Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Real World

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) – Real World, available at $44.99, has an average rating of 4.28, with 158 lectures, based on 129 reviews, and has 1914 subscribers.

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Summary

Title: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) – Real World

Price: $44.99

Average Rating: 4.28

Number of Lectures: 158

Number of Published Lectures: 158

Number of Curriculum Items: 158

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 158

Original Price: $69.99

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

How to use Kubernetes in the real-world

Build hands-on Kubernetes skills through practical examples

How to implement Kubernetes in production

Preparation for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam

Who Should Attend

Candidates for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam

Target Audiences

Candidates for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam

Tackling the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam can be a daunting challenge, especially with its rigorous practical approach. To succeed, you need a course that not only equips you with essential hands-on experience but also immerses you in real-world scenarios to ensure your success in the exam.

Our unique CKA training course stands out from the rest. It goes beyond mere exam preparation. It provides hands-on training and real-world approaches to implementing solutions. This approach ensures that you gain not just the knowledge to pass the CKA exam but also the confidence and understanding required to deploy Kubernetes resources effectively with components like GitOps and tools like ArgoCD.

Our comprehensive course covers everything you need to know to pass the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and build a robust, practical skill set for real-world applications. The course includes the following topics:

1. Introduction and Comparisons

2. Introduction to the real-world application of Kubernetes.

3. Comparison of CKA with CKAD, KCNA, and CKS certifications.

4. Kubernetes Setup and Configuration

5. Home lab setup options for different budgets.

6. Team configuration and roles.

7. Tool and system setup for Kubernetes.

8. Kubernetes versioning and DNS.

9. Cluster and Deployment Management

10. Using CI/CD for cluster deployments, including GitHub Actions.

11. Implementing GitOps for resource deployments with tools like Flux and ArgoCD.

12. Kubernetes cluster operations using Kubeadm in different environments (on-prem, Azure, AWS).

13. Core Kubernetes Components

14. Detailed breakdown of the Control Plane and Worker Node components (API Server, Scheduler, Etcd, etc.).

15. Container runtimes (CRI-O, Containerd).

16. Resource and Application Management

17. Understanding and managing Kubernetes resources: Pods, Deployments, DaemonSets, StatefulSets, etc.

18. Implementing Kubernetes Operators and Controllers.

19. Application rollouts and rollbacks (Canary, Blue/Green Deployments).

20. Networking and Services

21. Kubernetes networking concepts: IP addressing, CNI, Services, Ingress.

22. Detailed exploration of Service types: ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer.

23. Network Policies and TLS with cert-manager.

24. Storage Management

25. Container Storage Interface (CSI) and Kubernetes volumes.

26. Persistent volumes and claims, Storage Classes.

27. Database integration in Kubernetes (e.g., RDS, MySQL).

28. Security and Authorization

29. Kubernetes security overview.

30. Implementing Authentication and Authorization (RBAC, OIDC).

31. Secrets management and policy enforcement.

32. Logging and Monitoring

33. Various logging options for clusters, pods, and containers.

34. Monitoring and observability tools (Kubernetes Dashboard, Grafana, Prometheus).

35. Techniques for scaling clusters and pods (Horizontal and Vertical Pod Autoscaler).

36. Managing resource constraints (limits, requests, quotas).

37. Kubernetes version upgrades and backups.

38. Scaling and Performance

39. Techniques for scaling clusters and pods (Horizontal and Vertical Pod Autoscaler).

40. Managing resource constraints (limits, requests, quotas).

41. Kubernetes version upgrades and backups.

42. Troubleshooting and Problem Solving

43. Troubleshooting techniques for pod failures, control planes, worker nodes, and cluster networks.

44. Strategies for diagnosing issues in both on-prem and cloud environments.

45. Advanced Concepts and Tools

46. eBPF introduction.

47. Advanced deployment strategies and tools (Kustomize, Helm).

48. Node affinity, taints, tolerations, and static pods.

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YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Michael Levan is a seasoned engineer and consultant in the Platform Engineering and Kubernetes space who spends his time working with startups and enterprises around the globe on Kubernetes consulting, training, and content creation. He is a trainer, 3x published author, podcast host, international public speaker, CNCF Ambassador, and was part of the Kubernetes v1.28 Release Team.

