Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) prep for exam

Sébastien Goasguen (TriggerMesh)

9:00—17:00 Monday, 4 November—Tuesday, 5 November

Location: M5

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Can you develop and maintain applications using Kubernetes? That’s the question more employers are asking these days. Take the next step in your career by becoming a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer at Velocity. You get a full day of test prep from Sébastien Goasguen, O’Reilly’s top Kubernetes trainer, and the opportunity to take the exam onsite.

What you'll learn, and how you can apply it

Learn the key concepts and skills you need to know to pass the official Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam
Review the core API primitives
Explore pod concepts and API schema
Learn how to configure applications
Review basic security concepts such as service accounts and pod security policies
Understand pod monitoring and logging practices

Who is this presentation for?

You're a developer or system administrator who wants to be recognized as a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer.

Level

Intermediate

Prerequisites:

Watch Kubernetes Fundamentals
Read Kubernetes Up and Running

Hardware and/or installation requirements:

A laptop (Linux recommended) with Minikube and kubectl installed

Registration for this training will close on Monday, 28 October 2019.

This training is an onsite preparation for the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam. You’ll spend one full day reviewing and practicing all of the concepts covered by the official CKAD curriculum. On the second day, you’ll get the opportunity to take the two-hour proctored exam and leave Velocity an official Certified Kubernetes Application Developer.

All certification fees are included in the training fee along with a complimentary six-month subscription to O’Reilly’s learning platform, where we’ve curated a collection of books, videos, and live online training courses that will fully prepare you to master Kubernetes and pass the exam. You’ll get access to the learning platform immediately upon registering for this training package.

This training is not for beginners. In order to pass the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam, you will need to prepare in advance by meeting the prerequisites listed in the section below (or some equivalent).

At the end of the training, you will not only be ready to take and pass the CKAD exam but will have also refined your Kubernetes skills and be ready to build and manage Kubernetes applications. You can choose to take the exam at either 9:00 or 13:30 onsite during the second day of this training. If you don’t pass the exam on your first try, you’ll be given the opportunity to retake the exam at no extra cost on the day and time of your choosing.

Outline:

Day 1: Test preparation

Day one of this hands-on training will be divided into four 90-minute sections. You will be given a set of exercises to practice your Kubernetes skills, refresh and tune your kubectl client skills, and become more proficient in writing manifests quickly.

Kubernetes API overview

Pods, ReplicaSets, and deployments
Services and ingress
Volumes, persistent volumes, and persistent volume claims
StatefulSets

Deep dive into pods

Pod schema
Pod lifecycle
Probes
Resource limits
Multicontainer pods
Use in jobs and CronJobs
init-containers

Security topics

Pod security policies
Pod security context
Network policies
Role-based access controls
Service accounts
Configuration with configmaps and secrets
Imperative and declarative management
Manifest generation

Day 2: Examination

CKAD exam will be administered at 9:00 or 13:30 on 5 November 2019.

About your instructor

Sébastien Goasguen built his first compute cluster while working on his PhD in the late ‘90s when they were still called Beowulf clusters; he’s been working on making computing a utility since then. He’s been focused on containers and container orchestration, creating a Kubernetes startup Skippbox where he created kompose, Cabin, and kubeless. Active in the serverless community, he cofounded TriggerMesh, a serverless management platform that builds on top of Kubernetes and Knative. He can be found hiking the Jura or at open source conferences. He’s the author of the Docker Cookbook and coauthor of the Kubernetes Cookbook.