CKA CURRICULUM

·      Storage

o  Implement storage classes and dynamic volume provisioning

o  Configure volume types, access modes and reclaim policies

o  Manage persistent volumes and persistent volume claims

·      Workloads and Scheduling

o  Understand application deployments and how to perform rolling update and rollbacks

o  Use ConfigMaps and Secrets to configure applications

o  Configure workload autoscaling

o  Understand the primitives used to create robust, self-healing, application deployments

o  Configure Pod admission and scheduling (limits, node affinity, etc.)

·      Servicing and Networking

o  Understand connectivity between Pods

o  Define and enforce Network Policies

o  Use ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer service types and endpoints

o  Use the Gateway API to manage Ingress Traffic

o  Know how to use Ingress controllers and Ingress resources

o  Understand and use CoreDNS

·      Troubleshooting

o  Troubleshoot clusters and nodes

o  Troubleshoot cluster components

o  Monitor cluster and application resource usage

o  Manage and evaluate container output streams

o  Troubleshoot services and networking

·      Cluster Architecture, Installation and Configuration

o  Manage role-based access control (RBAC)

o  Prepare underlying infrastructure for installing a Kubernetes cluster

o  Create and manage Kubernetes clusters using kubeadm

o  Manage the lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters

o  Implement and configure a highly-available control plane

o  Use Helm and Kustomize to install cluster components

o  Understand extension interfaces (CNI, CSI, CRI, etc.)

o  Understand CRDs, install and configure operators