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Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Cluster Architecture, Configuration, and Installation

Lecture 1: Course Download

Lecture 2: Intro

Lecture 3: CKA vs CKAD

Lecture 4: CKA vs KCNA

Lecture 5: CKA vs CKS

Lecture 6: Kubectl configuration (Kubeconfig)

Lecture 7: Control Plane and Worker Node breakdown

Lecture 8: API Server

Lecture 9: Scheduler

Lecture 10: Etcd

Lecture 11: Controller Manager

Lecture 12: Kubelet

Lecture 13: Kube-proxy

Lecture 14: Container Runtimes

Lecture 15: CRI-O container runtime

Lecture 16: Containerd runtime

Lecture 17: How Kubernetes versioning works

Lecture 18: Kubernetes DNS

Lecture 19: Kubeadm intro

Lecture 20: Kubeadm config on-prem

Lecture 21: Intro to eBPF

Lecture 22: Kubeadm config in Azure

Lecture 23: Kubeadm config on AWS

Lecture 24: Managed Kubernetes Services

Lecture 25: Pods

Lecture 26: Deployment Resource

Lecture 27: DaemonSet

Lecture 28: StatefulSet

Lecture 29: Custom Resource Definitions

Lecture 30: Controllers

Lecture 31: Operators

Lecture 32: Backing up before upgrading

Lecture 33: Upgrading with Kubeadm

Lecture 34: Authentication and Authorization (RBAC)

Lecture 35: RBAC Configuration

Lecture 36: Deployment Creation With Service Account

Lecture 37: RBAC Verb List

Lecture 38: OIDC

Lecture 39: Kubectl Cheat Sheet

Lecture 40: Adding more worker nodes

Chapter 2: Workloads and Scheduling

Lecture 1: Intro

Lecture 2: Core API Group vs Named API Group

Lecture 3: Imperative vs Declarative

Lecture 4: Namespaces

Lecture 5: Namespaces != Segregation and isolation

Lecture 6: Canary Deployments

Lecture 7: Blue/Green Deployments

Lecture 8: Setting up Rolling Updates

Lecture 9: Setting Up Canary Deployments

Lecture 10: Setting up Blue/Green Deployments

Lecture 11: Setting Up Rollbacks

Lecture 12: ConfigMaps

Lecture 13: Implementing ConfigMaps

Lecture 14: Secrets

Lecture 15: Implementing Secrets

Lecture 16: Why Kubernetes Secrets are bad

Lecture 17: Implementing third-party Secrets solution

Lecture 18: Sidecar containers

Lecture 19: Implementing a sidecar

Lecture 20: Scaling Pods

Lecture 21: Horizontal Pod Autoscaler

Lecture 22: Vertical Pod Autoscaler

Lecture 23: How self-healing works with Controllers

Lecture 24: Constraints with limits, requests, and quotas

Lecture 25: Pod Requests and Limits

Lecture 26: Requests

Lecture 27: ResourceQuotas

Lecture 28: What happens when a worker node doesnt have enough resources?

Lecture 29: Kustomize for templating

Lecture 30: Using Kustomize

Lecture 31: Helm

Lecture 32: Using Helm

Lecture 33: Labels

Lecture 34: Selectors

Lecture 35: Node affinity

Lecture 36: Manual scheduling

Lecture 37: Taints and Tolerations

Lecture 38: Static Pods (theory and hands-on)

Lecture 39: Using SA for Pod deployments

Chapter 3: Services and Networking

Lecture 1: IP addressing theory for Pods

Lecture 2: Container Network Interface (CNI)

Lecture 3: Using cloud-centric CNIs

Lecture 4: Using a beginner CNI (Weave and Flannel)

Lecture 5: Using Cilium

Lecture 6: Using Calico

Lecture 7: Whats a Service

Lecture 8: Services

Lecture 9: LoadBalancer vs ClusterIP vs NodePort

Lecture 10: ClusterIP

Lecture 11: NodePort

Lecture 12: LoadBalancer

Lecture 13: Headless services

Lecture 14: Using cloud networks in AWS and Azure

Lecture 15: Using cloud networks in Azure

Lecture 16: Using on-prem networks

Lecture 17: What is Ingress?

Lecture 18: Using Nginx Ingress

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