Certified Kubernetes Application Developer This course equips you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to configure and build a high availability Kubernetes environment.

Course details

1: AI LLM Toolkit

• Large Language Model toolkit for AI Solution Assistance
• Hands-on Labs
  • Large Language Model toolkit for AI Solution Assistance

2: From Containers to Kubernetes

• Lecture: Kubernetes Architecture
• Pods and the Control Plane
• Kubernetes the Alta3 Way
• Hands-on Labs
  • Define, build, and modify container images
  • Deploy Kubernetes using Ansible

3: Pod Basics

• YAML
• Manifests for Pods
• API Versioning and Deprecations
• Hands-on Labs
  • Create and Configure Basic Pods

4: Cluster Basics

• Namespaces and Fundamental Kubectl Commands
• Kubectl get and sorting
• Hands-on Labs
  • Creating and Configuring Namespaces
  • Listing Resources with kubectl get

5: Container Health, Security, and Observability

• Kubectl port-forward
• Kubectl exec and cp
• Readiness and Liveness Probes
• Pod Security Contexts
• Hands-on Labs
  • Kubectl port-forward
  • Performing Commands inside a Pod
  • Implement Probes and Health Checks
  • Applying Security Contexts

6: Resource Management

• Limits, Requests, and Namespace ResourceQuotas
• Admission Controller
• Hands-on Labs
  • Defining Resource Requirements, Limits, and Quotas
  • Kubectl Top and Application Monitoring
  • Create a LimitRange AdmissionController

7: RBAC

• Role-Based Access Control
• Contexts
• Hands-on Labs
  • Service Accounts
  • Cluster Access with Kubernetes Context

8: Logging

• Utilize Container Logs
• FluentD and RsysLog
• Hands-on Labs
  • Kubectl Log Command

9: Ephemeral Storage

• ConfigMaps and Volume Mounting
• Secrets
• Hands-on Labs
  • Persistent Configuration with ConfigMaps
  • Create and Consume Secrets

10: Persistent Storage

• Persistent Volumes, Claims, and StorageClasses
• Persistent Volumes with CSI
• Hands-on Labs
  • Using PersistentVolumeClaims for Storage
  • CSI Storage Solution: NFS

11: Multi-Container Pod Design

• Multi-Container Pods
• Init Containers
• Hands-on Labs
  • Configuring a Fluentd Logging Sidecar
  • Using Init Container for Pod Initialization

12: Deployments

• Labels
• Annotations
• ReplicaSets
• DaemonSets
• Deployments - Purpose and Advantages
• Deployments Rollout
• Blue/Green and Canary Deployment Strategies
• Deployments - Horizontal Scaling
• Challenge: Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
• Hands-on Labs
  • Labels and Selectors
  • Insert an Annotation
  • Create and Configure a ReplicaSet
  • Create and Configure a Deployment
  • Performing Rolling Updates and Rollbacks
  • Advanced Deployment Strategies

13: Jobs and CronJobs

• Jobs and CronJobs
• Hands-on Labs
  • Running and Executing a Job
  • Scheduling a CronJob

14: Affinity and Anti-Affinity

• Taints, Tolerations
• Hands-on Labs
  • Tainted Nodes and Tolerations

15: NetworkPolicy

• NetworkPolicy
• Hands-on Labs
  • NetworkPolicy Basics
  • Namespace NetworkPolicy

16: Services and Ingress

• Networking with Services
• Networking Plugins
• Ingress Controllers
• Hands-on Labs
  • Expose Applications via Services
  • Expose Applications via Ingress Controllers

17: DNS

• Hostnames and Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs)
• Hands-on Labs
  • Lecture + Lab: Utilizing FQDNs

18: The Helm Package Manager

• Helm
• Hands-on Labs
  • Deploy Existing Packages via Helm

19: Extending Kubernetes

• Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs)
• Hands-on Labs
  • Introduction to CRDs

20: Troubleshooting

• Lecture + Lab: Troubleshooting

21: CKAD

• Tips to Pass your CKAD Exam