3-Day Bootcamp on Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) in LA

This course teaches Kubernetes Administration and prepares you to take the CNCF certification examination for Certified Kubernetes Administrator. You will learn Kubernetes fundamentals and administration ranging from Architectures, Deployment, Storage, Networking, Security, Monitoring, Logging, Cluster Maintenance and Troubleshooting. 

This course is taught by a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA). This course is a combination of Concepts and hand-on workshop.

At the end of the training course, attendees will know how to manage Kubernetes in a Production environment.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• Security Architects
• Application Architects
• Systems Administrators
• DevOps
• Systems Engineers
• System Integrators
• Software Architects

COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the end of the training, participants will be able to:

• Understand CNCF Landscape
• Understand Kubernetes Core Objects
• Deploy Kubernetes ready for production use 
• Select the right Kubernetes networking CNI 
• Select the right storage driver
• Monitor Kubernetes using Prometheus
• Manage Logging with Fluentd
• Troubleshoot Kubernetes

PREREQUISITES

The following will be an advantage:

• Previous experience with Docker/Kubernetes Concepts
• Previous knowledge of cloud computing concepts
• Basic/Advanced knowledge of Linux is recommended

3-Day Curriculum

This is a 3 full-day classroom and Virtual Instructor led course bootcamp designed to prepare you for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification conducted by Linux Foundation.

The curriculum, which follows the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) blueprint is as follows:

1 Domain 1: Scheduling

• Use label selectors to schedule Pods.
• Understand the role of DaemonSets.
• Understand how resource limits can affect Pod scheduling.
• Understand how to run multiple schedulers and how to configure Pods to use them.
• Manually schedule a pod without a scheduler.
• Display scheduler events.
• Know how to configure the Kubernetes scheduler.

2 Domain 2: Logging/Monitoring

• Understand how to monitor all cluster components
• Understand how to monitor applications.
• Manage cluster component logs.
• Manage application logs.

3 Domain 3: Application Lifecycle Management

• Understand Deployments and how to perform rolling updates and rollbacks.
• Know various ways to configure applications.
• Know how to scale applications.
• Understand the primitives necessary to create a self-healing application.

4 Domain 4: Cluster Maintenance

• Understand Kubernetes cluster upgrade process.
• Facilitate operating system upgrades.
• Implement backup and restore methodologies.

5 Domain 5: Security

• Know how to configure authentication and authorization.
• Understand Kubernetes security primitives.
• Know to configure network policies.
• Create and manage TLS certificates for cluster components.
• Work with images securely.
• Define security contexts.
• Secure persistent key value store.

6 Domain 6: Storage

• Understand persistent volumes and know how to create them.
• Understand access modes for volumes.
• Understand persistent volume claims primitive.
• Understand Kubernetes storage objects.
• Know how to configure applications with persistent storage.

7 Domain 7: Troubleshooting

• Troubleshoot application failure.
• Troubleshoot control plane failure.
• Troubleshoot worker node failure.
• Troubleshoot networking.

8 Domain 8: Core Concepts

• Understand the Kubernetes API primitives.
• Understand the Kubernetes cluster architecture.
• Understand Services and other network primitives.

9 Domain 9: Networking

• Understand the networking configuration on the cluster nodes.
• Understand Pod networking concepts.
• Understand service networking.
• Deploy and configure network load balancer.
• Know how to use Ingress rules.
• Know how to configure and use the cluster DNS.
• Understand CNI.

10 Domain 10: Installation, Configuration and Validation

• Design a Kubernetes cluster.
• Install Kubernetes masters and nodes.
• Configure secure cluster communications.
• Configure a Highly-Available Kubernetes cluster.
• Know where to get the Kubernetes release binaries.
• Provision underlying infrastructure to deploy a Kubernetes cluster.
• Choose a network solution.
• Choose your Kubernetes infrastructure configuration.
• Run end-to-end tests on your cluster.
• Analyse end-to-end tests results.
• Run Node end-to-end tests.