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CKAD · 3 days (21 h)
CKAD Exam Preparation — Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
The certification for developers who ship: three days to design, configure, and troubleshoot applications on Kubernetes.
Objectives
- Pass the CKAD exam with time management under control
- Design clean manifests: probes, resources, security
- Configure an application with ConfigMaps, Secrets, and volumes
- Quickly diagnose a deployment that won't start
Audience
Developers and product-team engineers who deliver their applications on Kubernetes.
Prerequisites
- Daily practice of a programming language
- Know the basics of containers and images
- Some Kubernetes notions (a pod, a service) are a plus
Program
Application design and build
- Images, Jobs, and CronJobs
- Multi-container pods: init and sidecar
- Ephemeral and persistent volumes
Deployment
- Deployments, rollout strategies, rollbacks
- Helm for packaging and deploying
- Blue/green and canary deployments
Observability and maintenance
- Liveness, readiness, and startup probes
- Logs, events, and container debugging
- API deprecations and migrations
Environment, configuration, and security
- ConfigMaps, Secrets, and resource management
- ServiceAccounts and SecurityContexts
- Quotas and LimitRanges
Services, networking, and mock exam
- Services, Ingress, and NetworkPolicies
- Timed simulation and annotated answer review
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