create and Consume Secrets

Persistent Storage

  • 💬 Persistent Volumes, Claims, and StorageClasses

  • 💻 Using PersistentVolumeClaims for Storage

  • 💬 Persistent Volumes with CSI

  • 🚀 CSI Storage Solution: NFS

Multi-Container Pod Design

  • 💬 Multi-Container Pods

  • 💻 Using EmptyDir Volumes with Sidecars

  • 🚀 Configuring a Fluentd Logging Sidecar

  • 🚀💬 Init Containers

  • 🚀 Using Init Container for Pod Initialization

Deployments

  • 💬 Labels

  • 💻 Labels and Selectors

  • 💬 Annotations

  • 💻 Insert an Annotation

  • 💬 ReplicaSets

  • 💻 Create and Configure a ReplicaSet

  • 💬 DaemonSets

  • 💻 Create and Configure a DaemonSet

  • 💬 Deployments - Purpose and Advantages

  • 💻 Create and Configure a Deployment

  • 💬 Deployments Rollout

  • 💻 Performing Rolling Updates and Rollbacks

  • 💬 Blue/Green and Canary Deployment Strategies

  • 💻 Advanced Deployment Strategies

  • 💬 Deployments - Horizontal Scaling

  • 🚀 Horizontal Pod Autoscaler

Jobs and CronJobs

  • 💬 Jobs and CronJobs

  • 💻 Running and Executing a Job

  • 💻 Scheduling a CronJob

Affinity and Anti-Affinity

  • 💬 Taints, Tolerations

  • 💻 Tainted Nodes and Tolerations

NetworkPolicy

  • 💬 NetworkPolicy

  • 💻 Network Policy Basics

  • 💻 Namespace Network Policy

Services and Ingress

  • 💬 Networking with Services

  • 💻 Expose Applications via Services

  • 🚀💬 Networking Plugins

  • 💬 Ingress Controllers

  • 💻 Expose Applications via Ingress Controllers

DNS

  • 🚀💬 Hostnames and FQDNs

  • 🚀 Utilizing FQDNs

Helm and Kustomize

  • 💬 Helm

  • 💻 Making Charts and Templates with Helm

  • 💻 Deploy Existing Packages via Helm

  • 💻 Using Kustomize

Extending Kubernetes

  • 💬 Custom Resource Definitions

  • 💻 Introduction to CRDs

Troubleshooting

  • 💻 Troubleshooting

CKAD

  • 💬 Tips to Pass your CKAD Exam!

Continuing Education

  • 💻 Continuing Education

  • 💬 Curriculum Path: ContainerOrchestration

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