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Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), 2nd Ed
on-demand course

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), 2nd Ed

with Sander van Vugt
February 2021
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
10h 54m
English
Pearson
Closed Captioning available in English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)

Overview

11 Hours of Video Instruction

An updated edition of this video title is available. Please go to Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), 3rd Edition.

Get intensive, hands-on CKA training with Sander van Vugt in this 2 day/10-hour live training course Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Crash Course.

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Complete Video Course provides 11 hours of video instruction for IT professionals—including IT Administrators, DevOps Engineers, Software Developers, IT Architects, and Hybrid Cloud Administrators—preparing to take the CKA exam, which requires an in-depth knowledge of how to develop, create, manage, store, and troubleshoot Kubernetes applications.

Overview

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Complete Video Course provides 11 hours of video instruction for IT professionals—including IT Administrators, DevOps Engineers, Software Developers, IT Architects, and Hybrid Cloud Administrators—preparing to take the CKA exam, which requires an in-depth knowledge of how to develop, create, manage, store, and troubleshoot Kubernetes applications.

The course includes labs, demonstrations, and lightboard explanations by Sander van Vugt, who has presented on dozens of Linux and Kubernetes courses. He introduces containers and Kubernetes, and moves through the process of creation, managing, and storing applications. He provides labs on setting up and managing clusters, and you'll also learn how to troubleshoot Kubernetes applications and cluster nodes. Sander shows how to manage deployments, services, ingress, setting up storage, and walks through key troubleshooting scenarios. He ends the course with a sample exam for the user to practice before taking the real thing.

Topics include:

Module 1: Getting Started
Module 2: Managing Pods and Deployments
Module 3: Managing Kubernetes Clusters
Module 4: Sample Exam

About the Instructor

Sander van Vugt has been teaching Linux classes since 1995 and has written more than 60 books about different Linux-related topics, including the best-selling RHCSA-RHCE 7 Cert Guide. Sander is also the author of more than 25 video courses, including Kubernetes Fundamentals. He teaches courses for customers around the world, and is also a regular speaker on major conferences related to open source software. Sander is also the founder of the Living Open Source Foundation, a non-profit organization that teaches open source to talent in different African countries.

Skill Level
  • Beginner/Intermediate
Learn How To
  • Best prepare to pass the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKA) Exam
  • Create a Kubernetes cluster
  • Manage Pods and Deployments
  • Manage Pod Storage and Networking
  • Work with Ingress
  • Work with the API
  • Add custom resources
  • Manage scheduler settings
  • Configure security
  • Manage Kubernetes Networking
  • Manage network policies
  • Manage ServiceAccount
  • Manage Cluster Nodes
  • Perform a version update on a cluster
  • Troubleshoot Kubernetes Clusters and Applications
  • Prepare for the CKA test
Who Should Take This Course

IT professionals that want to manage container deployment in their containerized devops environment using Kubernetes. Specifically:
  • IT Administrators
  • DevOps Engineers
  • Software Developers
  • IT Architects
  • Hybrid Cloud Administrators
Course Requirements

To work on the lab assignments in this course, participants three virtual machines using CentOS.

Lesson Descriptions

Module 1, “Getting Started,” provides a quick overview of Kubernetes, how to use it, and then how to set up an on premise Kubernetes cluster.

Module 2, “Managing Pods and Deployments,” digs into the essentials of working with Kubernetes, including how to work with the API and related utilities to configure Kubernetes. Managing pods, deployments, and storage are all covered in Module 2, as well as how to expose applications that are offered by Pods by using service objects.

Module 3, “Managing Kubernetes Clusters,” covers how to manage Kubernetes clusters. It starts with a short lesson about API specifications and creating custom API objects. Then, it discusses scheduling, and how this can be used to manage which nodes will service Pods. Security settings and working with all the different aspects of security in the cluster are covered. Networking, and how the CNI and network plugins are used to implement the cluster is also covered. Managing nodes and clusters, as well as troubleshooting in a Kubernetes environment are discussed. The module ends with performing advanced cluster management tasks, such as configuring HA and performing cluster updates.

Module 4, “Sample Exam,” contains a sample exam, as well as some exam tips.

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780137438419