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Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

This intermediate-level Linux Foundation CKAD training covers the objectives in the CKAD exam, which is the one required exam to earn the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification. Use this CKAD exam prep to get certified, and validate your ability to design, build, configure, and expose cloud native applications for Kubernetes.

Updated July 2022

46Skills
224Videos
46h 43mTotal
224 videos

Who This Course Is For

This CKAD training is considered professional-level Linux Foundation training, which means it was designed for systems administrators. This Kubernetes skills course is valuable for new IT professionals with at least a year of experience with orchestration infrastructure and experienced systems administrators looking to validate their Linux Foundation skills.

Course Curriculum

  • Premium skill.Introduction to Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)58m
  • Premium skill.Deploying Kubernetes Clusters for Application Developers55m
  • Premium skill.Managing Kubernetes Clusters on Amazon EKS1h 1m
  • Premium skill.Create a Multi-Architecture Kubernetes Cluster with K3S1h 1m
  • Premium skill.Enable Feature Gates in Kubernetes55m
  • Premium skill.Understanding Kubernetes Primitive Resources1h 5m
  • Premium skill.Building Container Images on Kubernetes Clusters with Shipwright1h 18m
  • Premium skill.Linting Kubernetes Manifest Files55m
  • Premium skill.Configure Kubernetes Linting in CI/CD Pipelines54m
  • Premium skill.Deploying Application Pods onto Kubernetes Clusters57m
  • Premium skill.Configure Kubernetes Applications with ConfigMap Resources57m
  • Premium skill.Securing Applications on Kubernetes with Secrets1h 1m
  • Premium skill.Implement Probes and Health Checks in Applications1h 2m
  • Premium skill.Controlling Kubernetes Pod Placement with Taints1h 7m
  • Premium skill.Use PriorityClass Resources to Prioritize Pod Scheduling56m
  • Premium skill.Initialize Kubernetes Pod State with Init Containers56m
  • Premium skill.Control Resource Consumption with Kubernetes Pods59m
  • Premium skill.Perform Rolling Updates with Kubernetes Deployment Controllers59m
  • Premium skill.Multi-container Design Patterns for Kubernetes Pods1h 4m
  • Premium skill.Deploying Jobs on Kubernetes1h 3m
  • Premium skill.Deploy Scheduled Tasks on Kubernetes with CronJobs58m
  • Premium skill.Using Kubernetes ServiceAccount Resources1h 3m
  • Premium skill.Build Serverless Applications on Kubernetes with Knative Serving59m
  • Premium skill.Monitoring Applications Running in Kubernetes1h 8m
  • Premium skill.Debugging Applications Running on Kubernetes Clusters1h 6m
  • Premium skill.Expose Highly Available Applications with Kubernetes Services1h 9m
  • Premium skill.Apply Network Policy to Kubernetes Applications1h 8m
  • Premium skill.Route Network Traffic in Kubernetes with Ingress Resources49m
  • Premium skill.Expose Kubernetes Applications Externally with DNS1h 3m
  • Premium skill.Secure External Kubernetes Endpoints with TLS1h 8m
  • Premium skill.Enforce Compute Sharing with Kubernetes Namespace Quotas1h 1m
  • Premium skill.Run a Private Container Image Registry on Kubernetes1h 5m
  • Premium skill.Create a Gitops Pipeline for Kubernetes Application Deployment55m
  • Premium skill.Deploy to Kubernetes from GitHub Actions CI/CD1h 2m
  • Premium skill.Advanced Configuration of ArgoCD for GitOps1h 1m
  • Premium skill.Store Application Data in Persistent Volumes1h 3m
  • Premium skill.Running Stateful Applications in Kubernetes with StatefulSets1h 11m
  • Premium skill.Expose Storage Volumes to Kubernetes Applications with Longhorn1h
  • Premium skill.Advanced Usage of Kubernetes Longhorn Storage1h 3m
  • Premium skill.Using Traefik Mesh to Control Kubernetes Pod Networking1h 7m
  • Premium skill.Understanding Service Mesh in Kubernetes with Linkerd1h 1m
  • Premium skill.Using Helm to Deploy Packages to Kubernetes Clusters56m
  • Premium skill.Develop Custom Helm Charts for Kubernetes Deployment58m
  • Premium skill.Publish Kubernetes Helm Charts to Artifact Hub57m
  • Premium skill.Discover and Use Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRD)55m
  • Premium skill.Deploy Kubernetes Clusters with kOps CLI56m

Certification

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

The Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification validates an individual's ability to design, build, and deploy cloud-native applications on Kubernetes. This certification is ideal for developers, DevOps engineers, and cloud archit...

Exam CKADLevel AssociateDifficulty IntermediateCost $445
KubernetesApplication DeploymentPod DesignConfigurationObservabilityServices & Networking
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Take a skills-gap assessment to evaluate your team's readiness for the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer certification before starting this course.

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