CKAD

CNCF Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

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CKAD Curriculum until 2021-09-20

Core Concepts - 13%

• kubernetes API Primitives
• Create and configure basic Pods

Configuration - 18%

• ConfigMaps
• SecurityContexts
• Secrets
• ServiceAccounts

Multi-Container Pods - 10%

• Multi-Container Pod design patterns

Observability - 18%

• LivenessProbes and ReadinessProbes
• Logging
• How to monitor applications in Kubernetes
• Debugging in Kubernetes

Pod Design - 20%

• How to use Labels, Selectors, and Annotations.
• Deployments and how to perform rolling updates.
• How to perform rollbacks
• Jobs and CronJobs.

Services & Networking - 13%

State Persistence - 8%

• Volumes
• Persistent Volumes
• Persistent Volumes Claim