Workshop CKA preparation

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Welcome to this hands-on workshop where you’ll prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification. This workshop is organized into the following sections, which you can access directly by clicking on the corresponding card. If you want to get the most out of this preparation, follow the sections in order, starting with the presentation of the Kubernetes certifications.

Certifications

Get an overview of the existing Kubernetes certifications and what you need to learn for the CKA.

Create a cluster

Build a 3-node kubeadm cluster from scratch.

Workloads

Create and manage Pods, Deployments, and other workload resources.

Scheduling Pods

Learn Pod placement strategies using labels, taints, affinities and more.

Networking

Understand Pod to Pod communication, Service discovery, Ingress resources.

Storage

Understand StorageClass, PV and PVCs stateful applications.

Security

Create Network Policies and RBAC rules.

Configuration

Tools to manage complex applciations.

Troubleshooting

Troubleshoot clusters components, nodes, network and applications.

Operations

Perform cluster upgrade and backup/restore of etcd.

Challenges

Break your cluster and try to fix it.