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Kubernetes Administration and CKA Certification
This Kubernetes Administration training course teaches attendees how to build, administer, and secure a Kubernetes cluster and prepares them for the Certified Kubernetes Administration (CKA) exam. In...
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$2,995 USD
Course Code
WA3339
Duration
5 days
Available Formats
Classroom
This Kubernetes Administration training course teaches attendees how to build, administer, and secure a Kubernetes cluster and prepares them for the Certified Kubernetes Administration (CKA) exam. In addition to the standard course for this offering, Web Age also includes certification-focused study aids to assist in preparing for and passing the exam.
Skills Gained
- Create a Kubernetes cluster, including installing the necessary components, configuring the cluster, and adding nodes
- Deploy applications to Kubernetes by creating pods, services, and storage
- Manage Kubernetes resources with scaling, autoscaling, and updating applications
- Secure Kubernetes by configuring authentication, authorization, and admission control.
- Troubleshoot Kubernetes by monitoring logs, diagnosing application failures, and troubleshooting network access
- Receive Certification Value Adds, including:
- Double Shot Exam Voucher
- Exam Prep with Killer.sh
- 90-day Practice Sandbox
- Interactive bi-weekly Q&A
- Private Community Slack Channel
- Monthly Newsletter on K8s
Prerequisites
Students should understand Linux administration skills, be comfortable using the command line, and be able to edit files using a command-line text editor. In addition, they should have experience with containers, and networking.
Course Details
Outline
Kubernetes Concepts
- Kubernetes Basics
- Container Orchestration
- Kubernetes Architecture
- Kubernetes Concepts
- Cluster and Namespace
- Control Plane
- Nodes
- Pods
- Storage
- Services
- Objects
- Object Specifications
- Labels & Selectors
- Tools (kubeadm, kubectl)
- Essential K8S commands
- Essential Linux commands
Installation and Configuration
- Installing kubeadm
- Obtaining Nodes
- Installing Kubelet
- Installing kubectl
- Initializing the control plane
- Setup kubeconfig file
- Joining nodes to the cluster
- Verifying the cluster
Cluster Administration
- Cluster Components
- Installation and Setup
- Security
- Resource management
- Scheduling
- Monitoring
- Logging
- Scaling
- Autoscaling
- High Availability
- Upgrading the cluster version
- Backup and restore the etcd store
Workloads
- Application Images
- Deploying Pods
- Deploying Workloads
- Self-healing applications
- Deployments
- Deployment States
- Replica Sets
- Daemon Sets
- Scaling a workload
- Autoscaling a workload
- Deleting workloads
- Updating a workload image
- Update strategies
- Rolling updates
- Rolling back an update
Scheduling
- Pod Scheduling
- Resource usage basics
- Setting Resource Limits
- Resource Requests
- Resource Quotas
- Optimizing Resource Usage
- Node Affinity
- Pod Affinity
- Taints
- Tolerations
Services
- Available Service Types
- ClusterIP Service
- NodePort Service
- LoadBalancer Service
- Creating services
- Accessing workloads through services
Networking
- K8s Networking Overview
- Ingress Controller
- Ingress Resources
- Resource Discovery
- CoreDNS
- Configuring CoreDNS
- Port forwarding
Storage
- Storage Classes
- EmptyDir
- HostPath
- Persistent volumes
- Persistent volume claims
- NFS share volumes
- Cloud storage volumes
- Access Modes
- Reclaim Policies
- Configuring persistent storage for workloads
- Secrets
- Config Maps
Security
- Securing the API
- Securing ETCD
- Securing Worker nodes
- Securing images
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Admission Controller
- Securing cluster access
- Kubectl config
- RBAC Role Based Access Control
- Pod policies
- Network Policies
Troubleshooting
- Logs and log access
- Standard output and error logs
- Workload monitoring
- Application failure
- Network access troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting cluster components
