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Application Scheduling and Lifecycle Management

This chapter describes how to use Kubernetes deployments to deploy pods, scale pods, perform rolling updates and rollbacks, carry out resource management, and use ConfigMaps to configure pods using kubectl commands and YAML definitions. This chapter covers 15% of the CKA exam content.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • The basics of Kubernetes workloads
  • Deploying and managing applications
  • Scaling applications
  • Performing rolling updates and rollbacks
  • Resource management
  • Workload scheduling
  • Configuring applications

Technical requirements

To get started, we need to make sure your local machine meets the following technical requirements:

  • A compatible Linux ...

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